Mouse is indeed his real name, but how do we know this? His name is never spoken aloud in the film we only know it because we see his signature on the contract he signs at the end of the film. As far as Dumbo’s sidekick goes, Timothy Q. (Continuing the trend of “characters who rarely speak,” we know this is Dumbo’s real name because it is the only line in the film uttered by Dumbo’s mother, Mrs.
There we see a white mouse wearing Timothy’s ringmaster suit, serving as the master of ceremonies in a mouse-sized circus called the Greatest Little Show on Earth (itself a reference to the name seen on the top of the large tent in the opening sequence of the 1941 animated classic).ĭumbo’s actual name Is Jumbo Jr. Mouse doesn’t appear by name in the 2019 live-action remake, a tribute to him can be seen at the beginning of the film.
Dumbo mouse series#
The show is notable for being the longest-running Disney Channel original series up to that time (at 115 episodes) until it was surpassed by “Phineas and Ferb.” Curiously, just like Dumbo, both of those characters also hiccup! In Gideon’s case, his hiccups marked the lone appearance of legendary voice actor Mel Blanc (best known for his portrayal of Bugs Bunny) in a Disney film.Īlthough he is silent in the film, Dumbo did speak in the 1954 record “Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse’s Birthday Party.” He would later go on to star (and speak) in the Disney Channel show “Dumbo’s Circus,” voiced by Katie Leigh. (One might argue that Dopey would qualify as a title character, but that’s stretching things a bit!). Mouse inadvertently drink some champagne that the circus clowns had dropped into a water bucket.Ī few other Disney characters never speak in their original films, most notably Dopey in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Gideon the cat in Pinocchio. He does, however, hiccup after he and Timothy Q. Dumbo is the only title character in a Disney film that never speaks.
0 kommentar(er)
