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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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** 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]]'')
** ''[[Hogfather]]'' turns Susan Sto Helit into one, though she swears if she ever catches herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she will beat herself to death with her own umbrella.
* [[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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