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Donald's Cousin Gus
Donald's Cousin Gus
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jack King
Story by	Jack Hannah; Carl Barks
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Clarence Nash; Pinto Colvig
Music by	Oliver Wallace
Animation by	Dick Lundy
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	May 19, 1939 (U.S.);
Running time	7 minutes
Language	English

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Donald's Cousin Gus is a Walt Disney cartoon released on May 19, 1939.^[1]^[2] Gus Goose debuted as a recurring character in Al Taliaferro's Donald Duck newspaper comic since 9 May 1938.^[3]

This cartoon was also the first-ever pre-recorded program (in this case, film) to be televised in the United States, airing as part of NBC's "first night" of sponsored programming on May 3, 1939, sixteen days before the film was released in theaters.^[4]

The short was directed by Jack King, and animated by Lee Morehouse, Wolfgang Reitherman, and Don Towsley. The story was created by Jack Hannah and Carl Barks.

Plot

Gus Goose comes to visit his cousin Donald Duck, interrupting him in the middle of lunch. Gus brings a note from Aunt Fanny, which reads, "Dear Nephew, this is your cousin Gus Goose. I'm sending him to visit you. Love, Aunt Fanny. P.S., He don't eat much". Donald welcomes his cousin, who shakes hands with him frantically. Gus shows

Gus shows Donald Duck his pocket alarm clock, which is divided into, "Dinner, tea, supper, lunch." Donald remarks to the audience, "Well, I'll be doggone!" Gus Goose proceeds to eat Donald out of house and home. He slurps up Donald's soup with two spoons, shuffles a whole stack of bread and luncheon meat like cards and swallows them all, knits a bowl of spaghetti into a sock, and sucks up all of the peas with a straw. Enraged, Donald tries to evict Gus by handcart, but ends up out on the lawn himself.

Hoping to get the jump on Gus, Donald finds a "barking hotdog" in his icebox, with the label, "A sure way to get rid of hungry relatives." Smirking, Donald offers the sausage to Gus, who gulps it down. "Now, for the fun," Donald whispers, and starts acting like a cat, stirring up the "dog" in Gus' stomach. Having driven Gus away by throwing a bone out onto the lawn, he bolts and locks the door with a drawbar, laughing. However, his joy turns to shock when he hears Gus come back in through the back door, and discovers a Gus-shaped hole, and discovers him eating cold lunch in his refrigerator, with the time, "Cold Lunch" on his pocket alarm clock. Donald Duck, frustrated, exclaims, "Boy! Oh, boy!" and faints on the floor.

Voice cast

Donald Duck: Clarence Nash
Barking Hot Dog: Pinto Colvig
Gus Goose: Jimmy MacDonald (sound effects)

Home media

VHS

Cartoon Classics: Limited Gold Editions: Donald (United States)
Donald Duck Geht in die Luft, Drei Caballeros im Sambafieber, Goofy und Pluto Total Verrückt, and Mit Mir Nicht (Germany)
Disney Parade 3 (France)
Paperino, Sono Io ... Paperino, Cartoons Disney 6 (Italy)

Laserdisc

Hello Donald, Donald: Limited Gold Edition, and Disney Cartoon Festival 3 (Japan)

DVD

The short was released on May 18, 2004, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume One: 1934-1941.^[5]

Streaming

The short was released to Disney+ on August 11, 2023.^[6]

Television

The Ink and Paint Club, episode 21: "Goin' to the Birds"
Mickey's Mouse Tracks, episode 77
Disneyland, episode: The Plausible Impossible

References

^ "Gus Goose introduced". Hartford Courant. April 11, 1939.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 74–76. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
^ Al Taliaferro. Posted on Lambiek:Comiclopedia.
^ Edgerton, Gary R. The Columbia History Of American Television. Columbia University Press. 2007. p. 14-15
^ "The Chronological Donald Volume 1 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
^ The D23 Team (June 19, 2023). "Disney+ to Debut 28 Restored Classic Walt Disney Animation Studios Shorts". D23. Retrieved June 19, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

External links

Donald's Cousin Gus at IMDb

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[1] "Gus Goose introduced". Hartford Courant. April 11, 1939.

[2] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 74–76. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

[3] Al Taliaferro. Posted on Lambiek:Comiclopedia.

[4] Edgerton, Gary R. The Columbia History Of American Television. Columbia University Press. 2007. p. 14-15

[5] "The Chronological Donald Volume 1 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 13 February 2021.

[6] The D23 Team (June 19, 2023). "Disney+ to Debut 28 Restored Classic Walt Disney Animation Studios Shorts". D23. Retrieved June 19, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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 ==Plot==
-[[Gus Goose]] is visiting his cousin [[Donald Duck]], and upon finding his mailbox, finds that his letter is upside down. He turns the mailbox upside down, and sees that he found the right home, and goes up to the front door to greet him. Donald is about to have lunch. "Am I hungry!", he says as he is about to have [[soup]] when all of a sudden, he hears the doorbell buzzing loudly. Disturbed and annoyed, he says, "All right, all right!
+[[Gus Goose]] comes to visit his cousin [[Donald Duck]], interrupting him in the middle of lunch. Gus brings a note from Aunt Fanny, which reads, "Dear Nephew, this is your cousin Gus Goose. I'm sending him to visit you. Love, Aunt Fanny. P.S., He don't eat much". Donald welcomes his cousin, who shakes hands with him frantically. Gus shows
-I'm coming!". He then hears rhytmic knocking at the door. "Aw, phooey!", he says, growing more frustrated and impatient, as he goes to the door, at which point Gus was hitting him repeatedly as Donald screamed, and Donald, surprising Gus, shouts "What's the big idea? Now, run!". Gus hands him a letter from his Aunt Fanny, which reads, "Dear Nephew, this is your cousin Gus Goose. I'm sending him to visit you. Love, Aunt Fanny. P.S., He don't eat much". Donald welcomes his cousin, who shakes hands with him frantically. Gus shows Donald Duck his [[Pocket watch|pocket]] [[alarm clock]], which has the times, "Dinner, tea, supper, lunch." Donald remarks to the audience, "Well, I'll be doggone!" Gus Goose, who is [[gluttony|gluttonous]] and greedy, proceeds to eat Donald out of house and home, eating the soup with two spoons, eating two [[Sandwich|sandwiches]], [[knitting]] [[spaghetti]], grabbing the [[bread]] from Donald, dipping the bread in his [[coffee]], eating the whole, entire [[chocolate cake]], eating two [[banana]]s, his [[donut]]s, and his [[pea]]s. Donald's first attempt to evict him by [[handcart]] fails, resulting in Donald getting kicked into the back of his own mailbox. Donald mutters, "This is very, very exasperating." After getting the mailbox off his head, he whispers [[Fourth wall|to the audience]], "I'll get rid of him." He resorts to a Barking Hotdog, "A sure way to get rid of hungry relatives". He instructs the Barking Hotdog to "Do [his] stuff." He calls to Gus, "Come and get it!" Gus gulps the hot dog down. "Now, for the fun", he whispers to the audience, and starts acting like a [[cat]], causing the Barking Hotdog to literally act like a [[dog]]. Donald Duck, having driven Gus away by throwing a [[bone]] out the door for the Barking Hot Dog to chase after, shouts out the door, "Good-bye!", and locks the front door with a [[Drawbar (defense)|drawbar]], laughing. However, his joy turns to shock when he hears Gus come back in through the back door, and discovers a Gus-shaped hole, and discovers him eating cold lunch in his [[refrigerator]], with the time, "Cold Lunch" on his pocket alarm clock. Donald Duck, frustrated, exclaims, "Boy! Oh, boy! Boy!", and faints on the floor.
+Gus shows Donald Duck his pocket alarm clock, which is divided into, "Dinner, tea, supper, lunch." Donald remarks to the audience, "Well, I'll be doggone!" Gus Goose proceeds to eat Donald out of house and home. He slurps up Donald's soup with two spoons, shuffles a whole stack of bread and luncheon meat like cards and swallows them all, knits a bowl of spaghetti into a sock, and sucks up all of the peas with a straw. Enraged, Donald tries to evict Gus by handcart, but ends up out on the lawn himself.
+Hoping to get the jump on Gus, Donald finds a "barking hotdog" in his icebox, with the label, "A sure way to get rid of hungry relatives." Smirking, Donald offers the sausage to Gus, who gulps it down. "Now, for the fun," Donald whispers, and starts acting like a cat, stirring up the "dog" in Gus' stomach. Having driven Gus away by throwing a bone out onto the lawn, he bolts and locks the door with a drawbar, laughing. However, his joy turns to shock when he hears Gus come back in through the back door, and discovers a Gus-shaped hole, and discovers him eating cold lunch in his refrigerator, with the time, "Cold Lunch" on his pocket alarm clock. Donald Duck, frustrated, exclaims, "Boy! Oh, boy!" and faints on the floor.
 ==Voice cast==