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: 3/29/2025Network: Disney+Status: Continuing
Figaro and Cleo
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#1 - Figaro and Cleo

Season 1943 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/15/1943

Figaro tries various methods of trying to get Cleo, the fish, for his supper.

Directors: Jack Kinney
Mickey's Delayed Date
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#2 - Mickey's Delayed Date

Season 1947 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/3/1947

Mickey is late for a date with Minnie and has to get himself ready in a hurry with Pluto's help.

Directors: Charles Nichols
Writer: Art Scott
Foul Hunting
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#3 - Foul Hunting

Season 1947 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/31/1947

Goofy goes duck hunting, then the ducks go Goofy hunting.

Directors: Jack Hannah
Mail Dog
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#4 - Mail Dog

Season 1947 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/14/1947

Pluto is pressed into duty to deliver a sack of mail to a remote arctic outpost, helped along by a playful arctic rabbit.

Directors: Charles Nichols
Pluto's Fledgling
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#5 - Pluto's Fledgling

Season 1948 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/10/1948

Big-hearted Pluto helps Orville the bird learn to fly.

Directors: Charles Nichols
Hold That Pose
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#6 - Hold That Pose

Season 1950 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/3/1950

Goofy finds a new hobby to while away his free time : photography. And what better subject for the amateur photographer than nature? Ask a cantankerous grizzly bear, who doesn't seem to appreciate Goofy's attempts to get him to pose.

Directors: Jack Kinney
Morris the Midget Moose
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#7 - Morris the Midget Moose

Season 1950 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/24/1950

Morris is a small moose with tremendous antlers who is ostracized from the group until he meets his match; an oversized moose with small antlers.

Directors: Charles Nichols
Social Lion
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#8 - Social Lion

Season 1954 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/15/1954

A lion decides to get a taste of civilization by letting himself be captured.

Directors: Jack Kinney
Hooked Bear
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#9 - Hooked Bear

Season 1956 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/27/1956

It's fishing season! Ranger Woodlore is stocking the lake, much to Humphrey's delight as he tries to intercept a meal intended for the anglers.

Directors: Jack Hannah
Jack and Old Mac
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#10 - Jack and Old Mac

Season 1956 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/18/1956

A two-part short; the first part a telling of "The House that Jack Built", the second, a hillbilly family sings the song "Old MacDonald" as "Old MacDonald Had a Band."

Directors: Bill Justice
In the Bag
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#11 - In the Bag

Season 1956 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/27/1956

After the summer visitors have finally left, Ranger Woodlore sets upon a plan to get the bears to help him clean up the park. He gets them cleaning and dancing to a snappy worksong, but once the bears realize that it's a trick, he is forced to find another strategy.

Directors: Jack Hannah
A Cowboy Needs a Horse
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#12 - A Cowboy Needs a Horse

Season 1956 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1956

A young boy dreams of life as a cowboy, mending fences, fighting off indians, and "riding ... riding along."

Directors: Bill Justice
Reason and Emotion
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#13 - Reason and Emotion

Season 1943 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/27/1943

A subtle propaganda film features the two halves of a man's (and woman's) mind; the rational half and the emotional half, as they each try to gain control over a person's actions.

Directors: Bill Roberts
Figaro and Frankie
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#14 - Figaro and Frankie

Season 1947 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/30/1947

Figaro is hungry for a small, yellow canary named Frankie.

The Pelican and the Snipe
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#15 - The Pelican and the Snipe

Season 1944 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1944

Monte is a sleeepwalking pelican whose talents come in handy when he has to rescue his friend, Vidi from a wartime bombing raid.

Directors: Hamilton Luske
Writer: Del Connell
Paul Bunyan
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#16 - 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
Noah's Ark
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#17 - 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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#18 - 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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#19 - 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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#20 - 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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#21 - 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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#22 - The Saga of Windwagon Smith

Season 1961 - Episode 2 - 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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#23 - 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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#24 - 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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#25 - 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