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Post by horsemen4ever on Mar 27, 2020 17:57:44 GMT -5
Compaired to the animated full lengh Disney movies or the Looney Tunes shorts, it seems the classic Disney shorts don't have the same apprecation. Yeah the classic characters like Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, they are well known, but the classic shorts that made them what they are, the average joe off the street couldn't name one outside of "Steamboat Willie", oppose to knowing a Bugs Bunny short, or the movie Snow White.
Why is that, is just a victim of the Disney vault, Disney made them such limited availability. Compared to Looney Tunes, when I was growing up it was on TNT, Nickelodeon, on ABC Saturday morning, oppose to the Diseny shorts which were only on Disney Channel a premium channel.
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Post by Paul on Mar 27, 2020 18:06:40 GMT -5
I used to love watching them on "Good Morning, Mickey" on The Disney Channel back in the 1980's.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Mar 27, 2020 18:09:42 GMT -5
Shorts like Clock Cleaners and Brave Little Tailor were highlights for me watching the vintage Disney Channel. That said, most of the modern Mickey Mouse shorts and even some new Ducktales make me laugh harder.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Mar 27, 2020 18:13:23 GMT -5
Several of the Donald Duck shorts are absolutely hilarious to this day.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Mar 27, 2020 18:34:14 GMT -5
They're not as well KNOWN as they should be, but I don't think they're underappreciated. They just didn't appear on TV like Looney Toons did. Animation geeks very definitely know how good a lot of them are.
My personal favorite is Skeleton Dance, but I think the absolute peak is the Sports Goofy series.
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Post by eJm on Mar 27, 2020 19:41:53 GMT -5
Honestly, a good majority of them don’t really have the same...I don’t know, creativity as some of the other studios so even watching them back, they never excel beyond “fine” for me. Having said that... Several of the Donald Duck shorts are absolutely hilarious to this day. These and the Goofy shorts, especially the “How to” series are some real diamonds in the rough. |
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Post by Paul on Mar 27, 2020 19:47:39 GMT -5
The Goofy "How To (whatever)" ones are always guaranteed to make me howl with laughter.  |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Mar 27, 2020 19:51:46 GMT -5
I know Goody’s “Lion Around” short and the one where people edit the end off to make Donald Duck look like a Nazi.
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Post by horsemen4ever on Mar 27, 2020 20:03:19 GMT -5
Several of the Donald Duck shorts are absolutely hilarious to this day. You got that right buddy. I put Donald Duck against any Looney Tunes ever, he takes a back seat to no Looney Tunes cartoon. And as others as said, Goofy is awesome as well. And also while the classic stars get a lot of attention, let me tell you the Silly Sympathy are great cartoons, been lucky to catch them on Disney + |
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Post by Stu on Mar 27, 2020 20:07:58 GMT -5
Anything involving Donald, Huey, Dewey and Louie.
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Mar 27, 2020 21:53:48 GMT -5
Anything involving Donald, Huey, Dewey and Louie. ...so Quack Pack? |
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Post by Hit Girl on Mar 27, 2020 22:29:20 GMT -5
Nah, I still wear mine.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Mar 27, 2020 23:28:40 GMT -5
So many classic Disney shorts have not been seen by many kids through the years because not everyone had access to them, while Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Hanna Barbera, and other similar shorts are simply more broadly distributed. As a result, there are some fantastic shorts some people have never seen before.
Case in point, a few months ago I got a bug up my rear and felt like watching a Donald Duck short, specifically "The New Neighbor". My wife watched it with me and had never seen it before. I was pretty surprised that a huge Disney fangirl like her had never seen it. It just wasn't aired often enough on media that she had access to growing up.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Mar 28, 2020 16:58:39 GMT -5
They need to put more on Disney+. My biggest disappointment with it is only about 10% if that are on there.
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Post by paulbearer on Mar 29, 2020 2:21:08 GMT -5
Same with Woody Woodpecker
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2020 7:33:08 GMT -5
Those shorts were ALL OVER my TV when I was a kid. Disney Channel had little original programming to fill the schedule when it launched, so they just aired every short possible when they weren't airing the movies.
I appreciate them and I'm kinda thankful they were on in my life back then when they were - had I been a bit older & even a bit younger when DC launched I would've aged out and not noticed them like I did.
Underappreciated by current kids and perhaps even some modern Disney fans, though, absolutely. Those shorts don't air anymore on any Disney TV station, and given Disney's rather stingy reluctance to put as much as humanly possible on physical media (especially now that digital is the way) they're lost classics that many kids won't notice or be exposed to as easily as we did years ago.
Looney Tunes has suffered that fate too. We got at least an hour of it every Saturday morning in the '80s, but as WB finally realized its value and expanded that universe we got more of the (wrong sounding?) new and much less of the (oh no those stereotypes are bad, stop airing/offering them) old.
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