Soup's On

Soup's On is a 1948 Donald Duck animated short film directed by Jack Hannah, produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters by RKO Radio Pictures.[1] In the short, Donald cooks a turkey dinner for his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, but when they come to the table with dirty hands, he punishes them by sending them to bed. The nephews escalate the battle, and when Donald is knocked unconscious, they trick him into thinking that he has died and become an angel.

Soup's On
Directed byJack Hannah
Produced byWalt Disney
Story byBill Berg
Milt Banta
StarringClarence Nash
Music byOliver Wallace
Animation byVolus Jones
Bill Justice
Bob Carlson
Josh Meador
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
October 15, 1948
Running time
6:53
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

While Donald's relationship with his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie had deepened significantly by 1948 in Carl Barks' Duck comics,[2] the nephews of the cartoons are still the identical mischievous troublemakers that they were when first introduced ten years earlier.[3] The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters spotlights this short as a particularly potent example of the nephews' malicious behavior:

Sometimes... Donald is the totally innocent victim of the Nephews' practical jokes. In Soup's On, one of the truly classic contests between the Duck and the kids, his only sin is to insist that they wash their filthy hands before sitting down to eat the great turkey feast that he has cooked for them all. Their response is as cooperative as you might expect... Huey, Dewey and Louie are indistinguishable: the three of them act with a single evil mind.[4]

Synopsis

Donald is preparing a turkey dinner, while his nephews play Apaches. When he calls his nephews in for dinner, they start fighting over the turkey. Donald orders the dirty ducks to take a bath, and they try to trick him by running the water. But Donald spots that Louie's hand is still dirty, and he sends them to their room. The ducks pretend to cry themselves to sleep, making Donald feel guilty. When he comes upstairs to tell them they're forgiven, they trick him into snapping his fingers on a mousetrap, and they grab the food and run.

Donald chases his nephews out the door, but as he rounds a curve, he falls off a cliff and narrowly misses being hit by a boulder. When he regains consciousness, the nephews have dressed Donald up as an angel, and are pretending to be crying over his squashed body. He gives them a tearful goodbye, and they rush home to eat. When Donald tries to fly, he hits the ground and realizes that it was a joke.

When he gets home and finds his nephews feasting on the turkey, the "angel" Donald turns into a devil in a fit of rage, and chases them out of the house and across the countryside.

Production

As the cartoon begins, Donald sings a chorus of "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", a hit song from Disney's 1946 film Song of the South.[5]

Voice actor Clarence Nash performed the voices of Donald as well as his three nephews.[6]

Releases

Television

Home media

See also

References
  1. "Soup's On". Internet Animation Database. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  2. Barrier, Michael (2014). "Chapter 14: Special Talents". Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520283909.
  3. "A Look at Disney's Classic Shorts Showcase: Soup's On". Manic Expression. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  4. Grant, John (1998). Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters (2nd ed.). Hyperion. p. 87. ISBN 978-0786863365.
  5. Sperb, Jason (2012). Disney's Most Notorious Film: Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. p. 106. ISBN 9780292739741.
  6. Hischak, Thomas S. (15 September 2011). Disney's Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland & Co. p. 262. ISBN 9780786462711.
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