Faux Freudian Slip

Every town Has its ups and down Sometime ups Outnumber the downs But not in Nottingham (Robin Hood "Not In Nottingham")

While playing the ridiculously fun game of Nerts, Bear was singing Disney songs (as he's often wont to do).  On this particular occasion, he was singing the song "Love" from Robin Hood (one of my favorite Disney movies).  After he sang the line "Now you're all grown up inside of me," Nubby said "Oh, I hope not!" and we all started laughing insanely hard.  When he realized the double entendre of the line he had just sung, he animatedly protested our laughter by exclaiming "No NO NO!!! That was totally a Freudian slip!!!" Which, upon candy Andy and I looking at each other to confirm what we had just heard, led to another, more intense fit of laughter, so overwhelming that Andy had to leave his chair and go lay on the floor to laugh.  The rest of us were laughing so hard that we were crying and unable to breathe (except in occasional desperate gasps).  I have only heard Bear giggle twice in my life, and candy Andy never--until this occasion where the stars aligned, and both giggled simultaneously, which somehow managed to make the whole thing even more funny.

Once we had all regained our composure, Bear picked up a can of Diet Coke, and, as he was popping the lid said "Ahhhhhh, I need a drink. A stiff one." Which led to more tears of laughter.

There was discussion later that night, and the following day about what the correct version of that particular line was.  We decided that it must be "Now you're all grown up in spite of me." That made waaaay more sense--especially for Maid Marian and Robin Hood.  As childhood lovers who hadn't seen each other for a number of years they would have remembered each other as the younger version of him or herself, making them all grown up in spite of the memory of how (s)he was. Right?

Curious, I looked it up when I got home.  These are the full lyrics:

It seems like only yesterday
You were just a child at play
Now you're all grown up inside of me
Oh, how fast those moments flee

Once we watched a lazy world go by
Now the days seem to fly
Life is brief, but when it's gone
Love goes on and on

Love will live
Love will last
Love goes on and on and on

Once we watched a lazy world go by
Now the days seem to fly
Life is brief, but when it's gone
Love goes on and on

Bear sang it the right way the first time!  What the hell!?! How could Disney have allowed something that was so clearly sexually suggestive into the lyrics of one of their children's movie songs?  Bear and Andy reminded me that Disney has a history of (at the very least being accused of) putting all sorts of suggestive material in their films. For instance:

1. The Rescuers has a scene where, at the beginning of the film, Bernard and Bianca are strapped to the back of Orville, preparing for take off, when you can see the image of a topless woman. 
2. The Little Mermaid has two "subliminal" scenes.  The first is the cover art and promotional posters in which one of the towers was shaped like a phallus.  Second is the scene where Eric and Ursula are getting married, the priest appears to have an erection (if you look really close you can tell it's actually his knee, but that takes close inspection to tell).
3. In The Lion King, when Simba plops down on the edge of a cliff causing dust to go into the air, the dust forms the letters S - E - X.

Ok, so it's really not that many examples. . .but it's enough to make me wonder if someone intentionally put a topless chick into The Rescuers in 1977, maybe someone intentionally put a double entendre in the "Love" lyrics 4 years earlier.

I still cannot believe that's what the lyrics actually are.  Or that I've never noticed it before.