Things Only Adults Noticed In The Animated Film

Posted by Erma Hippe on Wednesday, June 5, 2024

In Warner Brothers' Thumbelina, Mrs. Toad kidnaps Thumbelina in the night and takes her to her boat where she lives with her three sons, Mozo, Gringo, and Grundel. There, the toads sing a jaunty tune, encourage Thumbelina to join their showbiz family, and try to arrange her marriage to Grundel.

But these toads aren't actually toads at all. At least, they don't appear to be. Mrs. Toad and her family live on a boat on the water, which would be a good place for a frog to live, as they are mostly aquatic, but toads are known to live on land (via Live Science). The four characters' smooth skin looks more like the slimy skin that frogs have and not like the dry, bumpy skin of toads. So, it seems that these characters are actually meant to be frogs.

But then again, maybe these creatures aren't frogs either. Mrs. Toad is clearly shown to have breasts, and frogs, being amphibians, would certainly not have mammary glands.

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