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25 unusual facts about Donald Duck


Aurora Miranda

In 1944, she appeared in the film Voce Ja Foi a Bahia? (The Three Caballeros), a mix of cinema and animation in which Aurora starred alongside Donald Duck.

Donald's Tire Trouble

Donald's Tire Trouble is a cartoon by Walt Disney Productions, featuring their character Donald Duck.

Everybody's Favorite Duck

The story comes to a head in a theme park, Waldo World (a clear spoof of Disneyland, but set in New Jersey), featuring the popular duck of the title (a parody of Donald Duck), and its creator, Art Waldo (Walt Disney).

Fatso the Bear

This makes sense, as the character was created by Jack Hannah, who had directed some Donald Duck cartoons at Disney back in the mid-1940s into the 1950s.

Fine Feathered Friend

This is also the second to last cartoon featuring Clarence Nash (Known as the voice of Donald Duck) as Tom's Screeches and Meows but was not credited.

Grand Canyonscope

Grand Canyonscope was a Donald Duck animated short released in 1954.

Joe Penner

He also made a cameo in the Disney cartoon "Mother Goose Goes Hollywood" in which he says, "Wanna buy a duck?", and then shows Donald Duck on a plate.

Jon Gisle

Gisle is also famous for being a cartoon expert, and in 1973 he published the Donald Duck analysis Donaldismen.

Leo Harris

He was also known for his handshake deal with Walt Disney that permitted the University of Oregon to use the likeness of Donald Duck as the basis for its mascot, the Oregon Duck.

Harris was also noted for striking a handshake deal with Walt Disney in 1947 that allowed Oregon to use the likeness of Donald Duck as the University's athletic mascot, The Oregon Duck.

Little Quacker

The voice of Quacker and his parents (who make their only speaking appearance in this cartoon), along with a single WAH WAH! line by Tom, was supplied by (uncredited) Red Coffee; Coffee's rendition of Quacker's voice was mostly an impersonation of Donald Duck as performed by Clarence Nash.

Magician Mickey

Mickey puts on a magic show, but is constantly interrupted by a heckler, Donald Duck, whom he in turn tries to get his revenge on through his magic tricks.

Mickey's Circus

Although the film is called Mickey's Circus, the film mostly features Donald Duck; however Mickey Mouse does feature in the beginning and end.

Older versions of cartoon characters

This series featured the classic Disney Duck characters (Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, and Huey, Dewey and Louie), though with Huey, Dewey and Louie presented as being teenagers who spoke in conventional (and not duck-like) voices.

Polar Trappers

Polar Trappers is a 1938 Donald Duck and Goofy cartoon in the South Pole trapping polar animals.

Ray Gilbert

He also wrote American English lyrics for the songs in The Three Caballeros featuring Donald Duck.

Rugged Bear

As the bear turns to leave, he sees Donald Duck coming down the path toward the cabin carrying a rifle.

Sky Trooper

Sky Trooper is a 1942 animated cartoon by Walt Disney Studios starring Donald Duck during the World War II years.

Sufferin' Cats!

Clarence Nash as Tom and Meathead's meows and screeches (Note: Final performance at MGM. After this, Nash would continue voicing Donald Duck until his death in 1985.) (uncredited)

The Julekalender

Benny also think Oluf's fathers name, Anders Sand, is funny, because it closely resembles Anders And, the Danish name for Donald Duck.

He has a father named Anders Sand, which Benny think is funny, mixing him with Anders And.

The New York Ripper

But the figure adopts a grotesque 'Donald Duck' voice and brutally murders her with a switchblade, stabbing in the lower belly and disemboweling her, and leaving her body to be discovered when the ferry docks at Staten Island.

The Oregon Duck

The Oregon Duck (also known as the Fighting Duck, Puddles, or simply The Duck) is the mascot of the University of Oregon Ducks athletic program, based on Disney's Donald Duck character through a special license agreement.

Beginning in 1940, cartoon drawings of Puddles in student publications began to resemble Donald Duck, and by 1947, Walt Disney was aware of the issue.

Voice inversion

Without a descrambler, the transmission makes the speaker "sound like Donald Duck".


Alpha Beta

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Popeye the sailor man and Mickey Mouse was the television spokescharacters for the Alpha Beta grocery stores in California every commercial also featuring Donald Duck ended with Popeye and Mickey Mouse saying to the audience "Checkout the difference at Alpha Beta".

Disney dollar

Similar in size, shape and design to the paper currency of the United States most bills bear the image of Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto or a drawing of one of the landmarks of the Disneyland Resort or the Walt Disney World Resort and are accepted at the company's theme parks, the Disney cruise ships, the Disney Store and at certain parts of Castaway Cay, Disney's private island in the Caribbean.

Don R. Christensen

He wrote and provided illustrations for such comic book titles as Magnus, Robot Fighter, Donald Duck, and Uncle Scrooge.

Dumb Bell of the Yukon

Dumb Bell of the Yukon was a Disney animated short starring Donald Duck and Daisy Duck.

Egmont Ehapa

Some of the more popular German-language comics published by Egmont Ehapa Verlag GmbH include Asterix, Lucky Luke, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Wendy the Good Little Witch and SpongeBob SquarePants.

Kingdom Hearts coded

coded takes place after the events of Kingdom Hearts II and follows the story of Jiminy Cricket, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy in Disney Castle.

Kingdom Hearts III

--PLEASE DO NOT ADD KAIRI HERE, AS SHE WAS NOT MENTIONED IN THE PRESS RELEASE THAT IS QUOTED FOR THIS INFORMATION.-->Donald Duck, Goofy, and King Mickey, as well as the inclusion of familiar Disney characters.

Kirk Demorest

Demorest was the editor for Walt Disney Television Animation's “Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas” where he worked for months alongside world-renowned animator Andreas Deja in crafting the first Computer-generated imagery animation versions of Disney characters: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy.

Lilongo

In the film, the Mexican rooster Panchito takes Donald Duck and José Carioca to Veracruz where he shows them a group of people singing and dancing to the "Lilongo".

Mallet

Characters like Roger Rabbit, Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Daffy Duck and Tom and Jerry made use of mallets as part of their arsenal in the Golden Age of animation.

Mickey's Speedway USA

As one of the drivers, including Disney characters such as Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pete, the player races on tracks in the United States, based on locations such as New York, Alaska, Los Angeles, and Seattle, to find the Weasels and save Pluto.

Millard the Mallard

Millard the Mallard first appeared in September 1972 as a joke when John Harding, of the WRVA news staff, started making a Donald Duck-type voice during Alden Aaroe's morning show.

Peter Emmerich

These stamps feature many well known and loved Disney characters including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Cinderella, and The Lion King to name a few.

Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular

This video game is a collection of six events that uses various characters from the Peanuts series (Donald Duck in the Japanese version) as opponents.

Stefan Printz-Påhlson

Together with fellow Egmont editor Lars Bergström Stefan Printz-Påhlson also created a series of albums where Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey and Louie travel back and forth in a time machine Gyro Gearloose has invented.

The Dutchman's Secret

The story begins approximately fifteen minutes after the end of The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff, where Scrooge McDuck is in his Money Bin together with Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey and Louie, having just finished telling a story about his encounter with famous American Old West legends such as the Dalton Gang, Phineas T. Barnum, Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley and Geronimo.

The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air

Other Disney characters featured on the program were Donald Duck (Clarence Nash), Minnie Mouse (Thelma Boardman), Goofy (Stuart Buchanan) and Clara Cluck (Florence Gill).

This Dollar Saved My Life at Whitehorse

The album shares its title with a 1973 oil painting by Carl Barks which depicts Scrooge McDuck in his money bin telling a story to Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Donald Duck.