Donald's bad word?
Some viewers mistakenly infer that Donald says a bad word (e.g. "f---
you!") in response to his altercation with the coiled clock spring. If you play the scene over several times and listen carefully, what he is really saying is "Says you!" To which the spring replies, "Says I!" This gem of a cartoon also depicts Disney's ongoing fascination with machinery and how it operates, in this case the intricate mechanism of the clock's inner workings. The same can be noted in THE OLD MILL, a Silly Symphony, also released in 1937, where the inner machinery is used to build up suspense in the case of the bird's nest situated in the gears. One element that is sometimes cut from television showings of THE CLOCK CLEANERS in the iris out shot is the music on the soundtrack, "They Don't Wear Pants in the Sunny Side of France," considered to be a naughty song at the time. Produced in 1937, the same year as Disney's SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, this is one of the most innovative and entertaining of the Mickey "Trio" shorts. Highly recommended. 
Tick Tock
This short features Mickey, Donald, and Goofy as clock cleaners cleaning a
very tall clock tower (possibly Big Ben). What was interesting about this short was that each of the three characters had some sort of problem. Mickey kept trying to get a nesting stork out of the clock and the stork wouldn\'t cooperate, Goofy was hit on the head by a figure resembling the Statue of Liberty and knocked unconscious, and Donald was having troubles with a spring that seemed to talk back to him. In fact, Reverend Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association thought he heard Donald say a naughty four-letter word that began with the letter "F" followed by the word "you" to the spring. He succeeded in getting Wal Mart to remove all copies of a video containing this short off of their shelves and return them to Disney. Donald was actually saying "Says you!" to the spring. Interesting to note that.. |
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