Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25896389-20150509042358/@comment-24674051-20150601021801

While The Jungle Book would qualify for inclusion in once, based on the fact that it is classic literature, I personally would not want to see any talking animals. Now, I don't know how the original Jungle Book is, since I honestly never read it (though I really should), so maybe there is something there that CAN be incorporated, plus if they had the right story, maybe they could bring in Mowgli. But seriously, just no. Same for the Lion King, although pulling in Hamlet in the Camelot arc would not be too much of a stretch, and you could get the LK references in that way. Still, we've already had Lion King callouts in the show, and I don't think anything more would be beneficial.

Now, going to classic literature, and to appease those that MUST have some sort of disney reference, there is another story that could be used, and could fit very well with any more Emma and/or Lily back stories. Oliver Twist features an orphaned child. You could have a friend, Oliver, that was in one of Emma's group homes, or otherwise intertwined with the girls in the LWM. Maybe even end up as a friend of August or Neal at some point. I have no idea where that story would ultimately go, so there would need to be a lot of work to find a good fit. (Alternatively, they could have Oliver be from Victorean England, and go that route in some way).