8. Sex, Sex And More Sex
If the internet rumour-mongers are to be believed, Disney animators frequently hide the word sex in their films in the least obvious places as some sort of puerile game of one-up-manship, and while you have to look devilishly hard to find them, they're there for everyone to see. The most obvious example is of course in the Lion King, which features a dust cloud that looks very suspicious (see above), but there are many other examples, as in the images below, though most of them are arguably just examples of the Rorschach effect...
Some are far more tenuous than others...
The Explanation Disney have in fact denied the Lion King one in two ways, first Disney spokesman Rick Rhoades said it was all just a "perception thing:
"They're seeing something there that isn't. It's just ridiculous to think that we'd put out a movie containing something less than a wholesome image."
But then a Disney animator on the film, Tom Sito confirmed that there actually was a word in the dust, but that we were all seeing it wrong. He claimed that the letters actually spelled "S.F.X", and that it was intended to be an easter egg signature from the animation department, and that the controversy that followed was completely unintentional. Because of course, there's no way a group of animators would ever think that anyone might possibly misconstrue their playful, industry in-reference for a naughty word, regardless of the fact that E and F are pretty much the same letter, especially when you consciously disguise them in dust. The others ones are just people spending too much time looking for the word SEX in random creative marks. Which is definitely exactly what Disney would want us all to think...