Pluto's Judgement Day is a color Mickey Mouse short released in 1935. In spite of it being billed as a Mickey Mouse cartoon, though, Mickey himself barely appears in the short.
Summary
When Mickey catches Pluto chasing a kitten, he angrily punishes his dog, who falls asleep by the fire and dreams that he is put on trial in Hell by a judge and jury of vindictive cats.
He is found guilty of several crimes against cats, which involve the cats being scared or dying, which is surprisingly dark for a Disney cartoon. As he is about to be burned to death, he awakens with a newfound appreciation for the kitten after Mickey tells them to "kiss and make up".
Characters
Releases
Television
- The Mickey Mouse Club, episode #3.24
- The Mouse Factory, episode #2.8: "Cats"
- A Disney Halloween
- Mickey's Mouse Tracks, episode #42
- Donald's Quack Attack, episode #23
- The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.27: "Meow! The Disney Cats"
Home video
VHS
- Disney's Halloween Treat
- Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Scary Tales
- Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Halloween Haunts
Laserdisc
- Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Scary Tales
- Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Donald's Scary Tales / Halloween Haunts
DVD
- Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color
Trivia
- An infamous and disturbing scene that was removed from most TV airings but for some reason kept in home video versions showed a trio of female kittens singing about Pluto drowning their Uncle Tom and bringing in his grave (at which all nine of his lost souls emerge and dance) as evidence. This was due to racism, the three black kittens resemble black face girls and Uncle Tom is an obvious reference to The Song of the South's main character a black slave with the same name.
- Billy Bletcher, the first voice of Pete, voiced the cat prosecutor (a demonic-looking cat dressed in red robes), while Clarence Nash, the first voice of Donald Duck, voiced the cat judge and the kitten Pluto was harassing at the start of the short, he would later go on to voice the Cat conductor, and a devilish version of Spike in Tom & Jerry Cartoon Heavenly Puss.
- The gates leading to Hell resemble the Cave of Wonders.
- The short was spoofed in The Simpsons episode "How Munched is that Birdie in the Window?" as the Itchy and Scratchy short "Dogday Hellody of 1933".
- This marks the first appearance of a newly-redesigned Mickey Mouse, who now has a pear-shaped body to appear more flexible.
- A Tom and Jerry cartoon called Heavenly Puss bears some resemblance to Pluto's Judgment Day in the end, except a cat is threatened by a demonic dog.
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