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"We should talk about one of the biggest things brought up..." Dude, you missed the chance to say "We should talk about the elephant in the room."

"So how much acid do you want to take before making this scene? " Disney: Yes

Fun Fact: The lyrics in Spanish are way creepier with lines like "the spirits of terror", "could they be Satan's relatives?" and "I defied the devil and ripped his tail off"

My brother and I ran to our parents in terror after seeing this scene. Their response: "So you're not going to drink booze, are you?"

Doug: I’m not going to be talking about movie scenes... Also Doug: Whatever, I do what I want!

"It's my god damn show. I'll do whatever I want." - Nostalgia Critic

"It's very elegant" No Doug, elephant

The only two things people remember from Dumbo 1)The Pink Elephants 2)The Crows

"Let's celebrate!" "No alchohol around the baby."

"What part of this scene freaked you out the most as a kid" Me: "Yes"

I love the Spanish version of the song, this is one of the lyrics translated "Me who challenged the devil and ripped of his tail, These tricolor pachyderms have made me lose all my valor"

"I'm not really looking for movie scenes" Not a witch: LIAR! LIAR! LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!

Oddly enough, the spanish version had even worse lyrics like "I who defied the devil and who tore his tail off, The tricolor pachyderms have made me lose my great value" really step up creepyness and I love it.

An especially dark Disney moment is Lampwick's transformation into a donkey in Pinocchio. Even today, that scene scares me. Boys being turned into donkeys for their naughty behavior and being sold off to the salt mines and the circus.

"Pink Elephants" made me a musician. Not kidding. As a child it was my favorite part of the film and I didn't know why. I would play it on repeat. There was something about the tuba... Decades later as a percussionist I now know. That was the first time ever an instrument in a song made me notice a steady 4/4 beat. It's punchy quarter notes kept me invested EVERY SECOND IN EVERY BEAT. It's crazy to say THIS is why I percussion. I WANTED TO BE THE ONE KEEPING A SOLID BEAT FOR THE BAND. These days, I play BASS DRUM for marches in my band and Timpani for symphonies. As a kid I did try tuba, but I quickly learned the DRUMS were the REAL beat keeps...

Doug: It's my god damn show. I'll do whatever I want. Rob: But the chart says...

Me: Okay, I'm done with it now, I can go sleep. Brain: Let's see that scene from Dumbo. M: What? I wanna sleep. B: You will. M: After drunk elephant's hallucination scene? B: We've seen more as a child. M: I don't want to dwell on the past. B: Look out! Look out! M: Shut up... B: Pink elephants on parade... M: Here they come... Both: Hippety, hoppety!

This wasn't just a Dark Toon but it was also a: *BIG-LIPPED ALLIGATOR MOMENT*

“I could stand the sight of worms And look at microscopic germs But technicolor pachyderms Is really much for me”

This scene was the reason I didn't watch Dumbo very often as a kid. There were scenes in other movies that scared me, but this was my pissed pants, eyes covered moment growing up. I think literally every frame scared me to some capacity. Plus, I'm surprised no one's brought up how disturbing some of the imagery is. For example, the elephants enter by peering into a window and then marching in like home intruders. They dance around what looks like a hospital bed, their skeletons flashing. THERE IS ONE MADE OUT OF HEADS. Nowadays, I'm impressed by this scene... and still disturbed.

The creature made just from elephant heads scared the crap out of me when i first saw it when i was younger, now that i'm older i get a voltron vibe from it.

Hey Doug. Sometime on your Dark Toons series, you should cover Clayton’s Death in Tarzan. It is hands down the most gruesome Disney Villain death that Disney has ever made in Disney history.

This scene along with the whinnie the pooh "heffalumps and woozles" were the bane of my existence as a kid. I despised then and they still give me the creeps over other dark cartoons.

This entire movie is criminally underrated. Dumbo is still my favorite Disney movie and the fact that it's being canceled is just heartbreaking. The song itself both freaked me out and mesmerized me as a kid. I loved it and still listen to it today.

Now I'd like to see you look at Heffalumps and Woozles from Winnie the Pooh

Just gonna put this out here, the donkey scene from Pinocchio

A BIG LIPPED-ALLIGATOR MOMENT!

That scene really freaked me out as a kid, it just felt very uncomfortable, unsettling, and creepy, the music and voices of the singers also contributed.

If your doing scenes as well, do the Winnie the Pooh version “hefalumps and Woozles”

I remember being so confused during this scene even as a kid

"Again, I'm not really looking for movie scenes..." He broke THAT rule. Now people are gonna suggest that one scene from "The Brave Little Toaster".

The fact that this scene is so out there is what gives it it's charm.

One of the single most iconic scenes in Disney history

“What an unusual view” ...... understatement

This always reminded me of the Winnie the Pooh: Heffalumps and Woozles dream, which admittedly was not quite as weird, but also was disturbing and had a great song.

"No booze around the baby!" -Danny DeVito

The famous meme! “You know - for kids!”

Doug, if you're looking at this segment, you HAVE to talk about the Hufflelumps and Woozles scene from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Just as WTF, even more pointless.

This was so unique and awesome. I remember that I loved it as a kid, and I remember having a theory for the imagery, that this was all inspired by things Dumbo had seen in the circus and his own fears and experiences all mashed together. Like, the elephant-man made of elephant heads-I thought maybe that was a representation of the other elephants ganging up on him to bully him, with a dash of those kids that picked on him to the point that his mom got mad and then was taken away from him by the Ringmaster and workers. Perhaps the Middle-Eastern imagery could have come from another act, and the cars and trains are inspired by themed vehicles used in performances. A circus is all about flash and bright colors and pizazz, and showing off amazing things that people might not see anywhere else; furthermore, we never see more than one single act this circus put on (unless you figure in the Dumbo’s Circus TV show). Regardless of whether my childhood theory holds water or not, the sequence was easily my favorite part of the film, to the point where I used to rewind the tape and watch just that part over and over again. Some of my classmates, though, were freaked out to the point of being scared of it. Even my little sister refused to watch it as a kid because it weirded her out so much. I always thought this was not just some anti-booze message, but also a way for the animators on the movie to just let loose. The rest of Dumbo alternates between sickly-sweet and heartbreaking, so I thought this let the artists just give the audience-and themselves-a break from the emotional roller coaster with something utterly ridiculous yet gorgeous that had no real impact on the story, other than allowing Dumbo to wake up in a position to discover his unique talent. The higher stuff aside, this is just plain fun to watch, and I consider it one of the most unique things Disney has ever created. Even the song is unlike any of their typical fare, creepy yet fun in its own surreal way.

This always gave me an extra bit of paranoia: What were the CLOWNS seeing?!

Ever since I saw Soul, the Jerrys' design frustrated me because I felt I had seen something similar before. I finally realized it was this haha

People asked for this on the last Spongebob Dark Toons but, "I Was a Teenage Gary" would be perfect for its ending.

Episode requests: Hey Arnold "Ghost Train" Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends "Berry Scary" Muppet Babies "Invasion of the Muppet Snackers" Hey Arnold "Arnold Visits Arnie" Rugrats "Angelica's Worst Nightmare" Samurai Jack "Jack and the Haunted House" Rugrats "In The Dreamtime"

When you realize that Heffalumps and Woozles has elephants coming after Pooh Bear......why elephants man lol. I'd recommend Doug look at that its very similar to this.

I watched Dumbo when I was a kid and it was one of my favorite movies

Dumbo: the first Disney character to get drunk XD

"And then I realized it's my God damned show, I'll do whatever I want." Yer' God damned right.

Pink elephants, the willy wonka tunnel, and big lipped alligator were the weirdest things to me as a kid. I wouldn’t say they scared me, they just left me very confused.

Even South Park made a parody of this scene.

This never really scared me as a kid. I actually enjoyed that part growing up.

Now that you’ve done Pink Elephants you should do Heffalumps And Woozles

Please do the nightmare sequence from All Dogs Go to Heaven. That scene caused me so many nightmares as a kid 0.0

This scene is actually one of my favorite scenes in Dumbo. I never got scared of it, but, then again, I always watched this with my dad and this is one of his favorite Disney movies, so I always had a positive attitude towards this scene

strangely, I never even questioned this scene when I was little, I always just thought, "well that happened." It wasn't until my teens that I started looking at the Pink Elephants moment as really strange and surreal.

One of the best scenes in any Disney animated film.

pink elephants always reminded me of the hephalumps and woozles segment from winnie the pooh

This is why I can't get myself to watch Dumbo as an adult. This scene traumatized me as a kid. Even worse, I had it on a Disney singalong tape. I tried watching this scene when I was in college to see if it still terrified me--Yep, still terrifying as hell.

FUN FACT: The spanish dub renames the pink elephants as "las ánimas del terror" (the ghosts of terror) and the lyrics are totally different, referring to them as "relatives of Satan". Look it up.

Wow Doug, I think this episode, and the Dark Toons series as a whole, shows just how much of a gift you have in analyzing how and why certain components of animation works so effectively! It's a great change of pace from your usual Nostalgia Critic series, where the criticisms are mostly negative, because here, your positive comments on all these Dark Toons show a whole level of appreciation of how something even as little as the color of lighting can affect the emotional impact from the imagery. I now can appreciate this one sequence in Dumbo to the extent of anything made by Picasso!

Hello Doug, there are 2 "dark" cartoons called "cursed of the ferrydog" and "the wall are alive" from 101 Dalmatian Street

Do Ed, Edd n Eddy Season Three, Episode 11, The Day the Ed Stood Still.

This cartoon is the best example of: 𝗺𝗼𝗺 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗺𝗲 𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝗺 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱

This freaked me out as a kid, but I LOVED it! No matter your age, it's something everyone can appreciate. It's freaky, colorful, creative and just so wonderfully bizzare! They really flexed their animation muscles here!

A lot of this is used again in Winnie the Pooh in the Heffalumps and Woozles stuff so you could say that Pooh is a paying homage to the pink elephant

If possible, Doug should review both Dumbo (1941) and Dumbo (2019) if he can at some point as the Nostalgia Critic.

ANY VERSION OR ITERATION OF PINK ELEPHANTS FREAKS ME OUT! To this day! I’m still freaked out lol

I still remember hiding behind my mom whenever we would watch this as a child.

I really want a video on “pokémon the uncut story of mewtwo's origin” it’s a great short it was going to be before the first movie but it was to dark so they left it out. If Doug had seen it he might have liked the first movie

If this counts the Heffalumps and Woozles sequence has got to be in here someday!

I would really like to know what the mindset was for this, like at some point were people like "you know what this movie needs? a crazy dream sequence involving creepy shapeshifting elephant bubbles with no eyes that serve no purpose to the story.

This scene never scared me, I would just get bored and wonder when they'd get back to the movie, but a lot of people I met couldn't watch Dumbo as a kid because of this

I was never freaked out by this scene when I saw it as a kid. I had asked mom what he got into and she said fruit punch. I spent the scene trying to figure out what kind of fruit punch makes elephants see things.

This was pure nightmare fuel for me when I was a kid. Like you said, mostly because it just comes completely out of nowhere and takes you by surprise. I was genuinely terrified of the "Elephant Made Out of Other Elephants" and used to imagine him coming down the hallway to get me. Now I think it's really just amazing. One of the most creative sequences ever in a Disney film. I bought the "Dumbo" DVD just to have this sequence in my collection.

It has been, and will always will be one of my favorite animated moments of all time.

One year my high-school choir group danced to Pink Elephants for our glow show. I wish I had a recording of it. Just imagine sitting in the dark the curtains open blacklight on revealing pink elephant masks with soulless black eyes floating hands dancing in unison.

I know you don't do full movies, but "All Dogs Go to Heaven" (while amazing) scared the shit out of me as a kid😂

When I was a kid the pink elephant scene gave me such a strange feeling that only till now did I understand.The colors and contrasts in design has to be the most creative scene in any animated movie at the time.

I love moments in movies with bright BRIGHT colors. So I love this; the opening to sleeping beauty, the dancing cows in home on the range, stuff like that. But my wife...HATES those kind of scenes and she attributes that to this cartoon haha

The Pink Elephants moment was really crazy and creative! And Tiny Toons using that reference, I originally thought I was seeing things as I was just a little kid! Seeing that moment in the cartoon again made me realize I wasn't going nuts!

The winnie the pooh elephant sequence is the hypest. 🔥 🔥 🔥

Does anyone know the backstory about this segment as to why this was in the movie?

The pink elephant scene is still one of my favorites ❤️

it freaked me out then, still freaks me out now

Personally this bit scared the shit out of me! No joke, i literally hid then i hear the crows. I poke my head out and I'm giggling with them and instantly am not scared. When i see an elephant fly is one of my favorite moments in the film.

One Dark Toon I would love to see Doug review is the Hell sequence from "All Dogs go to Heaven". That one scared the crap out of me as a kid, and I'm sure it did the same to a lot of others!

I am pretty sure this scene is the original big lipped aligator moment

I kid you not, this sequence was the reason why I was scared of the dark when I was little. Weird, I know, maybe it was because it occurred at night, it was set against a black background, and the part of "they're walking around the bed, on their head." might've done that for me.

I think there was this one short called Micky's Garden that need to have a look at

im glad you broke your rule about only talking about shows, stuff like this should definatly count as dark toons. ^^

This scene fucked me up for years. I couldn't watch Dumbo again until I was at least a teen. Even hearing the "Look out...look out," at the start gives me chills...

This scene scarred me for life, like it legit gave me a phobia of alcohol for a while LOL!

this was so dark, even as an adult, it still seems scary...

05:21 I’d love to see Doug talk about Darby O’Gill!

I'm so glad you decided to review this sequence anyway, it's one my favorite!

I loved this as a kid and I love it now. I think it make sense to have this scene in the movie. It shows that he has a crazy restless night that would lead him to "sleep-fly" and wake up to find himself in a tree. As a kid, I never thought too deeply into the drinking imagery- I think that goes over most kids' heads, which is why I find it harmless for a children's movie. Great review!

To this day, I still can’t understand why people find this scary

In the 2019 version its bubbles how stupid is that they changed it from a dream to bubbles

One of my favourite Disney scenes and one of my favourite Disney songs

I think it was a warning for kids not to mess with drinking, or SCARY ELEPHANTS🐘. The song scared me the most it’s some what sweet and scary at the same time 😅