Golden Eggs (1941)
10/10
The first duck to be masquerading in the guise of a chicken
26 January 2008
Clarence Nash and Florence Gill had never sounded so good as in this Donald Duck cartoon. Donald, upon reading the newspaper, discovers that the price of a dozen eggs has dramatically risen to 85 cents. Sure, it might not be much today, but it must have been a lot back then. So he decides to harvest eggs from the henhouse for profit. The presence of a protective rooster is not negligible. So Donald tries to disguise himself as a hen.

I love this cartoon; it is one of my favourite Donald shorts from 1941. I am fond of Donald's practice of playing contrasting music styles, such as the leisurely "Lazy Daze" and the energetic "Hot Stuff" (on a record), to maintain a brisk pace in his work (with eggs offered at 85 cents). And I also liked it when he first encountered the rooster while zipping back and forth and putting eggs in the basket. It is also funny to see Donald as a hen, and it's amazing that Clarence "Ducky" Nash could cluck like a chicken in his Donald voice.

You know, Daffy Duck was the first duck to disguise himself as a chicken in a different way in the cartoon "You Were Never Duckier."
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