Donald Loses His Mind - Dark Toons
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- 'Duck Pimples' is by far the strangest Donald Duck cartoon. Is he slipping into madness? Is he being haunted? It's hard to say, but fun to watch! Doug brings you a new Dark Toons.
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Duck Pimples is a 1945 animated whodunnit short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon parodies radio crime stories and film noir dramas.
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The 1943 Disney short "Chicken Little." It has Foxy Loxy using a book of psychology (originally supposed to be Hitler's Mein Kampf) in order to get himself some fowl for dinner. The scary part? He actually succeeds!
G.I. Joe episode "There's No Place Like Springfield." Characters melting.
INVADER ZIM DARK HARVEST you coward
Channel Awesome Please check out the 1942 "Horton Hatches An Egg" cartoon. The uncensored one.
🔥 Courage the Cowardly dog 🔥
🔥 Invader Zim 🔥
I like how this series teaches you about animation history too
Sadly NC show some holes in it. Like until 50 cartoons were made for adult and Renaissance Age Disney was actually made with use of CGI.
TheRezro he didn’t say they weren’t
That's pm why I keep coming back to this series, I always learn something new about old cartoons!
@@johnmartin4119 And?
yep
There's a Daisy Duck episode where Donald gets hit on the head and gains a beautiful singing voice but looks coldly at Daisy as if he doesn't know her. She grows increasingly desperate for him to recognize her and be her one and only again. While the main explicitly dark moment is a well-executed suicide gag, the more I think about it the more disturbing it gets. Donald either has amnesia or playing such because he now has an attractive voice and Daisy either wants Donald back because she can't imagine a life without him or does not want to live anymore after he dumps her. And it has one of the greatest mean-spirited jokes in any Disney short.
The episode you talk about is called donald ducks dilemma. And it's just sad. But good suggestion.
I remember that Daisy went to a therapist and explained the dilemma. The doctor gave her a choice. She either had to give Donald up to the world or keep him for herself. She ended up dropping another flower pot on Donald's head while he was performing. He suddenly remembered her but his singing voice was gone forever!
@@melissacooper4282 It was a sweet ending though. Donald was so happy to see Daisy.
@@cadendicky1855 Again, Donald Ducks Dilemma
I've seen that episode before and that was actually a good episode but I wouldnt call it as a dark toon. But not a bad suggestion on the board
“Donald Duck and the Gorilla” is another good dark cartoon.
Yeah this one makes a reference to the Gorillla episode
Lightning Nerd yes
I actually enjoyed the gorilla one for some reason
Review that 1
GREEN GORILLA
I want a Dark Toon episode with Tom and Jerry “The Year of the Mouse”, from the Chuck Jones era
In that episode Jerry and another mouse tries to convince Tom that he is trying to kill himself while he sleeps, those mice were psychos!
I remember that one! What a dark and scary concept!
With a change of characters it would make for a great horror movie concept.
I second this.
I remember that episode, one of the few ones where Jerry 100% goes too far, and looses in the end,(there were other ones where tom won, but that one is one of the most deserving win) we never see that other mouse again, just that one episode, knowing the end of the episode i want to think he died off screen getting out of the bottle tom put them in
I know what episode you're talking about, and I don't really like it because it's just too mean. Like, what Doug said in the "Tom and Jerry are masters of comedy" video doesn't really match this episode; Jerry just tortures Tom while he's asleep and laughs at him almost realistically dying (the noose bit scares me, not as a child but as an adult). Maybe if things were more comical like dynamite sticks or anvils, then I would be more OK with it, but it was "too real" for my tastes.
Jesus Christ Jerry and the other mouse were fucking sadistic to do that to Tom. This was the episode where Tom just wanted some sleep and then Jerry and the other mouse just decides to be psychotic for some reason. I laughed as a kid but watching it now. Holy shit!
This cartoon is a must-watch every Halloween along with "Trick or Treat" and "Donald Duck and the Gorilla."
I loved those and are my Halloween staples!
Dude I watched the gorilla episode when I was 4 and it was super traumatizing
I had a VHS with those shorts on it. I saw the thumbnail and suddenly remembered seeing this as a kid.
I love the gorilla episode, one of my favorites
Those two and "Duck Pimples" are my absolute favorite Donald Duck cartoons, hands down! :D
*Notices he has a picture of Boosette in the background*
A man of culture I see
Where? I can't see it.
@@thechaoticfurry9722 Look at his wall at the bottom left
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0:53 “The weirdest Donald Duck cartoon ever made” Ever seen Der Fuehrer’s Face?
That one cracks me up when he cusses Hitler under his breath
Goofy wouldn’t be used as a phone
He would be a pogo stick.
You’re thinking of tigger
George Chiarovano no, goofy is shaped like a pogo stick. He could also be used as a jackhammer though.
Hop on your pogo stick!
Your pogo stick, your pogo stick.
Hop on your pogo stick and hop right through your day.
Speed Demon: Powerpuff Girls
That episode is just... oof
what about the 'Knock it off' episode?
I find Speed Demon more psychologically scary
@@CrimsonFox36 Same here! I actually love "Knock it Off" despite it being really disturbing. "Speed Demon" still scares the crud out of me to this very day.
@@CrimsonFox36 the Mask from Courage the Cowardly dog
@@JaevhonDouglasPppff!! Please. You might as well review the whole show.
5:35 I'm kind of proud of myself for predicting he'd eat her bracelets even before Doug prompted us to guess (it just seemed to fit the vibes and look he was giving), although I did not predict him taking out coffee to go with it haha. 😂
Fun fact to elaborate on the organ music, that instrument you are hearing in this cartoon is a Hammond Novachord. It was a state-of-the-art instrument at the time, and quite a bizarre one at that. The tones are generated entirely by vacuum tubes, and nothing else truly matches the eerie warm sound for this type of score.
I haven’t seen this classic in a long time.
Also when I saw it as a kid I never was scared of it, just another fun cartoon to me.
This reminds me of Alice in Wonderland, with character being goofy, yet threatening, constantly changing moods and nothing making much sense. In essence, this could be Donalds Wonderland.
This is one of the few Donald Duck cartoons where he doesn't lose his temper.
This is the first dark toon on this show that I haven’t seen yet. And it’s is Impressively creepy. Old cartoons could get so surreal. I was gonna suggest that clip of Donald trying to chop the cow into pieces as an episode for this show, but this is way freakier.
I'd love to see you do the Daffy Duck Dick Tracy parody "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" with the machine gun massacre and the gangster corpse pile up at the end :)
I remember one dark Donald cartoon I watched when I was a kid. I don't remember the whole thing but it involved the three nephews and Donald becoming increasingly paranoid about them. Eventually Donald find a pack of cigars he assumed was the nephews'. He confronts and forces them to smoke them all and they change to a grey ashen colour which made me think they were dead. Donald finds the cigars were a gift for him and is wrecked with guilt and in the process shrinks down and falls through a whole in the floor. It was so weird and dark to me, it stuck un my head ever since. I haven't seen the cartoon again since so I am not sure whether it was as dark as I remembered it.
It was the short Donald’s Happy Birthday (1949). The reason he gives the nephews cigars were because earlier, the nephews were able to get money to buy him a gift. He tells them to save their money for a rainy day, though the nephews get their money back and buys him the cigar. He is worried that they might start smoking, so he plugs them into their mouths. It’s one of the shorts that doesn’t get dark until the end.
@diannekelley1508 cheers! Just watched it again, not as bad as I remember but still... Crikey...
Donald Duck quacking up, for real.
All the time
Donald always seemed like he belonged in mental institution
Most likely still dealing with PTSD from his time at the Navy
@@SaiOkami777 NOT THE NAVY!
Wanna see some more of Donald’s hallucinations? Check out the cartoon Donald’s Crime!
@@anoopsingh4825 navy indeed
He has anger issues
I think the woman is a combo of Jessica Rabbit and Red from the MGM cartoons.
Jessica Rabbit didn't exist back when the cartoon was made
Suggestion: "Scaredy Cat" with Porky and Sylvester.
I would really like to see Channel Awesome do an episode on the cartoon “Donald’s Diary.” That is definitely an unusual cartoon in the Donald Duck canon, though for completely different reasons. I’ll just highlight one: Donald has two different voices in the cartoon, his typical quack for when he’s on camera; and for the off-camera narration he has a suave, British, gentlemanly voice.
Both Cat Fingers and Frybo from Steven Universe are kinda wild in how dark they are.
Kids that don’t ever get scared end up being giant “kitties” that think they will never die and end up doing dumb things that get them killed young. Cartoons are a way of accomplishing this without traumatizing them too much.
For some reason I don’t think you’re actually referring to kitties.
So you mean it's snap's them back to reality and gives them a scene of being vulnerable a little scare to teach them a lesson
@@sebastianbarela2165 im sorry for this but...SNAP BACK TO REALITY OH THERE GOES GRAVITY JOE
Meep Map☆
Joshua O'Bryan joe? its SNAP BACK TO REALITY OOP THERE GOES GRAVITY OOP THERE GOES RABBIT HE CHOKED
my grandparents had (and probably still do somewhere) some cartoons recorded off the Disney channel when I was a kid and this one was on there, ALWAYS loved watching it at nite. The weirdness of it slowly ramping up was oddly comfortable, and the spooky music was always fun.. Pauline's face had a lot of good expressions too, especially when she pulls that fire-ax out of Hennesy's pocket, sizes up the handle, and THEN winds up~ It might've been the hardest my grandpa ever laughed too, when he pulls out those guns, "It's ME! I DONE IT!" in a fit of confused madness. Real good choice here, Doug!
One of the darkest things I've thought of, at least for little kids, may be from My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic - The Cutie Remark. There is time travel, war, practically murder, and basically the apacolypse. Quite different from what the show usually focuses on, but still a very memorable episode for the series.
Might I recommend some episodes of The Amazing World of Gumball? I feel a good few episodes could fit the bill. Specifically:
"The Joy", a parody of a zombie apocalypse; "The Puppy", basically a parody of a slasher/monster movie; or "The Recipe", a deconstruction of the 'They Killed Kenny' trope, rife with black comedy. Interestingly, these were episodes 4, 5 and 6 of Season 3 - they all aired consecutively.
@@miranimal It would be a shame if it was limited to just hand-drawn, since a lot of newer cartoons opt for a different style. But he does invite both old and new suggestions in the credits, and Gumball was mostly for younger kids (to begin with), so it fits the bill.
Miranda B at the end of the videos he says old cartoons or new cartoons
Disney defenitely was the company that did a lot more twisted stuff than other companies at the time. This one defenitley had strange moments, and especially an interesting watch.
Actually they didn't. Until 50's most of animation was shown in cinema, so alongside comedic sketches and sometimes B-movie were used to fill time block, as people at the time weren't paying for specific movies but timed seances. And kids usually didn't go to cinema with Snow White being considered as huge experiment at the time. Popularization of TV change everything with cinemas switching to ticket per movie. Disney due to being more family friendly could reedit large part of they cartoons (when Fleischer straight went bankrupt as they were more adult oriented and Werner was inbetween with stuff like censored eleven), but they still struggle competing with low quality hacks like Hannah Barbera (later known as Cartoon Network). Leading to infamous Dark Age of Animation (50-70) what still hang on reputation of cartoons as cheap kids entertainment. Everything start changing with introduction of color TV in 70's what bring more kids to TV's and later legalization of toy commercial cartoons in 90's, what ironically increase quality of those as studios like Marvel were payed to make product attractive, not to make income from show itself. That also overlap with Disney Renaissance fallowed with birth od 3D animation. That lead to backlash of parents in late 90's, what lead to introducing parent quiescence's (both games and TV) what severely hurt action TV shows, what did try distinguish themselves as targeted to teens with use of 3D or Anime style (as it also stop being censored at the time). It wasn't until 2010 when several 2D animated shows (=cheaper but not cheap) become big hits among adults leading to current rebirth of animation (largely lead by Disney as they have old adult fandom), what also overlap with premiere of Tangled what make Disney Animation equal to Pixar after long struggle. Though drop in cost of 3D animation make cinema filled with poor quality products of that kind, now.
@@TheRezro The 80s was defenitely when twistes stuffed shined the most in kids films. Films like Secret Of Nimh, Return to Oz, and Gremlins would get complaints about being too scary for their children. The 90s was when it was just pulled to a complete stop.
@@kriticalitylives Yup. In that time animation companies commonly work according to Don Bluth rule that you can show kids almost everything, until it has happy ending. Numerous shows were made deliberately to prepare kids to deal with trauma of real life. And quite ironically many kids understand that better then they oversensitive parents. This approach is also huge part of old style anime. But then government step in and history repeat itself. As nowadays many people question those regulations, same way as people questioned Comics Code in the 80's.
Disney was pretty tame in compare to the Fleischer Studios and other companies. Well until the censorship hit.
How about covering Disney's "Education for Death" and "Chicken Little" (the wartime short, not the crappy CGI movie)?
Jennifer Schillig I think the cgi one is scarier.. That animation still haunts me
Jennifer Schillig the first one i don,t think it count
And i only saw some part latter one
@@Melvinshermen Oh, "Education for Death" is dark, all right. It's just that it probably isn't as widely known as some of the other ones he's covered. I don't think they'd have shown THAT one on the Mickey Mouse Club.
Jennifer Schillig does Propaganda count
@@Melvinshermen That's up to Doug, I guess. :-)
Can you do Tex Avery's "Who Killed Who?" I love that cartoon.
The scene from Mickey and The Beanstalk where Donald goes crazy from hunger, though brief, is probably one of the darkest, if not THE darkest Donald Duck moment ever. It’s the only time I was ever actually scared of him.
I didn’t remember Donald Duck going crazy, only the fact that the characters were about to eat beyond razor-thin, see-through sandwiches. That’s what stuck with me the most.
You should do “To Heck and Back” from Rocko’s Modern Life.
Basically it’s the episode where Heffer chokes on a chicken rib cage and goes to hell.
It scared me so much as a kid!
I love Dpug's commentary. He mentions things that we could have missed
Doug thank you for your kindness in making these despite Covid 19 your helping me cope
What I like about this one is that Donald isn't flipping out like a crazy duck. Seeing him more withdrawn and frightened is a way to see a new side of him.
As for other Dark Toons, the Bugs Bunny cartoons "Hyde and Hare" and "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare" come to mind.
This is pretty much Donald in Quarantine enough said
Two Dark Toons I would love to see done:
Who Killed Who by Tex Avery
Betty Boop Minnie the Moocher (it was in that movie Look Who's Talking)
I saw this one as a kid, and that guy in the raincoat scared the living hell out of me.
The only dark toons that scared me as a kid was the walrus from Pengu
Cookie and the gang We do not speak of the unholy demon
That thing...lets not mention that thing
I can't even
Obey the ancient one
Jesus that freaked me out as a kid
Here's another Tom & Jerry one, but from the Chuck Jones iteration:
"The Year of the Mouse"
So Jerry and some random scruffy looking mouse just spend the whole episode screwing with Tom, making him think he's trying to kill himself in his sleep.
No Joke.
That's actually what Jerry and this other mouse do throughout the episode.
They start off with little pranks, but they gradually ramp it up into really dark ones.
My favorite part is when Jerry plants a knife in Tom's hand and covers it in ketchup. He then pours some out on Tom's chest to make it look like a wound. It's absolutely messed up--but hilarious. I've actually seen this one on Cartoon Network at some point!
I had completely forgot about this one! I loved the hell out of this when I was little. I'm glad you are doing this series Doug, keep up the good work!
I saw this, or parts of it, when I was a kid in the ‘80s. It was crazy! I love it. More of these dark cartoon videos please
The Casper cartoon "There's Good Boos Tonight." Is a surprisingly dark one for me.
Most of it plays out as a normal Casper cartoon where he befriends a fox, but a group of hunters shoot and kill the fox. Casper finds his body, but the fox's ghost appears so they can be "friends forever". They try to make it happy, but even as a kid the ending still didn't satisfy me because I knew the fox was dead.
I cried at the scene where Casper was carrying Ferdie's body back to the cemetery! Especially when poor little Casper was crying his little heart out!😭
@@melissacooper4282 I know, it was so heartbreaking!
You should check out the classic "Silly Symphonies -- The Old Mill"
THAT ONE SCARED ME BAD. XD
"Don't say no to anything" is actually the main rule of improv (which I suppose is why improv is always so surreal, hahaha)...
I actually remember this short from a collection I used to rent from my local video store as a kid, which had several scary Disney cartoons (Pluto's Judgment Day was in that collection, so were Donald's Lucky Day, Trick or Treat and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow among others)... interesting little trip down memory lane...
I really want the next series to be Doug and Rob watching every episode of the new Ducktales. The new Donald is just as captivating as the classic Donald
If you guys want some Dark toons, I recommend "Minnie the Moocher" with Betty Boop and maybe "Horton Hatches the Egg".
Have been waiting for THIS ONE since seeing it in the intros of this series: my FAVORITE Donald Duck short (and the reason why I not only am a big bookworm, but can't help but LOVE the twisted stuff)
Donald Duck: this is almost worst than that time that I became a nazi 😰
He wasn't a real nazi ! He was an American spy assigned to destroy the notes of a german spy and kill Hitler . He succeeded on both i might add ...
One of my childhood favorites! Even as a kid I was like “What the heck??” Thanks for reviewing this one! Great new series!
I remember suggesting this one, and I'm glad it's covered!
So many details to enjoy including the background changes and radio music playing along.
I love it so much when the author of the book has to look up in the book whodunnit, and in the time he's gone, the cop and the dame go immediately back to threatening Donald in the span of maybe three or four frames.
There one were Daisy Duck almost commit Suicide
Donald's Dilemma, where Donald somehow becomes a great singer and Daisy is left behind; She wants to own him so much that she decides to kill his career.
Donald Duck almost commits suicide when he thinks he’s lost his lower half in the cartoon The Old Army Game!
As a child I somehow tought the scene were Donald gave Daisy an “cold stare” was more disturbing then her wanting to commit suicide.
Remember that time Robin went crazy because of illusions of Slade in that one episode of Teen Titans?
Robin (points to his forehead): "DON'T MAKE ME COME IN THERE!!!"
@@TomMSTie1138 that too
In Teen Titans Go that is very episode.
I remember one that was creepy but I think it was Batman the animated serie because I remember him becoming a "kid Joker". I don't see the one you're talking about with the teen titans. :-/
No not really my memory is kind of fuzzy
Are we shocked Donald is crazy? The poor duck has PTSD from his time fighting the Japanese in WW2.
Also that babe was Jessica Rabbit before we had Jessica Rabbit...but Red Hot Riding Hood from Tex Avery is still the best.
And I wish that detective guy was used more, he’s sooo good
Wait, that's cannon? The part about Donald?
UmbreonTwinkle yeah, Donald Duck has an actual service record jimhillmedia.com/editor_in_chief1/b/jim_hill/archive/2011/05/29/looking-back-on-donald-duck-s-50th-birthday-celebration.aspx
I had a VHS copy of this episode along with a few others. As a kid, this episode always did stand out from the other horror themed episodes. I'm happy to see it get a spotlight and boy was this one strange.
Zim Invader and Courage the Cowardly Dog
Loving this series, how not only do you analyze the episode but also go into the history of animation.
9:49 "Mickey using Goofy as a phone", Max did the opposite.
And now I wonder... will Doug review the one where Donald, Mickey and Goofy are about to starve and Donald is pondering to kill and eat them?
Great ones so far! Though there are some episodes which made me kinda nauseous after seeing them. "The two mouseketeers" for example where Tom literally loses his head! And "Inferior decorator" which should have the alternative title "Donald gets tortured"! Still the examples I mentioned might be episodes with dark elements rather than dark episodes, so I really prefer your examples so far!
I can't speak to much else in the cartoon but I can tell you the "author" setting with beaches and palm trees while wearing a Hawaiian shirt were references to the Tiki culture that was big at the time, especially in Hollywood. The author was either based on a real Disney employee or just a representation of a literary contemporary enamored with Tiki culture. It was so prevalent during that era that there are probably dozens of Disney and Warner cartoons that revolve around the theme.
The beauty of animation is the freedom that is offered to whoever creates it. If you look at some Screwy Squirrel cartoons by Tex Avery you get to see how animation can go in any direction. This cartoon does the same.
A good example of a dark cartoon is an old cartoon called ‘Bimbo’s Initiation’ which is about our main character, Bimbo, getting forced to be in a cult
Jeez I remember a Mickey episode were a monkey like dr Frankenstein turns him crazy. I think I still have the episode on a best of Mickey VHS.
I think you mean Runaway Brain and that'd be a good one
The creepiest Donald Duck cartoon in my opinion was the one with the savage Gorilla the escaped from the zoo and invades Donald's house, along with his nephews Huey, Dewy, and Lewy
I remember seeing Donald and the Gorilla, along with Duck Pimples, in Donald’s Scary Tales. The other one was when Donald confronted a black cat on Friday the 13th while delivering a bomb that he didn’t know was a bomb.
I’m gonna start using “Now you’ve gone and bent the wheel” in dialogue now, it’s just such a disturbingly presented quote
I just love all the 'Alice' vibes in this one. I remember watching this as a kid and loving the art style, and how gradually it slipped into the madness of Donald's subconscious.
What I view about the cartoon is that it is exactly how my dreams are. Everything is without logic, I jump from one scenario to another and I do not even realize I am dreaming. As a child, I rarely had the ability to control my dreams, but when I started 6th grade, I lost that ability and now I can never control what happens. Just last night, I was doing whatever random scenarios were happening and in the middle of it, I was walking in a thunderstorm with a coat blanket on my head and a lightning struck me by the head and I had flashes in my point of view of things in my environment fast-forwarding like I am seeing people looking down worried and I see only split seconds, so I am switching from 1/2 second vision - to - vision, until I finally find myself in a bed and being told I was in a coma for 4 years and I just SHRUG IT OFF LIKE IT WAS SOME NORMAL DAY
I love this new series Doug. Keep it up my dude!!!
This is one of my favorite dark Donald Duck cartoons! A few others that would be great for this series would be Donald’s Crime, Donald and the Gorilla, The Old Army Game, and Donald’s Off Day.
There's an old (40's?) Cartoon that I remember always sticking with me. It was a black and white silent cartoon where the cat eats things and quickly gets bigger with each item, animal it swallowed whole. This keeps going until the army comes in and trys to take it down. I forget what's its called unfortunately or how it ends but it was one of those surreal kids cartoons I remember watching at a very early age.
What about the Donald duck cartoon where he's a postman and the office give him a bomb.
Donald's Lucky Day!
This had a very Looney Tunes vibe to it too. Looks like the woman was Disney's version of Red. (the woman often getting hit on by the wolf dude)
06:03 I gotta say, that is like like something out of one of my dreams! Like, you have an item like a knife or something, and you go to say cut a tomato or something. But the knife turns into paper and the tomato becomes a ball and rolls away or something.
Since you mentioned Bob Clampett in the previous review, I'd like to suggest The Great Piggy Bank Robbery from the Looney Tunes
Well, we're kind of living in an apocalypse lite, so do 'Peace On Earth.'
I love this cartoon. First saw it a few years ago. I think Disney may have been trying to emulate what Warner Bros. was doing at the time with this short. An absolute classic from 75 years ago.
I love the Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog "Wish You Where Here" cover in the back!
I didn't recognized it before. But the most surreal thing in this episode is, that everybody Donald imagines are humans.
LOVE THIS SERIES! Definitely consider making this a permanent thing! Keep it up!
I recommend the episode from Rugrats called: Chuckie's Wonderful life.
Felix the Cat cartoon: Bold King Cole
Avatar: the Last Airbender: The Puppet master
And that episode of Tiny Toons where Buster, Plucky, and Hampton get drunk behind the wheel and drive off the hill to their deaths.
Wow ty Doug. I forgot about this episode till now so ty for bringing this back. And ur appreciation for OG animation is beautiful.
I hope Doug does more Dark Toons - I enjoy these just as much (if not more) than Nostalgia Critics episodes! I love how Doug is so passionate about old cartoons!
Hey there, Doug. This is probably my favorite series you've done in years. I hope you are enjoying it - it seems like you genuinely are. I know I am. Looking forward to more dark nostalgia.
Doesn't Donald always lose his mind? He easily gets angry. By the way I saw this when I was a kid.
There is an MGM cartoon from 1939 called "Peace On Earth". It masquerades as a cutesy kid-centric yarn, some granddad squirrel recounting the past to his grandkids. Then the bulk of the content reveals its mixed emotional/ideological bag. I suspect it of secretly being the work of a time-traveling Ralph Bakshi.
I think there always comes a point in some live, when you realize Donald was better than Mickey, and appreciate him more than when you were a kid.
Loving this series Doug. Good stuff as always! Just a suggestion if you're looking for something a little modern to switch it up. Spongebob did an episode in the earlier years where he and Mr. Krabs murder a health inspector and dispose of the body
What happens when you bring a Disney character in the looney tunes universe:
Donald remembers of his days as an american spy during World war two reinterpreted as a noir story
" Duck Pimples" was one of the Disney cartoons featured in the Donald's Scary Tales VHS tape that I used to have in my youth. That same vhs tape also includes the other Donald Duck cartoons like " Donald Duck & The Gorilla" & " Donald's Lucky Day"! Ah memories! ❤
This is a really fun series, what a great look into my(apparently dark) childhood.
Thanks Doug
Last dark duck I knew was DarkWing Duck
Idea for future episode of Dark tunes. Power puff girls. 'Knock it off'.
I remember watching this cartoon! It scared the crap out of me!! Especially the beginning.
I'm super happy about this series you've got going, dude. You've got a great analytical take on these cartoons, and animation in general. It's really nice to hear someone take seriously and really get into what makes something great... especially when what that thing is, is "too juvenile" for many others to appreciate.
Looney Tunes
"Claws For Alarm"
"Porky In Wackyland" or "Dough for Dodo"
The House Of Mouse Episode “Organ Donors”
One cartoon that always stuck with me as a kid was an episode of Little Audrey when she eats a crap ton of candy and starts hallucinating. Didn’t stop me from eating candy, but still scared the bajeesus out of me!