History YMMV / TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad

%%* EnsembleDarkhorse: If there's one thing people remember from this, it's the Headless Horseman.

%%* CrazyAwesome: Mr. Toad.

** [[MemeticMutation No one weirdly resembles Brom Bones like]] [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]]! Although Gaston is far more of a jerk than Brom.

** No one resembles [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]] like Brom Bones (although Gaston is far more of a jerk than Brom Bones).

* AdaptationDisplacement: Far more people are familiar with Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, the popular Ride/DisneyThemeParks attraction, than they are with this lesser-known Disney film.

* OneSceneWonder: The creepy-looking man who says "And some don't even wear their skin!" during the Headless Horseman song has just a few seconds of screentime, but still manages to be extremely memorable.

** In the opening narration, the narrator suggests Myth/RobinHood, Myth/KingArthur, [[Literature/VanityFair Becky Sharp]], Literature/SherlockHolmes and Literature/OliverTwist as the "most fabulous characters in English literature". Since then, Disney has made adaptations of the [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood first]] [[WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone two]] and the [[WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany last one]], two of which were {{Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation}}s. The intro to the Sleepy Hollow segment also references Davy Crockett (who had a live action TV series from Disney), Paul Bunyan (who had a short released in the late 1950s), and Johnny Appleseed (who Disney already tackled [[WesternAnimation/MelodyTime the previous film]]).

* ValuesDissonance:
** One might be caught off guard by Brom pouring huge mugs of beer for all his friends and their dogs. No {{Bowdleri|se}}zation or FrothyMugsOfWater here!
*** Also, Toad and his friends toast "To the New Year!" with a pink beverage in cocktail glasses that is clearly liquor.
*** Winkie and the weasels also chug massive amounts of what is obviously beer when they're partying in Toad Hall.
** One student also draws a caricature of Ichabod Crane - and you can see him about to smack the student with a stick (only the sight of the student's overflowing lunch basket stops him). To a viewer who was born after the 1970s, this would seem surprising - though this ''was'' standard behaviour for teachers at the time, both in the 1700s when the story takes place and in the 1940s when the cartoon was made. (Even when it was animated!)

* ValuesDissonance: The Ichabod storyline is more than a little sexist. Women are either manipulative teases or complete dolts. Even ''if'' this takes place in the 18th or 19th century...

** In the opening narration, the narrator suggests Myth/RobinHood, Myth/KingArthur, [[Literature/VanityFair Becky Sharp]], Literature/SherlockHolmes and Literature/OliverTwist as the "most fabulous characters in English literature". Since then, Disney has made adaptations of the [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood first]] [[WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone two]] and the [[WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany last one]], two of which were {{Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation}}s.

** 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!

* JerkassWoobie:

** Brom Bones, seeing that he's the only one character in ''Sleepy Hollow'' who actually suffers some damages and injures. Not only that, despite his bully tendencies, his EstablishingCharacterMoment and seeing how Ichabod only wanted to marry Katrina for money and free food, show that Brom Bones has some fairly good qualities that make you feel some sympathy for him.

** No one resembles [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]] like Brom Bones (although Gaston is far more of a jerk than Brom Bones).
** In the opening narration, the narrator suggests Myth/RobinHood, Myth/KingArthur, [[Literature/VanityFair Becky Sharp]], Literature/SherlockHolmes and Literature/OliverTwist as the "most fabulous characters in English literature". Since then, Disney has made adaptations of the [[Disney/RobinHood first]] [[Disney/TheSwordInTheStone two]] and the [[Disney/OliverAndCompany last one]], two of which were {{Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation}}s.

** In the opening narration, the narrator suggests Myth/RobinHood, Myth/KingArthur, [[Literature/VanityFair Becky Sharp]], Literature/SherlockHolmes and Literature/OliverTwist as the "most fabulous characters in English literature". Since then, Disney has made adaptations of the [[Disney/RobinHood first]] [[Disney/TheSwordInTheStone two]] and the [[Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective last]] [[Disney/OliverAndCompany two]], three of which were {{Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation}}s.

* EarWorm:
** Toad and Cyril's "Merrily On Our Way to Nowhere In Particular".
** Brom Bones' "Headless Horseman" song.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOPeJuvLJYs "Oh, when the spooks have a midnight jamboree..."]]
** The music playing during the Sleepy Hollow dance.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=armKM1-kYY8 Who's that comin' down the street?]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse: If there's one thing people remember from this, it's the Headless Horseman.

** Mr. Toad after he's thrown in jail.

* NightmareFuel: Ichabod's encounter with the Headless Horseman is one of the all-time classic examples. His [[EvilLaugh maniacal laugh]] contributes greatly to the effect.
** All the ''buildup'' to that is arguably even ''more'' of a gold-mine of terror--as [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock a certain master]] once said, "There is no terror in the bang--only in the anticipation of it." The last 15 minutes of the Sleepy Hollow segment is all about the mental shock-and-trauma. Not only do we have Brom Bones's ultra-creepy song to put Ichabod on edge, Icky then has to trek home through a Forrest O'Doom where everything seems to want to kill him. And then something wants to kill him.
*** The sight of a tree that looks like the Headless Horseman is coming at Ichabod.
*** Ichabod's journey into the forest is purely scary to put it lightly; almost on pair with [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White's fleeing scene.]] The clouds who cover the moon in the gloomy sky seem to take the form of a gigantic hand. An hollow tree with some fireflies in it looks like an hooded ghost with glowing eyes. [[HellIsThatNoise The sounds the animals emit which sounds like they are warning Ichabod to be careful and to turn back.]]
** The withered old man at the Halloween party that goes "And some don't even wear their skin!!" sets the mood with his eerie looks and delivery.
** Toad weighed down at the bottom of the pond by his own ball and chain, struggling to grasp at a branch. This is terrifying because although toads can swim and can hold their breath for a long time, they can't breathe underwater.

* All the ''buildup'' to that is arguably even ''more'' of a gold-mine of terror--as [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock a certain master]] once said, "There is no terror in the bang--only in the anticipation of it." The last 15 minutes of the Sleepy Hollow segment is all about the mental shock-and-trauma. Not only do we have Brom Bones's ultra-creepy song to put Ichabod on edge, Icky then has to trek home through a Forrest O'Doom where everything seems to want to kill him. And then something wants to kill him.
** The sight of a tree that looks like the Headless Horseman is coming at Ichabod.
* The withered old man at the Halloween party that goes "And some don't even wear their skin!!" sets the mood with his eerie looks and delivery.
* Toad weighed down at the bottom of the pond by his own ball and chain, struggling to grasp at a branch. This is terrifying because although toads can swim and can hold their breath for a long time, they can't breathe underwater.

* NightmareFuel: Ichabod's encounter with the Headless Horseman is one of the all-time classic examples.
** All the ''buildup'' to that is arguably even ''more'' of a gold-mine of terror--as [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock a certain master]] once said, "There is no terror in the bang--only in the anticipation of it."

** Toad weighed down at the bottom of the pond by his own ball and chain, struggling to grasp at a branch. This is terrifying because although toads can swim and can hold their breath for a long time, they can't breathe underwater.
** The Headless Horseman's [[EvilLaugh maniacal laugh.]]

** One student also draws a caricature of Ichabod Crane - and you can see him about to smack the student with a stick (only the sight of the student's overflowing lunch basket stops him). To a viewer who was born after the 1970s, this would seem surprising - though this ''was'' standard behaviour for teachers at the time. (Even when it was animated!)

** Also Katrina and Brom. Is she honestly flattered by Ichabod, or is she just playing with him, perhaps using him to make her other suitors jealous? And is Brom just a bully, or is he honestly in love and wants to protect her from a gold digger?

* HilariousInHindsight: No one resembles [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]] like Brom Bones (although Gaston is far more of a jerk than Brom Bones).