History WesternAnimation / SaludosAmigos

* {{Bowdlerization}}: Video releases of the film have quite awkwardly removed a cigarette Goofy had in the ''El Gaucho Goofy'' segment. The uncensored version of the ''whole movie'' was later included as a bonus feature on ''Walt and El Grupo'', a documentary about the Good Neighbor trip.[[note]]Uncensored, but unfortunately not original. It uses 5.1 (not mono) audio and more unforgivably the 50s-80s Buena Vista distribution card instead of the original RKO one. (The collector's edition laserdisc has a more faithful version, though!)[[/note]] However, they keep the gag where Donald breathes fire after drinking cachaça and lights José's cigar.

%%* BadassBolas: In the ''El Gaucho Goofy'' segment, Goofy demonstrates how ''not'' to be badass with a bolas. American {{cowboy}} Goofy gets taken from Texas to the Argentinian pampas by the Narrator to learn the ways of the native {{gaucho}}. As part of this process, Goofy learns how to use the bolas to capture a rhea. After the bird is captured, the sequence is shown in slow motion to capture the "[[UnreliableVoiceover grace and beauty]]" of the action. But, the slow motion only reveals Goofy's clumsiness as he gets himself, his horse, and the bird tangled up together in the bolas.

* BadassBolas: In the ''El Gaucho Goofy'' segment, Goofy demonstrates how ''not'' to be badass with a bolas. American {{cowboy}} Goofy gets taken from Texas to the Argentinian pampas by the Narrator to learn the ways of the native {{gaucho}}. As part of this process, Goofy learns how to use the bolas to capture a rhea. After the bird is captured, the sequence is shown in slow motion to capture the "[[UnreliableVoiceover grace and beauty]]" of the action. But, the slow motion only reveals Goofy's clumsiness as he gets himself, his horse, and the bird tangled up together in the bolas.

* FastFowardGag: After the slow-motion scene in ''El Gaucho Goofy'' goes wrong, both the action and the narration speed up. Even after the scene ends, the narrator continues speaking quickly before correcting himself.

* {{Tuckerization}}: José Carioca [[note]][[ItIsPronouncedTroPay His first name is pronounced "Djo-say"]][[/note]] is named after his Brazilian voice actor, José do Patrocínio Oliveira, who was also known by the pseudonym Zé Carioca.

* CreatorCameo: Creator/WaltDisney himself! In live-action! In a Disney movie!

** More specifically the city. The gentillic for people born in the state, but outside the city of Rio, is "fluminense".
* MickeyMousing: The second song in ''Aquarela do Brasil'' starts with José's various body movements tied to different instruments.

* PaintingTheMedium: Both of the last two segments do a bit of this. Several of the scene transitions in El Gaucho Goofy push around the characters, while Aquarela do Brasil is a bit more literal. Donald even takes some of the paint off of José as he's being drawn and uses it to draw his own picture, causing the artist to draw a pool behind Donald and knock him into it.

* TalkingAnimal: The ostrich and horse in the gaucho segment.

* ''Aquarela do Brasil'' (Watercolour of Brazil) features the scenery of Brazil, as they are painted in by an artist in watercolour. The film also features DonaldDuck, and introduces the parrot José Carioca (Or Joe Carioca, as the Narrator and Donald call him[[note]]Which isn't totally out of the blue since José does translate directly to "Joseph"[[/note]]), from Rio de Janeiro. José shows Donald around town, and teaches him about Samba. Bizarrely, the song "Aquarela do Brasil" is featured prominently in Creator/TerryGilliam's movie ''Film/{{Brazil}}''.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: Video releases of the film have quite awkwardly removed a cigarette Goofy had in the ''El Gaucho Goofy'' segment. The uncensored version of the ''whole movie'' was later included as a bonus feature on ''Walt and El Grupo'', a documentary about the Good Neighbor trip.[[note]]Uncensored, but unfortunately not original. It uses 5.1 (not mono) audio and more unforgivably the 50s-80s Buena Vista distribution card instead of the original RKO one. (The collector's edition laserdisc has a more faithful version, though!)[[/note]]

'''Donald:''' ''(struggling)'' Shut up, you big windbag!

During the trip, Disney and his artists apparently came up with about 12 unused ideas for shorts about Latin America. One of them would later become ''Blame it on the Samba'', a short used for the movie ''Disney/MelodyTime''.

Walt later created a follow-up film, ''Disney/TheThreeCaballeros''. A documentary about the original trip, ''Walt and El Grupo'' was released in 2009.

* TalkingAnimal: The ostriche and horse in the gaucho segment.

* {{Gaucho}}, in "El Gaucho Goofy"

* ColorMotif: José's Green and Yellow design implements the colours of the Brazilian flag.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: José Carioca's name isn't pronounced "Ho-say", but rather "Djo-say", because he (as well as his voice actor, Cachaça do Patrocinio Oliveira) is from Brazil.

* CreatorCameo: Creator/WaltDisney [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome himself! In live-action! In a Disney movie!]]

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Goofy begins singing a campfire song in [[NonSingingVoice a voice that clearly isn't his]]. At which point his song starts looping. Pan over to record player with the needle stuck in the groove.

* AlcoholHic: A glass of Cachaça gives Donald a ''rhythmic'' AlcoholHic. "''Now'' you have the spirit of the samba!"

* BilingualDialogue: José speaks fluent Portuguese (the Brazilian dialect, naturally).

* FanOfTheUnderdog: José's is overjoyed to meet Disney's perennial ButtMonkey Donald Duck.

* GargleBlaster: Donald drinking a glass of Cachaça in one go, which prompts a FireBreathingDiner moment.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: José Carioca's name isn't pronounced "Ho-say", but rather "Djo-say", because he (as well as his voice actor, José do Patrocinio Oliveira) is from Brazil.

* MickeyMousing: The second song in ''Aquarela do Brasil'' starts with José's various body movements tied to different instruments.
* MotorMouth: José Carioca in his introduction just starts rambling on in Portuguese. Donald uses a ton of dictionaries in his attempts to keep up before José finally switches to English.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Averted ''and'' played straight. José Carioca has a very convincing Brazilian accent (he is, after all, voiced by a native Brazilian, José Oliveira). Said accent, unfortunately, is ''Paulista'' (from São Paulo), instead of the expected Carioca (from Rio de Janeiro).

** The Mexican Spanish "dub" is a really bizarre case: Donald, Goofy and Jose's voices were voiced by their ''original voice actors'', and as such, they keep their native accents and the only dubbed voice was the from the narrator instead.
* OverlyLongGag: José rambles on in Portuguese for almost 40 seconds. Donald is up to his neck in Portuguese-English dictionaries trying to understand, when José simply says "Or as you Americans say: '[[TranslationYes Let's go see the town]]'". Which he really is saying, he's just being a bit more excited about it in Portuguese and listing off all the individual places in Rio that they should go see.

* ShownTheirWork - Arguably the point of the film; each segment presents itself like a documentary and details the research done by the cartoonists.
* StylisticSuck: Look at Donald's drawing; he's not nearly as skilled a cartoonist as the artist drawing José Carioca.

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:Pédro the plane runs out of fuel and goes down but somehow makes it back to his parents.. nothing is said to explain this whatsoever.]]

* ''Aquarela do Brasil'' (Watercolour of Brazil) features the scenery of Brazil, as they are painted in by an artist in watercolour. The film also features DonaldDuck, and introduces the parrot José Carioca (Or Joe Carioca, as the Narrator and Donald call him[[note]]Which isn't totally out of the blue since José does translate directly to "Joseph"[[/note]]), from Rio de Janeiro. José shows Donald around town, and teaches him about Samba. Bizarrely, the song "Aquarela do Brasil" is featured prominently in Creator/TerryGilliam's movie ''Film/{{Brazil}}''.

At a point during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Disney was sent to [[LatinLand South America]] to create a movie as a gesture of good will (read up on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Neighbor_policy The Good Neighbor Policy]] for more information on that). The plan was initially to simply release a series of shorts, but when it was worried that a specific short would only be popular in the country it was about, it was decided to package several together in a feature film. The end result is ''Saludos Amigos'', a movie split apart into 4 distinct shorts:

In a time during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Disney was sent to [[LatinLand South America]] to create a movie as a gesture of good will (read up on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Neighbor_policy The Good Neighbor Policy]] for more information on that). The plan was initially to simply release a series of shorts, but when it was worried that a specific short would only be popular in the country it was about, it was decided to package several together in a feature film. The end result is ''Saludos Amigos'', a movie split apart into 4 distinct shorts:

Not to be confused with ''Series/{{Saludos}}'' the PBS learning show from 1983 that people assume have this title.

Not to be confused with ''Series/{{Saludos}}'' the PBS learning show from 1983 that people assume have this title.

Not to be confused with [[Series/{{Saludos}} the PBS learning show from 1983 that people assume have this title]].