What Was Walt Thinking? Disney's WTF Moments

Okay, so talking inanimate objects aren’t exactly weird for Disney, but The Brave Little Toaster and his friend’s adventure to find their original owner is. It’s heartwarming and terrifying...but mostly terrifying. 

Notably a particular scene in a junk yard where they reminisce about their lives before being crushed to death. 

Thanks to this movie, every time my family would have a garage sale I would fall into anxiety attacks. What if that end table needs me? It’s not that broken, I could save it! Don’t throw away the microwave, it may go on a cross country adventure to reunite with me!

After Fantasia, the guys over at Disney were scratching their beards going, “How else can we save money on sound and voice overs by only using instrumentals and old shorts we’ve taped together from the cutting room floor?” 

 And voilà! Make Mine Music was born!

There isn’t much I can tell you about this movie without the risk of having myself committed, so I’ll just share with you what I can and hope you believe me. 

This Disney classic focuses on an alien cat named Zunar-J-5/9 Doric-4-7 (or Jake, for short) and his misadventures on Earth. Jake wears a collar that allows him to communicate with humans, levitate, and change the outcome of high-stake gambling events in his favor. 

I’m not kidding.

The Black Cauldron was supposed to be a generation-defining work of animation. Instead it crashed and burned in the box office - and was shoved under the rug like Disney’s overachieving turned heroin junkie least-favorite child. 

A fun fact of this story is that due to the amount of money lost, animators were forced to leave their cushy Burbank studios to pump features faster and cheaper in some warehouse in Glendale - where the classics The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast were born. 

And who said slave labor didn't provide great results?