Rating: ★★★★
It’s time for another Mickey, Donald and Goofy cartoon, and it’s a fun one, the only problem is they forgot about Mickey!
With rent that’s six months overdue, Sheriff Pete is selling Mickey and Donald’s house and everything in it. Goofy, the friendly neighborhood ice delivery man drops by, and the mouse and duck recruit him in their scheme to take all their stuff and run for it. It goes poorly.
The cartoon starts off strong, with some great animation on Pete, and an amazing sight gag of him nailing things to the wall. Goofy drops by, and then there are three main segments of the cartoon that follows.
One, we’ve got Goofy and the piano. Try as he might, Goofy can’t seem to get the piano to stay in his truck – it keeps rolling back into the house. This escalates to the point of perfect absurdity, as the piano starts playing hide and seek with Goofy, among other things. It goes on a bit long, but honestly it had me laughing, so no complaints.
Next is the Donald segment, which isn’t nearly as strong. It’s “stuck” humor, something Disney uses liberally in most Pluto and some Donald cartoons eventually, and generally it’s not my thing. Donald gets a plunger stuck on his tail, and struggles to get it off. Once he finally does, a fish bowl gets stuck there, etc. It’s a bunch of Donald flailing and being angry, and some of it’s pretty good, but it’s very one-note.
And then, finally, Pete re-enters the house, and we have the finale. After lighting a match the building explodes, sending most of the furniture and our trio into Goofy’s truck, while Pete is left behind in a bathtub.
You might notice that, after the first two paragraphs, I didn’t mention Mickey once, and that about sums up his presence in this one. He’s there in the beginning and end, and gets one very short moment with the suitcase, but otherwise he’s off camera the whole time. For that reason in particular, this isn’t one of the better ‘trio’ cartoons, but, fortunately, it’s still a decent short overall.
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