The WORST episodes of Disney Animated Shorts

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

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: 5/4/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Continuing
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The Small One
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#1 - The Small One

Season 1978 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/16/1978

A young boy must sell his undersized donkey to raise mony for food. But instead of being sold to the local merchants, the donkey is destined for a very special passenger on a very special journey.

Directors: Don Bluth
Noah's Ark
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#2 - Noah's Ark

Season 1959 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/10/1959

A retelling of the Biblical story of Noah and the Ark.

Directors: Bill Justice
Goliath II
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#3 - Goliath II

Season 1960 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/21/1960

Goliath is a miniature elephant who is ostracized from the herd because of his size. But his size comes in handy when he has to rescue the herd from an invader : a mouse!

Freewayphobia or The Art of Driving the Super Highway
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#4 - Freewayphobia or The Art of Driving the Super Highway

Season 1965 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/13/1965

Goofy assays a number of roadway characters in showing the proper and polite way to drive on the freeway.

Directors: Les Clark
Goofy's Freeway Trouble
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#5 - Goofy's Freeway Trouble

Season 1965 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/22/1965

A sequel to the earlier "Freewayphobia", this entry shows how proper automotive maintenance and driver alertness is essential to freeway safety.

Directors: Les Clark
Aquamania
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#6 - Aquamania

Season 1961 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/20/1961

Goofy gets the boating bug, but doesn't expect to be in a water skiing race with an octopus.

The Saga of Windwagon Smith
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#7 - The Saga of Windwagon Smith

Season 1961 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/16/1961

Windwagon Smith blows into town with a strange contraption: a conestoga wagon outfitted with a wind sail. The town fathers figure that since a small windwagon does so well, a big one must do better. They set out to build one (while Smith woos the mayor's daughter) and launch it on it's maiden voyage to very unexpected results.

Directors: Charles Nichols
A Symposium on Popular Songs
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#8 - A Symposium on Popular Songs

Season 1962 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/19/1962

Ludwig Von Drake lectures on the state of popular music punctuated by a number of stop-motion musical numbers.

Directors: Bill Justice
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
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#9 - Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

Season 1966 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/4/1966

Winnie the Pooh, in his never ending search for honey, goes to visit Rabbit, where he eats so much he gets stuck in the entrance to Rabbit's house.

Scrooge McDuck and Money
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#10 - Scrooge McDuck and Money

Season 1967 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/23/1967

Huey, Dewey and Louie pay a visit to Uncle Scrooge. When they show an interest in becoming as rich as him, Scrooge gives them a musical lesson on money, banking, investing, and saving.

Directors: Hamilton Luske
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
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#11 - Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day

Season 1968 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/20/1968

Winnie the Pooh and his friends make their way through an especially windy day.

It's Tough to Be a Bird!
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#12 - It's Tough to Be a Bird!

Season 1969 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/10/1969

Part cartoon and part documentary, this film offers a humorous look at birds and the ways people perceive them.

Directors: Ward Kimball
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!
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#13 - Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!

Season 1974 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/20/1974

Winnie the Pooh meets the bounciest bouncer of all time, Tigger. But when Tigger's bouncing causes too much trouble for Rabbit, Rabbit begins to come with a plan to get him lost in the wods.

Paul Bunyan
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#14 - Paul Bunyan

Season 1958 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/1/1958

A retelling of the classic Canadian / American tall tale of the enormous lumberjack and his loyal companion, an equally huge blue ox.

Directors: Les Clark
Vincent
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#15 - Vincent

Season 1982 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1982

A young boy, seemingly normal on the outside, has inner dreams of becoming like Vincent Price.

Directors: Tim Burton
Roller Coaster Rabbit
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#16 - Roller Coaster Rabbit

Season 1990 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/15/1990

Baby Herman loses his balloon at an amusement park. When Roger goes to get him another, he's crawled off to explore the rest of the park.

Off His Rockers
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#17 - Off His Rockers

Season 1992 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/17/1992

The story of an old fashioned rocking horse who tries to regain the affection of a boy whose attention has turned to video games.

Petal to the Metal
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#18 - Petal to the Metal

Season 1992 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/7/1992

In delivering a bouquet of flowers across town to a stunning starlet named Fawn Deer, a delirious delivery cat named Bonkers D. Bobcat turns a relatively easy assignment into a catalog of catastrophes. Racing against the clock to meet his five-minute delivery deadline, Bonkers encounters a wide array of ridiculous roadblocks, ranging from banana peels to the world's slowest taxi driver, in his frantic attempts to meet the deadline and keep his job.

Directors: David Block
Trail Mix-up
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#19 - Trail Mix-up

Season 1993 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/12/1993

Baby Herman and Roger go camping and exploring the great outdoors, which in this case includes a wild ride down a sawmill flume.

Stand By Me
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#20 - Stand By Me

Season 1995 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/22/1995

This is a musical short from Disney that features Timon and Pumbaa from The Lion King. Timon sings his own rendition of the hit song Stand By Me in the African fields. While he is singing, Pumbaa is hit by a ton of heavy objects such as safes and airplanes.

Directors: Steve Moore
Runaway Brain
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#21 - Runaway Brain

Season 1995 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/11/1995

Looking to earn money for a trip to Hawaii, Mickey takes a "few hours of mindless work" with mad Dr. Frankenollie. He never expects to have his mind switched with Frankenollie's vast monster, Julius.

Directors: Chris Bailey
Writer: Tim Hauser
Three Little Pigs
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#22 - Three Little Pigs

Season 1997 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/21/1997

A vegan wolf moves in with the Three Pigs in a parody of MTV's Real World.

Directors: Darrol Rooney
Redux Riding Hood
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#23 - Redux Riding Hood

Season 1997 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/5/1997

This is the story of the Wolf, who, having failed to get Little Red Riding Hood, obsesses over his failure to the point of ruining his life. The Wolf tries to get Little Red after hiding Grandma in a closet, only to be chased off by the Woodsman. The next morning he is caught daydreaming aqbout Red, scolded by his boss and mocked by his co-workers. So, in the middle of a nervous breakdown and his wife regretting the fact that she didn't marry an extremely rich Leonard Fox when she had the chance, our hero decides to build a time machine and get it right.

Directors: Steve Moore
Goofy's Extreme Sports : Skating the Half Pipe
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#24 - Goofy's Extreme Sports : Skating the Half Pipe

Season 1999 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/8/1999

Destino
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#25 - Destino

Season 2003 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/2/2003

A poetic take on love and time.