33 Disturbing Disney Facts You Probably Didn't Know About
1. Disney got an Oscar for a short animated film about Donald Duck, the Nazi.
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Disney is all fun and giggles - characters bursting into random musical numbers and princesses falling for handsome princes.
It also often hits us right in the feels with its numerous sob stories that makes us all teary and weak.
But we bet not many of you know that Disney also has quite a dark side. We couldn't stay with this secret knowledge alone, so we compiled all the disturbing fun facts into one list, just for you.
Read carefully, there's no turning back.
33 Disturbing Disney Facts You Probably Didn't Know About
1. Disney got an Oscar for a short animated film about Donald Duck becoming a Nazi.
1 of 33DisneyIn the original version of The Little Mermaid, the bishop who marries Ariel and Prince Eric has a hard-on. After complaints from parents, a second version of the film was been released - with the sexual content removed, obvs.
2 of 33sportsmansguide.comAll Disneyland employees must wear company-issued underwear while at work in case their undergarments happen to show from under their costumes or uniforms.
3 of 33DisneyDisney's film South of the South is so racist and controversial it was never released on home video.
4 of 33DisneyThere's a very quick, full-frontal shot of Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
5 of 33DisneyApparently during one of the scenes in Aladdin, the young carpet-flying boy says "Good teenagers take off their clothes." Disney claims it's actually "Good kitty, take off and go," but we obviously know better.
6 of 33disneytouristblog.comThe Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland has real human bones on display.
7 of 33DisneyThe stars in one of the Lion King scenes spell 'SEX'. It was a little joke added by the special effects team - it actually says 'SFX', but clearly someone's handwriting was not on point and the whole thing backfired.
8 of 33Disney101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are among the only animated Disney films where both parents are present and don’t die.
9 of 33mouskaholic.comThere are vents on Main Street in Disneyland that pipe artificial vanilla scents into the air to trick people into being happy.
10 of 33DisneyA hyena biologist sued Disney for portraying hyenas as villains in The Lion King.
11 of 33DisneyThe names of the main characters in Frozen sound out the name of the author of the original story the movie is based on. Hans, Kristoff, Anna, Sven = Hans Christian Andersen. You have to admit, that's a bit creepy.
12 of 33Disney / YouTubeWalt Disney didn't allow women to be animators, claiming: “women do not do creative work". Alright, mate. Piss off.
13 of 33DisneySpeaking of which, Frozen is the first animated Disney film directed by a woman.
14 of 33DisneyIf the events of Finding Nemo actually happened, and Nemo’s mother and siblings got eaten, Nemo’s father would have developed female sex organs and bred with Nemo. Just sayin’.
15 of 33DisneyAlso, Finding Nemo harmed the clownfish population big time as people started buying tons of pet clownfish after seeing the movie
16 of 33DisneyAndy didn’t have a dad in Toy Story because human characters were expensive and difficult to animate. Soz, Andy.
17 of 33worldfortravel.comThe pavement between the different worlds at Disneyland changes so that you get startled, look up and marvel Walt Disney's creations.
18 of 33DisneyFa Ping, the name Mulan uses while disguised as a man, is a pun on the Chinese term for 'eye candy.'
19 of 33english.chosun.comRussell from Up is based on a Pixar employee. He doesn't look too happy about that.
20 of 33DisneyDaveigh Chase, the voice actress who played Lilo in Lilo & Stitch, also played the girl in The Ring.
21 of 33Disney / YouTubeThe Toy Story actors at Disneyland used to drop dead when you yelled “Andy’s coming!” After it spread on Reddit and the actors couldn't keep up with the constant falling down and standing up, they were instructed to simply reply: "Andy's off to college."
22 of 33DisneyIn an early draft of the Who Framed Roger Rabbit? script, Judge Doom was revealed to be the hunter who shot and killed Bambi’s mother.
23 of 33DisneyWhen you read the story carefully, technically it was alcohol and the resulting hallucinations that unlocked Dumbo’s flying potential.
24 of 33DisneyOver 50 children were hospitalised with salmonella after the release of The Princess and the Frog - they all tried to kiss a frog IRL, obviously.
25 of 33flickr.comThe statue of Cinderella you can find at every Disneyland theme park looks sad to adults, but from the point of a child is happily smiling.
26 of 33lostworld.pair.comAfter the first Disneyland opened in 1955 in Anaheim, California, the arcade used real ammunition for about a year.
27 of 33lostworld.pair.comThe original Disneyland also briefly had a lingerie store called The Wizard of Bras.
28 of 33DisneyThere's an unintentional penis on the original VHS copy of The Little Mermaid.
29 of 33DisneyIn 1999, Disney announced a recall of the home video version of their 1977 animated feature The Rescuers because it contained several pictures of naked women.
30 of 33Disney / ParamountToy Story is heavily influenced by Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
31 of 33DisneyDisney won an Oscar for a short animated film about Donald Duck becoming a Nazi.
32 of 33DisneyThe The Three Little Pigs Disney film from 1933 shows the big bad wolf dressed up as a Jew - because apparently Jewish people are scary, evil, and bad. Wtf Disney?
33 of 33Disney / YouTubeAnd finally, sorry to shit on your parade, but Disney was the product of Walt's boredom and disappointment with life.
