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5 Reasons Donald Duck is Cooler Than Mickey Mouse

Poor Donald Duck, always playing second fiddle to Mickey Mouse who straight up thinks he owns all of Disney. If Mickey is the most popular boy in school, Donald is the quirky outcast who no one ever bothers to understand. And that’s too bad (and so typical), because Donald is significantly more interesting than that overrated, self-obsessed mouse (I honestly didn’t know I had unresolved anger towards Mickey Mouse until I sat down to write this). Today is Donald Duck’s 81^st birthday, so to celebrate, we’re going to get to know and appreciate this wacky duck the way he deserves to be known and appreciated. Here are five lovable facts you never knew about Donald Duck, the secretly cooler Disney mascot:

1. His full name is Donald Fauntleroy Duck

Fauntleroy?! Are you kidding me? This is the best middle name I’ve ever heard. Mickey doesn’t even have a middle name.

2. He has a wealthy uncle

Donald’s uncle is Scrooge McDuck. Named after Ebenezer Scrooge, McDuck is known as the richest “person” in the fictional Disney kingdom. Mickey, on the other hand, does not have a wealthy uncle. I know personally that if I had to choose between being friends with two Disney cartoons, I would probably go with whichever one has a rich uncle. Rich uncle = cool vacations.

3. He is an exhibitionist

Where are this guy’s pants? Donald Duck wears a spiffy sailor outfit but loves leaving the pants at home. You will never see Donald Duck with bottoms, except when he gets out of the shower, at which point he suddenly gets modest. Most of the time he is out and about flaunting his hot bod because he is Donald Fauntleroy Duck and has nothing to hide. Literally, there doesn’t seem to be anything there for him to hide.

4. He has a cute girlfriend who doesn’t seem to wear any pants either

Daisy is a fun and flirty duck. She loves Donald and treats him well, even though she is significantly more sophisticated than he is. Donald can barely put together cohesive sentences, after all. Although she has ruffled feathers to suggest a skirt, she doesn’t wear any actual bottoms. This must be one of the reasons they get along so well. With all this lower nudity you would think Donald and Daisy would have had some children by now.

5. He makes an appearance in one of the most classic Disneyland rides

 

While Mickey Mouse is literally everywhere in Disneyland, Donald only makes a few select, special appearances. One of these is at the end of It’s A Small World, in the South America tableau, where Donald is joined by his three-piece caballero side band to serenade oncoming boats. Yeah, that’s right, caballero side band. Do you think Mickey is in a band? Well, probably, but he definitely doesn’t have a caballero side band. I mean, you can’t make this stuff up, right? Heh.

So, to sum up, here are the reasons Donald Duck is cooler than Mickey Mouse: Great middle name, wealthy uncle, semi-nudist with semi-nudist girlfriend, performs in a caballero band and appears at the end of It’s A Small World (which happens to be the best part of the ride). Sure, Mickey is sweet and spirited, sure he has a lovely girlfriend of his own, but at the end of the day he’s just sort of basic. Invite Mickey to a party and he’ll be a proper guest, but invite Donald and things are guaranteed to get pretty weird pretty fast. Happy birthday, Donald Duck, I hope you are partying hard.

Donald Duck Cartoon character

Donald Duck, an ill-tempered, squawking cartoon duck who was Walt Disney’s second most famous cartoon character after Mickey Mouse and who enjoyed worldwide popularity as the star of animated films, newspaper comic strips, comic books, and television. Donald Duck’s first film appearance was in a supporting role in The Wise Little Hen (1934), which was an episode of Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies series of cartoon shorts. Clarence Nash supplied Donald Duck’s distinctively angry, nasal voice in films, and animator Dick Lundy created most of Donald’s irascible screen personality.


Donald wears the middy blouse of a sailor suit and a sailor’s hat, at the drop of which he often explodes into a rage. He has so little tolerance for frustration that he would shoot an annoying insect with a shotgun rather than pursue it patiently with a flyswatter. In the late 1930s Donald was joined by his perennial girlfriend, Daisy Duck, and by his three mischievous nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. During World War II, Donald starred in patriotic film cartoons such as Der Fuehrer’s Face, which won a 1942 Academy Award for best cartoon short subject.

Donald Duck cartoons were a staple of television entertainment. Donald’s likeness has appeared internationally on toys, clothing, and other merchandise.

Marxists Scorn Donald Duck As Tool Of Uncle Sam

WASHINGTON — Worried about Soviet disinformation washing your brain? It turns out that we have an evil mind-control weapon of our own to lull and deceive the oppressed peoples of the Third World: Scrooge McDuck.

Yes, Scrooge, who swims in vats of gold coins, provides wild-goose-chase jobs for his nephew Donald and stars in many of the 250 million comic books published each year by Walt Disney Productions.

Scrooge, Donald and the gang are literary and cultural figures in 60 countries and 18 languages. Donald is ''Kalle Anka'' in Sweden, ''Paperino'' in Italy and ''Pato Donald'' in Latin America. Scrooge is known throughout the Spanish-speaking world as ''Tio Rico.'' And everywhere, in all these countries and all these languages, Scrooge and Donald spread our subversive, imperialist philosophy, according to a study by two Marxist writers.

Did you ever wonder why there are no parents in the world of Donald Duck? It is all part of the capitalist plot, spelled out by Chilean writers Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart in How to Read Donald Duck (International General, New York, $6). Their expose was written in Chile during the administration of President Salvador Allende. It now is printed in Hungary and now on sale here. Among its observations -- no Duck parents:

''Scrooge McDuck is Donald's uncle, Grandma Duck is Donald's aunt (but not Scrooge's wife) and Donald is the uncle of Huey, Dewey and Louie.''

What is the sinister purpose of this strange kinship? Dorfman and Mattelart explain: ''Uncle-authority . . . is of purely de facto origin, rather than a natural right. It is a contractual relationship, masquerading as a natural relationship, a tyranny which does not even assume the responsibility of breeding. One cannot rebel against it in the name of nature; one cannot say to an uncle, 'You are a bad father.' ''

The hidden message of Donald Duck is: You have to obey Uncle Sam, but you can't blame him for your misfortunes.

Donald's world, Duckburg, instills in Third World readers the psychology that rebellion is useless. One can only hope for mercy: ''It is only natural that the Duckburg Women's Clubs are always engaged in good works; the dispossessed eagerly accept whatever charity can be had for the begging.''

The authors note that a constant Disney story line has Scrooge, Donald and the nephews going to far-off lands -- Faroffistan, Unsteadystan, Inca-Blinca -- to swindle the natives. ''Some trinket, the product of technological superiority European or North American is exchanged for gold spices, ivory, tea, etc.. The native is relieved of something he would never have thought of using for himself as a means of exchange.''

Donald and Scrooge enforce the legitimacy of U.S. imperialist control over puppet states: In the lands of Duckdom, ''the king has learned that he must ally himself with foreigners if he wishes to stay in power, and that he cannot even impose taxes on the people because this wealth must pass wholly out of the country to Duckburg through the agent of McDuck.''

Scrooge gets the oppressed peoples of the world addicted to imported consumer goods while stealing the fruits of their labors: ''As each object of their own manufacture is taken away from them, their satisfaction grows. As each artifact from civilization is given to them, and interpreted by them as a manifestation of magic rather than technology, they are filled with delight.'' Surely, you think, this is a pseudo-scholarly put-on. But How to Read Donald Duck is not a spoof. It is in deadly, Marxist earnest. Its authors seriously believe they have found America's key to keeping the world childishly happy in economic subjugation -- Donald Duck.

Erwin Okun, a spokesman for Disney, calls their theory ''utterly absurd.'' And yet . . . remember President Reagan telling the Soviets they could ''keep their Mickey Mouse system''? Now that they have discovered the secret of Scrooge, what would the Marxists make of that?

Donald Duck Fits Bill For Juice Processor

Donald Duck was very much in demand as a commercial sponsor about 40 years ago, when he was only about 10 years old.

Walt Disney Productions licensed private companies to use the cartoon character and and his name on products ranging from Donald Duck bread and Donald Duck coffee to Donald Duck orange juice.

Today, Donald Duck juice products still are made at Citrus World, a juice-processing cooperative owned by 1,200 Cental Florida growers in Lake Wales, Polk County.

''The reason we went into it with the license for Donald Duck was the original people here at the company wanted a name that would denote quality and give instant recognition to the product,'' said Walt Lincer, a company spokesman in charge of Donald Duck juice sales.

''Anything with Disney has that aura, and the Donald Duck juice line has been very successful for our company over the years.''

The company processes juice under a number of other private labels, but Donald Duck continues to be the top-selling line, he said.

Disney retunes classics for new TV audience: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck cartoons get original, re-recorded music

Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Pluto are back on TV screens for the first time in years, accompanied by the music originally written for them 50 to 60 years ago -- but played anew by a Hollywood ensemble at the insistence of Disney diehards. Disney TV channels have been playing "Have a Laugh" shorts as interstitials, after movies and between other programming. They are 2 1/2-minute condensed versions of classic Disney cartoons originally produced between 1935 and 1953. But, according to Dave Bossert, creative director for special projects at Walt Disney Animation Studios, the re-editing for today's short-attention-span tots required revoicing, new sound effects and a re-recorded score. "The music is a character itself in these cartoons that helps support a lot of the action that's going on," Bossert said at a scoring session last week at Warner Bros. in Burbank. "And a lot of the sound effects that they did were musical sound effects. The music has a full, robust feeling, and oftentimes it's really funny." On the podium nearby, composer Mark Watters led a 28-member orchestra in sometimes surprisingly complex music that he had arranged from the original scores (and, occasionally, a little "wah-wah" laughter from the trombones). During a six-hour recording session, they re-recorded the Oliver Wallace music for the Donald Duck cartoons "Good Scouts" (1938), "All in a Nutshell" (1949) and "Corn Chips" (1951), the Charles Wolcott score for "Mickey's Birthday Party" (1942) and the Paul Smith score for the Goofy short "How to Play Golf" (1944). Although Disney staff composers never achieved the fame of their counterparts at other studios, Watters said, "This music is just brilliant. These composers were Walt's personal choices, and they wrote in a style that was unique to Disney. "Oliver Wallace, who scored'Bambi' with the best of symphonic storytelling, could also write a great swing tune that was perfect for a Donald Duck cartoon. These guys could cross both sides of the fence with great dexterity, and very convincingly," Watters added. Sixty of these shorts have so far been rescored. Bossert says there was never any talk of composing all-new music. Luckily, the Disney archives contained all of the original composer sketches and scores, although many existed only on microfilm that was deteriorating and required high-tech restoration, according to Booker White, who supervises music preparation for Disney. For Bossert, part of the appeal of this project was the fact that Disney execs agreed to fully restore the original seven-to-eight-minute cartoons as well as create new short versions to reintroduce the classic characters to a new younger generation of viewers. (Their parents saw many of them on "The Mickey Mouse Club" or Disney's "Wonderful World of Color" but, in recent years, they had pretty much disappeared from the airwaves.) "We're able to restore the originals and serve up an appetizer of them to a whole new audience," says Bossert. "It's really done wonders for Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Pluto. They're back on television again. And we're using modern recording techniques, mixing for 5.1 surround and delivering the picture in high def." Watters, a six-time Emmy winner and Disney veteran whose credits include TV versions of "Aladdin" and "The Little Mermaid" as well as the straight-to-video "Return of Jafar," is now working on his next big Disney project, "Pixar in Concert," taking the scores for all 13 Disney-Pixar films and arranging them for symphonic performance this summer (including an Aug. 3-5 stop at the Hollywood Bowl). Music bits Universal Music Group has beefed up its Latin music arm, upping Manuel Pena to the newly created position of exec VP of operations, strategic management and classics at both the Universal Music Latin America and Universal Music Latin Entertainment divisions. ... In music publishing, Spirit Music Group has made a significant North American sub-publishing deal with Italian publisher Edizioni Curci, whose catalog includes such oft-licensed evergreens as "Volare" and "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me." ... Performing rights org ASCAP has reached an settlement in principle with the Television Music License Committee, setting a fee agreement that will allow local TV stations to license ASCAP's repertory through 2016.

Walt Disney faces $200,000 lawsuit in alleged Donald Duck groping case

A woman says in the Walt Disney lawsuit that Donald Duck groped her.

August 12, 2010|By Walter Pacheco, Orlando Sentinel

Walt Disney World is facing a federal lawsuit seeking more than $200,000 in damages after a Pennsylvania woman claimed a person in a Donald Duck costume groped her breast two years ago, court records show.

April Magolon said her family was visiting Epcot in May 2008 when she approached Donald Duck for an autograph, according to the lawsuit.

She said that instead of an autograph from the person in the iconic fuzzy white costume with a blue and yellow sailor shirt and hat, the person performed a "physically menacing act," the lawsuit says.

"Donald Duck proceeded to grab [Magolon's] breast and molest her and then made gestures making a joke indicating he had done something wrong," the lawsuit states. "[Disney] has engaged in a practice of placing corporate profits over public safety while attempting to cover up continuing, long-standing similar prior incidents."

Attempts to reach Magolon on Thursday were unsuccessful. Her attorney did not respond to e-mails or a phone call.

Disney spokesman Bryan Malenius said Thursday that "we've now seen plaintiff's complaint and will respond appropriately in court."

The spokesman said he could not say who was in the Donald Duck costume or provide any additional information.

Magolon is suing Disney for negligence, battery, negligent infliction of emotional distress and intentional and reckless infliction of emotional distress.

She is seeking more than $50,000 in damages for each count.

She has suffered "severe physical injury, emotional anguish and distress," according to the complaint. She also says the incident has caused acute anxiety, headaches, nightmares and flashbacks, among other emotional and physical ailments.

Her attorney originally had filed the civil lawsuit in Pennsylvania's Court of Common Pleas in December 2009, but court documents show the case was transferred to Philadelphia's federal court after a request from the entertainment company to move it there.

Malenius could not answer why Disney officials asked to transfer the case to federal court.

In addition to the allegations, the lawsuit also states the Orange County Sheriff's Office has received 24 complaints alleging similar acts by costumed characters since 2004.

A Sheriff's Office spokesman said he could not confirm those complaints but said sex-crimes investigators are working on providing an official count.

Sheriff's Office officials said Thursday that Magolon never filed a complaint against Disney about the incident.

The theme park faced a media blitz in 2004 when a person dressed as Tigger was accused of groping a 13-year-old girl and her mother at Magic Kingdom's Mickey's Toontown Fair.

Deputies arrested Michael C. Chartrand on charges of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child and battery; however, a jury cleared the man of any wrongdoing.