The BEST episodes directed by Ben Sharpsteen
#1 - The Fox Hunt
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1938 - Episode 10
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.
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#2 - The Worm Turns
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1937 - Episode 1
Chemist Mickey concocts a super strength potion that turns a fly into a fighter and a mouse into a super-mouse.
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#3 - Donald and Pluto
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 16
Donald is a plumber dealing with Pluto and an unwieldy leak. The real fun comes when Pluto accidentally swallows one of Donald's tools - a magnet.
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#4 - Boat Builders
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1938 - Episode 2
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.
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#5 - Mickey's Trailer
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1938 - Episode 6
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.
#6 - Polar Trappers
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1938 - Episode 8
The ""Donald and Goofy Trapping Co."" Donald tries to catch himself a penguin supper while Goofy tries to ""bring 'em back alive.""
#7 - Mickey's Service Station
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1935 - Episode 4
"You hear dot squeek?" says Pegleg Pete of his car. "Get reed of it! I'll be back in ten minutes! Get reed of dot squeek, or..." Inspired, disastrous comic moments for Mickey, Donald, and Goofy result.
#8 - Mickey's Fire Brigade
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1935 - Episode 12
A house fire is raging and Mickey, Donald, and Goofy attempt to put it out with the usual disastrous results.
#9 - On Ice
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1935 - Episode 14
Mickey shows off for Minnie, but must rescue Donald when he's nearly blown over a frozen waterfall. Meanwhile, Goofy tries a new form of ice fishing.
#10 - Orphans' Picnic
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 2
Donald is supervising the ill-behaved orphans at Mickey's picnic and sticks to his task, even when the brats steal the food and give the duck a bee sandwich.
#11 - Moving Day
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 7
Mickey and Donald are six months behind on the rent and are being evicted by Sheriff Pete. So they have to move ... and fast!
#12 - Mickey's Circus
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 10
Mickey's circus has a performance that's dominated - and wrecked - by the orphans and by Donald's destructive trained seals.
#13 - Moose Hunters
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1937 - Episode 4
Mickey, Donald and Goofy are all out to catch a moose. But with this trio, what moose could possibly be in danger?
#14 - Hawaiian Holiday
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1937 - Episode 9
Mickey and Minnie play the uke and dance for a few brief moments - then it's on to the main body of the short as Goofy surfs, Pluto fights with a crab, and Donald sets himself on fire.
#15 - Clock Cleaners
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1937 - Episode 10
Mickey, Donald and Goofy attempt to clean a tower clock; gears, springs and all. The gears and springs have different ideas, as does a nesting stork.
#16 - Two-Gun Mickey
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 17
Cowgirl Minnie thinks she can take care of herself on the prairie, but when she's captured by Pete, Mickey must come to her rescue.
#17 - The Cookie Carnival
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1935 - Episode 9
A confectionery Cinderella story in which a sad girl cookie is turned into the Queen of the Carnival by a wandering hobo cookie.
#18 - Broken Toys
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1935 - Episode 17
A discarded toy soldier tossed onto a junk pile rallies the spirits of his fellow cast-offs and founds an ersatz hospital to repair them.
#19 - Cock o' the Walk
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1935 - Episode 18
When a prize fighting rooster comes to town, a celebration is held, complete with elaborate parodies of Busby Berkley dance routines. When the cock sweeps a young hen off her feet, however, he is challenged to a fight by her jealous suitor.
#20 - Pluto's Quin-puplets
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1937 - Episode 12
Pluto has to stay and watch the kids while Fifi goes out for food. Not an easy job with five rambunctious pups who won't stay still and end up fighting with an airhose and some spilled paint. Even more difficult when Pluto accidentally drinks moonshine.
#21 - Don Donald
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1937 - Episode 2
Donald attempts to woo the Spanish senorita Donna Duck (Daisy, in her first screen appearance) to the amusement of a jealous burro.