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{{quote|''"Practically perfect in every way."''}}
Describe '''''Mary Poppins'''''?
If that's too much of a mouthful for you, she's also a magical nanny, who literally flies into the life of the Banks family of London, England,
The movie was named to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2013.
In 2018, Disney released a [[Sequel]], ''[[Mary Poppins Returns]]'', starring [[Emily
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* [[Advertised Extra]]: Bert, despite being on the starring poster billing, has about thirty minutes of screen time. Elsa Lanchester has about five minutes of screen time, despite being one of the co-stars on the poster billing.
* [[Angel Unaware]]: Mary Poppins. She's seen ''putting her makeup on while sitting waist-deep in a cloudbank'', for [[Just for Pun|heaven's]] sake. Possibly Bert too, though his magical powers aren't as reliable.
* [[Animated Actors]]: The inhabitants of Bert's drawing.
* [[Ash Face]]: Mary, Bert and the Banks' kids are sucked up the chimney and onto the roof, covered in soot. Later, Michael shouts into a chimney and gets even more soot blown into his face.
* [[Bag of Holding]]: Mary Poppins' carpetbag.
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* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: George Banks is at first the leader of the Banks family, but he is revealed to be the director of the Bank and helping Mr. Dawes steal all of the tuppances.
* [[British Stuffiness]]: Mr. Banks offers perhaps the archetypal example.
* [[But Now I Must Go]]: Mary Poppins leaves, saying goodbye to no one but Bert, who tells her not to stay away too long.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Bert, who is looking for a new job.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Spit Spot!
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** The Banks family's eccentric neighbor Admiral Boom, an insane old navy man who made a ship out of his house, cannon and all.
* [[The Comically Serious]]: Mr. Banks in the movie. Especially during the chimney sweep scene.
* [[Composite Character]]: The film version of Bert, merging those of the Match-Man and Chimney Sweep.
* [[Continuity Cameo]]: The people Bert sings to in the opening of the movie are all supporting characters from the book series. Mrs. Corry, the woman with the daughters taller than her, has a bigger role in the musical adaptation.
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: The carpetbag again.
** Mary Poppins also has a makeup compact containing soot. Y'know, just in case she gets sucked up a chimney, has soot on her face, and wants to add a little more.
*** Hard to tell if she's ''really'' [[Crazy Prepared]], or if she can simply make whatever she wants to come out of the carpetbag. There's [[Crazy Prepared]], and ''then'' there's [[Crazy Prepared]].
* [[Creator Cameo]]: An illustration in one of the books has P. L. Travers and series illustrator Mary Shepard flying with monogrammed balloons.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Mary Poppins has her moments.
* [[Dish Dash]]: The Banks household scrambles to keep their furnishings from falling over every time Admiral Boom fires his cannon.
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''In short, you have a ghastly mess!''}}
* [[Expy]]: Mary gets one in [[Nanny McPhee]], only she's a bit snarkier.
** Can anyone say Sherry Bobbins? (''[[The Simpsons]]'')
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* [[The Film of the Book]]: Travers and Walt Disney's battles were lengthy. It took twenty years for Disney to finally convince Travers to have her magnum opus adapted for the big screen, as the author felt that a film based on her work would be a disservice. Travers was also vehemently opposed to making an [[Animated Adaptation]], even as Disney added an live-action/animated sequence in the film much to her chagrin. While she did eventually warm up to it somewhat and remarked that it did have some positive merits (particularly the casting of Julie Andrews), she put it in her last will that there will be no American-produced adaptations; she did acquiesce on a stage show adaptation, provided it would be written and produced by British staff.
* [[Full-Name Basis]]: It's rare for anyone to use less than Mary Poppins' full name.
* [[Get Thee to a Nunnery]]: The "go fly a kite" joke is often lost on modern audiences. The phrase was once used as a family-friendly version of "Go fuck yourself", but is almost never used this way today.
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* [[No Antagonist]]: The film has no antagonists, except Mr. Dawes Sr., George Banks and all of the Dawes children.
* [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent]]: Ed Wynn in his [[One-Scene Wonder|brief appearance]] as Uncle Albert.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Ellen whenever Admiral Boom fires off his cannon and when she cries "It's the Master!" during Step in Time.
* [[Oh, No, Not Again]]: "Ahh! They're at it again!", "They're at it again, step in time! They're at it again, step in time!"
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Minor aversion. One of the female names rattled off in the penguin scene is "Jane". Presumably they aren't referring to Jane Banks.
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