- Adaptation Displacement: This already obscure film is based off the book Midnight and Jeremiah by Sterling North.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The film has become popular in Japan in recent years (mainly due to Danny the Lamb). In 2015, (which was a Year of the Sheep), Tokyo Disneyland added a statue of Danny in Westernland.
- Harsher in Hindsight: The narration by an old man recalling his youth over footage of Jeremiah can be hard to listen to, knowing Bobby Driscoll was found dead shortly after his 31st birthday.
- Informed Wrongness: Jerry is berated by his grandmother just for wanting to enter his sheep in the county fair, as she thinks him wanting a blue ribbon is selfish.
- Padding:
- The drawn out scene of Burl Ives and the grandma singing.
- Overshadowed by Controversy: Not as bad as Song of the South, but when you hear this film brought up today it's usually in relation to Bobby Driscoll and his poor treatment by Disney.
- Tough Act to Follow: Mainly forgotten thanks to its predecessor Song of the South, though not in a good way.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The townsfolk are supposed to be nice and idealistic. But what kind of people would crowd around children and laugh at them? More than once?
