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Lonesome Ghosts

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One of the most popular Classic Disney Shorts, this Mickey Mouse cartoon from 1937 is centered around Mickey, Donald Duck and Goofy, who are running a Ghost Exterminating business as they are tricked into looking around a haunted house by the titular quartet of ghosts, who proceed to unleash their wrath upon our heroes. Unlike previous shorts themed around spooky stuff, Hilarity Ensues.On a side note, these ghost characters (or at least ghosts similar in appearance) would later make an appearance, not in a Disney cartoon, but in a Walter Lantz cartoon "A Haunting We Will Go", featuring the Mel Blanc voiced Lil' Eightball being tricked into coming into their house. That short was also directed by the same director of this short, Burt Gillet.It has been included as part of A Disney Halloween and Mickey's House of Villains.
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Mirror Routine: One of the ghosts does this to Goofy.
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Failed a Spot Check: When the molasses and flour fall on Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, the ghosts think that they're seeing ghosts and freak out... forgetting that they're ghosts themselves!
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Face Fault:
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Scenery Porn
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Scenery Porn: This short has some very lovely backgrounds. Just look at the opening shots!
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Parrot Exposition
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Parrot Exposition: The early portion of the short features a Running Gag in which Mickey will exclaim something, Donald will repeat it in alarm, and Goofy will repeat it a third time as a question. This is done with the phrases "the telephone," "a customer," and finally, "ghosts."
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Evil Laugh
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Evil Laugh: The ghosts. Though they're not evil, just (mostly) harmless pranksters.
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Let's Split Up, Gang!
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Let's Split Up, Gang!: Mickey suggests that they "separate and surround" the ghosts.
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Excuse Plot
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Excuse Plot: Bored with nothing to do (no one to scare, cause they're too good), the ghosts tricked a ghost-busting crew to come to their house.
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Horrifying the Horror
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Horrifying the Horror: The ghosts get scared off when they mistake Mickey and friends covered in molasses and flour for much bigger, scarier ghosts.
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Who You Gonna Call?
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Who You Gonna Call?: Probably not these guys. Conventional weapons don't work as well for Ghostbusters as proton packs.
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Animation Bump
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Animation Bump: This is a very lavishly animated short in general, even by Classic Disney Shorts standards. The ghosts in particular have very impressive glow effects, transparency and fading.
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Not quite. The ghosts in question aren't so much lonesome as they are just bored that there wasn't anybody around their house to scare. (Since they already scared them off.)
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Cross-Dressing Voices
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Cross-Dressing Voices: In-Universe. Done in the actual short by one of the ghosts in order to trick Mickey and co. into coming to the house.
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Overly Long Gag
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Overly-Long Gag: Goofy looking at the ghost in the mirror.
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Standard Snippet
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Standard Snippet: "The World Owes me a Livin'", originally written for The Grasshopper and the Ants, later associated with Goofy beginning with "On Ice," plays in a minor key when Goofy looks at his "reflection" in the mirror.
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Rule of Funny
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Rule of Funny: The ghosts being afraid of other ghosts and seemingly forgetting that they are ghosts themselves. It's even funnier considering they outnumber the fake ghosts 4 to 3.
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Ghost Butler
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Ghost Butler: The front door falls over when Mickey and Co. knock on it. As they walk in, the door suddenly lifts itself up, flips over our heroes and replaces itself on the frame.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: Gee, Goofy, you didn't get the hint that your reflection was really one of the ghosts sooner? Of course, it is Goofy.
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Coincidental Accidental Disguise: Mickey and friends get covered with molasses and flour, making them look like ghosts, which scares away the real ghosts.
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Big Boo's Haunt
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Big Boo's Haunt
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Mind Screw
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Mind Screw: The part where Mickey is messing with the door, only for it to peel off the wall, fall on him, and then open up to have the Ghosts marching out of the floor to a classic army tune.
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Powder Gag
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Powder Gag: Ghost chasers Mickey, Donald, and Goofy spend the whole show getting trounced by tricky ghosts. In the end, all three get coated in molasses, syrup, and flour so they resemble ghosts, and they accidentally scare the real ghosts away.
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A Taste of Their Own Medicine
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A Taste of Their Own Medicine: As Donald said, the ghosts may love to scare people, but when it comes to being scared themselves, they're big sissies.
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Kicking My Own Butt
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Kicking My Own Butt: After Goofy tries to ambush a ghost hiding inside a dresser, he ends up fighting his own limbs inside the piece of furniture.
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Silly Spook
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Silly Spook: The ghosts only want to scare Mickey and the gang for laughs.
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Haunted House
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Haunted House: The cartoon takes place in the old McShiver mansion, which is occupied by the titular characters. In fact, the reason the ghosts call the trio in the first place is because no one has come to the house due to its reputation as this.
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