YMMV / The Mad Doctor

• Awesome Music: Basically any background music you hear in the short.
• I Am Not Shazam: While he was renamed to the title of this short in later content — XXX has a much different connotation today than it did in 1933^note In the 1930's, a XXX mark was a common marking for jugs of moonshine or alcohol in general, making the original name a punny one. Today, XXX is a shorthand for highly pornographic materials, making his original name rather unfortunate sounding now. — as of this short, his name is "Dr. XXX", not "the Mad Doctor".
• Moral Event Horizon: XXX either crosses it with his plan to attach Pluto's head to a chicken's torso, or with his attempt to kill Mickey.
• Nightmare Fuel: Yep. This is one of Disney's most chilling shorts, right up there with Education for Death and Night on Bald Mountain.
• Vindicated by History: While the short was apparently shunned in its initial release, it has retroactively become one of the most popular Mickey Mouse shorts, to where the villain not only reappeared in Mickey Mania, but was given a prominent role in both of the Epic Mickey games.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Doubles as this and its sister trope. PhantomStrider calls it the Creepiest Mickey Mouse cartoon for damn good reasons.
  Strider: If Frozen got a PG rating, how the crapsicles did this manage to get a G?!

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