We all forgot Uncle Donald's Birthday!, The Duckman turned 70 June 8th... Options

[CaptGeorge]

For shame, for shame! All line up for 20 lashes of wet noodles for forgetting Donald Duck's birthday! (Hey, it could be some kind of record for that sort of thing, don't ya think? )

Anyhow, according to some record, The Wise Little Hen premiered in theaters on June 8, 1934. It was Donald Duck's first official appearance in a cartoon. Not the best Duck short to be sure, but a historic first for a character that gets second billing to a mouse.

Only Daffy Duck understands how Donald feels about second-billing...

It's sorta like middle-child syndrome.

[Studio Toledo]

For shame, for shame! All line up for 20 lashes of wet noodles for forgetting Donald Duck's birthday! (Hey, it could be some kind of record for that sort of thing, don't ya think? )

Anyhow, according to some record, The Wise Little Hen premiered in theaters on June 8, 1934. It was Donald Duck's first official appearance in a cartoon. Not the best Duck short to be sure, but a historic first for a character that gets second billing to a mouse.

Only Daffy Duck understands how Donald feels about second-billing...

It's sorta like middle-child syndrome.

For shame, for shame!  All line up for 20 lashes of wet noodles for forgetting Donald Duck's birthday!  (Hey, it could be some kind of record for that sort of thing, don't ya think?    )

Heh, I remember when his 50th came up 20 years ago, namely since they made a bigger deal about if then (and we got Disney Channel on our cables ystem at the time so I've got some recollection of it from a special they did on the duck, which I have on tape).

Anyhow, according to some record, The Wise Little Hen premiered in theaters on June 8, 1934.

That is true. It's rather amusing to see a cartoon character at his roots in these things (with Donald didn't look anything like the way he would morph into in the later part of the '30s and into the '40s onward).

It was Donald Duck's first official appearance in a cartoon.  Not the best Duck short to be sure, but a historic first for a character that gets second billing to a mouse.

I thought it was a clever cartoon, and with nice obvious conclusion in the end.

Only Daffy Duck understands how Donald feels about second-billing... 

It's sorta like middle-child syndrome.

I'm the middle child in my family, though I don't think I hardly had it that bad all my life (though I'm starting to feel it now). :-(

[Semaj]

Of course, the die-hard Disney fans (like me) haven't forgotten. Donald is my favorite Disney character. If you were to ask of my favorite Donald cartoon: I DON"T KNOW!! There's so many great Donald cartoons.

Happy Birthday, Donald Duck!!!

[CaptGeorge]

Of course, the die-hard Disney fans (like me) haven't forgotten. Donald is my favorite Disney character. If you were to ask of my favorite Donald cartoon: I DON"T KNOW!! There's so many great Donald cartoons.

While I've seen more than a few Donald cartoons over the years, the one scene that most sticks in my mind is a cartoon with his nephews. By the end of the short, he's driven so over the edge by these bra--, er children, that he blows up, turns into a devil, and spends the final seconds of the short chasing the little bast----, er children, with a pitchfork! You didn't see that in a Mickey Mouse cartoon! LOL

A close second most memorable Duck scene is the Donald Duck/Daffy Duck piano duel in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Easily one of the best scenes in a film that I don't think has aged well otherwise...

[mbaker]

I'm friends with Pat Block who currently draw Donald for Genstone Comics. He, and his wife, Shelly celebrated Donald's birthday in style at the Pittsburgh Comicon this past April. Here are some interesting links about the Duck in light of his birthday.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,122291,00.html

http://www.savedisney.com/news/essays/mj060904.1.asp

[MADKAP75]

[QUOTE=CaptGeorge,Jun 10 2004, 10:03 PM]

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While I've seen more than a few Donald cartoons over the years, the one scene that most sticks in my mind is a cartoon with his nephews. By the end of the short, he's driven so over the edge by these bra--, er children, that he blows up, turns into a devil, and spends the final seconds of the short chasing the little bast----, er children, with a pitchfork! You didn't see that in a Mickey Mouse cartoon! LOL

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Isn't that from the same cartoon where the nephews make him believe he got his head crushed by a rock and went to Heaven? That image of the fake Donald body under the rock is so disturbing and hilarious at the same time!

I also like 'Donald's Off Day' where once again the nephews make him think he's dying.

So funny.

[CaptGeorge]

[quote=MADKAP75,Jun 11 2004, 08:29 AM] [QUOTE=CaptGeorge,Jun 10 2004, 10:03 PM]

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While I've seen more than a few Donald cartoons over the years, the one scene that most sticks in my mind is a cartoon with his nephews. By the end of the short, he's driven so over the edge by these bra--, er children, that he blows up, turns into a devil, and spends the final seconds of the short chasing the little bast----, er children, with a pitchfork! You didn't see that in a Mickey Mouse cartoon! LOL

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Isn't that from the same cartoon where the nephews make him believe he got his head crushed by a rock and went to Heaven? That image of the fake Donald body under the rock is so disturbing and hilarious at the same time!
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Yeah, the cartoon I referenced was one where the nephews made him think he was an angel and sent him on his way to "Heaven"! Of course, Donald didn't get too far before his "ride to Heaven" blew up and he fell back to Earth! LOL

Huey, Dewey, and Louie were Bart Simpson divided into thirds!

[Studio Toledo]

While I've seen more than a few Donald cartoons over the years, the one scene that most sticks in my mind is a cartoon with his nephews.  By the end of the short, he's driven so over the edge by these bra--, er children, that he blows up, turns into a devil, and spends the final seconds of the short chasing the little bast----, er children, with a pitchfork!  You didn't see that in a Mickey Mouse cartoon!  LOL

I remember that on! I think the situation in that one involves how Donald believed he has now died, and his nephews played a trick of dressing him up as an angel now being lifted to Heaven, only to eventually crash back on the ground and gets really mad at the kids for pulling that s__t with him!

There's been a few of those cartoons I've enjoyed in the past. Such as the one called "Donald's Off Day" where Donald tries to go out golfing, only to get rained on a few steps from his door, and spends the time in the hosue while reading a book on health problems, and the nephews trick him into believing he was dying to the point of putting a rubber squeak toy underneath a blanket to simulate his heart beating irregularly.

Then there was the one where the kids wanted to buy their uncle cigars for his birthday, with Donald getting the wrong impression from the start after he discovers the allowance his nepwhews had was stolen from a private place, and sees his boys coming out of a cigar shop with a box, believing the boys to be wanting to smoke them later. So he gives them a taste of their own medicine, only finding out at the last moment that the cigars were meant for him in the first place!

[hutch]

CBS Sunday Morning (6/13) did a short feature about this being the 70th anniversary of Donald Duck. It included a sequence from "The Wise Little Hen"

[Jorge Finkielman]

And there was on that date a report on CNN en Español