Walt Disney Classic Cartoon Favorites

Donald takes a portion of the chipmunks’ tree for firewood, provoking the little rodents to sneak into his cabin and get it back. At first, they have some difficulty with the feisty duck, but they find a way to make good use of a giant snowball to defeat him.

Our favorite chipmunks smell a wonderful scent coming from Donald’s kitchen. After they discover that he’s baking some delicious pancakes, they find some inventive ways of stealing some flapjacks for themselves. (There’s a Chinese stereotype in this one – where’s Leonard Maltin when you need him?!)

When Pluto decides to hide his bone in Chip ‘N Dale’s tree, he manages to disrupt the chipmunk’s stash of acorns. The clever tree-dwellers crawl into some big gloves and use them to aggravate the big pooch.

Donald seems to be a duck of many talents, as in this cartoon, he finds himself as a tree trimmer . . . who just happens to be clipping the tree that belongs to the stars of this set. Chip ‘N Dale at first mistake Donald’s clipping tool for a monster, but once they see that the duck’s behind it, they provoke some angry quaking.

While retrieving some acorns from a farmyard, Dale mistakes some hen’s eggs for large acorns. While checking them out, one of them hatches, and in trying to get the chick to get back into its shell, he gets mistaken for the chick by the mother. Dale finds it frustrating, especially when the rooster tries to teach him to eat worms, but Chip finds it hilarious.

When Chip and Dale’s tree doesn’t fit in with the scale of Donald’s backyard miniature railroad diorama (which seems to have been inspired by Walt Disney’s own mini train), the duck chops it down, causing the little guys to take up residence in one of the little houses. However, they find a very clever way to convince Donald to put the tree back.

In my favorite of the chipmunks’ cartoons, the two pals unknowingly both go to see the ravishing rodent babe Clarice at the Acorn Club. Once there, they start to compete for her attention, eventually ending up performing with her on stage. This has to be one of the flat-out cutest shorts put out by the Disney studio, and I find it to be the funniest.

In this toon, Chip ‘N Dale discover a new kind of nut! No, not a crazy person – a peanut! When seeing Donald’s elephant perform for peanuts in a local zoo, the two mischievous chipmunks try to sneak in and steal the pachyderm’s stash.

After reading a book of fairy tales, Chip ‘N Dale mistake Donald’s steam shovel for a giant, fire-breathing dragon. The rodents suit up as knights and go to battle with the metal monster to save their treehouse.