History WesternAnimation / RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure

TheEeyore: The Camel With Wrinkled Knees. He is not only gloomy but is heavily implied to be suicidally depressed to the point of halucinating a caravan in the sky to join them in death while [[WingDingEyes entering a mental trance, which is visualized with his eyes taking on technicolor expanding rings]].

* Shout-Out: 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.

* Shout-Out: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.

** 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 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 go 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.

* PirateParrot: The Captain has one, being his most trusted and loyal companion and it proves important to fight King Koo Koo at the end by exploding the expanding king. It does the usual ParrotTalk while having its own sapience.

* KnightOfCerberus: The movie is light-hearted and whimsical until the Greedy, a creepy [[PerpetuallyProtean constantly shapeshifting monster]] that physically threatens to kill the heroes, and from there, the film becomes an escalation of surreal imagery and deranged characters that endanger the heroes for several reasons.

* LaughingMad: The robots of Looney Land chuckle and cackle endlessly. We later find out that they used to be living things (most likely humans or other toys) who King Koo Koo grew sick of, prompting him to warp them into their current shapes. They've thus lost their minds and can do nothing ''but'' laugh.

* PirateGirl: [[spoiler:Babette after she takes over the Captain's ship. She proves to be an effective and strict captain who becomes quickly adjusted to her new way of life. She then averts it in the end when King Koo Koo's explosive death leads her to being back in the room and resolve to be just a dool.]]
* PirateParrot: The Captain has one, being his most trusted and loyal companion and it proves important to fight King Koo Koo at the end by exploding the expanding king. It does the usual ParrotTalk while having his own sapience.
* PrehensileHair: The Captain's moustache is able to grab things and spell out the S's in his S.O.S. message.

%%* SchmuckBait: The "WELCOME" sign on the entrance to Sir Leonard Looney's funhouse.
* ShoutOut:

* ToyTransmutation: {{Downplayed}}. King Koo Koo turns his subjects into "idiots" - mindless, mechanical toys - when they [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness can't make him laugh anymore]], and threatens to do the same to Raggedy Ann and Andy. However, the characters are already sentient toys to begin with (although with some characters, it's hard to tell what they are.)

%%* VillainSong:
%%** Quite a few, including "The Pirate Song," "I Never Get Enough," "Because I Love You" and "It's Not Easy Being King When You're Short." Of course, EVERYONE gets a song in this movie.
%%** "Never Get Enough" and "Because I Love You" are interesting examples because [[ObliviouslyEvil neither character who sings it seems to be aware that they're villains]].

** The Greedy, though constantly shapeshifting, is often given a nose that looks like a pig snout because his manners and appetite are piggish.
* WackyWaysideTribe: The entire middle third of the movie (starting with the Greedy and ending when they finally get back to the business with the pirates) feels like an enormous side-quest, even though King Koo Koo shows up again for the climax.
* WasOnceAMan: King Koo Koo has an entire court of robotic toys who serve him mindlessly. Koo Koo tells Raggedy Ann and Andy that when they can no longer make him laugh, he'll turn them into robots too, implying that all of them were once sentient toys or other creatures who met the same fate.

%%* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Greedy could be seen as one.
%%-->''Without a sweetheart, I never get enough...''

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

* CaptainObvious: Looney Knight in spite of his odd behavior, has a brief moment where he states the ovscious.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The film's poster depicts the cast as being in a whimsical and fun story, and the Greedy is shown as a dopey clownish figure. Although it is trying for whimsy, the movie ends up being a roller coaster of surreal imagery and frightening implications, with the Greedy coming off as an EldritchAbomination.
* CreepyTwins: The twin dolls are completely naked and always in sync.

* DerangedAnimation: While the film starts out with bizarre yet friendly environments, it heads straight to insanity with the constantly shifting Greedy, the insane residents of Looney Land (which by itself qualifies) and the utterly bonkers GainaxEnding

TheEeyore: The Camel With Wrinkled Knees.
* EldritchAbomination: The Greedy is a shapeshifting mass of sentient taffy lacking the ability to stay in a shape for longer than a few seconds, while eating candy that it constantly regurgitates. It is a perfect example of DerangedAnimation. Some might say the Greedy is really just a kid-friendly interpretation of [[http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/File:Yog-sothoth.jpg Yog-Sothoth]]. He's more like Abhoth from "The Seven Geases" -- a pool of sludge that constantly devours itself. Except Abhoth is made of primordial ooze and devours its own floundering malformed offspring, and the Greedy is made of taffy and devours the candy inexplicably bubbling out of itself.

* FanDisservice: The Greedy takes the form of a belly dancer a few times in his song - and he's an obese, constantly melting BlobMonster with a grotesque face.
* FatSlob: The Greedy, a very messy eater who consumes every food item he sees, may be PerpetuallyProtean, but he often takes a form resembling an obese humanoid.

* FoodPorn: The moment with the Greedy, which is filled with immensely satisfying images of sweets, cakes, candies and other such confections. Given the way he acts around the food, it's a borderline ''literal'' example.
%%* FrenchJerk: Babette for a while, though she eventually softens up.

%%* HappyHarlequinHat: Topsy, the long-limbed harlequin doll, wears one.
* HaveAGayOldTime: Babette has a song which includes the line, "Hooray for me, Babette of gay Paris!" She sings it while dancing the can-can.

%%* IWantSong: Several.

%%* JabbaTableManners: The Greedy.

%%* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
%%** Raggedy Ann, after realizing that her decision to free the pirates has led to Babette's kidnapping.
%%** Babette, after it becomes clear to her that her obsession with going to Paris has gotten everyone into terrible trouble.

%%* ObsessedWithFood: The Greedy, once again.
* 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.

%%* PirateGirl: [[spoiler:Babette after she takes over the Captain's ship.]]
%%* PirateParrot: The Captain has one, and it proves important to fight King Koo Koo at the end.
* PrehensileHair: The Captain's moustache is able to grab things and spells out the S's in his S.O.S. message.

%%* SpiritualSuccessor: To Homer's ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''...really, to a great many famous stories, especially those written around the archetype of TheQuest.

* TickleTorture: The climax has King Koo Koo tickling Raggedy Ann and Andy and their friends via a sea monster and feeds off their tickle-induced misery.
%%* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Anything and everything will set off a musical number.

* AffablyEvil: The Greedy literally wants to eat Ann's heart, but he ''is'' polite to the heroes and bears them no ill will - at least at first.

* AnimatedMusical: It's the main genre of the film, emphasis on the musical. Every scene has at least one three-minute song.

%%* AnthropomorphicFood: The Greedy.

* BigBadEnsemble: The Captain kickstarts the plot by kidnapping Babette, although [[spoiler:she ends up overthrowing him and becoming the new, even more antagonistic captain]]. Meanwhile, although he doesn't appear until later, King Koo Koo also provides a major antagonistic force by trying to use Raggedy Ann and Andy as pawns in his goal of becoming the biggest king in the world.
%%* BigEater: The Greedy: "I never get enough..."
* BigBrotherInstinct: While it’s never stated who the older sibling is, Raggedy Andy is quite protective of Raggedy Ann and tells the Sir Looney to lay off his sister whenever he pranks her.

** , 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.

%%* DisneyAcidSequence: There's the Camel's hallucinations, the Greedy, Ann and Andy go to King Koo Koo's kingdom... OK, really every scene other than those at the toy's home is this.
%%* TheEeyore: The Camel With Wrinkled Knees. Barney Beanbag and Socko, two of Marcella's odder toys, also qualify; Barney in particular is falling apart and has a permanently stitched-on frown.

%%* EldritchLocation: Parts of Looney Land are pretty eldritchy even by its own surreal standards. Probably justified, though. After all, it has to be called "Looney Land" for a reason.

** 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.
** King Koo Koo, ruler of Looney Land, gets a black background with only a single spotlight on him during his VillainSong, "It's Not Easy Being King When You're Short."
%%* BlobMonster: The Greedy.

%%* CaptainObvious: "You just kicked a knight!"
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Ann just can't resist trying to help anyone and everyone who's in trouble, whether it's taking direct action (as she does with the Captain, Babette and the Camel) or simply listening to their troubles (as shown with the Greedy).
%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Everyone in Looney Land essentially.
%%* ComedicSociopathy: King Koo Koo almost literally feeds on this.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The film's poster depicts the cast as being in a whimsical and fun story, and the Greedy is shown as a dopey clownish figure. Although it is trying for whimsy, the movie ends up being a roller coaster of lucid imagery and frightening implications, with the Greedy coming off as an EldritchAbomination.

%%* TheDayTheMusicLied: The introductory fanfare in King Koo Koo's throne room.
* DeconstructedTrope: When the trio finds themselves in Looney Land, they meet Sir Leonard Loonie, who acts like your standard (if rather 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.

* ActionGirl: Babette is very much a DamselInDistress in the earlier parts of the story but by the climax [[spoiler: has taken over the pirate ship and is [[WhipItGood wielding a whip]]!]]

%%* WhipItGood: [[spoiler: Babette]] wields one near the end.

Raggedy Ann is voiced by Didi Conn, known for later playing Frenchie in the ''Film/{{Grease}}'' films, Denise on ''Series/{{Benson}}'', and Stacy Jones on ''Series/ShiningTimeStation''. Joe Raposo (''Series/SesameStreet'') wrote the songs (one of which would ''also'' end up on ''Shining Time Station''). It was Creator/EricGoldberg's first professional animation gig, as well as Creator/DanHaskett's first work on a feature.

A book about the making of the film, ''The Animated Raggedy Ann & Andy'' by John Canemaker, can be read [[http://issuu.com/vinnierattolle/docs/the_animated_raggedy_ann___andy_by_john_canemaker?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Fcolor%2Flayout.xml&backgroundColor=000000&showFlipBtn=true here as well.]] [[http://madnessmonster.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/raggedy-anne-review/ You can read the the WordPress review of it here.]]

%%* TickleTorture: The climax is based around this.

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/ToyStory'', 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).

The plot is based on the book ''Raggedy Ann and 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 go 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.

Raggedy Ann is voiced by Didi Conn, known for later playing Frenchie in the ''Film/{{Grease}}'' films, and Denise on ''Series/{{Benson}}'', and Stacy Jones on ''Series/ShiningTimeStation''. Joe Raposo (''Series/SesameStreet'') wrote the songs (one of which would ''also'' end up on ''Shining Time Station''). It was Creator/EricGoldberg's first professional animation gig, and Creator/DanHaskett's first work on a feature.

Followed by the TV holiday specials ''Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper'' & ''Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile'' in 1978 & 1979, both directed by another legendary animation director, Creator/ChuckJones. Compare to ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', 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).

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: IRaggedy Ann, with help from Maxi-Fixit, breaks open the snow globe to let Captain Contagious and his crew out after the captain gives her an SOS message. Once freed, the Captain immediately seizes Babette and escapes the nursery.

%%* AnimatedMusical

%%* CreepyTwins: The twin dolls, brr...

%%* IAmSong: Raggedy Andy sings "No Girl's Toy", while Raggedy Ann sings "Rag Dolly".

%%* TheLostWoods: The Deep, Deep Woods.

Compare to ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', 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).

%%* FoodPorn: The moment with the Greedy. Given the way he acts around the food, it's a borderline ''literal'' example.