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2	* AdaptationDisplacement: ''Bongo'' is already obscure by Disney standards, but pretty much no one knows about the original short story penned by Creator/SinclairLewis.
3	** This and ''Film/TheMuppetMovie/[[Series/TheMuppetShow Show]]'' are the only way most modern audiences know about Edgar Bergen, Charlie [=McCarthy=], and Mortimer Snerd.
4	** Related, but "Mickey and the Beanstalk" was often aired separately on television and even released separately on home video - removed from its original context and with a different dub, causing some people to be unaware that it was actually a part of a larger package film.
5	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: There's a lot of back and forth on whether or not Willie the Giant is just a ditzy oaf or a cunning and malicious tyrant.
6	** Was Willie aware that stealing the Harp would bring famine to Happy Valley? Would he had changed his mind if he did?
7	** Was Willie being gullible in accepting Mickey's offer to transform into a fly or was he just playing along to find out Mickey's true intentions?
8	* FridgeBrilliance: Why do Goofy's pants keep falling down? He's been losing weight from starvation, so of course they wouldn't fit as well as they used to.
9	* FridgeLogic: Why was Willie looking for Mickey? He does ask if anyone's seen a teensie-weensie mouse, indicating he may have wanted revenge but his look and tone didn't really indicate that.
10	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Donald Duck's hunger induced SanitySlippage resulting in him trying to kill the cow shows that Clarence Nash could really make him sound frightening when the situation called for it.
11	* HilariousInHindsight:
12	** Okay, picture this: Bongo, a bear who escaped from the circus to live free in the wild. [[WesternAnimation/{{Kissyfur}} Fast-foward many years later...]]
13	** [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Two talking puppets and a human watching and commenting on a movie]].
14	** "Who could have made such footprints?" [[DeadpanSnarker "Well, it wasn't Cinderella!"]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' wouldn't be released until three years later, although it was in production at the time.
15	** This wouldn't be the last time [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Mickey has a key that's as big as him.]]
16	** Record players actually ''did'' make a resurgence in TheNewTens.
17	* IronWoobie: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in "Mickey and the Beanstalk", where Creator/EdgarBergen builds Donald up to be this, only for the latter [[BreakingTheFourthWall to snap at him]] and undergo a nervous breakdown.
18	--> '''Edgar Bergen''': Just look at that miserable creature. Doggedly struggling to maintain life. A gaunt, lean bag of bones and feathers. Truly a picture of despair. But Donald doesn't whimper. Donald doesn't give up...
19	--> '''Donald Duck''': '''''[[BigShutUp SHUT UP!]]'' I CAN'T STAND IT!'''
20	* JustHereForGodzilla: Creator/DinahShore fans might want to check out ''Bongo'' solely to hear her voice.
21	* MemeticMutation: The scene where Mickey cuts the bread into super-thin transparent slices has become a popular meme [=GIF=].
22	* OlderThanTheyThink:
23	** This isn't Mickey Mouse's first time starring in a ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' [[BeanstalkParody parody.]] The first was the 1933 cartoon ''Giantland'', which also included such details as Mickey trying to hide among the food on the giant's table, the giant unwittingly putting him in a sandwich, and Mickey sending a cloud of powder into the giant's face (in ''Giantland'' it's [[PepperSneeze pepper]], while here it's snuff), causing him to [[IllTimedSneeze sneeze]] and buying Mickey time to escape.
24	** Nor is ''Mickey and the Beanstalk'' the first cartoon version of ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' where the beanstalk grows from under the house and lifts the sleeping Jack character(s) into the air in his/their bed(s). This also happens in the 1939 Creator/WalterLantz cartoon ''The Magic Beans''. As it happens, that cartoon's Jack character, Beanie, is also an anthropomorphic mouse.
25	** This also isn't the first time Charlie [=McCarthy=] has appeared in a Disney production, as he made an animated cameo in the 1938 ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'' short ''WesternAnimation/MotherGooseGoesHollywood''.
26	* SignatureScene: Donald's breakdown from ''Mickey and the Beanstalk'' is the most talked about scene from this movie, and is arguably one of the most infamous sequences in the entire Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon.
27	* SoOkayItsAverage: Varying views:
28	** To some, aside from ''Mickey and the Beanstalk'', none of the cartoons or scenes stand out too much.
29	** Others instead find ''Mickey and the Beanstalk'' to be too slow for its own good and say it is this trope, while instead praising ''Bongo''.
30	* SpecialEffectsFailure: Let's just say that Edgar Bergen's ventriloquist talents aren't particularly convincing to most modern viewers. Even at the time he was well aware that his lips visibly moved and made up for it with his witty writing for his puppets, including having Charlie [[LampshadeHanging point this out]]. Just notice how his biggest success was on the radio.
31	* TearJerker:
32	** Willie the Giant's apparent death, or at least for the soft-hearted dummy Mortimer Snerd.
33	** The circumstances that led to Donald's breakdown; being reduced to having paper thin slices of bread with a single sliced bean, it's understandable why he just snapped.
34	--->'''Donald:''' I just gotta eat! I'm so hungry!
35	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Animated segments aside, this movie is ''clearly'' a period piece for TheForties. Notable in the use of the Hollywood lights, 78 RPM record players, the presence of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Derby Brown Derby]] restaurant in the end (closed in 1980), [[HaveAGayOldTime the line "All the world is gay!"]], and stars who were relevant over radio and in TheForties.
36	* ValuesDissonance:
37	** In ''Bongo'', bears show affection for each other via ''DomesticAbuse''. There's even a musical number about it ("(Bears Like to) Say it With a Slap"). That would ''not'' go over the same way today.
38	** The golden harp sings "[[HaveAGayOldTime All the world is gay!"]] which many a [=YouTube=] comment and modern viewers snickered at.
39	** Some might interpret the idea of Bergen having a small and private birthday party for Luanna Patten as a little strange - but intergenerational friendships were of a different nature around the time the film was produced.
40	* ValuesResonance: That said, it's easy to interpret Luanna Patten's parents as being out for the night for whatever reason, so they asked their family friend Edgar Bergen to watch her for the evening - and their relationship is proven to be very wholesome. Especially since Charlie [=McCarthy=] is supposed to be a child too, so the party can be seen as a play date between them with Bergen as a kindly, parental supervisor. The idea of male caretakers is more accepted in the twenty-first century.
41	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The animated Jiminy Cricket drinking a very real cocktail glass through a straw. And this was decades before ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', too!

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