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Also Slutty and Neurtsy which are both horrible and wrong

Did you all know that before finally choosing the dwarfs final names, Disney also considered Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Deafy, Hickey, Wheezy and Awful? Can you imagine?

All the dwarfs were male so I’m assuming that Chesty would not have had huge breasts. Maybe his prototype was of a sailor with a large tattoo. “I heart Snow White” maybe? And what about Tubby? As I recall, Doc was a bit portly. Maybe they just combined the two.

Burpy? Really? That’s just gross.

Deafy? Not very P.C. but perhaps they weren’t too worried about that in 1937. After all, Al Jolson was still making movies in black face for God’s sake.

Hickey? Holy crap. One can only assume the drawings of this guy was disgusting – a teenage covered in suck marks probably. Ick.

Wheezy – well, I guess Wheezy is no worse than Sneezy. I wonder if one of the animators suffered from allergies.

Awful, like Doc and Tubby, was probably morphed with Grumpy.

How about this little bit of insight from Disney on yet another ill-fated name.

JUMPY: He is in constant twitchy fear of being goosed, but is not goosed until the last scene. Whenever he hears a noise behind him, he starts, and his hand automatically protects his fanny. He is exceedingly ticklish.

Does anyone besides me find this disturbing? Was there a lot of this going around at the animation studio?

Give one a whole different perspective on Disney movies, huh?

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