Funny / An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

Funny moments in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.

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• Tanya getting fruit thrown at her for singing "Somewhere Out There," a clear reflection on how sick everyone was of that song. There's also the dialogue that follows:
  Tanya: Someday, I will be a big star. People will come from miles around.
  Fievel: Yeah, to eat.
  • Her hungry parents don't mind, asking her if she can convince people to throw something other than tomatoes.
    Mama Mousekewitz: [scooping up some tomato from the wall] Hmph, another night without cheese.
  • Her human neighbors don't find it strange that there's a singing mouse living across the street.
    • They probably don't know that and assume it's just some orphan human girl.
• You just can't help but laugh at how funny the Cat Attack horn sounded as it played.
• Tiger spots T. R. Chula, the Tarantula coming straight at him.
  Tiger: Ahhh! It's a spa... a spee... a spid-d-d-d... an arachnid!
  • And that was a moment before he swore to himself he'd be tough and brave when he saw the mice running in fear.
• Cat R. Waul luring the mice out west with a cowboy puppet is hilarious—John Cleese doing a cowboy impression is truly legendary. And when the puppet starts talking about Cat R. Waul himself, he goes a fair ways off-script.
• The dog chase scene. Poor Tiger can't catch a break when he's trying to get to the train station to say goodbye to Fievel, boards the train only to discover the train conductor also has an angry dog, then ends up on another train only to discover another angry dog, and when he falls into the water, he gets confronted by... a fish with the face of a dog (and it's angry as well). His deadpan response sells it:
  Tiger: "Dogfish."
  • At one point during the train scene, Tiger jumps out of the window, only to get hit in mid-air by the other train going the opposite direction!
• The Mouse Conductor calling out the stops in a funny tone as he caught ahold of the chain of the watch the human conductor had to pick up.
  Mouse Conductor: Last call, all passengers bound FOR ALTUNA, AKRON, ELKHART, OSKALOOSA, AND GREEN RIVER!!!!"
  • When he's about to be eaten:
    Mouse Conductor: (dazed) Next stop: mouth, throat, stomach, intestine, and – you guessed it – Green River!
• How Cat R. Waul catches Fievel eavesdropping. He is about the eat the Mouse Conductor before Fievel throws his mouse puppet into the sandwich. The moment he takes a bite, he realizes what he is eating, spits it out, and looks up to see Fievel. From there, he is debating whether or not to eat Fievel before letting him go to have Chula deal with him.
• When Fievel snuck inside Cat R. Waul's cart that's occupied by cows, one in particular takes a closer look at Fievel with mild curiosity. Later, a hyper Chula grabs another cow face exclaiming "I love the Flying Aah!", and the cow looks as Chula chase after Fievel in confusion.
• A bit of Black Comedy that follows when Chula throws Fievel off the train.
  Chula: I just love the Flying Aah.
  Fieval: [falling] AAAAAAAAHHH!!
• When Tiger is lost in the desert looking for Fievel.
  Tiger: Lost and all alone, in a million acre catbox.
  • Tiger's whole trip into the West was funny in a Cosmic Plaything kind of way.
  • Special mention goes to the Dancing Buffalo Bones scene. For first view, it would seem like nightmare fuel at first, but when the skeleton started dancing, that would catch one surprised, and then when it almost suddenly captures Tiger, the first time viewer(s) would no doubt laugh themselves silly instead! Plus, as an added bonus, it dances to "Puttin' on the Ritz".
• When Fievel and Tiger are lost in the desert, they both bump into mirages of Fievel's family and Miss Kitty respectively. They see each other in the distance and are overjoyed...until they decide that it's another mirage. When they pass each other...
  Fievel: Hi, mirage of Tiger.
  Tiger: Hi, mirage of Fievel.
• Just before Tiger gets caught by the Mousehicans, they attempt to use a skeleton only to become limp when Tiger looks toward them. When he keeps looking, they just break out dancing until their disguise collapses with Tiger none the wiser.
  Tiger: Dancing buffalo bones? Nah!
• Tiger being worshipped by the Mousehicans!
  • His first line to their chief: "How..... do you do!"
• The comeuppance of the hawk that snatched Fievel. The wild take, scream and chicken clucking top it all!
  • Speaking of chicken, the hawk ends up as a roast chicken dinner for the Mousehicans.
• The music playing during the tumbleweed journey was quite epically funny, especially for those who recognize Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi's voices.
• Cat R. Waul hating his master's Marshmallow Hell and her And Call Him "George" tendencies.
• Cat R. Waul having a singing audition at his saloon. He looks disgusted at a fat opera singing mouse, then promptly drops her down a trap door before calling in the next audition.
• The Lazy Eye is one of the techniques Wylie teaches Tiger. When Tiger attempts to pull it off, he spazzes out, prompting Wylie to call him hopeless.
• After Tiger falls off a cliff, being propelled by his own breath after "sucking in his paunch", as if he were a deflating balloon:
  Tiger: [acts as though nothing happened] I hurt myself.
• During the Training Montage, Tiger is doing some tricks with a lasso, jumping through his own hoop. Then he does it again, and again, getting faster and faster until he ties himself up!
  • A while before that, this:
    Wylie: Now... BARK!!!
    Tiger: [meekly] Bark!
• A few bits in the showdown.
  • Tiger proves proficient with the slingshot taking out many of Cat R. Waul's mooks. Then he faces one with a bigger slingshot than his, and his slingshot goes completely limp. All Tiger and Wylie can do as said mook shoots Tiger's slingshot out of his hands is give an "Oh, Crap!" Smile.
  • The Lazy Eye from before ends up being a Chekhov's Gag here when Fievel tells Tiger to give Cat R. Waul's goons the lazy eye, all three heroes do Tiger's spaz which causes the mooks to run away in panic. It's only stopped when Cat R. Waul shoots a hole in Tiger's hat.
  • After Cat R. Waul's deception is exposed to the mice, he starts firing at them until Fievel get launched onto the gun and turns it toward him, causing him to run in panic. Doubles as an awesome moment.
  • Tiger going full rabid-dog mode when Miss Kitty gets taken hostage. The cat mooks all get freaked out by the sight before getting on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle. An impressed Wylie could only watch proudly at the carnage.
    Wylie: I didn't teach him that.
  • Cat R. Waul's defeat is one big Humiliation Conga. On top of Fievel jacking his gun, each of his goons get piles on top of him by Tiger, and then Wylie has Fievel shoot the ribbon, sending them all flung into the air by his own mousetrap and into a mailbag. Just as Cat R. Waul begins swearing vengeance, he is noticed by his owner, much to his horror, and she pulls him inside and dresses him up like a baby.