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3 out of 4 people found the following review useful: Isn't It Delicious?, 23 August 2003 Author: Ron Oliver (revilorest@juno.com) from Forest Ranch, CA
A Walt Disney DONALD DUCK Cartoon.Home kitchen CHEF DONALD is trying to mix up a batch of mouthwatering waffles. Too bad he doesn't know his batter is full of rubber cement...This is a very funny little film, with watching Donald's expectations of a wonderful breakfast turn to extreme exasperation at the strange behavior of the unruly batter a real joy. Old Mother Mallard is a hilarious spoof of the cooks who broadcast during radio's Golden Age. The legendary Carl Barks was one of the writers on this project; Clarence Nash once again does yeoman service in supplying the voice of the Duck.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a storm of naysayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.
It's only laughing, 30 July 2009 Author: Atreyu_II from The world of artists
This is one the Donald Duck's cartoons which I have very fond memories from childhood. At the time, it was one of the cartoons I used to watch with more frequency. This is a great cartoon. It's very simple and predictable yet lacks in nothing. It does its duty quite well: to make people laugh and amuse them.This is one of Donald's most hilarious cartoons. It is hysterical! Donald gets mad all the time, which is classic him. He listens to a radio cooking program while mixing up a batch of waffles. However, he ends up using rubber cement instead of baking powder in a moment of distraction, but he never realizes why is it going all wrong for him.The funniest and craziest things happen to the duck and at the end, when they ask over the radio if he enjoyed his recipe and wished to hear about it, Donald runs to the radio station and... well, what happens is hysterical. We hear Donald getting mad and the radio shakes over and over.
1 out of 2 people found the following review useful: Kitchen Chaos, 14 October 2005 Author: Shawn Watson (gator_macready@yahoo.com) from The Underverse
In this cartoon Donald tries his hand at some baking. A radio cookery show is own and the female host is instructing listeners on how to make their very own waffles covered in butter and maple syrup. Feeling hungry, Donald decides to join in. And he does well enough until, in a moment of distraction, he adds rubber cement to the mix instead of baking powder.Now he's created some kind of flubber substance with enough elasticity to cause no end of havoc in the kitchen. The gags are mostly quite simple but there's enough invention in some of the havoc to make it an above average Donald cartoon.
1 out of 2 people found the following review useful: Donald Duck is Cooking With Gags!, 2 December 2004 Author: (robocoptng986127@aol.com) from U.S.A
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[CONTAINS SPOILERS!]Donald Duck is occupying himself by gluing recipes into a book using some rubber cement. That's when a radio ad comes over the air waves from Mother Mallard, who introduces a recipe for golden brown waffles. That made Donald's mouth water, so he put on his chef's hat, laid out all his cooking utensils and listed closely as Mother Mallard read off the ingredients. He used up all his milk and flour and had to "borrow" some eggs from a hen, but when the recipe called for baking powder, Donald reached for what he thought was the baking powder but was in reality the rubber cement. Now Donald's waffles were ready to put into the waffle iron, only he had a very tough time scooping them from the bowl into the iron. He fought with it and fought with it over and over again. But the rubber cement stood firm, and even fought back with Donald. It knocked him across the room, it made the ironing board fall onto his head, while the iron flattened his chef's hat. Donald puffed his hat back out and wrestled with the waffle batter some more, getting his tail caught in the waffle iron in the process and really burns his feathers! So, Donald tried to chuck the batter and bowl out the door, but got caught on the knob, flew back into the house and really put Donald in a sticky situation. When Mother Mallard asked over the radio if Donald enjoyed his recipe and wished to hear about it, Donald raced down to the radio station and beat up Mother Mallard.Another hilarious Donald Duck cartoon! That Donald is quite a quack-up. Ha ha. Clarence Nash (1905-1985) is perfect. Uncle Walt Disney really had something going when he created Donald in 1934. 70 years ago! Happy 70th birthday, Donald! Mickey Mouse is 76. Yet in their cartoons they don't look a day over 30. This cartoon along with several other classic Donald Duck cartoons from 1934 to 1941 are available on a DVD set. This one, Chef Donald, is the last one on the DVD. I hope they come out with a second volume real soon. There were tons more funny Donald cartoons from 1942 way into the '60s. So, if you're a fan of Donald Duck as I am, you'll want to check out Chef Donald today! This cartoon reminded me of other Donald's follies with a radio. Remember the time he got a pet ostrich who swallowed a radio? Or the time Donald ran afoul of a bee who wanted to listen to baseball rather than classical gas? And, Donald cooking reminded me of the time he baked airplane parts and then flew the airplane. Lot's of classics! But anyway, I recommend Chef Donald! See it today!-
0 out of 3 people found the following review useful: A little too predictable, 4 May 2003 Author: rbverhoef (rbverhoef@hotmail.com) from The Hague, Netherlands
Donald Duck is listening to a radio cooking program when he hears a recipe for waffles. In his excitement he is using rubber cement instead of baking powder. Although there are some funny moments this Disney short is a little too predictable. Still nice. 7/10.
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