THUMPER RABBIT BAMBI HOW TO

To their joy, the groundhog has no shadow, meaning spring is coming, but the groundhog then runs back into his burrow after being frightened by a older fawn named Ronno.īambi finds it hard to connect with his father, The Great Prince of the Forest, so Thumper gives him lessons on how to impress his father. Set in between the events of Bambi's mother's death and Bambi's young adulthood, Thumper appears when hiding from his sisters but they find him and say that their mother said for Thumper to take them to see a groundhog (who could tell if spring was on the way if he had no shadow) to which Bambi (and later Flower and Faline) joins them. However shortly after, Thumper meets and falls in love with a female rabbit and eventually has daughters with her, who join him when he and the other animals go to visit Faline after she gives birth to her and Bambi's children, Geno and Gurri. Years later, Thumper (now a young adult) meets with Bambi and Flower again where they are warned about getting 'twitterpated' by Friend Owl and that they would eventually fall in love, though the trio believe this won't happen to them. During the winter, Thumper tries to teach Bambi how to skate on a frozen pond, but Bambi kept slipping. When Bambi accidentally used the word flower on a skunk, Thumper tried to correct him, but the skunk said that he didn't mind. to which she replies that she thinks she'll call him Bambi.Ī few days later, Thumper meets Bambi and his mother again where he takes it upon himself to teach Bambi various tricks and help him talk which he succeeded with Bambi saying words such as 'bird', 'butterfly' and 'flower'.

When the prince attempts to take his first steps, Thumper remarks that he's kinda wobbly, only for his mother to make him repeat what his father had told that morning which was 'If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all.' As the animals start to leave, Thumper asks the prince's mother what she's going to call him.

So, not a bad career for a snarky little woodland creature.Thumper first appears in the film along with his mother and sisters and several other animals going to visit the newly born prince and his mother. In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, he’s said to be Roger’s uncle. As a result, he was rewarded with a whole “Disney Bunnies” line of merchandise, coloring books, and storybooks. In a larger sense, Thumper helped Bambi by providing comic relief and by helping to establish a tradition in Disney cartoons of talking animal sidekicks who have more personality that the protagonists. He teaches him how to say a few words and even how to ice skate (though, as Thumper himself notes, Bambi on ice is “kinda wobbly”). (In Disney’s Bambi, Thumper was voiced by Peter Behn, who was four years old at the time.) He has to be reminded by his parents to heed the maxim now known as Thumper’s Law: “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.” Still, he takes an interest in mentoring the deer. He also a penchant for childish insults, but then, he’s not that much older than the fawn. Bambi’s friend has that annoying habit of pounding his left hind foot on the ground (hence his name).

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