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(1948)

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Sex & Nudity

  • During the "Pecos Bill" segment, Bill meets his love interest for the first time while she is riding an oversized fish through a river which jumps into and from the water, making her skirt fly and flash her panties many times. Bill is shown to be astonished.
  • In the "Once upon a Wintertime" segment, a young man and woman kiss twice. The second kiss leaves the man with a vacant expression and a hickey on his face which he wipes off.
  • During the "Pecos Bill" segment, Bill's guns fly out of their holsters and shoot by themselves in midair when his girlfriend kisses him. It's obviously an ejaculation joke but kids most likely won't get it.

Violence & Gore

  • In the "Johnny Appleseed" segment, a man accidentally kisses a woman when he tries to bite an apple on a string and she slaps him. (played for laughs)
  • Pecos Bill comically shoots at several things (stars, Indians, other cowboys) with his guns. No one is hurt.
  • In the "Little Toot" segment, the titular character is zapped by a bolt of lightening and is later seen with a bandage on his rear. (played for laughs)
  • In the "Blame it on the Samba" segment, a wacky bird plants dynamite in a grand piano and the (live-action) pianist is shown to be frightened when smoke begins rising from it. The piano explodes, but its' pieces morph into a regular piano and the unharmed pianist keeps playing.

Profanity

  • 2 uses of the deragotory term "Indians".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • In the uncut version of the film, Pecos Bill is almost always seen with a cigarette between his lips and on one occasion, rolls a smoke and lights it while riding a bucking tornado. The VHS release had the cigarette digitally removed, but it remains intact on the DVD.
  • Zé Carioca smokes a cigar.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Suggested MPAA Rating: PG-13: For Slapstick Violence Throughout, Some Suggestive Content and Racial Epithets, and for Areas of Racially Insensitive Material.
  • In a scene potentially scary for younger viewers, Little Toot, upset with himself, envisions a group of angry-eyed, shark-toothed buoys who eerily chant "Bad boy, Bad boy...shame, shame...too bad, too bad!" The scene only lasts about two minutes though.
  • The "Bumble Boogie" segment involves a bee constantly trying to escape from the denizens of a nightmarish, music note-based world. They include a snake made of piano keys, flowers that trap him and music notes that almost squash him. He is able to evade them at every turn.
  • The "Once upon a Wintertime" segment involves a scene where a young woman gets trapped on an ice floe about to go over a waterfall. She is saved.

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