After the war, Donald would be paired with several, recurring foils, most notably Chip and Dale , a pair of chipmunks who were first introduced to Donald in the short Chip an' Dale though they first appeared as antagonists of the Pluto short Private Pluto.
The pairing of Donald and the chipmunks proved so popular that the trio costarred in eighteen cartoons together in comical battles of wits. At this time, Donald Duck had become one of the most recognizable icons in the world, as well as one of the most popular, surpassing Mickey Mouse as the company's biggest animated star.
Walt even referred to Donald as the "Gable of our stable", in reference to the renowned Hollywood actor, Clark Gable. Much like Mickey and Goofy, Donald's persona became a tad tamer, and most of his cartoons were comedic takes on everyday struggles such as parenting his nephews, or battling pests in the form of Chip and Dale. The s also marked Walt Disney's entry into television, in which Donald would become a staple, making regular appearances in the Disneyland television series.
While many theatrical short subject series ended production during the season, Donald Duck continued to appear in theatrical cartoons after that season. In , Donald co-hosted the 30th Academy Awards ceremony alongside a number of popular film personalities at the time. The final Donald Duck short in the theatrical run was 's The Litterbug. Walt Disney passed away five years later. Donald would continue to appear in a number of educational films including Donald in Mathmagic Land , How to Have an Accident at Work , and Donald's Fire Survival Plan a commercial and, a family educational program until entering retirement.
Donald wouldn't reappear again until the short Mickey's Christmas Carol , where he played the role of Nephew Fred. This was Clarence Nash's final theatrical portrayal of Donald, before passing away in The mantle would be passed down to animator Tony Anselmo , whom Nash had trained for the role for several years prior to his death. In , Donald reached his 50th anniversary, which was commemorated with several events— Donald Duck's 50th Birthday aired on television; the Academy Awards held a special tribute to Donald, which Clarence Nash attended in Donald's honor; in May, Donald's footprints were marked in cement in front of the Grauman's Chinese Theater.
In , Donald was the focus of Down and Out with Donald Duck , a television special in which he was fired from Disney due to his unstable temper. That same year, DuckTales premiered on television, on which Donald was an occasional guest star, despite the series starring his three nephews and Uncle Scrooge. Donald's limited role in the series was a result of two factors; for one, the Disney company was very protective of their mainline characters and feared that featuring Donald on daily television would lead to overexposure.
In a later interview, some of the crew members of DuckTales mentioned that they had wanted Donald to make more appearances, but that Disney was reluctant to let them do so, recalling the numerous meetings in which they asked whether they could bring Donald onto the show again, and how these requests were only rarely accepted, with David Block jokingly referring to Donald as Disney's "sacred cow" [32].
Secondly, it is said that producers believed Donald's voice in thirty-minute episodes would put too much strain on viewers. Believing he was to co-present, Donald joined Mickey on the stage but was furious to find that the position was already taken by a human. Tony Anselmo notably had a hand in animating Donald in the featurette. In , Donald was given his own sitcom series as part of the Disney Afternoon block with Quack Pack , in which he is the suburban guardian of a teenage Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
The show was poorly received, however, and only lasted for one season. The same year marked the debut of Mickey Mouse Works , which gave Donald a new series of made-for-television shorts. In , Donald and Goofy co-starred in Kingdom Hearts , an action role-playing video game. During development, Disney campaigned to have Donald serve as the main protagonist, while Squaresoft wanted to use Mickey. The opposing views were rectified with the creation of Sora. Donald would nevertheless appear as a major character in the game, and a majority of its follow-up titles.
In , Donald was given his own theme park attraction in Walt Disney World , though ironically named after Mickey: Mickey's Philharmagic. Most of Donald's dialogue is actually compiled from archival recordings by Clarence Nash.
Tony Anselmo recorded only five new lines for the character in this attraction such as when Donald hums to the tune of the song " Be Our Guest ". The star is located at Hollywood Blvd.
In , Donald appeared in the animated short starring Minnie Mouse, Electric Holiday , as a brief cameo talking to one of the models. In , a DuckTales reboot premiered on television. Though the show mainly centers on Scrooge McDuck and the nephews, Donald was given a much larger role as a main character. He is portrayed as an overprotective single parent to the triplets and former sidekick to Scrooge.
The series is also significant for marking the first time Donald has shared the screen with a number of his comic co-stars; examples include his sister Della Duck , and his cousin Gladstone Gander. Donald's first film was Saludos Amigos. In the first part of the film, Donald visits the famous real-life lake of Lake Titicaca, located at the border of Peru and Bolivia.
He looks around, learns about the lake's traditions and makes a failed attempt at sailing a boat before setting off on a journey through the mountains atop a llama.
He panics when the llama is busy walking across a wooden suspended bridge, eventually resulting in his fall. He lands in a pottery shop, shattering some pots and taking others with him. The film consists of several segments, connected by a common theme. In the film, it is Donald Duck's birthday, and he receives three presents from friends in Latin America. The first present is a film projector, which shows him a documentary on birds.
During the documentary, he learns about the Aracuan Bird. This book tells of Bahia, which is one of Brazil's 26 states. Donald ends up pining for one girl. Upon returning, Donald realizes that he is too small to open his third present.
After opening the present, he meets Panchito Pistoles , a native of Mexico. The three take the name "The Three Caballeros" and have a short celebration. Throughout the film, the Aracuan Bird appears at random moments. His most famous gag is when he re-routes the train by drawing new tracks.
He returns three years later in Disney's Melody Time. In the segment Mickey and the Beanstalk , Mickey, Donald, and Goofy portray three commoners living in the wasteland formerly known as the prosperous and beautiful Happy Valley. Living in deep poverty and bordering death by starvation, Donald begins losing his sanity, though Mickey decides to sell their cow in exchange for food. However, he returns with only three beans, said to be magic, much to Donald's complete and utter frustration.
After discarding them, the beans grow into a beanstalk, accidentally taking the trio to the castle of Willie the Giant , the villain responsible for the despair their kingdom is facing due to kidnapping their ruler, the Golden Harp. After discovering her, the heroes decide to rescue their queen but are soon discovered. After escaping the chest Willie has imprisoned them in, they retrieve the harp and make way down the beanstalk to the kingdom, though Willie is in hot pursuit.
Donald and Goofy cut the beanstalk once they reach its end, sending Willie toppling down to his defeat. With the harp rescued and returned home, peace is restored to the land. Donald appears in the traditional animated Christmas film as a supporting character. Little did they know, Christmas every day would become mundane and beyond annoying, and although they were aware of the course, Donald and the rest of the family was oblivious. Eventually, in an attempt to break the cycle, the boys decide to "liven things up", causing mayhem, playing nasty pranks and destruction throughout one of the repeated Christmas days, unintentionally causing despair to fall upon their well-meaning family.
Donald even uncharacteristically blames himself for everything that happened. In the end, the boys finally learn the true meaning of Christmas and do their best to make it the grandest they've ever experienced, going as far as to using their snowboard gifts from Donald to create a new sled-boat, much to their uncle's surprise and happiness, and with their lesson learned, the spell is finally broken.
After the last segment, Donald makes a cameo with the other characters, singing a melody of Christmas carols as a grand finale. Donald stars in his own segment set to the March " Pomp and Circumstance ". In this chapter of the feature, he is the assistant to Noah and the husband of Daisy Duck.
A powerful storm is near and Donald must round up all the animals including two non-anthropomorphic ducks and humans onto the Ark. During checking, Donald realizes Daisy isn't aboard the ark. He rushes back to the hut to get her and doesn't notice her walk right past him into the ark.
When a giant wave arrives, Daisy witnesses from the ark's window, Donald trying to escape it. She covers her eyes in fear and fails to see Donald jumping aboard at the last minute. When Donald is aboard he sees his and Daisy's house being swept away with, he thinks, Daisy in it. Both Donald and Daisy believe each other to be dead.
A few days later, Donald sends out a male dove to check for land, while in the process angrily pulling him away from his mate when he tries to sneak back without leaving. Donald realizes that he is missing Daisy more and more. Daisy feels the same. When the ark lands, Donald looks out as the animals climb off. Noah ruffles Donald's head feathers affectionately as he walks by him. Donald pulls out a picture of him and Daisy and looks at it sadly.
Daisy is walking down the plank when she realizes that her locket with a picture of her and Donald inside has fallen off its chain. Donald is sweeping just inside the ark and sees the locket on the floor. He and Daisy reach for it at the same time and see each other. They are both overjoyed to see the other is alive. Daisy kisses Donald as they walk out together hand-in-hand and admire their new home.
Donald is a janitor in Paris, France. The only thing standing in Donald's way is the fact that he's a complete coward in the face of real danger. Donald meets the princess and develops a crush on her assistant Daisy, so he initially strikes a pose to her by saluting her, but she wasn't interested until the end.
After proving themselves worthy by defeating the Beagle Boys, Donald is kidnapped in the middle of the night by the Beagle Boys while Goofy is kidnapped by Pete's lieutenant Clarabelle. The Beagle Boys take Donald to Pete's lair, where the duck is nearly decapitated. Fortunately, he escapes his death and rushes back to the palace to warn Mickey.
Mickey, however, wants to stay on his job but the fear of Pete prompts Donald to quit. Later on, Goofy, who was freed by his newfound love Clarabelle, convinces Donald to change his mind and the duo rushes to help Mickey. After the princess is saved, Donald and Daisy proclaim their mutual love and along with Mickey and Goofy, Donald becomes a royal musketeer.
In the computer-animated sequel to Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas , Donald appears in the first, second, fourth and fifth stories. In the first story Belles on Ice , Donald attends the skating competition with Daisy and tries to no avail to calm down his girlfriend when she gets furious at Minnie for being in the spotlight and could do nothing but watch with shock and disapproval as Daisy does everything to out-perform Minnie and when this escalates to Minnie tripping on a Christmas bell, Donald is left saddened by how his girlfriend's actions had accidentally hurt their friend Minnie.
However, his mood quickly becomes happy when Daisy makes up with Minnie and works together to make the festival better. In the second story called Christmas: Impossible , Donald is pranked by his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, repeatedly.
At first, he can tolerate their antics but things get worse and Donald instantly snaps when they stole all the cookies, angrily sending them off to their bedroom without giving them a chance to prove they did not do it and immediately about to rage at his nephews when they shamelessly revealed their act by stating the cookies were delicious, even furiously struggling against his girlfriend and uncle to punish them when Daisy and Scrooge restrained him.
His nephews realize they need to put their names on Santa's Good List themselves, as they are on the Naughty List this year. At the end of the segment, Donald's mood gets progressively worse, starting from being annoyed when a piece of the wrapper of Scrooge's Christmas present gets on his head and being desperate to find his present, only to find out his only gift was The Big Book of Manners , leaving him utterly annoyed and not at all being amused by Daisy's laugh, and when Scrooge plays his bagpipes, Donald does not hesitate to unceremoniously rip apart the pages and using them to block his ear.
Donald later appears in his own segment, Donald's Gift , where he is exhausted, wanting nothing more than to relax in peace with a cup of hot cocoa; however, he is annoyed by We Wish You a Merry Christmas playing continuously. Donald tries relaxing with a cup of cocoa until Daisy made him go with her to Mousey's holiday display with the boys. Donald, still tired, becomes increasingly angered when he starts hearing the song from everywhere around him multiple times; this leads to him damaging the Mousey's display in a panic to end it.
This causes Daisy and his nephews to turn their backs on him out of absolute disgust for what he did despite his frantic attempts to apologize. After being thrown out of the mall by a police officer who berates his lack of Christmas spirit, Donald, being left alone sadly, contemplates on his actions that had not only cost his family and girlfriend to lose the respect for him but also ruined Christmas celebration in the mall. Guilty and realizing that the unceremonious destruction of the mall's Christmas display is his fault, Donald walks home broken-spirited and can't even muster the spirit to join Daisy, Huey, Louie, and Dewey in a restaurant that sold his favorite hot cocoa.
However, he later redeems himself when he finds an off-key chorus attempting to sing the song and although annoyed by their singing, teaches them to sing in harmony, earning him Daisy and his nephews' respect again.
Donald also appears alongside the others in the fifth and final segment of the film, Mickey's Dog-Gone Christmas , in which he joins the search party for Pluto. After Pluto is found on Mickey's roof by Huey, Dewey, and Louie, everyone including himself head into Mickey's house for Mickey's Christmas gathering to sing Christmas carols. Donald, funnily enough, begins to sing We Wish You a Merry Christmas , which he initially showed no appreciation for in the earlier segment.
The Aracuan Bird sees them both and introduces them to the Samba, which manages to cheer them up. He also appears at the end of the movie when the toon characters look at the melted remains of Judge Doom. In The Little Mermaid , Donald made a cameo with Mickey and Goofy at the beginning of the film, in the crowd of merpeople who were waiting for the concert of Ariel and her sisters. They can be briefly spotted before King Triton illuminates the coral chandelier.
In James and the Giant Peach , a skeletal duck resembling Donald appears. Donald was also briefly seen on Weebo the Robot 's monitor via archive footage in the live-action film, Flubber. Donald appears as a plush toy in Giulia 's room in Luca. Throughout the year run of the Walt Disney anthology television series, Donald played a central role in many of the specials that originally aired as episodes of the series.
These particular specials were all compilation films consisting of various classic shorts featuring Donald, bridged together by new linking animation. In On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends , Jiminy Cricket has to call the armed forces to search for Donald and bring him to the studio, and in Mickey's 60th Birthday , Donald demands to be featured in Mickey's birthday special; this leads to Donald being falsely accused of kidnapping Mickey when the mouse seemingly goes missing.
Donald made recurring appearances in the live-action wrap-around skits alongside the other costumed characters and celebrity guests.
Donald had a rather small part in the television series DuckTales. Aside from making physical appearances, Donald is often mentioned by the other characters in the series, usually by the nephews and Scrooge. Donald makes non-physical appearances in " Scroogerello ", as an illustration in Webby Vanderquack 's wristwatch, and in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp , where a picture frame of him can be seen briefly in Scrooge 's home when Webby wishes that everything was back to normal.
This series featured a modernized Duck family. Donald was no longer wearing his sailor suit and hat, but instead wore a Hawaiian shirt which he would wear again as Maui Mallard in the video game Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow. Following the conclusion of his naval tour of duty disregarding a single day he was later forced to shore up in the episode "All Hands on Duck" , Donald has taken up residence in Duckburg, serves as the primary caretaker of the now-teenage Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and still continues to date Daisy.
No other Duck family members besides Ludwig Von Drake appear in Quack Pack , and most of the other Duckburg citizens are now humans and only a small amount of anthropomorphic animals. In the series' storyline, Donald works under the narcissistic Kent Powers as a cameraman for the latter's television series entitled What in the World? Donald's job is often complicated by his fun-loving tendencies, his perpetual bad luck, and the strong contempt directed at him from Kent, who uses every possible opportunity to fire Donald to no avail.
Ironically, the one time Kent finally managed to rid himself of Donald, every last replacement turned out to be far worse than him. Unlike the other series, he and Daisy have a more better and steady relationship. Though the show mainly focused on Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Donald appeared in every episode and several of the episodes revolved around him.
These included " Leader of the Quack ", where Donald was revealed to be the ruler of the country of Quaintinia after accidentally saving the land from a dragon during a vacation. In " Snow Place to Hide ", Donald's terrible jealousy is put into the front when he suspects Daisy is having a romantic rendezvous with Kent Powers. Donald next played an important role in Mickey Mouse Works. Here, Donald returns to wearing his blue sailor suit as seen in the laters and s cartoons as his trademark outfit, except that this time his black bow tie is now colored red like in the comics.
In the Mouse Works shorts, his role was more or less the same as in the classic shorts. In these shorts, though, he garnered a new adversary in the form of a baby turtle named Shelby , whom he would often have to look after and have a hard time doing so.
The series also featured Donald in a series of mini-shorts titled Donald's Dynamite , in which his activities are interrupted by the appearance of a bomb that he then has to try and rid himself of. At the end of the show's intro in each episode, Donald would attempt to display a large sign reading "Starring Donald Duck" or "Duck Works" covering the show's logo in an attempt to steal the spotlight for himself, but an accident would occur, harming Donald and ridding the sign.
Donald appears once again in the series House of Mouse as a greeter and co-owner of the club. In the series, Donald secretly despises Mickey's role as the leader and wishes to someday be in charge, but lets his friendship proven to be greater. A recurring gag in the series is other characters referring to Donald as "Dooald", sometimes by mistake and other times to annoy him. Several episodes revolve around Donald. To get back, Donald was to use Pumbaa to stink up the club. However, after Donald learned he was to be given an award that night, he called off the prank and apologized to Mickey for his actions.
In " Dennis the Duck ", Donald was shown to have a disliking for some black-and-white characters. In " Donald Wants to Fly ", he attempted to gain the ability to fly.
The entire evening proved unsuccessful until Peter Pan arrived. With Tinker Bell 's pixie dust, Donald was able to live his dream. Donald also appeared in the show's spin-off films.
While trapped, the gang decides to have a Christmas party, but Donald doesn't have any Christmas spirit. At the point when rankled, Donald will throw a tantrum of quacking and ricocheting set up while displaying his clench hands, generally as a danger to whomever or whatever caused him his most recent inconvenience. He is likewise presumptuous and can be a remarkable hotshot, particularly when he is gifted at something. This tends to get him into difficulty, be that as it may, as he frequently gets in a tough situation.
For instance, Donald discovers delight in tormenting, tricking, and embarrassing others for his own entertainment. As opposed to these negative attributes, Donald is—at his center—a warm and cherishing character. At the point when not managing an issue, Donald can be very convivial and amicable, and he generally attempts his hardest to monitor his temper for his own happiness, just as those around him.
At the point when the tree falls on Donald, rather than hollering at his nephews, he remains unfortunately quiet, embarrassed, and crushed, while Daisy solaces him. When genuinely confronted with wrongs of his activities, Donald will acknowledge them and discover the solidarity to force himself to deal with his mix-ups directly. For all his grandiosity, Donald is covertly uncertain about himself. Donald will in general conceal this with a rambunctious facade, however he has trusted in Daisy about his restraint once in a while.
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