History WesternAnimation / RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure

-->"I won't beg 'round tomorrow for the kind of affection that was free today!"\\

** , Unlike the rest of the film, the scenes taking place in [[EldritchLocation the Taffy Pit and Looney Land]] have completely black backgrounds. This highlights how unsettling and uncomfortable they are.

* BlobMonster: The Greedy, he's a sentient taffy pool that is constantly spewing and eating his contents, [[PerpetuallyProtean all while shapeshifting every second]].

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Some of the lyrics (and hell, even the title itself) of "No Girls Toy" makes it sound less like Andy's talking about being treated as a literal "girl's toy" and more like [[AmIJustAToyToYou a toy in a romantic relationship]].

"No rag, no bow, no hank a hair is gonna make me do what I don't wanna do at all!"

* HappyHarlequinHat: Topsy, the long-limbed harlequin doll, wears one, but she's a very sweet natured doll who is a dear friend of Ann. On the other hand, there are several of King Koo-Koo's court that have this hate and are legitimately insane and frightening to look at [[MonsterClown invoking the traditional fears of clowns]].

* IAmSong: Raggedy Andy sings "No Girl's Toy" (a ditty about being above the 'girl dolls'), while Raggedy Ann sings "Rag Dolly" (her introduction song to Babette).

** Babette, after it becomes clear to her that her obsession with going to Paris has gotten everyone into terrible trouble. She decides to settle being an American-owned doll to resolve the troubles she's caused.

* ApologizesALot: The Greedy intersperses JabbaTableManners with constant apologizing and going "excuse me" even in the middle of his song.

* DeconstructedTrope: When the trio finds themselves in Looney Land, they meet Sir Leonard Loonie, who acts like your standard (if somewhat exaggerated) PluckyComicRelief. How do the kids react? By getting annoyed at his pranks, then scared because he won't leave them alone, and finally running away.

* AnthropomorphicFood: The Greedy. He's a sapient pool of taffy and assorted desserts that is perpetually eating himself while shapeshifting constantly.

* BigEater: The Greedy. He is so gluttonous that he literally eats himself- being a sapient pool of taffy and assorted sweets- whenever he spews out his contents- which is all the time. It's deconstructed as he does it to fill an emotional void in his heart, which he mistakes for a literal missing organ rather than an emotional companion.

* ShoutOut: Andy gets stuck under a box with just his feet sticking out, like the Wicked Witch of the East in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. And he runs up a wall like Cosmo in ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' during his "Make 'Em Laugh" song.
** The funhouse into which Sir Looney lures the heroes, with its [[DeliberatelyMonochrome exclusively black-and-white palette]], rinky-tinky ragtime music, [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} zany architecture]], and ability to render anyone who enters it TheSpeechless, obviously amounts to a tribute to the silent-film comedies of the 1920s.
*** The architecture is based on ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'', which was itself evoked in Music/TomPetty's music video for "Runnin' Down a Dream."

** The entire Greedy sequence, which was animated by [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation Golden Age veteran]] Emery Hawkins ([[OffModel sans the ending part]], which was done by a different animator), is very fluidly animated and loaded with so much detail that your jaw will drop just from taking it all in. Keep in mind, stuff like this was an extreme rarity for animation back then!

The plot is based on the book ''Raggedy Ann & Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees'', by Johnny and Marcella Gruelle. Raggedy Ann and her brother, Andy, are dolls who live together in little Marcella's room with other friendly toys. The day of her birthday, Marcella gets a Jumeau doll, Babette, who is quite vain. A pirate captain in a snowglobe is immediately stunned by her and decides to elope with her to make her his bride. Ann and Andy decide to rescue her, and on their journey, they meet a depressed blue camel doll (The Camel with the Wrinkled Knees), a lake of sentient taffy that keeps eating itself (The Greedy), an insane knight who plays practical jokes (Sir Leonard Loony), and a diminutive king who inflates when he laughs (King Koo Koo) until a final confrontation on the pirate's ship.

Followed by the TV holiday specials ''Raggedy Ann & Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper'' and ''Raggedy Ann & Andy in The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile'' in 1978 and 1979, both directed by another legendary animation director, Creator/ChuckJones. Compare to ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', which was released 18 years later and follows many of the same story beats (toys coming to life when humans not looking; new toy coming in and having to be recovered on their owner's birthday; toy that is sad about being left away from its owner).

-->''Looney Knight'': "You just kicked a knight!"

* OffModel: Due to production delays and a rising budget, it was inevitable that some scenes would end up looking a little off, particularly near the end. Williams tried to avert this by assigning each character to a single animator, but in the case of Ann, Andy, and the Camel, since they were in almost every scene, they would often be handled by other animators, and so their appearances don't remain as constant as the others.