The chipmunks think Donald's stall is a giant walnut. Chip and Dale challenge Donald in a game of hockey with the acorns and overwhelm him with a huge pile of acorns.ĭonald has run out of nuts for his nut butter sales and gets some out of Chip and Dale's tree. The chipmunks swipe Donald's acorns he is using for a seeding project, getting trapped in Donald's box trap and then get into a squabble. Soon, Chip and Dale get Donald into a long stretch with the rubber pancake jamming him in the chimney.Ĭhip and Dale try to store acorns for the coming winter but run out on their tree. Donald protects his breakfast by tricking them with a rubber cement pancake. When Chip and Dale catch sight of Donald's pancakes, they decide to steal them from Donald. In the end, they roll a giant snowball on him. Chip and Dale try to get him out of luck by stealing his firewood, causing Donald to kick them out. The chipmunks manage to drive the two out after they make Pluto seem like he was shot badly.īeing cold and lacking wood, Donald heads off to chop down a tree which happens to be inhabited by Chip and Dale. Determined to keep their home, Chip and Dale get Pluto in trouble with Mickey. In a house, Chip and Dale inhabit a stove when Mickey and Pluto return and get in their way. In the end, the chipmunks fire Pluto out of the cannon and crack the remaining acorns, leaving him to whine. But, Chip and Dale are the saboteurs who occupy it, while using the cannon to crack acorns on Pluto's head. Private Pluto has been assigned to guard a pillbox from saboteurs. Their names may be a pun on the name of the 18th-century cabinet maker and furniture designer Thomas Chippendale, as suggested by Bill "Tex" Henson, a story artist at the studio.Ĭhip and Dale appear in the following 23 animated short films. In the 1980s, they became the lead characters of a half-hour television series, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, in which they have adventures as leaders of a detective agency. The duo was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film three times in four years: in 1946 for Squatter's Rights (against Mickey and Pluto), in 1947 for Chip an' Dale and in 1949 for Toy Tinkers (both against Donald Duck). They were given their own series in the 1950s, but only three cartoons resulted under their name: Chicken in the Rough (1951), Two Chips and a Miss (1952) and The Lone Chipmunks (1954). In most cartoons, they are paired with Mickey Mouse, or most often, Pluto and Donald Duck, whom they usually battle when they see an activity they do out of curiosity or when they try to get food without getting caught by them. Chip is also depicted as having smooth hair on top of his head while Dale's tends to be ruffled. Originally the two had a very similar appearance, but as a way to tell them apart, some differences were introduced: Chip has a small black nose and two centered protruding teeth, whereas Dale has a large dark red nose and a prominent gap between his buckteeth. Dale, by contrast, is more laid-back, dim-witted, and impulsive, and has a very strong sense of humor. Of the two, Chip is portrayed as being safe, focused, and having a mind for logical scheming. Immediately I saw the advantage of that and took the suggestion. Bill Peet came up with the suggestion of making one of them a little goofball to give them two different personalities. So we decided to put words into their mouths but speed 'em up so you could just barely understand them… We gave them both the same personality-but something was missing. He used them with Pluto… I wanted to use them with the Duck but with a little more personality in them. I believe Gerry Geronimi did a picture with two impish little chipmunks that just squeaked and chattered with a speeded-up soundtrack but no words. Three years later, director Jack Hannah decided to use them as co-stars in Donald Duck shorts. In the short, they fight with Pluto about whether they can store their nuts in a military base cannon. The characters were first drawn by Bill Justice and introduced in the 1943 Pluto short Private Pluto, directed by Clyde Geronimi. Chip and Dale (also spelled Chip 'n' Dale) are a cartoon duo of anthropomorphic chipmunks created in 1943 by The Walt Disney Company.
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