Mickey Mouse lies in bed like a lord, getting served breakfast by man's (and mouse's?) best friend Pluto as gentleman's gentleman. Next duty is to fetch the paper, but also pay for it with a coin for the vending machine, and those round things have a nasty habit of escaping a dog's teeth and bouncing over the pavement till they end up in the gutter. After enough attempts to fish and spend the penny, Pluto has a newspaper to carry the same way. The wind has a nasty way to get a better grip on page after page then the dog, so by the time he delivers the daily dose of printed news it's an embarrassingly muddy mess.
Sound
Pluto's escalating panic in pure vocal performance
Director
Clyde Geronimi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Clyde Geronimi directed this during Disney's legendary 'golden age' of shorts, when Pluto solo cartoons peaked.
The 'gentleman's gentleman' concept parodies British class systems—pretty bold for a mouse in 1941 America.
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