Bambi

Bambi is a 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney, based on the book by Felix Salten. Perhaps the most famous moment in the film concerns the off-screen death of Bambi's mother.

References

• In the second season Dinosaurs episode "I Never Ate for My Father," a herbivore Folk Singer asks whether anyone's seen "my old friend, Bambi's mother/Can you tell me where she's gone?"

• On his talk show in Muppets Tonight episode 106, Johnny Fiama cites as the number one reason in a top ten list of why chicks dig him, that he still cries when Bambi's mother buys the farm.

• Darci mentions Bambi in her tirade on bears in "The Real World Muppets" segment in episode 212 of Muppets Tonight.

• The Muppet Babies episode "At the Movies" has Baby Bean Bunny mentioning that Bambi is his favorite movie.

• In Elmo Saves Christmas, Oscar refers to the reindeer Lightning as "Bambi Face."