The BEST episodes of Disney Animated Shorts season 1952
Every episode of Disney Animated Shorts season 1952, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Disney Animated Shorts season 1952!
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.
#1 - How to Be a Detective
Season 1952 - Episode 17 - Aired 12/12/1952
Goofy is hired to solve a mystery of a missing "Al." He searches the city for clues, but constantly runs into a city sheriff (who is portrayed by Pete) who tells him to let the police handle it. A car chase occurs and the drivers ram into a haystack. It turns out that Al is actually the city sheriff who is supposed to get married to the woman who hires Goofy to find him.
#2 - Hello Aloha
Season 1952 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/19/1952
Goofy lives out the working-man's dream of walking away from his job and moving to a tropical island paradise.
#3 - Two Weeks Vacation
Season 1952 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/31/1952
After several long days at work, Goofy finally takes a much needed vacation. However, his trip never quite gets off the ground mainly because he spends most of it stuck behind a slow moving trailer. When he gets a flat tire, the mechanic inspects every part of his car except the tire. The only motel he can find is a little shack too close to a railroad track. On the road once more, he gets stuck behind said trailer again only to pass it and discover no one is driving it.
#4 - Two Gun Goofy
Season 1952 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/16/1952
Bandit Pistol Pete enters a lawless western town and robs a bank. The town is in desperate need of a sheriff. Enter wandering cowboy Goofy who notices a pretty girl being held up in a stagecoach robbery by Pete. Lovestruck and completely oblivious to Pete, he foils the robbery while getting to know the girl better. This earns him a reputation as a great gunslinger and he is challenged to apprehend Pete. Pete tries to get his revenge on Goofy but every attempt backfires due to Goofy's clumsiness usually directed unintentionally at Pete.
#5 - Lambert the Sheepish Lion
Season 1952 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/8/1952
Lambert is a lion cub who is mis-delivered to a flock of sheep. Because he is different, he is ostracized by the rest of the lambs. But things change when he grows up and a wolf attacks the flock.
#6 - Two Chips and a Miss
Season 1952 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/21/1952
Unknown to each other, both Chip and Dale, feigning sleepiness and disinterest, sneak out of their tree to head downtown and meet the same pretty lounge singer, Clarice.
#7 - Pluto's Christmas Tree
Season 1952 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/21/1952
Pluto comes bounding outside to help Mickey get a Christmas tree. Chip 'n Dale see him and make fun of him, but the tree they take refuge in is the one Mickey chops down. They like the decorations, especially the candy canes and Mickey's bowl of mixed nuts. But Pluto spots them and goes after them long before Mickey spots them. Minnie, Donald, and Goofy drop by to sing carols.
#8 - Trick or Treat
Season 1952 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/10/1952
Donald's nephews come by for halloween and Donald plays tricks on them. But Witch Hazel was watching, and offers to help the boys get even. She brews up a potion that animates inanimate objects and sics them on Donald. He initially agrees to treat the boys, until he hears the witch call him a "pushover". She animates his feet to get him to cough up the key to his pantry.
#9 - Pluto's Party
Season 1952 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/7/1952
It's Pluto's birthday party, but Mickey's dozen or so nephews seem to be having all the fun. Their present is a wagon so Pluto can pull them; the "Pin the Tail on Pluto" game doesn't go quite right, and everything seems to prevent Pluto from having his birthday cake. But Mickey has planned ahead.
#10 - The Little House
Season 1952 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/8/1952
A small house has to try to compete with progress and the encroaching press of the big city.
#11 - Uncle Donald's Ants
Season 1952 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/18/1952
Donald spills some sugar on his sidewalk, and soon the ants are in complete control of his home, stealing the cake he was baking, building a pipeline from his maple syrup to their hill, and causing general mayhem.
#12 - Teachers Are People
Season 1952 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/27/1952
As the narrator explains, educating children is one of the most important things today and the heroic man who takes on this role is "the school teacher" (Goofy, naturally). After taking role call, Goofy tries to teach the class but keeps having to deal with a mischievous trouble-maker named George who enjoys sneaking out of class to go fishing, eating the teacher's apple, squeaking chalk, making faces while teacher gives a geography lesson, and terrorizing the other students with his water pistol. In the end, George's mischief goes too far when he destroys the school with an exploding bomb and is forced to write "I will not bomb the school again" 100 times!
#13 - Susie the Little Blue Coupe
Season 1952 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/6/1952
Susie is an automobile in an auto showroom who is bought by a man who is taken with her. She finds it hard to fit into high society but copes with it. Eventually, she becomes old and hard to operate and her owner trades her in. Another man notices her and buys her but this men is considerably less genteel leaving her out in the cold and mistreating her. Much to her horror, she eventually discovers she is a stolen car and is chased by the police during which she is totalled in an accident. Now Susie is kept in a junkyard but, when all looks hopeless, another man notices her, buys her, gives her an overhaul, and has her back on the road in no time.
#14 - Let's Stick Together
Season 1952 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/25/1952
An elderly bee, seeing an equally elderly Donald Duck in the park, looks back on their long partnership. The bee started helping Donald pick up trash, then using his sharp stinger to increase sales for balloon vendor Donald, then as a tattoo artist, and finally doing embroidery. After a particularly demanding tapestry, the bee asks for time off, and Donald shows him to a custom-built greenhouse. In there, along with lots of lovely flowers, and moreover, a lady bee. This obviously causes some problems in the relationship with Donald.
#15 - Man's Best Friend
Season 1952 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/4/1952
Goofy buys a pet dog (Bowser) and has trouble training it. As Bowser gets bigger, he becomes a larger problem, angering the neighbors. Goofy goes out for the night, and Bowser proves not to be much of a guard dog until Goofy comes home and tries to get in.
#16 - Donald Applecore
Season 1952 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/18/1952
Donald is an apple farmer trying to save his crop from two mischievous chipmunks.
#17 - Father's Lion
Season 1952 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/1952
Goofy teaches his son the finer points of camping out, with a mountain lion in hot pursuit.