The BEST episodes of Disney Animated Shorts season 1938

Every episode of Disney Animated Shorts season 1938, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Disney Animated Shorts season 1938!

Airing from 1921 onwards Features all of the animated short films produced by Walt Disney and Walt Disney Animation Studios, from 1921 to the present. This includes films produced at the Laugh-O-Gram Studio which Disney founded in 1921 as well as the animation studio now owned by The Walt Disney Company, called the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio (1923), The Walt Disney Studio (1926), Walt Disney Productions (1929), Walt Disney Feature Animation (1986), and Walt Disney Animation Studios (2007), and includes all of the cartoons of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, Humphrey the Bear and the Disney produced Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts.

Last Updated: 4/23/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Continuing
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The Fox Hunt
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10.00
31 votes

#1 - The Fox Hunt

Season 1938 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/29/1938

Mickey's only spotted in cameo (along with Horace, Clarabelle, and Clara Cluck) as Donald and Goofy get most of this fox-hunting film to themselves.

Directors: Ben Sharpsteen
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Donald's Golf Game
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8.06
31 votes

#2 - Donald's Golf Game

Season 1938 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/4/1938

Donald needs silence to concentrate on his golf game, but his nephews (who have been pressed into duty as caddies) have other plans, including a bag full of trick clubs.

Directors: Jack King
Writer: Carl Barks
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Donald's Better Self
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7.10
31 votes

#3 - Donald's Better Self

Season 1938 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/11/1938

Donald's good side gets him out out bed and ready for school, while his bad side tempts him to go off fishing.

Directors: Jack King
Writer: Carl Barks
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Self Control
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30 votes

#4 - Self Control

Season 1938 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/11/1938

Donald tries to learn self-control with the help of radio announcer Uncle Smiley. But he finds that the radio advice is difficult to follow in real life.

Directors: Jack King
Writer: Carl Barks
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Boat Builders
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#5 - Boat Builders

Season 1938 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/25/1938

Mickey, Donald, and Goofy construct the ship "Queen Minnie" from folding component parts. When Minnie launches the ship by hitting it with a champagne bottle, she whacks it so hard that, once out at sea, it separates into its parts again.

Directors: Ben Sharpsteen
Mickey's Trailer
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7.00
30 votes

#6 - Mickey's Trailer

Season 1938 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/6/1938

Our bold trio travels cross-country by trailer - and sorely lives to regret it, especially when the makeshift vehicle crashes its way down a cliffside.

Directors: Ben Sharpsteen
Mickey's Parrot
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7.00
30 votes

#7 - Mickey's Parrot

Season 1938 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/9/1938

A talking parrot wanders through Mickey's house while Mickey and Pluto think they're tracking an escaped criminal.

Directors: Bill Roberts
Brave Little Tailor
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7.00
30 votes

#8 - Brave Little Tailor

Season 1938 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/23/1938

Mickey, the tailor, kills "seven flies with one blow." The king, thinking that Mickey is talking about giants, sends him out to kill one, and offers him the hand of the Princess Minnie in return.

Directors: William Roberts
Polar Trappers
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6.84
31 votes

#9 - Polar Trappers

Season 1938 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/17/1938

The ""Donald and Goofy Trapping Co."" Donald tries to catch himself a penguin supper while Goofy tries to ""bring 'em back alive.""

Directors: Ben Sharpsteen
Good Scouts
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6.84
31 votes

#10 - Good Scouts

Season 1938 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/8/1938

Donald acts as scoutmaster for his three nephews for a nature hike through the wilderness.

Directors: Jack King
Writer: Carl Barks
Donald's Nephews
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6.84
31 votes

#11 - Donald's Nephews

Season 1938 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/15/1938

Donald's first encounter with his three ""angel"" nephews, who proceed to destroy his home. Donald turns to the book ""Modern Child Training"" for help.

Directors: Jack King
The Whalers
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#12 - The Whalers

Season 1938 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/19/1938

While Captain Mickey struggles to empty a pail of water, Donald gets his head stuck in a boot that's tied to a harpoon rope, and in trying to save him, Goofy falls through the blowhole of the whale they're trying to capture.

Directors: Dick Huemer
Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
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#13 - Mother Goose Goes Hollywood

Season 1938 - Episode 18 - Aired 12/23/1938

From the opening scene where Mother Goose takes the place of the MGM lion, it's a trip through her famous rhymes with Hollywood stars taking the place of the storybook characters.

Directors: Wilfred Jackson
Moth and the Flame
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#14 - Moth and the Flame

Season 1938 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/1/1938

A swarm of moths tear into "Ye Olde Costume Shop" as one pretty girl moth is beguiled by a hypnotic candle flame.

Wynken, Blynken & Nod
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#15 - Wynken, Blynken & Nod

Season 1938 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/27/1938

An elaborate dream fantasy based on the popular children's poem as three children play and float among the stars.

Directors: Graham Heid
Farmyard Symphony
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#16 - Farmyard Symphony

Season 1938 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/14/1938

A farmyard of animals go through their daily routine to the accompaniment of various classical themes.

Directors: Jack Cutting
Merbabies
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#17 - Merbabies

Season 1938 - Episode 17 - Aired 12/9/1938

A lush underwater backdrop provides the playground for the title characters and an underwater circus.

Directors: Rudolph Ising
Ferdinand the Bull
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#18 - Ferdinand the Bull

Season 1938 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/25/1938

Ferdinand is a quiet, peaceful young bull who only wants to stop and smell the flowers. But, when he is stung by a bee, the townspeople believe he is ferocious and take him to the bullfight ring!

Directors: Dick Rickard