Flashback Friday

Hey guys! Welcome to another Flashback Friday!

I realize every post on my blog so far (besides the default introductory post that WordPress gives you) is about Donald Duck, and I promise I’ll write things that aren’t about Donald Duck in the future, but I’ve discovered a video that I think is too cool not to share.

Apparently YouTube could sense that I’ve been in a very ducky place right now because they had this in my suggested videos. There’s an old game show called “What’s My Line?” where a guest is brought in to be interviewed by a celebrity panel, and the panel tries to figure out what the guest does for a living. In this particular episode, the guest was Clarence Nash.

Clarence Nash!

That’s right, the celebrity panel was interviewing the original voice of Donald Duck and they had no idea! When they find out his true identity at the end of the clip, it’s every bit as satisfying as you’d want it to be–they even make him do the Donald Duck voice. It is unreal to see that voice come out of a person.

Anyway, that’s it for this week’s edition of Flashback Friday. I hope you enjoy this special little YouTube find as much as I do!

Welcome to Flashback Friday, where every week we take a look at a piece of media from decades past. Today we’re watching “Clock Cleaners,” a 1937 Disney cartoon that features Mickey, Goofy, and Donald as three clock cleaners struggling to finish their job. Mickey fights a stork, Goofy keeps getting the daylights knocked out of him, and Donald comes to blows with an anthropomorphized spring. You can watch it here.

This short was actually the subject of controversy when, in the 1990s, a conservative Christian organization got Walmart to pull the VHS tape off the shelves. They claimed that, during Donald’s fight with the mainspring, he says “F*** you!” and later calls the spring a “son of a b****” (he actually says “Says who?!” and calls the spring a “snake in the grass,” but his trademark voice rendered the phrases near-incomprehensible).

When it was later released on a DVD set in 2001, these lines were redubbed (which you can easily tell in the aforementioned YouTube clip–notice how Donald says “Aw nuts!” instead of “Says who?” and you can hear Pluto barking in the background, despite the fact that Pluto isn’t even in the short).

Thankfully, some heroic soul uploaded the original version of Donald’s argument, alleged curse words and all. You can watch it here.

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Flashback Friday – Clarence Nash