- loin cloths (especially those in the pre-Code Tarzan and his Mate)
- the Tarzan yell
- wrestling
- near naked natives
- hungry crocodiles crawling into the murky river
- the creepy, smoky juju cave in Tarzan Escapes (minus, alas, the lost footage of giant human-bat creatures, who devour the majority of Tarzan's party--a scene studio chief Louis B. Mayer deemed too gruesome for exhibition)
- the Ganelonis' use of crisscrossed trees to rip poor captives into halves
- elephant stampedes
- quicksand
- enough steamy sex dream imagery to keep a whole company of Freudian psychoanalysts at work for the next 20 years
- natives falling off the Mutia Escarpment
- giant spider webs
- vine-swinging
- the sounds of the jungle at night
- the surrealism of out-of-scale rear-screen projections
- roaring waterfalls
- Johnny Weissmuller's unruly hair
- underwater canoodling
- "A Cannibal Carnival" (music score by Sol Levy)
- bans on firearms
- animal rights
- Cheeta
- the tree house, with plumbing, elevator, and ceiling fans
- the elephants' burial ground
- cute baby lion cubs that you had better just leave alone
