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'Chips Ahoy' is a Walt Disney-produced animated CinemaScope theatrical short. The cartoon was released to theaters on February 24, 1956, and was the second to last Disney cartoon to be distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. This is also the second to last regular Disney theatrical cartoon to feature Donald Duck in a starring role and the final appearance of Chip 'n' Dale in The Golden Age of Animation and their final appearance overall, until the 1959 Walt Disney Presents television special "The Adventures of Chip 'n' Dale". The short was reissued in 1985 to accompany The Black Cauldron.

Plot



Chip 'n' Dale are both hungry sitting in their tree, surrounded by a huge lake, which has few acorns. After a squabble over their last acorn, which falls into a lake below, Chip sees a larger tree overflowing with acorns across the way from them. However, the lake stands between them and their potential gain.

They spot a ship in a bottle in Donald Duck's fishing shack and decide to use it to attempt to cross the lake. Later, as Donald is taking a stroll along the pier, he spots the chipmunks carrying the ship and salutes them. Donald doesn't realize until he returns to the shack that they have pilfered his ship, and he sets out to get his boat back from the "pirate" chipmunks.

He catches the ship with a fishing rod and reels it in. To get back at Chip and Dale, who have put on miniature costumes & have taken on the personas of the ship's captain and a seaman respectively, he torments them with the ship rudder, filling the cabin with water (forcing the chipmunks to pump it out), then puts on an imaginary series of stormy weather. The ruse seems to work, as Dale gets seasick. However, when he leans over the gunwale to vomit, he spots Donald's feet on the ground & alerts Chip of the trick, making the two able to escape into quarters before the duck can get them while slamming his finger in the door. Undeterred, Donald tricks Dale into getting captured. Chip counters by releasing the ship's anchor right on Donald's foot so that he drops both Dale and the ship.

Dale then ties up Donald and jumps back onto the ship, moments before Donald can free himself. As Chip sees this, he panics and tries to steer the ship away while Donald begins chasing them. However, Dale is a step ahead of Chip & Donald and has cut holes in Donald's boat sail, drilled holes in his canoe, unscrewed the bolts to dismantle his rowboat and tied his motorboat to the dock. When his motorboat is pulled by the rope, Donald flies out of it and takes a header into the tree just as Chip and Dale reach it, filling acorns in the chipmunks' loot. A furious Donald tries one more time to catch them, but falls and causes a wave to carry the ship back to the tree where Chip and Dale eat their haul of acorns. Undaunted, however, Donald, stranded on the island, chops down the tree and tries to build a dugout canoe.

Voice cast



* Donald Duck: Clarence Nash

* Chip: Jimmy MacDonald

* Dale: Dessie Flynn

Home media



The short was released on November 11, 2008 on 'Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Four: 1951-1961'.

Additional releases include:

*VHS - 'A Tale of Two Chipmunks'

References




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