![]() ![]() ![]() Pluto discovers that Spike is able to get into a bubble gum machine and pull out a gumball that he takes to his hive. The short was adapted into a one page story in rhyme drawn by Don Gunn in Walt Disney Comics and Stories #92 (1948)īubble Bee (1949): Directed by Charles Nichols. The original title for the cartoon was Bees in Your Plants. He gets tormented by Donald but eventually invites the other bees from his hive inside to sting Donald’s rear end. Spike is pollinating flowers in the garden outside Donald’s house and mistakes the flowered wallpaper in the house for real flowers. Inferior Decorator (1948): Directed by Jack Hannah. Here is a filmography of the classic cartoons that featured Spike: If not for the fact that Disney was getting out of the business of making theatrical cartoons in the 1950s, Spike might have ended up with his own series like Pluto, Humphrey the Bear and others. In fact, Dale’s large clownish nose was borrowed for Spike to make the character more appealing and childlike. The design for Spike owes a lot to Bill Justice who animated on most of Hannah’s cartoons especially the ones featuring Chip’n’Dale. I’m sure the manufacturer never thought it would make the sound of bees for a Walt Disney cartoon.” MacDonald told me, “This condom, which I had my young assistant buy for me at a drug store is the only thing exactly the right thickness and resonance that worked. That bee-talk was the work of Disney sound effects expert Jimmy MacDonald who always found unusual solutions to difficult problems like creating the sound effect of Maleficient’s dragon breathing fire by using a military flame thrower.įor Spike and his bee companions, MacDonald made the sound of the bees by blowing through a rubber tube and rubbing on a taut rubber membrane stretched across an old wooden spool. They can cuss you out with that little bee noise.” You can get a funny sound effect out of a bee. Probably the idea was that the bee is a menace with that stinger as a weapon and is much smaller than the Duck so it would be funny having the little guy battling a big bully. “We used a bee character we called ‘Buzz Buzz’ a lot to antagonize the Duck. There are only so many stories you can come up with for him but if you have a strong supporting cast that provides so many more interesting springboards for stories. Jack Hannah in my first interview with him told me that when he became a director on the Donald Duck shorts that “One of the first things I did was begin to find some foils for the Duck. In the Chip’n’Dale Rescue Rangers episode entitled Risky Beesness, there is a swarm of bees that resemble Spike. However, by the end, he saves Mickey from an angry swarm of bees. In Bee Inspired, Spike continually disrupts Mickey from posing for Minnie’s painting. ![]() In recent years, the Spike character has reappeared in episodes of the animated series Mickey Mouse Clubhouse ( Goofy’s Bird, Minnie’s Bee Story, Mickey’s Little Parade) and in the Disney Channel Mickey Mouse short cartoons ( Bee Inspired, New Shoes). Spike the Bee is an appealing little character who appeared in a supporting role in several Disney animated shorts released during the 1950s. ![]()
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