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Wikipedia article
'Mickey's Garden' is a 1935 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The film was the second 'Mickey Mouse' cartoon shot in Technicolor (after 'The Band Concert') and is also the first color appearance of Pluto. The cartoon is also the first color cartoon where Mickey speaks (though he only does so at the end when Pluto starts licking him). The film's plot centers on Mickey Mouse trying to rid his garden of insects, but they keep coming back. When he accidentally gets hit with his own bug spray, he begins seeing a warped reality. It was the 76th Mickey Mouse short film to be released, and the fifth of that year. The only bit of dialogue is during the last 20 seconds when Mickey tells Pluto to stop licking him.
Mickey's Garden
Pluto and Mickey are hunting insects. Mickey starts shooting insecticide and the insects start shrieking and run away then hide. Mickey, in an attempt to get rid of them all, continues shooting. But eventually it runs out. The bugs wake up and go back to his garden to continue eating Foods, like leaves, tomatoes and potatoes (with eyes). Mickey goes back to a big bucket of water and starts stirring some more insecticide with a broom. He comes back and attempts to kill all the bugs.
The insects keep eating. Mickey comes back and tries to poison the bugs, but the pump is blocked and Mickey tries to unblock it with wheat. He puts it in for a while. Then, At the same time, Pluto is following a stag beetle who bites him on the nose. When it teases him from atop a plant he attempts to lunge at it but gets his head stuck inside a pumpkin. He panics and runs about it with the pumpkin on his head and accidentally bumps into busy Mickey, making himself get hit by his own bug spray and lands on his hose. Mickey starts to sleep and he begins seeing some very big hallucinations.
Mickey Mouse finds himself in a dangerous imaginary world where he, his house, his stuff, and Pluto the Dog have shrunk and the bugs and plants and even the pumpkin have grown giant. A big stag beetle and other giant bugs proceed to drink the insecticide, but instead of killing them, it makes them drunk. The other drunk bugs notice Mickey and Pluto (Who is now free from the giant pumpkin) and chase them for revenge. After encounters with a worm and beetle. Mickey and Pluto climb up and hide in a flower but a bumble bee flies in. Mickey and Pluto fight the bee but fall out of the flower. Pluto lands on a branch which turns out to be a caterpillar who throws him into the air. He is then swallowed by a hiccuping firefly. Mickey lands on a leaf but a drunk grasshopper saws off the leaf with its leg while it laughs. Mickey falls off and lands in a tomato with a worm, in which he proceeds to ride (in the style of Charlie Chaplin) and they start to wrestle.
Eventually Mickey begins to wake up and discover, much to his delight, that the worm he is wrestling is really his hose and he had been dreaming. Pluto manages to break free from the pumpkin. Then it slingshots itself out of his head and crashes onto Mickey by accident, and starts licking him.
Voice cast
* Mickey Mouse: Walt Disney
* Pluto: Pinto Colvig
Releases
* 1935 - theatrical release
* 1988 - Mickey's 60th Birthday
Home media
The short was released on December 4, 2001, on 'Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color'.
See also
*Mickey Mouse (film series)
References
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