Trivia / Make Mine Music

• Actor Allusion: Nelson Eddy performed all the voices in "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing At The Met". At one point Willie the Whale sings one of Eddy's signature songs, "Shortnin' Bread".
• Banned Episode: Likely because of the gunplay in "The Martins and the Coys" and the shower scene in "All the Cats Join In", this is the only entry in the Disney Animated Canon to be excluded from Disney+.
• Completely Different Title:
  • "The Music Box" in French.
  • "Music, Maestro" in Italy.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: All home video releases in the US and Canada cut "The Martins and the Coys" from the beginning due to the gunplay at the beginning that kills almost all of the feuding families. However, it did air intact on the Disney Channel in the 80's and 90's, so anyone lucky enough to record it has the full unedited version. There were also uncut Japanese LaserDisc and European DVD releases, both of which are out of print. It's also the only film in the Disney Animated Canon missing from Disney+, most likely for this reason. The brief nudity in "All the Cats Join In" probably doesn't help either.
• Man of a Thousand Voices: All of "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met" was sung by one person, Nelson Eddy.
• Referenced by...: In Experimental Film, Simon sets Clark up with Make Mine Music on the DVD player before he and Lois leave Clark at his grandmother's home.
• Science Marches On: Nearly twenty years after "The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At The Met" made its debut, scientists discovered that whales could indeed sing and very well at that. Ironically, whereas Willie's singing led to his demise, the songs produced by humpback whales is a huge part of what fueled the "Save the Whales" campaign of the 1970s.

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