Hey everyone! Hope you enjoyed this episode. The topic was actually picked by this year’s Charityland auction winner Craig Jessup! Hope everyone is well and have a great day!

Turns out Sebastian has the feather because HE IS A LIAR

Kevin....you're sponsored by Topps? Topps is 50% owned by The Tornante Company, owned by Michael Eisner. Defunctland confirmed approved by Eisner.

Old puppets could really just look like anything and no one got nightmares I guess

10:03 "The episode ends with the group punishing Sebastian by exploiting his acrophobia." - cut to wide shot of Sebastian flailing around and being hoisted up by a forklift as everyone points and laughs - LMAO that deadpan with that visual was amazing. My sides hurt

"it is revealed that sebastian has the feather because he is a liar" I don't know why but your tone is what really makes these videos I couldn't imagine them being narrated by anyone else

First off, it's amazing that THIS is where Jim Cummings started his voice acting career. Second, this series seems like a prime candidate for a Disney+ release.

I still find the actual puppets to be a little offputting, but the concept art is really cool. Has that classic Disney feel to it.

Thing I remembered from this video: "What's a zzub zzub?" "A bee that flies backwards"

QT: Hey, can I copy your homework? King Louis: Sure, just don't make it obvious

"Dumbo's Circus huh? Never heard of it before" (Proceeds to sing the theme song word for word) It's amazing what memories these unlock.

Me at the start of the video: “Dumbo’s Circus? I’ve never heard of it.” Halfway through the video: “Holy crap, I did see this as a kid! How could I have forgotten this?”

Disney just paid Kevin to make content. Let that sink in everyone

I find it interesting that Disney doesn't just dump all of these old shows onto Disney+, I could understand them not wanting to spend money converting it to HD but I don't see why they just don't put it on as is.

Yep. Sebastian the Cat is TOTALLY not Oscar the Grouch. Not at all. Totally an original character singing about how he loves trash.

As an Aussie, I can confirm "Fair Dinkum" is a cultural phrase. It just means it's the truth.

Lilli’s character design reminds me of the white, sexy burlesque mice from _that_ one scene from The Great Mouse Detective...

Pooh's Corner flew so Dumbo's Circus could SOAR!

It's too bad that a lot of the episodes are lost. This is TV history! And it has it's charm.

Defunctland gives you your daily dose of defunct Disney during quarantine.

I loved this show! I know my dad made us a VHS tape full of episodes for us to watch when we were little. But then he recorded over it with his stupid wedding. What a travesty.

This show would be perfect for a Disney+ release

“Pooh’s Corner will not show reruns on Chinese TV:

Imagine the Star Wars Holiday Special being your main notable credit.

FACT: The actor who played QT the Orangutan went on to invent the Furby.

Dumbo sounds like Rudolph. I half expected him to say “I’m independent!” Actually both characters had a physical feature they were bullied for that later gave them magic powers lmao.

FORK YOU this show put a song in my head when I was 4 that didn't leave until I was 14! AND YOU REMINDED ME. AHHHHHHHH!!!!!

“If we don’t sell those tickets, we can’t pay the rent.” Since I am a performer, this quote resonates with me so much haha.

I was born in 1981. There was a period of time when I was in elementary school when the closing credit music of “Dumbo’s Circus” meant that it was time to go to school. What an awesome episode, great job Kevin, and thanks Craig!

I never watched "Dumbo's Circus" but when you showed the hand puppets I nearly fell off my bed in shock. Many of those same puppets were used in "The Mother Goose Video Treasury", which I did have on VHS as a child, and a quick IMDb check confirms they had the same producer.

Can we just take a second to appreciate how God damn great this entire channel is? This is one of the most professionally made shows on KZfaq. It just feels like something that you would see on actual TV. 90% of the time, I have absolutely zero interest in any of the shows or attractions that are talked about on this channel, like "Dumbo's Circus" for instance, but I still always become invested in every episode of Defunct. Thank you for such a great channel and series. Keep up the amazing job. And please stat safe and healthy during these hard times.

"100 episodes were remain lost." Someone, get Blameitonjorge on the phone!

Y'know, it is interesting how Disney tried to keep their franchises alive even before the Live-action remakes: between video-games, edu-tainment CD-Roms, Spin-offs, TV shows and the Direct-to-video sequels (to which Dumbo was supposed to get one, but it was cancelled). Only the properties that didn't have any sort of cultural impact are ignored in these experiments like Oliver and Company, Great Mouse Detective, their pre-Tangled CGI movies.

Man I truly miss this show as a kid and even my Introduction to Jim Cummings himself! ^^

THIS is the one I've been waiting for ever since DefunctTV started! I to this day (I'm 36) can sing every single line to this opening theme song. Few shows stuck with me like this one did. The visuals are just too bizarre to ever forget.

This channel deserves to be 1000 times more recognized. This is tv quality stuff.

A whole generation taught to hoard by Sebastian.

This was my most favorite show ever from my childhood. SO happy you did this episode. It means so much. If you get the chance, would you please do an episode on Rollie Pollie Ollie?

Defunctland uploads are just what i need this quarantine season

Oh my god, this is totally one of those "did that actually happen" vague childhood memories deep in the back of my mind for decades.

At least Dumbo didn't teach kids about "Good touch and bad touch."

This show was my first introduction to Dumbo. It's likely why I remember him always being able to talk, even in the movie. I'm so excited you covered it!

I have the opposite problem from most people, apparently: I remember this show from when it first aired, but I just assumed people never mentioned it because it had maybe a dozen episodes and never really caught on, not because it had fallen off the face of the earth.

Boy, imagine your most noteworthy role being "Lumpy in the Star Wars Holiday Special" rip

3:00 Timothy's running the circus? No, Timothy became Dumbo's agent and signed a Hollywood contract for Dumbo.

I really hope you eventually get to the Alice in Wonderland show, just to confirm I didn't make the show up in the middle of a 2 year long fever dream when i was a kid.

Katie Leigh and Hal Smith went on to voice the lead characters (Connie and Whit) in Adventures in Odyssey, a Christian radio series. The series began in the late 80's and is still going today with more than 900 episodes to date. Sadly Hal Smith passed away in the 90s but Katie Leigh is still with the show. Will Ryan who is also mentioned during the episode is also one of the main characters throughout the entire series of Odyssey.

Thank you for covering this show❤️, I am getting close to turning 39 and have very fond memories of watching this show. It's cool to see it covered and introduced to younger Disney and lost media fans who may not have know about this beloved children's show. Awesome work guys😘

As a toddler when this was repeated, I had a crush on Lilly..... GODDAMN IT, RON MILLER!!! You made me a Furry!!!

It’s crazy how familiar every character’s voice is to me. 😱 I remember loving this show when I was little but I couldn’t have told you any of the character’s names, this was a lovely, nostalgic reminder. Thank you!

Disney's always been real bad about releasing their tv shows on home media, but I'm also hoping disney plus will fix this.

I've never seen this show, but it makes me irrationally annoyed that even though Timothy was such a good friend to Dumbo they apparently left him out of this show entirely.

Well this is a strange one.

My parents had a strict rule that I was only allowed to watch the show if they were out of the room, because they absolutely could not stand it. Watching it as an older kid, it really did seem kind of inane.

Wow! I'm shocked! Another video you've made about a lost media wiki article that I made! Like I started this search for this show and I'm so happy people are actually getting some attention to this and maybe it will be found someday

Dumbo did speak in the comics for many, many years before.

Jeez, feels like I just got hit over the head with the nostalgia stick. I was less than ten years old and remember enjoying it and thinking that Lilli was really pretty.

It's great to finally hear more about this show. This is the kind of experimental stuff I like to see from Disney. I appreciate this a lot more than their more modern approach of buying out and coasting off other properties. I said it on the Pooh Corner video, and I'll say it here too; that show, this show and Mousercise would actually get me to consider Disney Prime.

THIS WAS MY CHILDHOOD! I still have some episodes on VHS that my mom had taped for me and my siblings

I’m so glad you covered this! Ever since the video on Welcome to Pooh Corner I kept saying “they gotta talk about Dumbo’s Circus”. I hope more episodes are recovered over time. Great video as always. :)

Ahh just what I needed during these uncertain times: nightmare elephants.

This was the first Disney project that Jim Cummings ever worked on. I wonder why he hasn't been named a Disney Legend yet.

I was 12 years at the time and I'm glad I missed ALL OF THIS. Emmet Otter youth.

Aw, this was one of my favorites growing up. I remember one episode where the lion was going on about how much he hated the color red because it made him "jumpin' mad". It's weird the things that stick with you 30 years later.

Hope you do one on the history of Sagwa and especially Out of the Box.

I think he only other show I can really remember from this era is Under the Umbrella Tree. It’d be cool to see an episode on that some day!

I was honored to see my footage of “Sebastian’s Treasure” used here - thank you!

0:33 The Defunctland Channel wishes you a wonderful tomorrow, and remember you always have a place to turn to. Your family place, the Defunctland Channel. And now, good night.

I remember this show as a child and I honestly hated it. Everything looked cheap and creepy to me even as a kid. That said, thanks for the video, Kevin. Excellent work as always.

I have four ideas for future episodes: Out of the Box, Stanley, Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, and Crashbox. The latter has a bit of a cult following, an educational, unique, and interesting show that used to be on HBO Family. Happily Ever After showcases classic stories in different cultures. Like Goldilocks set in Jamaica. Famous stars like Raven have done the show

Haven’t watched the dumbo movie since I was a kid Still the greatest ending of any Disney movie Tugs at the hearts strings every time I remember it

I remember this show! Thanks for the nostalgia! 👍🏾

I actually remember this show QUITE vividly and for a while it was one of those "Was this a real show or was it a dream I had?" shows. In particular, i remember one of the songs was "Every Lion Ought To Have A Mane" (which I later found out was a parody of "Everybody Ought To Have A Maid" from A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum) from an episode when Lionel's hair was falling out. And not to wax nostalgic here, but the subject of this video, plus that recreation of the old Disney Channel logo really brought me back to sitting on my parents' bedroom floor watching Disney Channel on that crappy TV they used to have (which always had a stain on the speaker because I put silly putty on it once).

I did not know Jim Cummings' first role was in this show. Hard to believe that he is still going to this day, even having a role in the DuckTales reboot.

1:59 You telling me they'll add this disclaimer to Dumbo but won't do that for Song of the South?

I find it hard to believe that Disney doesn't have the ability to release the full series of both Dumbo's Circus & Welcome to Pooh Corner on video or even Disney+. Surely they have the recordings somewhere in their "vault"...unless they were destroyed. I've heard they have Adventures in Wonderland on Disney+.

Another staple of my childhood. I never realized how many eps there was of this series, or that it was lost media.

Would be great to see one on Adventures in Wonderland. That show was a trip.

Dang, I totally remember this show (and Pooh Corner and the Raccoons, if ever there was a show that could use a DefunctTV episode, its The Raccoons). It's another one of those shows I watched for about only about 6 months in the early early 90s when my family happened to have the Disney Channel for a very brief window. I really remember the closing theme and its visuals specificity.

WOOHOO IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE NEXT EPISODE FOREVER!!

The next episode on Disney Channel shows just has to be “The Secret Life of Toys,” right? I’ve got probably at least 10-15 episodes of Dumbo’s Circus myself. We recorded a lot of Disney Channel free previews from 1992-1996.

"Come one, come all" to find out how this interesting take on our fly elephant started one of my favorite channels growing up. Another informative and entertaining video. Keep it up!

I grew up having to have a lot of surgeries due to spina bifida, I think I was 5 or 6 (1990-1991) and really nervous about getting a surgery that I was in the hospital waiting to be taken back for. This came on the TV in the hospital room, it was the first time I had ever heard of it, but it really helped calm me down. For some reason that memory has stuck with me my entire life and this show holds a special place in my heart due to that.

As I recall, the "feather anxiety" episode involved Dumbo's mother coming to visit and see his show. That was one of the reasons he was so nervous about finding his feather. However, I never got to see if they showed his mother, because the focus on the magic feather bugged me so much that I changed the channel :D.

I really love watching the Defunctland Channel and all of its shows.

I was hoping for this as soon as Pooh Corner came out!!

I remember being home sick from school one day and watching this show.

OH MY GOSH. You just reached way back into the far reaches of my brain and pulled out a memory I had nearly forgotten. Chills. Thank you!

Maybe it's just me but the concept of digital trading cards seems kind of pointless, part of the appeal comes from having the physical object.

Even as a small child, it bugged the heck out of me that Dumbo still needed his "magic feather" to fly in this series, contradicting the movie.

I remember once as a kid, I was watching DUCK TALES: THE MOVIE on Disney Channel one night and fell asleep. I woke up to find an episode of DUMBO’S CIRCUS on, and I thought it was a fever dream!

I see the Pooh costume and immediately think of "Too Smart for Strangers".

The only thing I remember about this show was the orangutan, who I assumed was the actual King Louie from the Jungle Book captured and forced to perform.

I remember seeing a few episodes off some VHS tapes my grandma had... ah memories... (wish I knew what happened to them...)

What a blast from the past, I wasn't even sure I had seen this show when I started watching the vid but I started remembering all sorts of things as it played on. Especially that opening and closing song!

Such a great episode!!! You should do an episode on Adventures in Wonderland, that weird live action Alice in Wonderland show I thought was a fever dream for the longest time

The era where 2d Disney characters translated into creepy puppets.

8:09 that exact freaking spider puppet is used in an old direct to VCR show called Mother Goose Treasury. What the heck 😂

Such a cute looking Thumbnail. 😍

Oh my god! Two minutes ago! I saw the new upload from Defunctland and my heart started pounding!