History WesternAnimation / FunAndFancyFree

* AdultFear: Starvation. If at one point in life you've been poor enough, the scene with the paper-thin bread slices is high octane NightmareFuel.

* InTheStyleOf: The music for the scene where the beanstalk grows is based on Creator/MauriceRavel's ''Bolero''. It was even refered to in-studio as "Beanero".

* VillainSong: "Fee Fi Fo Fum", which doubles as Willie's {{Leitmotif}}.

The shorts are tied together with a framing story starring Jiminy Cricket from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', who sets up a record player that plays the first story with narration and songs by Creator/DinahShore, and then attends a birthday party where the second story is told by Creator/EdgarBergen and his puppets Charlie [=McCarthy=] and Mortimer Snerd. ''Mickey and the Beanstalk'' is by far the more well known of the two shorts, being actually more well-known than the movie itself.

* {{Fainting}}: Edgar does this when he sees Willie lifting the roof.

* NoFourthWall: An animated Willie crashes Luana's party by lifting the roof off and asking if anyone had seen Mickey. The sight of this causes Edgar to faint. In the stand alone release of Mickey and the Beanstalk, this happens to Ludwig von Drake. Prior to Willie's appearance, both are consoling a companion that Willie never actually died and that he exists as a figment of their imagination. Boy were they wrong!

* DreamRealityCheck: Bongo pinches himself the first time he sees Lulubelle to make sure he wasn't dreaming.

* PinchMe: Bongo pinches himself the first time he sees Lulubelle to make sure he wasn't dreaming.

* SolidClouds: The giant's castle rests on a solid cloud.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Donald isn't in his right mind when he tries to kill the cow, but in his defense, they're all starving to death and don't have many other options. In-universe, Charlie thinks they should kill the cow, while Luana and Mortimer are aghast at the suggestion.

* BigBallOfViolence: Happens when Mickey and Goofy jump on a starving Donald to stop him from killing the cow.

* SoftWater: Exaggerated, with Bongo diving 200 feet onto a wet sponge.

* TooDumbToFool: See the example directly below this one.

* TooStupidToFool: See the example directly below this one.

* {{Redubbing}}: After the film's release, ''Mickey and the Beanstalk'' was aired on TV in several different versions with new narrators. One aired as part of an episode of ''Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color'', narrated by Professor Ludwig Von Drake (this received a standalone video release (the first of several, really) in the late 1980s). Another was narrated by Disney legend Sterling Holloway, with a completely different script. In TheSeventies show ''The Mouse Factory'', Shari Lewis and her puppet Lamb Chop did the honors.

Unlike most other Disney animated features from before the age of home video, this was never given a theatrical re-release. Sometimes, however, the individual segments were each tacked onto another Disney release and/or aired on television, usually as part of episodes of [[Series/WaltDisneyPresents the Disney anthology series]]. While ''Bongo'' was usually left unchanged, albeit with Jiminy Cricket himself replacing Dinah Shore as narrator, ''Mickey and the Beanstalk''[='=]s solo releases were mostly based on a ''Wonderful World of Color'' episode where they had replaced the narration by Edgar Bergen and his dummies with one by Ludwig von Drake.