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The Band Concert

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The first color Mickey Mouse cartoon, and still one of his most popular of the Classic Disney Shorts, "The Band Concert" is a 1935 cartoon in which Mickey attempts to conduct Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell Overture" at an outdoor picnic. But he is frequently interrupted by Donald Duck, who keeps distracting the band into playing "Turkey in the Straw" with his infinite arsenal of flutes. Hilarity Ensues.
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Near the end the entire orchestra hangs from a large tree, resembling a Christmas tree.
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Visual Pun
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Visual Pun: Peter Pig, having lost layer after layer of clothing to tree branches, finally falls naked into a barrel (i.e., a pork barrel).
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Only Sane Man
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Also Mickey himself. It can be a bit jarring for a viewer used to the mild mannered Only Sane Man character he later became to see him outright lose his temper and break Donald's fifes.
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Screwball Squirrel
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Mostly with Donald's long-billed appearance. Donald also seems to be almost a toned-down Screwball Squirrel archetype here, and is much shorter than Mickey.
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Got Me Doing It
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Got Me Doing It: Some of the band members actually start playing along with Donald's rendition of "Turkey in the Straw". Mickey is not happy.
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The Unintelligible
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The Unintelligible: Donald, as always.
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Hammerspace
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Hammerspace: Donald draws most of his flutes out of nowhere, including one from underneath his hat.
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Funnel Cloud Journey
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Funnel Cloud Journey: Mickey and his band get sucked up by the tornado, and finish the concert inside of it.
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Skewed Priorities
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Skewed Priorities: When a tornado starts raging through the park, Mickey and the band continue playing instead of running for their lives.
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Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud
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Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud: The tornado sucks up things by engulfing them or by aiming the bottom of the funnel like a vacuum cleaner.
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Early-Installment Weirdness
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Mostly with Donald's long-billed appearance. Donald also seems to be almost a toned-down Screwball Squirrel archetype here, and is much shorter than Mickey. Also Mickey himself. It can be a bit jarring for a viewer used to the mild mannered Only Sane Man character he later became to see him outright lose his temper and break Donald's fifes.
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The Smurfette Principle
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The Smurfette Principle: Clarabelle Cow is the only female member of the band.
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Public Domain Soundtrack
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Public Domain Soundtrack: Mostly Rossini's "William Tell Overture", but also snippets of "Turkey in the Straw" and "The Streets of Cairo".
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Mime and Music-Only Cartoon
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Mime and Music-Only Cartoon: With the exception of Donald, none of the characters in the short have any lines of dialogue. There is some angry "Get outta here" shouting from the crowd at the end though, but the crowd was off-screen.
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Serious Business
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Serious Business: What started as Donald's relatively harmless hijacking of Mickey's performance quickly deranged into physical assaults with musical instruments and ice cream.
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Amusing Injuries
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Amusing Injuries: Horace Horsecollar hits a colleague instrumentalist, Goofy, with his cymbals and a hammer in an attempt to kill an annoying bee.
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Walking Out on the Show
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Walking Out on the Show: Subverted. The audience leaves not because they hate the show, but because they're wisely fleeing from an approaching tornado. When Mickey finishes, the only one left applauding is Donald.
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Mickey conducts a music band for an outdoor concert.
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Squirrels in My Pants
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Squirrels in My Pants: A scoop of ice cream falls down the back of Mickey's coat, and his wiggling leads the band to segue into "The Streets of Cairo". Mickey swatting at a bee during a quiet oboe solo causes the entire band to suddenly play with extremely loud and staccato notes.
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Cartoon Conductor
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Cartoon Conductor: Several variations. Mickey shaking out a scoop of ice-cream down his shirt causes the band to break into "The Streets of Cairo". Then when he swats at a bee during a slow section, the band plays faster. Finally, as they are swirling inside a tornado, Mickey motions the band to stop, and the tornado itself stops.
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My God, What Have I Done?
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My God, What Have I Done?: Downplayed, but Horace looks ashamed when he hits Goofy with his cymbals while trying to smash a bee with them. And even more so when he does the same with a hammer.
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Standard Snippet
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A scoop of ice cream falls down the back of Mickey's coat, and his wiggling leads the band to segue into "The Streets of Cairo".
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Animate Inanimate Object
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Animate Inanimate Object: Even the benches run away when the tornado appears.
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Bee Afraid
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Bee Afraid: Even in the early shorts, Donald has some pretty poor luck with bees.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: Mickey's reaction when he turns the next page of the "William Tell Overture" and sees the extremely complex section called "The Storm". The audience and Donald when they see the tornado coming.
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Mickey Mousing
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Mickey Mousing: Despite a lot of the music coming from on-screen instruments, there is still a lot of this going on.
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Ship Tease
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Ship Tease: Goofy and Clarabelle look at each other in a flirty manner as they play their respective wind instruments in the Ranz des Vaches part. They even bring their clarinet and flute together so that they can briefly play both.
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Empathic Environment
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Empathic Environment: Parodied. When Mickey and his band are being carried away by the tornado, he summons the band to stop... and the tornado stops as well!
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The Show Must Go Wrong
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The Show Must Go Wrong: Between Donald disrupting the concert, a bee getting in the way of Mickey's conducting and a tornado sweeping everyone away, Mickey and the gang don't seem to be having much luck.
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Determinator
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Determinator: Mickey and the whole band will finish the song, even if they have to do it while caught in a tornado. And Donald will finish playing Turkey in the Straw, no matter how many of his flutes Mickey destroys.
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Shake Someone, Objects Fall
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Shake Someone, Objects Fall: Donald gets caught in a trombone slide and dozens of fifes fall out of his shirt.
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Battle Strip
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Battle Strip: Horace Horsecollar removes his shirt when the band gets to "The Storm" section of the music, likely because Goofy just got himself all sweaty by playing his clarinet at a fast tempo. His teeth clatter in the cold wind as soon as he starts drumming, though.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: Mickey's sleeves are too long and keep falling over his hands and baton. His hat also keeps falling over his eyes. Donald playing "Turkey in the Straw" on his fifes.
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