Heartwarming / Lady and the Tramp

♪ The night will weave its magic spell when the one you love is near ♪

• On Lady's first night, Jim Dear tries to establish boundaries and makes her sleep in the kitchen, but when she eventually gets loose and shows up in the master bedroom crying, he gives in and let her sleep on the bed..."But remember, just for tonight." Age Cut to Lady at six months old, sleeping in the same spot. Viewers who spoil the hell out of their dogs know exactly how a pair of puppy-dog eyes can break down your resistance.
  • While Jim insisted that Lady sleep alone, Darling was the one to suggest that they let her sleep in their room, noting how lonesome the pup seemed. Clearly, she understands how hard it must be from Lady's perspective to adjust to life in a new home, separated from her family.
  • The sight of Lady as a puppy is really cute. In fact, while it's a bit sad and tearjerking for her, you just can't help but smile and want to hug your pillow at hearing the first bit of her whimpering.
• The fact that Lady thinks her owners' names are "Darling" and "Jim Dear" because they're a Happily Married couple who always call each other by those pet names.
• Tramp takes a moment to say hello to some puppies in a shop window, and coo at them. It's adorable.
• While Trusty getting hit by the wagon was a Tear Jerker, imagine how happy the audience must have felt when the old boy came limping up the steps to visit Lady and Tramp on Christmas.
• Shortly after the baby is born, Lady sings the song, "What is a Baby?" in her head. She then cautiously goes into the baby's bedroom, where Darling is rocking him to sleep, with a beautiful lullaby. After the lullaby is finished, Lady looks into the cradle fondly at the baby and realizes that having him around won't be nearly so bad as Tramp had warned her.
  • Jim Dear and Darling helping Lady get a closer look at the new baby and tenderly petting her as he falls asleep is just the reassurance Lady, and the audience, needs to know that she is still a member of the family. Made even better by how she recoiled when Jim Dear reached to her, as if afraid he would be mad at her. Her look when he gently picks her up say everything.
  • Jim Dear and Darling end the lullaby to their son with a sweet pet to Lady. They know they've been neglecting her due to getting ready for the baby and want her to know that they still love her just the same.
  • And again when Jim and Darling are leaving for a trip, Lady is at first by the baby's crib, wagging her tail and admiring the baby. Then as the pair leave, Lady runs ahead to stop them. As Darling points out, Lady thought they were running out on the baby (though to be fair their choice of words didn't help matters.) She even gives them a glare as if to say “how can you two just up and leave this little human here all alone? For shame.”
  • Also, after her and Tramp are out on the town, when they wake up, Tramp tries to convince her that life without owners means complete freedom, Lady says "It sounds wonderful... but who would watch over the baby?" Tramp gives her a sad look, but says "You win. Come on, I'll take you home," showing that even though he loves his freedom, he can't bring himself to come between Lady and her family.
• The scene after Lady's been released from the pound by Aunt Sarah. Keep in mind: she was told by a random group of dogs that Tramp has had other girls before her and she was possibly going to be disgraced because of her night with Tramp. So what happens instead? He goes over to her house and is genuinely concerned about what happened to her.
• A small one, but at the end of the movie, Jim goes looking for a box of dog biscuits — "the ones Aunt Sarah sent for Christmas." The dogs saving the baby wasn't lost on her at all.
  • Another small one but Aunt Sarah hardly seems to notice Lady and Tramp when she comes into the baby's room after the rat fight. Her first concern is to hurry to the fallen crib and see to the baby.
    Aunt Sarah: Thank goodness you're not hurt.
• Another small one, this time concerning Si and Am, strangely. When you really listen to the lyrics of their song, they speak of doing some rather troublesome things, yes... But lines such as "There'll be a head for you and a tail for me" (the fish in the bowl), or "There'll be plenty of milk for you and also some for me" (the baby's milk), you realize that the one speaking the line is stating that they'll be sure their sibling gets the better deal of their "prize".
  • A deleted scene would have had them show horror at learning about the rat that could have attacked the baby. It would be nice to see that even they had hearts, no matter how small they might have been.
• After Lady's wild night out on the town with Tramp, Trusty and Jock immediately offer to marry her to preserve her reputation (presumably in case she was carrying Tramp's pups already). It's unclear whether they think he might have forced her or they just think she's a pretty young thing who made an impulsive decision, but either way they care about her deeply and don't want her to suffer.
  • And keep in mind this was considered the noble and moral thing to do at the time the film is set. To preserve an out of wedlock woman’s reputation a man would offer his hand in marriage so socially she wouldn’t be shamed.
  • When Tramp turns up in an attempt to apoligize to Lady, Trusty and Jock immediately stand firmly in her defense, and even offer to "escort" Tramp off the property if he's upsetting her.
  Trusty: If this dog is annoying you, Miss Lady...
  Jock: ...We'll gladly throw the rascal out!
• Peg comforting Lady in the pound, and the rest of the dogs immediately stopping their teasing to reassure her the moment they realize that the poor girl is genuinely terrified. They might have a casual, irreverent attitude toward their situation, but they clearly have big hearts as well—they're good dogs. Peg was right; they never meant 'no real harm', and they become tender and sweet as soon as they see how close to tears Lady is. And until they start talking about Tramp, it works!
• For all that the dogcatcher is by default the villain of the story, he's not a bad guy. He's very gentle with Lady, and while the audience bristles at the borderline-cruel way he talks about how eager he is to euthanize Tramp, you have to remember—he thinks Tramp is dangerous. He has every reason to believe that this is a stray dog that routinely bites/attacks people; think of how often Tramp's bitten him during his rounds. He's never cruel to the dogs he takes in, even talking to them like they're people. He's just doing his job, and the way he scratches Lady's ears and tells her about how her family's here to pick her up is very sweet.
  "Alright, baby. They've come to take you home. *privately* You're too nice a girl to be in this place."
  • The fact that the entire staff appears to be this. The pound itself is in considerable disrepair, but signs on the gates read "give a dog a happy home" and "nice puppies", and another worker refers to Lady as "the little cocker."
• Tramp running back to Lady when he hears her barking, even though she recently dumped him, because he knows that Lady wouldn't behave like this unless the situation was dire.
  • And once Lady tells Tramp about the rat and how to get in, he wastes no time rushing to protect the baby. He was willing to risk his life (Not from the rat, but from getting caught and euthanized by the dog catcher) to protect a child he didn't know.
  • And the fact that Lady still trusted Tramp despite her previous anger proves that deep down, she still believed that he had a good heart.
• After Tramp accidentally knocks over the baby's crib during his fight with the rat, the baby manages to stop crying when he sees Lady checking if he is all right.
• The entire "Bella Notte" sequence, especially, of course, the famous Spaghetti Kiss.
  • Lady and Tramp waking up together the following morning. Tramp wakes first, notices Lady is still right beside him, smiles, and noses up close to her before closing his eyes for more sleep. It's blatantly post-coital and ridiculously cute.
  • Before they wake up, Lady sleeps with her ear draped over Tramp's head.
  • The fact that the Italian restaurant employees went out of their way to play for some stray dogs eating outside is quite adorable when you actually stop to think about it.
• The fact that Tony and Joe have befriended a random stray dog to the point where they happily feed him and his date. Not to mention Tony's iconic insistence that Tramp "talks to him".
  • Just before that the very cute scene where Tramp paws on the door. Tony comes out to greet him, laughs when Tramp jumps on him and starts licking him and calls Joe to get him some bones before "he eats me up."
• After Aunt Sarah traps Lady in the basement and tries to convince Jim Dear and Darling that Lady intended to hurt their infant son, rather than be mad at Lady, they assure Sarah it must be a mistake because they're confident in Lady and know she would never hurt him.
• Once Jock and Trusty learn about Tramp's innocence, they rush to save him despite their previous hostility towards him.
• Just look at Lady and Tramp's puppies in the ending. Aren't they adorable?