History NightmareFuel / MaryPoppins

** As if that on it's own wasn't bad enough, the original London production had the song end with Jane and Michael ''in front of a firing squad with the song ending just as the toys fire at them''. ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' ain't got nothing on this...

** Time marches on. In Maurice Maeterlinck's extremely popular 1908 play "The Blue Bird", the anthropomorphic character Sugar breaks off two of his fingers and offers them as candy sticks to the child protagonists. The play was still very well known when the Mary Poppins books were written.

** In Maurice Maeterlinck's 1908 play "The Blue Bird", the anthropomorphic character Sugar breaks off two of his fingers and offers them as candy sticks to the child protagonists. The play was still very well known when the Mary Poppins books were written.

* The nursery-cleaning scene. The jerky StopMotion special effects have not aged very well. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic A popular]] ParodyTrailer on Website/YouTube demonstrates that with an audio/soundtrack swap, it almost looks like a deleted scene from ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}''.

* The nursery-cleaning scene. The jerky StopMotion special effects have not aged very well. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic A popular]] ParodyTrailer on Website/YouTube demonstrates that with an audio/soundtrack swap, it almost looks like a deleted scene from ''{{Film/Poltergeist}}''.

** The song was deemed so scary that it has been replaced with 'Playing the Game' in the Broadway version. It was also part of the reason the producers would not allow any child under the age of three into the theatre during its London run and stated that the show was meant for children age 7 and up.

* When Jane and Michael flee the bank through an alleyway, and encounter a creepy old lady, a large black dog, and a shadowy figure. [[NightmareRetardant Fortunately]], the latter is just Bert covered in soot.
** It doesn't even help that the old crone they ran into was played by Betty Lou Gerson, the voice of [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella De Vil]].
** There is, however bit of NightmareRetardant if you know that she's also the calming voice of TheNarrator at the start of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''

* The fact that the Chalk Drawing Worlds just got erased with all its friendly inhabitants. [[SarcasmMode After all,]] [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman they were just chalk drawings]] [[ClonesAreExpendable of which you can always make more]] - [[{{Squick}} right]]?

** It doesn't even help that the old crone they ran into was played by Betty Lou Gerson, the voice of [[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella De Vil]].
** There is, however bit of NightmareRetardant if you know that she's also the calming voice of TheNarrator at the start of ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}''

!!The Movie

** There is, however bit of NightmareRetardant if you know that she's also the calming voice of TheNarrator at the start of [[Disney/{{Cinderella}} Cinderella]]

*** There is, however bit of NightmareRetardant if you know that she's also the calming voice of TheNarrator at the start of [[Disney/{{Cinderella}} Cinderella]]
* The nursery-cleaning scene. The jerky StopMotion special effects have not aged very well. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic A popular]] ParodyTrailer on YouTube demonstrates that with an audio/soundtrack swap, it almost looks like a deleted scene from ''{{Film/Poltergeist}}''.

*** Wind's in the east, mist coming in. Like something is brewing, about to begin. Can't put me finger on what lies in store, but I feel what's to happen all happened before.
* The fact that the Chalk Drawing Worlds just got erased with all its friendly inhabitants. [[SarcasmMode After all, ]][[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman they were just chalk drawings]] [[ClonesAreExpendable of which you can always make more]]� [[{{Squick}} right]] ?
* The crazy expression on the face of Michael's merry-go-round horse is very uncanny valley.

*** The song was deemed so scary that it has been replaced with 'Playing the Game' in the Broadway version. It was also part of the reason the producers would not allow any child under the age of three into the theatre during its London run and stated that the show was meant for children age 7 and up.
*** And besides the fact that it's scary, you should also take into account that [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment once the song is over, it is NEVER reprised.]]

The crazy expression on the face of Michael's merry-go-round horse is very uncanny valley.

* The stage musical features a new, scary number called 'Temper, Temper' where Jane and Michael's toys grow bigger than they are, come to life, and put them on trial for losing their tempers and breaking a toy. Remember all the mean things you did to ''your'' toys? Cover your children's eyes... and your own.

* After Jane takes out her frustrations at being the eldest Banks child by punching Michael, Mary Poppins forbids her from attending a tea party at Miss Lark's house. Home alone, Jane pays a visit to some boys who reside in the design of an antique Royal Doulton bowl. When she asks to go home to her family, the boys' great-grandfather tells her that when she entered the bowl, she also became teleported 60 years into the past. With her parents not yet born, it looks like Jane must live as a FishOutOfTemporalWater, and the youngest sister of boys who are OlderThanTheyLook...[[DeusExMachina until Mary Poppins whisks her back into the real world]]. Upon returning to her own time, Jane wholeheartedly accepts her responsibilities as the eldest Banks child. ''Film/MaryPoppinsReturns'' includes this bowl, but in a ''much'' LighterAndSofter turn, it just leads to a world of singing cartoon animals.

*** -->Wind's in the east, mist coming in. Like something is brewing, about to begin. Can't put me finger on what lies in store, but I feel what's to happen all happened before.

** The end of Bert's "Comical Poem", for the same reasons, as it very suddenly shifts from happy carefree lines to a description of what he feels in the air. Of course we learn, as Bert presumably knew, that "what lies in store" is good, but Dick Van Dyke's delivery of the line, and the atmosphere around it, can be very eerie. Even Bert's return to a more carefree performance fails to fully relieve the scene of its eeriness, perhaps even adding to it due, again, to the sharp contrast.

** The end of Bert's "Comical Poem", for the same reasons, as it very suddenly shifts from happy carefree lines to a description of what he feels in the air. Of course we learn, as Bert presumably knew, that "what lies in store" is good, but Dick Van Dyke's delivery of the line, and the atmosphere around it, can be very eerie.

** Bert's first line "Wind's from the East, Mist Coming In..." et c, is eerie as well, for the same reasons.

* When Jane and Michael flee the bank through an alleyway, and encounter a creepy old lady, a large black dog, and a shadowy figure. ([[NightmareRetardant Fortunately]], the last one is just Bert covered in soot.)

** As if that on it's own wasn't bad enough, the original London production had the song end with Jane and Michael ''in front of a firing squad with the song ending just as the toys fire at them''. Movie/ToyStory ain't got nothing on this...

* Bert's verse of "Chim-Chim-iney" where he sings about "the chimney sweep world" is very accidentally unnerving and sinister sounding. Particularly how he ends it with an almost maniacal smile after singing "on the rooftops of London...coo', what a sight!"

* The fact that the Chalk Drawing Worlds just got erased with all its friendly inhabitants. [[SarcasmMode After all, ]][[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman they were just chalk drawings]] [[ClonesAreExpendable of which you can always make more]]… [[{{Squick}} right]] ?

* The stage musical features a new, scary number called 'Temper, Temper' where Jane and Michael's toys [[spoiler:grow bigger than they are, come to life, and put them on trial for losing their tempers and breaking a toy. Remember all the mean things you did to ''your'' toys?]] Cover your children's eyes... and your own.

*** And besides the fact that it's scary, you should also take into account that [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment once the song is over, it is NEVER reprised.]]

* After Jane takes out her frustrations at being the eldest Banks child by punching Michael, Mary Poppins forbids her from attending a tea party at Miss Lark's house. Home alone, Jane pays a visit to some boys who reside in the design of an antique Royal Doulton bowl. When she asks to go home to her family, the boys' great-grandfather tells her that when she entered the bowl, she also became teleported 60 years into the past. With her parents not yet born, it looks like Jane must live as a FishOutOfTemporalWater, and the youngest sister of boys who are OlderThanTheyLook...[[DeusExMachina until Mary Poppins whisks her back into the real world]]. Upon returning to her own time, Jane wholeheartedly accepts her responsibilities as the eldest Banks child.

* After Jane takes out her frustrations as the eldest Banks child by punching Michael, Mary Poppins forbids her from attending a tea party at Miss Lark's house. Home alone, Jane pays a visit to some boys who reside in the design of an antique Royal Doulton bowl. When she asks to go home to her family, the boys' great-grandfather tells her that when she entered the bowl, she also became teleported 60 years into the past. With her parents not yet born, it looks like Jane must live as a FishOutOfTemporalWater, and the youngest sister of boys who are OlderThanTheyLook...[[DeusExMachina until Mary Poppins whisks her back into the real world]]. Needless to say, the experience leaves Jane wholeheartedly accepting her responsibilities as the eldest Banks child.