Our bad pre-Disney experience

[bumbershoot]

http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/mermaid.asp

and

http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/minister.asp

 

[Leshaface]

They did, indeed. They YANKED it lmao:) off the shelves in favor of a more family friendly Castle cover quite some time ago. I still, proudly, have my old Littie Mermaid copy, however I remember loaning it to a boyfriend I had back in the early '90s so he could let his son watch the movie, and I pointed out the, ahem...turret...and even he - who was a seasoned gentleman who had seen and done it all - was a little surprised.

lol!

somewhat OT, have you ever seen the 'turret' come out at the wedding scene?

LOL!!

 

[Leshaface]

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t47/GreenBandit642/littlemermaidmessage.jpg

Here it is!

 

[Sherry E]

lol!

somewhat OT, have you ever seen the 'turret' come out at the wedding scene?

LOL!!

I remember hearing about that 'turret' in the wedding scene, and I tried to catch it while watching, but I could never quite rewind to or pause at the right point to be able to see it. I have heard that there are all kinds of little subliminal (and even risque), blink-and-you-miss-them things inserted into the early Pixar movies, but again, I have never been quick enough on the trigger to catch them! Darn!

 

[fairykin]

I wouldn't associate the bad experience with Disney..I'd just think of it as an upsetting encounter with a distrubed person.

 

[teatime]

this one made me laugh so hard I woke the dog in the other room '
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/minister.asp

 

[Leshaface]

this one made me laugh so hard I woke the dog in the other room '
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/minister.asp

bahaha! love it!

 

[Leshaface]

Now this is JUST WRONG!

http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/rescuers.asp

 

[bumbershoot]

II have heard that there are all kinds of little subliminal (and even risque), blink-and-you-miss-them things inserted into the early Pixar movies, but again, I have never been quick enough on the trigger to catch them! Darn!

Like Mia and Tia (Lightning's biggest fans) flashing their headlights?

 

[Sherry E]

Like Mia and Tia (Lightning's biggest fans) flashing their headlights?

Right! I remember that now that you mention it, and I think it surprised me at the time!

Are there still the subliminal 'tricks' in more recent films like Cars? I was thinking of the early Toy Story - A Bug's Life movies, where there were supposedly hidden risque messages on very fast movign signs and things so that you really could not see them. And then of course, the animated ones like Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and Lion King, etc., had those things too. Roger Rabbit is one that comes to mind. So are those sneaky animators still up to ssubliminal henanigans, even in today's films? I figured Disney would have put a stop to that mischief at some point, but I guess it sneaks by them!

 

[Leshaface]

Like Mia and Tia (Lightning's biggest fans) flashing their headlights?

The first time my husband and I saw this movie, I turned to him and said,"did they flash their 'headlights'????" and we were amazed that they got away with that!

 

[teatime]

Now this is JUST WRONG!

http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/rescuers.asp

 

[bumbershoot]

The first time my husband and I saw this movie, I turned to him and said,"did they flash their 'headlights'????" and we were amazed that they got away with that!

I look at it this way...a kid isn't going to understand that unless told. That sort of stuff flies right over the heads of kids, but it amuses many adults. I don't consider Pixar movies to be kid's movies, I consider them to be everyone movies, so I'm glad that they have included older humor like that (though thinking of Tom Leykus while watching the movie doesn't always make me happy, LOL).

I was 5 when I started watching Saturday Night Live (when it debuted, b/c I was a nightowl and the living room was right off my bedroom), and while I can't tell you exactly what I thought the jokes were then, I know that I had a VERY different interpretation of the jokes than my mom did! We would both laugh, but for extremely different reasons. She chose to not tell me that my interpretation was wrong (thank goodness), and over time I figured it out.



That said, I don't know what sorts of things Sherry is talking about in Toy Story etc! I was naive at 5 and I remain so today.

 

[Leshaface]

I look at it this way...a kid isn't going to understand that unless told. That sort of stuff flies right over the heads of kids, but it amuses many adults. I don't consider Pixar movies to be kid's movies, I consider them to be everyone movies, so I'm glad that they have included older humor like that (though thinking of Tom Leykus while watching the movie doesn't always make me happy, LOL).

I was 5 when I started watching Saturday Night Live (when it debuted, b/c I was a nightowl and the living room was right off my bedroom), and while I can't tell you exactly what I thought the jokes were then, I know that I had a VERY different interpretation of the jokes than my mom did! We would both laugh, but for extremely different reasons. She chose to not tell me that my interpretation was wrong (thank goodness), and over time I figured it out.



That said, I don't know what sorts of things Sherry is talking about in Toy Story etc! I was naive at 5 and I remain so today.

This is very true...until one day watching Cars with my 5 year old nephew said, "Does that means t**s?"

Kinda worried about his generation...they're learning too much, too quick..

 

[kc10family]

True or not I do not think it was a nice thing to do with children around.


Thanks for the snopes... they made me laugh

 

[bumbershoot]

This is very true...until one day watching Cars with my 5 year old nephew said, "Does that means t**s?"

That's a little scary! Even my hubby didn't get it for ages (I think I had to tell him), he just thought they were randomly turning on their lights at him to help spotlight him or something. (then again he was nowhere near the Leykus "flash friday" or Howard Stern listener that I was pre-kid)

 

[toocherie]

I look at it this way...a kid isn't going to understand that unless told. That sort of stuff flies right over the heads of kids, but it amuses many adults. I don't consider Pixar movies to be kid's movies, I consider them to be everyone movies, so I'm glad that they have included older humor like that (though thinking of Tom Leykus while watching the movie doesn't always make me happy, LOL).

I was 5 when I started watching Saturday Night Live (when it debuted, b/c I was a nightowl and the living room was right off my bedroom), and while I can't tell you exactly what I thought the jokes were then, I know that I had a VERY different interpretation of the jokes than my mom did! We would both laugh, but for extremely different reasons. She chose to not tell me that my interpretation was wrong (thank goodness), and over time I figured it out.

Molly I had a similar experience. I'm much older than you and when I was little my grandfather had a Nipsey Russell album that had "stories" on them--and I used to listen to it and laugh and laugh--thinking it was funny. Only later (much later) did I realize that there was a definite "double entendre" in the stories--like one was about an old spinster woman who had put her cherry in a jar on the shelf. I thought it was hysterical--of course, had no idea what it REALLY meant!

 

[Boo Bear]

this one made me laugh so hard I woke the dog in the other room '
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/minister.asp

I forgot about the "dearly beloved" moment during the wedding.

Molly I had a similar experience. I'm much older than you and when I was little my grandfather had a Nipsey Russell album that had "stories" on them--and I used to listen to it and laugh and laugh--thinking it was funny. Only later (much later) did I realize that there was a definite "double entendre" in the stories--like one was about an old spinster woman who had put her cherry in a jar on the shelf. I thought it was hysterical--of course, had no idea what it REALLY meant!

 

[marvel]

I think we should be happy that some people hate Disney, imagine how crowded it would be if everyone loved it!

 

[TSRE]

I think we should be happy that some people hate Disney, imagine how crowded it would be if everyone loved it!

THAT is an excellent point!

The snopes stuff is hilarious - I was thinking to myself how many times I watched the Rescuers with boy cousins - they had no idea what they were seeing! They would've worn out the pause button if they had known.