10 Raunchy Moments Fiendishly Hidden In Disney Cartoons

3. Aladdin: €œTake Off Your Clothes€

One of the most famous Disney urban legends, and also one of the most tenuous, this one focused on the scene in which Aladdin €“ in disguise as the Prince €“ visits the palace balcony to see Princess Jasmin, and to convince her he is not one of the traditional, empty-headed suitors she is used to. When he arrives, Rajah the tiger tries to protect the princess by getting all aggressive and threatening the interloper, who duly tries to shoo him away with his turban, and for some reason known only to conspirators and/or the script supervisor whispers something that sounds suspicously like €œgood teenagers, take off your clothes.€ Or at least it does if you're looking for it to say that, because to normal human ears, it just sounds a bit muddled €“ but that's what the rumours said. Judge for yourself... http://youtu.be/p4piZV5wPrw They used it to suggest that Disney was encouraging the world's teenagers to have promiscuous sex, though quite what the objective of that would be remains to be seen. Perhaps promiscuous sex makes you really want to buy Disney products? As a man who has a vast and impressive collection of Toy Story and Wall-E merchandise, I couldn't possibly pass judgement. The Explanation According to Disney, Aladdin actually said, "Come on... good kitty, take off and go..." which if legitimate, would have made it possibly the worst and least authentic line in the entire film. The original subtitles claimed otherwise, having Aladdin say €œGood kitty. Take off,€ which would have made more sense, but which plainly doesn't match what you can hear in the video above. Either way, the official line on the matter basically suggests that the line was merely badly edited and garbled by other noises (which is odd considering how long the film spent in the editing process, and how precise voice-over recordings tend to be by definition), and that people were just hearing what they wanted to, as with the whole playing rock music backwards hokum. Though they have never admitted any blame, Disney did replace the phrase with "Down, kitty" for the DVD release of Aladdin.
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