"I'm absolutely certain you're going to need a strait-jacket."
- "The unicorn is a mythical beast."
Tropes:
- Animated Adaptation: Inverted. There is a live-action rendition of this short, which cleverly chooses not to show the unicorn itself. Watch it here
. - Aside Glance
- Cassandra Truth: The husband telling his wife about the unicorn, and later what the wife tells the psychiatrist and the police.
- Catch-Phrase: The unicorn is a mythical beast.
- Have a Gay Old Time: Some younger viewers may not realize that "booby" here has nothing to do with breasts, but refers to the mentally ill: the "booby-hatch" is an insane asylum.
- Henpecked Husband
- Limited Animation: The 'toon is extremely stylized, as was typical of all UPA animation. In this particular case, this may be because the style is that of the original story's author.
- Lohengrin and Mendelssohn: Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" plays — as the wife is being carried off to the asylum, no less!
- Spoof Aesop: Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
- Unicorn: Which is, of course, a mythical beast.
