History YMMV / TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Cyrl Proudbottom's epic slam against the crown prosecutor, when asked how Toad got the Motorcar:

--> Cyril: The only way a gentleman gets anything: the honest way.
--> Prosecutor: And WHAT IS the honest way?
--> Cyril: HAHA! I THOUGHT you wouldn't know ''that'' one, guv'na!

* NeedsMoreLove: Does it ever! Barely anyone knows about this movie these days, while it's arguably on par with Disney's movies in the fifties. The "Toad" segment features ingenious storytelling and a few surprising twists([[ItWasHisSled To those unfamiliar with the book, anyway]]) while the "Ichabod" part features what is perhaps Disney's most frightening scene of all time, contending with [[{{Fantasia}} "Night On Bald Mountain"]].

** Uniquely for a Disney feature, the "Toad" storyline features no female characters whatsoever, thus failing even the most basic rules of UsefulNotes/TheBechdelTest.

** One might be caught off guard by Brom pouring huge mugs of beer for all his friends and their dogs. No {{Bowdlerization}} or FrothyMugsOfWater here!

* StealthPun: The prosecutor "interviewing" Angus [=McBadger=] assumes he's answering "yes" to each loaded question, while Badger doesn't really get a chance to truly answer. He was "badgering" the witness, who IS a badger!

* StealthPun: The prosecutor "interviewing" Angus McBadger assumes he's answering "yes" to each loaded question, while Badger doesn't really get a chance to truly answer. He was "badgering" the witness, who IS a badger!

** Uniquely for a Disney feature, the "Toad" storyline features no female characters whatsoever, thus failing even the most basic rules of the BechdelTest.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Ichabod. He's the protagonist of the story, but he also comes off as manipulative {{Jerkass}}. Whether he's a "good guy" and how sympathetic he is varies among the viewer. In fact, Disney [[ShownTheirWork sort of gets one thing right here]] - the original tale is open to as much AlternateCharacterInterpretation as the AnimatedAdaptation.
** As a YouTube comment puts it:

--> Cyril: HAHA! I THOUGHT you wouldn't know ''that''one, guv'na!

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Ichabod. He's the protagonist of the story, but he also comes off as manipulative {{Jerkass}}. Whether he's a "good guy" and how sympathetic he is varies among the viewer.

* ValuesDissonance: The Ichabod storyline is more than a little sexist.

* EpilepticTrees: When you consider the underlying themes of Ichabod Crane, you can see an allegorical reference to Nazi Germany. Ichabod enters town, looking like a poor caricature of a Jewish male. The hulking man who has lived in the town for his whole life suddenly gets ignored as this "foreign invader" takes off with all the women, including a blond-haired, blue-eyed starlet that ''just so happens'' to be rich, something Ichabod fixates on. So, what does the home-lander do? Strike up a tale about the "local ghost". The end is the real kicker: Ichabod is chased out of town by this zeitgeist and escapes his territory, only to be '''FIREBOMBED'''. The ending leaves the home-lander *cough*GERMANY*cough* with the girl *cough*MONEY*cough and Ichabod is either '''DEAD OR FAR AWAY.''' Yikes.
** ...You realize that all of that happened in the original story, right? The one from 1820?

** ...You realize that pretty much all of that happened in the original story, right? The one from 1820?

* AssholeVictim: Regardless of his fate, Ichabod Crane kind of deserved his encounter with the Headless Horseman. It's made abundantly clear that despite the girls (especially the main rich girl) fixating on him, all he's really after is money. He even has a fantasy about marrying the rich girl and waiting for her old man to croke so he can inherit his vast fortune. With that in mind, do you '''really''' feel sorry for him by the end?

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Ichabod riding through the creepy woods. He hears animal noises: frogs calling his name and saying "oh oh" and a crow or raven cawing "''HERE HE COMES! BEWARE! BEWARE!''". A tree that looks like a ghost and another that looks like the Horseman.

* NightmareFuel: Ichabod riding through the creepy woods. He hears animal noises: frogs calling his name and saying "oh oh" and a crow or raven cawing "''HERE HE COMES! BEWARE! BEWARE!''". A tree that looks like a ghost and another that looks like the Horseman.

* ValuesDissonance: The Ichabod storyline is more than a little sexist.