User Reviews

I have seen this cartoon short and I enjoyed very much. This cartoon marks the first time Donald Duck has actually gotten along with Spike the Bee. We also get to seen both Spike the Bee and Donald Duck as old men. Spike the Bee tells his story of how he worked together with Donald Duck.

Donald Duck is picking up little with a spiked stick, this was before nifty nabbers were invented. Spike the bee watches Donald and is uses his stinger to pick up litter and he gives Donald a cigar to smoke on. Donald takes the bee home to his house and the next day, they work at the carnival selling balloons and having spike the bee pop them, he pops the women dancer balloons and was slapped out of the tent. They quit that job and works on giving men tattoos.

Then Donald Duck has Spike work in the sewing factory making clothes and portraits until he was tired, Spike begged Donald for a vacation and Donald lets him roam in the greenhouse, he meets his girlfriend bee and kisses her, he breaks the window roof and then ruins Donald's clothes by putting heart designs and love messages, Donald is upset and attacks the girl bee and chases after it. Spike dove for Donald's rear end and he jumps in pain and the business shut down.

Later on Spike finishes his story, Donald Duck invites him to join him, Spike refuses until his wife throws a temper tantrum and Spike forgives Donald and quickly joins him and they get a happy ending.

This was the best Donald Duck cartoon I've ever seen, I like how they finally had Donald Duck get along with Spike the Bee, when in the past Donald always bullied and tormented him and then got his rear end stung but ended on a cliffhanger which made me feel sorry for Donald Duck.

This cartoon should've won the academy award because the reason is, the plot was well written, there were funny scenes, it was funny seeing the bee working for Donald, I liked the popping balloon scene especially with the woman in balloons being popped. I also liked that the bee gave the men tattoos and then sewed and made clothes and gave him a girlfriend. I didn't like it when Donald attacked Spikes girlfriend, in fact they should've made his girlfriend fight Donald back since female bees are more aggressive than males, she later on did lose her temper at Spike.

Overall this is the best Donald Duck cartoon along with The Clock Watcher, Modern Inventions. It's too bad this cartoon didn't win the academy award for best cartoon short, it was instead given to my least favorite cartoon, Tom and Jerry the Two Mouseketeers 1952 which I thought was a bad cartoon. If you own this cartoon on VHS or DVD, it's worth your time. You can also watch it on youtube which I highly recommend you to watch.

. . . LET'S STICK TOGETHER higher than five out of ten. I'll explain why. When I award this film a "Nine," about eight of the points are "Pity Plaudits," similar to all those awards spread around during the Special Olympics. If Warner Bros. Or the Fleischer Boys ever put a full head of blonde hair on an insect, it totally slips my mind. But that's exactly what the perennially clueless Dizzy Nature Dudes perpetrate toward the close of this apiary misfire. To add in salt to injury, these habitually misogynistic founts of misinformation turn this buzzing female into a shrill nagging harridan, which is how these malingering miscreant doodlers viewed the women ACTUALLY performing the REAL work at their film studio!