Whoever heard of a flying mouse? That’s a trait even Mickey would have been envious of. In 1934’s The Flying Mouse, a little mouse becomes just that. When the wishful critter saves a butterfly from a web, it turns out to be a butterfly fairy. On a wing and a prayer, the ready rodent requests the ability to fly and is granted his wish. Mishaps ensue, including contact with some evil bats who recognize that he’s not a bat and that mice don’t have wings (“You’re nothin’ but a nothin’, a nothin’, a nothin’. You’re nothin’ but a nothin’, you’re not a thing at all,” they sing). Although that song lasts on the screen for just about 30 seconds, the song became a something and was even released on sheet music. And so friends, today’s D23 moral of the day comes directly from the butterfly fairy who removes our hero’s wings, “Do your best. Be yourself, and life will smile on you.” Good advice. Of course, you’ve never received bad advice from a butterfly fairy, have you?
