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** Chroma the Great conducts the sunset and Milo plays music in his steed, which causes the sky to become chaotic. Even though the colors are messed up, Milo, Tock, and the Humbug simply drive off. The only thing to come out of it is that it hints of the necessity of Rhyme and Reason to fix the instability brought on the indirect influence of the Demons.
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** Chroma the Great conducts the sunset and Milo plays music in his steed, stead, which causes the sky to become chaotic. Even though the colors are messed up, Milo, Tock, and the Humbug simply drive off. The only thing to come out of it is that it hints of the necessity of Rhyme and Reason to fix the instability brought on the indirect influence of the Demons.
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* NightmareFuel: [[WesternAnimation/ThePhantomTollbooth here]].
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* NightmareFuel: [[WesternAnimation/ThePhantomTollbooth [[NightmareFuel/ThePhantomTollbooth here]].
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* NightmareFuel: Despite being a whimsical story about a boy learning the importance of learning accompanied by the suave and energetic animation of [[Creator/ChuckJones Chuck Jones]], it is filled with dark elements that manage to be even more disturbing than the book's already grim ideas and Jones is willing to go into much more terrifying designs for the villains than his usual comedic brand of characters.
** The soundtrack while very whimsical at times, always has an undertone of menace until the conflict is resolved, hinting at the darker elements of the story that become clearer by the time they reach the Mountain of Ignorance.
** Before the adventure even begins, Milo is confronted by a stark red and white striped box that clashes with his realistically muted room and it comes to life in as elements pop into existence in an instant as the boy is understandably freaked out.
** The Doldrums are absolutely terrifying from one point of view. In a land in which thinking and breathing itself are outlawed, the very swamp comes alive to chase you, and if that's not bad enough, the personifications of Boredom, Sloth, and Lethargy will deliberately do their best to keep you where you are [[FauxAffablyEvil hiding their truly malign intentions under a relaxed and casual facade]]. A particularly sinister moment comes when the facade drops mid-song and the Lethargians start shooting devilishly triumphant looks at each other as their trap does its work on Milo.
** The Demons of Ignorance [[NonStandardCharacterDesign drawn in a very rough style compared to the lightly drawn cast, and many look very disturbing]]. The prime example is the (nonspeaking) Two-Faced Hypocrite, which looks like a two-headed dragon straight out of Hell. Even worse is the personification of all Ignorance, a bluish-purple leonine-draconic hybrid [[MadeOfEvil made from the various demons of the worst evils of man]] [[FusionDance combining together]] into the thing they all spring from: '''HATE.'''
** There's also the Insufferable Know-It-All, a [[HumanoidAbomination a blue-skinned obese humanoid with a long nose and yellow sclera eyes with red irises]] walking directly at the camera while chiding the heroes.
** The Horrible Hopping Hindsight who has legs arched backward, with [[EyePop pink eyes in a perpetual elongated outside the socket]] while breathing fire, looking like something retroactively out of a Rob Zombie album cover than a simple children's story.
** The Gorgons of Hate and Malice who look like demonic snails with the Hate being a green draconic creature while the purple one has a vaguely beak-mouthed face.
** The Threadbare Excuse [[HumanoidAbomination who is interpreted as a palish yellow creature with a body that has enlarged hands/feet, elongated lower jaw/back of the head yet the joints for neck/arms are almost nonexistent]]. [[BodyHorror It almost seems to be in perpetual pain for just existing as he walks a slow zombie-like stride]].
** The Gelatinous Giant's [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath eerie]], [[DrivenToSuicide despair based suicide]] [[DeathByAdaptation in contrast to its literature counterpart that was merely freaked out]], [[ImMelting by taking its gelatinous status literally by slowly melting away at the very thought of an idea]]. Not helped by the fact, [[EvilSoundsDeep its voice gets deeper and distorted as it bemoans its fear of change.]]
** The Terrible Trivium, his FauxAffablyEvil nature is accented with the capacity of suddenly gaining sinister indications of eyebrows and his slow approach to the heroes during his BadassBoast implies [[NothingIsScarier he was going to do something terrible to them before Tock frightens him off]].
** The soundtrack while very whimsical at times, always has an undertone of menace until the conflict is resolved, hinting at the darker elements of the story that become clearer by the time they reach the Mountain of Ignorance.
** Before the adventure even begins, Milo is confronted by a stark red and white striped box that clashes with his realistically muted room and it comes to life in as elements pop into existence in an instant as the boy is understandably freaked out.
** The Doldrums are absolutely terrifying from one point of view. In a land in which thinking and breathing itself are outlawed, the very swamp comes alive to chase you, and if that's not bad enough, the personifications of Boredom, Sloth, and Lethargy will deliberately do their best to keep you where you are [[FauxAffablyEvil hiding their truly malign intentions under a relaxed and casual facade]]. A particularly sinister moment comes when the facade drops mid-song and the Lethargians start shooting devilishly triumphant looks at each other as their trap does its work on Milo.
** The Demons of Ignorance [[NonStandardCharacterDesign drawn in a very rough style compared to the lightly drawn cast, and many look very disturbing]]. The prime example is the (nonspeaking) Two-Faced Hypocrite, which looks like a two-headed dragon straight out of Hell. Even worse is the personification of all Ignorance, a bluish-purple leonine-draconic hybrid [[MadeOfEvil made from the various demons of the worst evils of man]] [[FusionDance combining together]] into the thing they all spring from: '''HATE.'''
** There's also the Insufferable Know-It-All, a [[HumanoidAbomination a blue-skinned obese humanoid with a long nose and yellow sclera eyes with red irises]] walking directly at the camera while chiding the heroes.
** The Horrible Hopping Hindsight who has legs arched backward, with [[EyePop pink eyes in a perpetual elongated outside the socket]] while breathing fire, looking like something retroactively out of a Rob Zombie album cover than a simple children's story.
** The Gorgons of Hate and Malice who look like demonic snails with the Hate being a green draconic creature while the purple one has a vaguely beak-mouthed face.
** The Threadbare Excuse [[HumanoidAbomination who is interpreted as a palish yellow creature with a body that has enlarged hands/feet, elongated lower jaw/back of the head yet the joints for neck/arms are almost nonexistent]]. [[BodyHorror It almost seems to be in perpetual pain for just existing as he walks a slow zombie-like stride]].
** The Gelatinous Giant's [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath eerie]], [[DrivenToSuicide despair based suicide]] [[DeathByAdaptation in contrast to its literature counterpart that was merely freaked out]], [[ImMelting by taking its gelatinous status literally by slowly melting away at the very thought of an idea]]. Not helped by the fact, [[EvilSoundsDeep its voice gets deeper and distorted as it bemoans its fear of change.]]
** The Terrible Trivium, his FauxAffablyEvil nature is accented with the capacity of suddenly gaining sinister indications of eyebrows and his slow approach to the heroes during his BadassBoast implies [[NothingIsScarier he was going to do something terrible to them before Tock frightens him off]].
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* NightmareFuel: Despite being a whimsical story about a boy learning the importance of learning accompanied by the suave and energetic animation of [[Creator/ChuckJones Chuck Jones]], it is filled with dark elements that manage to be even more disturbing than the book's already grim ideas and Jones is willing to go into much more terrifying designs for the villains than his usual comedic brand of characters.
** The soundtrack while very whimsical at times, always has an undertone of menace until the conflict is resolved, hinting at the darker elements of the story that become clearer by the time they reach the Mountain of Ignorance.
** Before the adventure even begins, Milo is confronted by a stark red and white striped box that clashes with his realistically muted room and it comes to life in as elements pop into existence in an instant as the boy is understandably freaked out.
** The Doldrums are absolutely terrifying from one point of view. In a land in which thinking and breathing itself are outlawed, the very swamp comes alive to chase you, and if that's not bad enough, the personifications of Boredom, Sloth, and Lethargy will deliberately do their best to keep you where you are [[FauxAffablyEvil hiding their truly malign intentions under a relaxed and casual facade]]. A particularly sinister moment comes when the facade drops mid-song and the Lethargians start shooting devilishly triumphant looks at each other as their trap does its work on Milo.
** The Demons of Ignorance [[NonStandardCharacterDesign drawn in a very rough style compared to the lightly drawn cast, and many look very disturbing]]. The prime example is the (nonspeaking) Two-Faced Hypocrite, which looks like a two-headed dragon straight out of Hell. Even worse is the personification of all Ignorance, a bluish-purple leonine-draconic hybrid [[MadeOfEvil made from the various demons of the worst evils of man]] [[FusionDance combining together]] into the thing they all spring from: '''HATE.'''
** There's also the Insufferable Know-It-All, a [[HumanoidAbomination a blue-skinned obese humanoid with a long nose and yellow sclera eyes with red irises]] walking directly at the camera while chiding the heroes.
** The Horrible Hopping Hindsight who has legs arched backward, with [[EyePop pink eyes in a perpetual elongated outside the socket]] while breathing fire, looking like something retroactively out of a Rob Zombie album cover than a simple children's story.
** The Gorgons of Hate and Malice who look like demonic snails with the Hate being a green draconic creature while the purple one has a vaguely beak-mouthed face.
** The Threadbare Excuse [[HumanoidAbomination who is interpreted as a palish yellow creature with a body that has enlarged hands/feet, elongated lower jaw/back of the head yet the joints for neck/arms are almost nonexistent]]. [[BodyHorror It almost seems to be in perpetual pain for just existing as he walks a slow zombie-like stride]].
** The Gelatinous Giant's [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath eerie]], [[DrivenToSuicide despair based suicide]] [[DeathByAdaptation in contrast to its literature counterpart that was merely freaked out]], [[ImMelting by taking its gelatinous status literally by slowly melting away at the very thought of an idea]]. Not helped by the fact, [[EvilSoundsDeep its voice gets deeper and distorted as it bemoans its fear of change.]]
** The Terrible Trivium, his FauxAffablyEvil nature is accented with the capacity of suddenly gaining sinister indications of eyebrows and his slow approach to the heroes during his BadassBoast implies [[NothingIsScarier he was going to do something terrible to them before Tock frightens him off]].[[WesternAnimation/ThePhantomTollbooth here]].
** The soundtrack while very whimsical at times, always has an undertone of menace until the conflict is resolved, hinting at the darker elements of the story that become clearer by the time they reach the Mountain of Ignorance.
** Before the adventure even begins, Milo is confronted by a stark red and white striped box that clashes with his realistically muted room and it comes to life in as elements pop into existence in an instant as the boy is understandably freaked out.
** The Doldrums are absolutely terrifying from one point of view. In a land in which thinking and breathing itself are outlawed, the very swamp comes alive to chase you, and if that's not bad enough, the personifications of Boredom, Sloth, and Lethargy will deliberately do their best to keep you where you are [[FauxAffablyEvil hiding their truly malign intentions under a relaxed and casual facade]]. A particularly sinister moment comes when the facade drops mid-song and the Lethargians start shooting devilishly triumphant looks at each other as their trap does its work on Milo.
** The Demons of Ignorance [[NonStandardCharacterDesign drawn in a very rough style compared to the lightly drawn cast, and many look very disturbing]]. The prime example is the (nonspeaking) Two-Faced Hypocrite, which looks like a two-headed dragon straight out of Hell. Even worse is the personification of all Ignorance, a bluish-purple leonine-draconic hybrid [[MadeOfEvil made from the various demons of the worst evils of man]] [[FusionDance combining together]] into the thing they all spring from: '''HATE.'''
** There's also the Insufferable Know-It-All, a [[HumanoidAbomination a blue-skinned obese humanoid with a long nose and yellow sclera eyes with red irises]] walking directly at the camera while chiding the heroes.
** The Horrible Hopping Hindsight who has legs arched backward, with [[EyePop pink eyes in a perpetual elongated outside the socket]] while breathing fire, looking like something retroactively out of a Rob Zombie album cover than a simple children's story.
** The Gorgons of Hate and Malice who look like demonic snails with the Hate being a green draconic creature while the purple one has a vaguely beak-mouthed face.
** The Threadbare Excuse [[HumanoidAbomination who is interpreted as a palish yellow creature with a body that has enlarged hands/feet, elongated lower jaw/back of the head yet the joints for neck/arms are almost nonexistent]]. [[BodyHorror It almost seems to be in perpetual pain for just existing as he walks a slow zombie-like stride]].
** The Gelatinous Giant's [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath eerie]], [[DrivenToSuicide despair based suicide]] [[DeathByAdaptation in contrast to its literature counterpart that was merely freaked out]], [[ImMelting by taking its gelatinous status literally by slowly melting away at the very thought of an idea]]. Not helped by the fact, [[EvilSoundsDeep its voice gets deeper and distorted as it bemoans its fear of change.]]
** The Terrible Trivium, his FauxAffablyEvil nature is accented with the capacity of suddenly gaining sinister indications of eyebrows and his slow approach to the heroes during his BadassBoast implies [[NothingIsScarier he was going to do something terrible to them before Tock frightens him off]].
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** Before he properly drives through, Milo spends a couple minutes just screwing around with the tollbooth, watching how his live-action and cartoon selves interact with it for no other reason than to [[GratuitousSpecialEffects show off the special effects]].
** Chroma the Great conducts the sunset and Milo distracts him. Even though the colors are messed up, Milo, Tock, and the Humbug simply drive off.
* NightmareFuel: The Doldrums are absolutely terrifying from one point of view. In a land in which thinking and breathing itself is outlawed, the very swamp comes alive to chase you, and if that's not bad enough, the personifications of Boredom, Sloth, and Lethargy will deliberately do their best to keep you where you are [[FauxAffablyEvil hiding their truly malign intentions under a relaxed and casual facade]]. A particularly sinister moment comes when the facade drops mid-song and the Lethargians start shooting devilishly triumphant looks at each other as their trap does its work on Milo.
** Chroma the Great conducts the sunset and Milo distracts him. Even though the colors are messed up, Milo, Tock, and the Humbug simply drive off.
* NightmareFuel: The Doldrums are absolutely terrifying from one point of view. In a land in which thinking and breathing itself is outlawed, the very swamp comes alive to chase you, and if that's not bad enough, the personifications of Boredom, Sloth, and Lethargy will deliberately do their best to keep you where you are [[FauxAffablyEvil hiding their truly malign intentions under a relaxed and casual facade]]. A particularly sinister moment comes when the facade drops mid-song and the Lethargians start shooting devilishly triumphant looks at each other as their trap does its work on Milo.
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** Before he properly drives through, Milo spends a couple of minutes just screwing around with the tollbooth, watching how his live-action and cartoon selves interact with it for no other reason than to [[GratuitousSpecialEffects show off the special effects]].
** Chroma the Great conducts the sunset and Milodistracts him. plays music in his steed, which causes the sky to become chaotic. Even though the colors are messed up, Milo, Tock, and the Humbug simply drive off.
off. The only thing to come out of it is that it hints of the necessity of Rhyme and Reason to fix the instability brought on the indirect influence of the Demons.
* NightmareFuel: Despite being a whimsical story about a boy learning the importance of learning accompanied by the suave and energetic animation of [[Creator/ChuckJones Chuck Jones]], it is filled with dark elements that manage to be even more disturbing than the book's already grim ideas and Jones is willing to go into much more terrifying designs for the villains than his usual comedic brand of characters.
** The soundtrack while very whimsical at times, always has an undertone of menace until the conflict is resolved, hinting at the darker elements of the story that become clearer by the time they reach the Mountain of Ignorance.
** Before the adventure even begins, Milo is confronted by a stark red and white striped box that clashes with his realistically muted room and it comes to life in as elements pop into existence in an instant as the boy is understandably freaked out.
** The Doldrums are absolutely terrifying from one point of view. In a land in which thinking and breathing itselfis are outlawed, the very swamp comes alive to chase you, and if that's not bad enough, the personifications of Boredom, Sloth, and Lethargy will deliberately do their best to keep you where you are [[FauxAffablyEvil hiding their truly malign intentions under a relaxed and casual facade]]. A particularly sinister moment comes when the facade drops mid-song and the Lethargians start shooting devilishly triumphant looks at each other as their trap does its work on Milo.
** Chroma the Great conducts the sunset and Milo
* NightmareFuel: Despite being a whimsical story about a boy learning the importance of learning accompanied by the suave and energetic animation of [[Creator/ChuckJones Chuck Jones]], it is filled with dark elements that manage to be even more disturbing than the book's already grim ideas and Jones is willing to go into much more terrifying designs for the villains than his usual comedic brand of characters.
** The soundtrack while very whimsical at times, always has an undertone of menace until the conflict is resolved, hinting at the darker elements of the story that become clearer by the time they reach the Mountain of Ignorance.
** Before the adventure even begins, Milo is confronted by a stark red and white striped box that clashes with his realistically muted room and it comes to life in as elements pop into existence in an instant as the boy is understandably freaked out.
** The Doldrums are absolutely terrifying from one point of view. In a land in which thinking and breathing itself
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** There's also the Insufferable Know-It-All, a [[HumanoidAbomination a blue skinned obese humanoid with a long nose and yellow sclera eyes with red irises]] walking directly at the camera while chiding the heroes.
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** There's also the Insufferable Know-It-All, a [[HumanoidAbomination a blue skinned blue-skinned obese humanoid with a long nose and yellow sclera eyes with red irises]] walking directly at the camera while chiding the heroes.
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Seinfeld Is Unfunny clean-up
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: A kid from the modern world finds a doorway to another world and finds himself saving it. Sounds like almost every other escapist fantasy book out there, huh? Not so much in TheSixties. Even in the face of books like ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', the premise can come off as somewhat stale and antiquated.
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** The Demons of Ignorance [[NonStandardCharacterDesign drawn in a very rough style compared to the lightly drawn cast, and many look very disturbing]]. The prime example is the (nonspeaking) Two Faced Hypocrite, which looks like a two-headed dragon straight out of Hell. Even worse is the personification of all Ignorance, a bluish-purple leonine-draconic hybrid [[MadeOfEvil made from the various demons of the worst evils of man]] [[FusionDance combining together]] into the thing they all spring from: '''HATE.'''
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** The Demons of Ignorance [[NonStandardCharacterDesign drawn in a very rough style compared to the lightly drawn cast, and many look very disturbing]]. The prime example is the (nonspeaking) Two Faced Two-Faced Hypocrite, which looks like a two-headed dragon straight out of Hell. Even worse is the personification of all Ignorance, a bluish-purple leonine-draconic hybrid [[MadeOfEvil made from the various demons of the worst evils of man]] [[FusionDance combining together]] into the thing they all spring from: '''HATE.''''''
** There's also the Insufferable Know-It-All, a [[HumanoidAbomination a blue skinned obese humanoid with a long nose and yellow sclera eyes with red irises]] walking directly at the camera while chiding the heroes.
** The Horrible Hopping Hindsight who has legs arched backward, with [[EyePop pink eyes in a perpetual elongated outside the socket]] while breathing fire, looking like something retroactively out of a Rob Zombie album cover than a simple children's story.
** The Gorgons of Hate and Malice who look like demonic snails with the Hate being a green draconic creature while the purple one has a vaguely beak-mouthed face.
** The Threadbare Excuse [[HumanoidAbomination who is interpreted as a palish yellow creature with a body that has enlarged hands/feet, elongated lower jaw/back of the head yet the joints for neck/arms are almost nonexistent]]. [[BodyHorror It almost seems to be in perpetual pain for just existing as he walks a slow zombie-like stride]].
** There's also the Insufferable Know-It-All, a [[HumanoidAbomination a blue skinned obese humanoid with a long nose and yellow sclera eyes with red irises]] walking directly at the camera while chiding the heroes.
** The Horrible Hopping Hindsight who has legs arched backward, with [[EyePop pink eyes in a perpetual elongated outside the socket]] while breathing fire, looking like something retroactively out of a Rob Zombie album cover than a simple children's story.
** The Gorgons of Hate and Malice who look like demonic snails with the Hate being a green draconic creature while the purple one has a vaguely beak-mouthed face.
** The Threadbare Excuse [[HumanoidAbomination who is interpreted as a palish yellow creature with a body that has enlarged hands/feet, elongated lower jaw/back of the head yet the joints for neck/arms are almost nonexistent]]. [[BodyHorror It almost seems to be in perpetual pain for just existing as he walks a slow zombie-like stride]].
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* TearJerker: Tok's HeroicSacrifice against the combined Demon of Ignorance, with Milo not even allowed to properly mourn his potential death in order to rescue the Princesses. Especially, so as Tok was his first friend in the world and helped him out of his bored way of life.
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* TearJerker: Tok's Tock's HeroicSacrifice against the combined Demon of Ignorance, with Milo not even allowed to properly mourn his potential death in order to rescue the Princesses. Especially, so as Tok Tock was his first friend in the world and helped him out of his bored way of life.
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It's also a bittersweet ending
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** Milo having to leave the world of the Tollbooth with a greater appreciation for knowledge as the Tollbooth goes to another child's home so they can have their own journey. While he did save that world, the inability to see his friends again is very saddening.
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** Milo having to leave the world of the Tollbooth with a greater appreciation for knowledge as the Tollbooth goes to another child's home so they can have their own journey. While he did save that world, [[BittersweetEnding the inability to see his friends again is very saddening.saddening]].
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: A kid from the modern world finds a doorway to another world and finds himself saving it. Sounds like almost every other escapist fantasy book out there, huh? Not so much in the sixties. Even in the face of books like ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', the premise can come off as somewhat stale and antiquated.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: A kid from the modern world finds a doorway to another world and finds himself saving it. Sounds like almost every other escapist fantasy book out there, huh? Not so much in the sixties.TheSixties. Even in the face of books like ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', the premise can come off as somewhat stale and antiquated.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Quick! Tell me you haven't heard this before... a kid from the modern world finds a doorway to another world and finds himself saving it. Sounds like almost every other escapist fantasy book out there, huh? Not so much in the sixties. Even in the face of books like ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', the premise can come off as somewhat stale and antiquated.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Quick! Tell me you haven't heard this before... a A kid from the modern world finds a doorway to another world and finds himself saving it. Sounds like almost every other escapist fantasy book out there, huh? Not so much in the sixties. Even in the face of books like ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', the premise can come off as somewhat stale and antiquated.
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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Creator/ChuckJones of WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes fame, brings the world of the Phantom Tollbooth to life with his usual elegant yet comedic designs, but also experiments with a variety of styles for the various characters to create designs for characters that drastically differ from his usual expertise, ranging from the heavily scratchy designs for the Demons of Ignorance, the marker look of the Awful Dyne, and the liquidy Lethargians.
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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Creator/ChuckJones of WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes fame, brings the world of the Phantom Tollbooth to life with his usual elegant yet comedic designs, but also experiments with a variety of styles for the various characters to create designs for characters that drastically differ from his usual expertise, ranging from the heavily scratchy designs for the Demons of Ignorance, the marker look of the Awful Dyne, and the liquidy Lethargians.Lethargians.
** The background images are also intricate and beautiful to look at, combining elements of alphabets, numbers, etc.
** The background images are also intricate and beautiful to look at, combining elements of alphabets, numbers, etc.
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elaborating on tropes
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* TearJerker: Tok's HeroicSacrifice against the combined Demon of Ignorance, with Milo not even allowed to properly mourn his potential death in order to rescue the Princesses. Especially, so as Tok was his first friend in the world and helped him out of his bored way of life.
** The initial intro song of Milo, which details how uninterested Milo is concerning life in general, having a mellow and melancholy tone.
** Milo having to leave the world of the Tollbooth with a greater appreciation for knowledge as the Tollbooth goes to another child's home so they can have their own journey. While he did save that world, the inability to see his friends again is very saddening.
* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Creator/ChuckJones of WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes fame, brings the world of the Phantom Tollbooth to life with his usual elegant yet comedic designs, but also experiments with a variety of styles for the various characters to create designs for characters that drastically differ from his usual expertise, ranging from the heavily scratchy designs for the Demons of Ignorance, the marker look of the Awful Dyne, and the liquidy Lethargians.
** The initial intro song of Milo, which details how uninterested Milo is concerning life in general, having a mellow and melancholy tone.
** Milo having to leave the world of the Tollbooth with a greater appreciation for knowledge as the Tollbooth goes to another child's home so they can have their own journey. While he did save that world, the inability to see his friends again is very saddening.
* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Creator/ChuckJones of WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes fame, brings the world of the Phantom Tollbooth to life with his usual elegant yet comedic designs, but also experiments with a variety of styles for the various characters to create designs for characters that drastically differ from his usual expertise, ranging from the heavily scratchy designs for the Demons of Ignorance, the marker look of the Awful Dyne, and the liquidy Lethargians.
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elaborating on tropes
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** The Terrible Trivium, his FauxAffablyEvil nature is accented with the capacity of suddenly gaining sinister indications of eyebrows and his slow approach to the heroes during his BadassBoast implies [[NothingIsScarier he was going to do something terrible to them before Tock frightens him off]].
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The "appreciation by Creator/MauriceSendak" notes how Juster's "allegorical monsters have become all too real".
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* ValuesResonance: In the "appreciation by Creator/MauriceSendak" that accompanies the Yearling edition of the book, Sendak notes how the monsters and obstacles in the book are "prophetic and scarily pertinent" to modern living and how Juster's "allegorical monsters have become all too real".
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Norton Juster noted that, in the 21st century, tollbooths have fallen into disuse and aren't so common as they were in the time his novel was written.
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Trope being dewicked.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: The "Learning is Fun!" message is pretty blatant...
** SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: He wasn't wrong, you know!
** SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: He wasn't wrong, you know!
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* {{Anvilicious}}: The "Learning is Fun!" message is pretty blatant...
** SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: He wasn't wrong, you know!blatant.
** SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: He wasn't wrong, you know!
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** The Gelatinous Giant's [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath eerie]], [[DrivenToSuicide despair based suicide]] [[DeathByAdaptation in contrast to its literature counterpart that was merely freaked out]], [[ImMelting by taking its gelatinous status literally by slowly melting away at the very thought of an idea]]. Not helped by the fact, [[EvilSoundsDeep its voice gets deeper and distorted as it bemoans its fear of change.]]
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** The Gelatinous Giant's [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath eerie]], [[DrivenToSuicide despair based suicide]] [[DeathByAdaptation in contrast to its literature counterpart that was merely freaked out]], [[ImMelting by taking its gelatinous status literally by slowly melting away at the very thought of an idea]]. Not helped by the fact, [[EvilSoundsDeep its voice gets deeper and distorted as it bemoans its fear of change.]]]]
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* ValuesDissonance: At one point, Milo meets the shortest giant and the tallest midget. While not considered bad when it was written (TheSixties), a modern viewer would probably find the use of the word "Midget" to be questionable.
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* NightmareFuel: The Doldrums are absolutely terrifying from one point of view. In a land in which thinking and breathing itself is outlawed, the very swamp comes alive to chase you, and if that's not bad enough, the personifications of Boredom, Sloth, and Lethargy will deliberately do their best to keep you where you are [[FauxAffablyEvil hiding their truly malign intentions under a relaxed and casual facade]].
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* NightmareFuel: The Doldrums are absolutely terrifying from one point of view. In a land in which thinking and breathing itself is outlawed, the very swamp comes alive to chase you, and if that's not bad enough, the personifications of Boredom, Sloth, and Lethargy will deliberately do their best to keep you where you are [[FauxAffablyEvil hiding their truly malign intentions under a relaxed and casual facade]]. A particularly sinister moment comes when the facade drops mid-song and the Lethargians start shooting devilishly triumphant looks at each other as their trap does its work on Milo.
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** The Demons of Ignorance [[NonStandardCharacterDesign drawn in a very rough style compared to the lightly drawn cast, and many look very disturbing]]. The prime example is the (nonspeaking) Two Faced Hypocrite, which looks like a two-headed dragon straight out of Hell. Even worse is the personification of all Ignorance, a bluish-purple leonine-draconic hybrid [[MadeOfEvil made from the various demons of the worst evils of man]] [[FusionDance combining together]].
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** The Demons of Ignorance [[NonStandardCharacterDesign drawn in a very rough style compared to the lightly drawn cast, and many look very disturbing]]. The prime example is the (nonspeaking) Two Faced Hypocrite, which looks like a two-headed dragon straight out of Hell. Even worse is the personification of all Ignorance, a bluish-purple leonine-draconic hybrid [[MadeOfEvil made from the various demons of the worst evils of man]] [[FusionDance combining together]].together]] into the thing they all spring from: '''HATE.'''
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elaborating on tropes
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* NightmareFuel: The Doldrums are absolutely terrifying from one point of view. In a land in which thinking and breathing itself is outlawed, the very swamp comes alive to chase you, and if that's not bad enough, the personifications of Boredom, Sloth, and Lethargy will do their best to keep you where you are.
** The Demons of Ignorance [[NonStandardCharacterDesign drawn in a very rough style compared to the lightly drawn cast, and many look very disturbing]]. The prime example is the (nonspeaking) Two Faced Hypocrite, which looks like a two-headed dragon straight out of Hell. Even worse is the personification of all Ignorance [[MadeOfEvil made from the various demons]] [[OneWingedAngel combining together]].
** The Demons of Ignorance [[NonStandardCharacterDesign drawn in a very rough style compared to the lightly drawn cast, and many look very disturbing]]. The prime example is the (nonspeaking) Two Faced Hypocrite, which looks like a two-headed dragon straight out of Hell. Even worse is the personification of all Ignorance [[MadeOfEvil made from the various demons]] [[OneWingedAngel combining together]].
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* NightmareFuel: The Doldrums are absolutely terrifying from one point of view. In a land in which thinking and breathing itself is outlawed, the very swamp comes alive to chase you, and if that's not bad enough, the personifications of Boredom, Sloth, and Lethargy will deliberately do their best to keep you where you are.
are [[FauxAffablyEvil hiding their truly malign intentions under a relaxed and casual facade]].
** The Demons of Ignorance [[NonStandardCharacterDesign drawn in a very rough style compared to the lightly drawn cast, and many look very disturbing]]. The prime example is the (nonspeaking) Two Faced Hypocrite, which looks like a two-headed dragon straight out of Hell. Even worse is the personification of allIgnorance Ignorance, a bluish-purple leonine-draconic hybrid [[MadeOfEvil made from the various demons]] [[OneWingedAngel demons of the worst evils of man]] [[FusionDance combining together]].together]].
** The Gelatinous Giant's [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath eerie]], [[DrivenToSuicide despair based suicide]] [[DeathByAdaptation in contrast to its literature counterpart that was merely freaked out]], [[ImMelting by taking its gelatinous status literally by slowly melting away at the very thought of an idea]]. Not helped by the fact, [[EvilSoundsDeep its voice gets deeper and distorted as it bemoans its fear of change.]]
** The Demons of Ignorance [[NonStandardCharacterDesign drawn in a very rough style compared to the lightly drawn cast, and many look very disturbing]]. The prime example is the (nonspeaking) Two Faced Hypocrite, which looks like a two-headed dragon straight out of Hell. Even worse is the personification of all
** The Gelatinous Giant's [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath eerie]], [[DrivenToSuicide despair based suicide]] [[DeathByAdaptation in contrast to its literature counterpart that was merely freaked out]], [[ImMelting by taking its gelatinous status literally by slowly melting away at the very thought of an idea]]. Not helped by the fact, [[EvilSoundsDeep its voice gets deeper and distorted as it bemoans its fear of change.]]
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* ValuesDissonance: At one point, Milo meets the shortest giant and the tallest midget. While not considered bad when it was written (TheSixties), a modern viewer would probably find the use of the word "Midget" to be questionable.
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* EarWorm:
** "Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life!"
** "Don't say there's nothin' to do in the dollllllldrums!"
** "Hence-forth, and foooorth-''with'', let it be known by aaaall meeeen..."
** "Noise, noise, beautiful noise..." Ironically, it's very tuneful for a song about cacophony.
** "Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life!"
** "Don't say there's nothin' to do in the dollllllldrums!"
** "Hence-forth, and foooorth-''with'', let it be known by aaaall meeeen..."
** "Noise, noise, beautiful noise..." Ironically, it's very tuneful for a song about cacophony.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Before he properly drives through, Milo spends a couple minutes just screwing around with the tollbooth, watching how his live-action and cartoon selves interact with it for no other reason than to [[GratuitousSpecialEffects show off the special effects]].
* EarWorm: "Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life!"
* EarWorm: "Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life!"
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
** Before he properly drives through, Milo spends a couple minutes just screwing around with the tollbooth, watching how his live-action and cartoon selves interact with it for no other reason than to [[GratuitousSpecialEffects show off the special effects]].
** Chroma the Great conducts the sunset and Milo distracts him. Even though the colors are messed up, Milo, Tock, and the Humbug simply drive off.
*EarWorm: EarWorm:
** "Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life!"
** Before he properly drives through, Milo spends a couple minutes just screwing around with the tollbooth, watching how his live-action and cartoon selves interact with it for no other reason than to [[GratuitousSpecialEffects show off the special effects]].
** Chroma the Great conducts the sunset and Milo distracts him. Even though the colors are messed up, Milo, Tock, and the Humbug simply drive off.
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** "Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life!"
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** The Demons of Ignorance [[NonStandardCharacterDesign drawn in a very rough style compared to the lightly drawn cast, and many look very disturbing]]. The prime example is the (nonspeaking) Two Faced Hypocrite, which looks like a two-headed dragon straight out of Hell. Even worse is the personification of all Ignorance [[MadeOfEvil made from the various demons combining together]].
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** The Demons of Ignorance [[NonStandardCharacterDesign drawn in a very rough style compared to the lightly drawn cast, and many look very disturbing]]. The prime example is the (nonspeaking) Two Faced Hypocrite, which looks like a two-headed dragon straight out of Hell. Even worse is the personification of all Ignorance [[MadeOfEvil made from the various demons demons]] [[OneWingedAngel combining together]].
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** "Hence-forth, and foooorth-''with'', let it be known by aaaall meeeen..." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Llg5VODW6n4#t=4985 "Rhyme and Reason Reign"]]
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** "Hence-forth, and foooorth-''with'', let it be known by aaaall meeeen..." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Llg5VODW6n4#t=4985 "Rhyme and Reason Reign"]]"
