Dumbo

1941

(Timothy wakes up to find Jim Crow staring him in the face) Timothy Q. Mouse: Ooh! Those pink elephants. Jim Crow: Ho! Pink elephants? Mm-mmm! (Crows laugh) Timothy Q. Mouse: What's so funny? What are you boys doin' down here, anyway? Jim Crow: What are we doing *down* here? Well, hear him talk! Timothy Q. Mouse: Ah, fly up a tree where you belong. (More laughter) Jim Crow: Say, look here, Brother Rat... Timothy Q. Mouse: Brohter Rat? Now listen! I ain't your brother, and I ain't no rat, see? Jim Crow: Uh-huh. And I suppose you and no elephant ain't up in no tree, either. Timothy Q. Mouse: No! No, me an no tree ain't up no... Huh? Tree? (looks down to see that they really are up a tree) Timothy Q. Mouse: Yo! Dumbo. Dumbo. Wake up. Wake up, Dumbo! Don't look now, but I think we're up in a tree!

Mr Stork: Here is a baby with eyes of blue, straight from heaven, right to you. Or, straight from heaven up above, here is a baby for you to love.

Crow #1: Did you ever see an elephant fly? Crow #2: Well, I've seen a horse fly. Crow #3: Ah, I've seen a dragon fly. Crow #4: Hee-hee. I've seen a house fly.

(Dumbo has been demoted to clown) Elephant Matriarch: Oh, the shame of it. Let us take the solemn vow. From now on, he is no longer an elephant.

Timothy Q. Mouse: But I wonder how we ever got up in that tree, anyway. Now, let's see. Elephants can't climb trees, can they? Nah, nah, that's ridiculous. Couldn't jump up. Mm-mmm. It's too high. Jim Crow: Hey there, son. Maybe y'all flew up. Timothy Q. Mouse: Maybe we flew up. Yeah, maybe we... That's it! Dumbo! You flew! Boy, am I stupid. Why didn't I think of this before? Your ears. Just look at 'em, Dumbo. Why, they're poifect wings! The very things that held ya down are gonna carry ya up and up and up! I can see it all now: "Dumbo! The ninth wonder of the univoise! The world's only flyin' elephant!"

Timothy Q. Mouse: You oughta be ashamed of yourselves. A bunch of big guys like you, pickin' on a poor little orphan like him. Suppose you was torn away from your mother when you was just a baby. Nobody to tuck you in at nights. No warm, soft, caressin' trunk to snuzzle into. How would you like to be left out alone, in a cold, cruel, heartless woild? And why? I ask ya, why? Just because he's got those big ears, they call him a freak. The laughing stock of the circus. And when his mother tried to protect him, they threw her into the clink. And on top of that, they made him a clown! Socially he's washed up! Ah, but what's the use of talkin' to you cold-hearted boids? Go ahead. Have your fun. Laugh at him. Kick him now that he's down. Go on! I don't care. (turns away and blows nose)

Timothy Q. Mouse: All we gotta do is build an act. Make ya a star. A headliner! Dumbo the Great! (Fanfare plays as Dumbo hoists Timothy with his trunk) Timothy Q. Mouse: Uh-oh. The Great what? (faltering fanfare as Dumbo lowers Timothy)

Timothy Q. Mouse: What's the matter with his ears? I don't see nothin' wrong with 'em. I think they're cute.

Ringmaster: Have I got an idea! What an idea! Timothy Q. Mouse: Huh. He never had an idea in his life. Ringmaster: Just visualize: One elephant climbs up on top of another elephant, until finally, all seventeen elephants have contructed an enormous pyramid of pachyderms. I step out. I blow the whistle. The trumpets are trumpeting... Timothy Q. Mouse: Yeah! Ringmaster: And now, comes the climax! Joe: Yeah, what is the climax? Ringmaster: Hmm. I don't know. Timothy Q. Mouse: I knew he never had nothin'.

Timothy Q. Mouse: I am the voice of your subconscious mind. Your inspiration. Now, concentrate. Ringmaster: (loud snore) Timothy Q. Mouse: Remember? Your pyramid of elephants are standing in the ring waitin' for a climax. Ringmaster: Climax... Timothy Q. Mouse: You are now getting that climax. Ringmaster: Climax... Timothy Q. Mouse: How's the reception? Comin' through okay? Ringmaster: (snore) Timothy Q. Mouse: Good. Suddenly, from the sidelines, comes your climax. Ringmaster: Climax... Timothy Q. Mouse: Gallopin' across the arena. Ringmaster: Arena... Timothy Q. Mouse: He jumps from a springboard, to a platform. At the very pinnacle of your pyramid, he waves a flag, for a glorious finish! Ringmaster: Finish? Timothy Q. Mouse: And who is your climax? The little elephant with the big ears! The world's mightiest midget mastodon! Dumbo! Ringmaster: (snore) What? Timothy Q. Mouse: Dumbo. Ringmaster: Dumbo. Timothy Q. Mouse: (softer) Dumbo. Ringmaster: Dumbo. Timothy Q. Mouse: (almost inaudible) Dumbo. Ringmaster: (awake) Dumbo! I got it! I got it!

Casey Jr.: (climbing a hill) I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I... Think... I... Can... I Casey Jr.: (goes down the other side) Thought I could. I thought I could. I thought I could. Woo-hoo!

Clown: Hey, be careful. You'll hurt the little guy. Skinny: Aw, go on. Elephants ain't got no feelings. Clown #2: No, they're made of rubber.

(last lines) Jim Crow: (as Dumbo rides off on the train) I wish I'd have got his autograph. Crow: Oh, man, I got his autograph. Jim Crow: Well, so long, glamour boy!

Timothy Q. Mouse: Remember, you come of a proud race. Why, you're a... a pachydoim, and pachydoims don't cry.

Timothy Q. Mouse: You know, lots of people with big ears are famous!

Timothy Q. Mouse: A proud race... overstuffed hay bags!

Elephant: Girls, girls! Listen! Have I got a trunk full of dirt.

Jim Crow: You wanna make the elephant fly, don't ya? Well, you gotta use a lot of 'chology. You know, psychology. Now, here's what you do. First, you, uh... (whispers) Jim Crow: And then, right after that, you, uh... (whispers) Jim Crow: (plucks a feather from the smallest crow) Use the magic feather. Catch on? Timothy Q. Mouse: The magic feather? Yeah, I gotcha. Dumbo! Look! Have I got it! The magic feather! Now you can fly!

Elephant #1: Gaining a little weight, aren't you, honey? Elephant #2: You're no cream puff yourself, dearie. Elephant Matriarch: Quiet up there! Tend to your work, girls.

Elephant Matriarch: Out of my way, assassin!

Crow #1: Why, he flies just like an eagle. Crow #2: Better than an airplane. Jim Crow: Brother, now I've seen everything!

Jim Crow: Quiet, gentlemen. Reverend Rodent's gonna address you.

Timothy Q. Mouse: (as Dumbo falls from his platform after the "magic" feather falls off) Dumbo! C'mon, fly! Open those ears! The magic feather was just a gag! You can fly! Honest you can! Please, open them up! Please! (at the last moment, Dumbo opens his ears and soars over the crowd) Whee! We did it! We did it!

Elephant: Well, frankly, I wouldn't eat at the same bale of hay with him.

Ringmaster: Ladies and gentlemen! We will now present for your entertainment the most amazing, stupendous, super-colossal spectacle! On this tiny, little, insignificant ball, we will construct for you a pyramid! Not of wood, not of stone... Elephant: To hear him talk, you'd think he was going to do it. Elephant Matriarch: The stuffed shirt! Ringmaster: ... of ponderous, pulsating, pulchritudinous pachyderms! I give you the elephants.

(Timothy finds Dumbo hiding under a haystack, his trunk sticking out) Timothy Q. Mouse: Dumbo, you can come out now. (Dumbo sticks his trunk inside) Golly. Must have scared him too. Look, Dumbo. I'm your friend. Come on out, won't ya? (Dumbo shakes his head) You're not afraid of little me, are ya? (Dumbo nods yes) Ya are? Must have overdid it in there, don't know my own strength sometimes.

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