Chip 'N' Dale: Park Life

Gyro Gearloose cameo. More on-brand for that character than the DuckTales 2017 version at any rate. 3 stars.

Two And A Half Chipmunks

Okay, that was a weird cartoon. 2 1/2 stars.

Koi Ride

Also weird. This show is weird. 2 1/2 stars.

Episode Overall: 2 1/2 stars.

Something about bees and fascism. This cartoon is very hard to understand without dialogue. That is a failing. 1 star.

Minimalism

Incomprehensible for the same reasons. 1 star.

The Nutcracker

Are my entire reviews for the season going to boil down to me saying "Huh?" The show attempts plots that are too complex and need clarification through words to work. It's impossible to understand instead. 1 star.

Episode Overall: 1 star.

Kind of a gross scam. It's like Yelp for chipmunks. 3 stars.

Miracle Munk

For the record, it seems like characters legit died several times. Peg-Leg Pete is a menace. 4 stars.

Crime And Poultry

The turkey judge was giving me strong vibes of the Hyperchicken lawyer from Futurama.

I laughed at the muscled, bench-pressing snail convict too. 3 1/2 stars.

Episode Overall: 3 1/2 stars.

The frogs are both silly and weird. 4 stars.

Down Memory Lane

Donald is still a thing, but ripped Chip and Dale sort of make me throw up in my mouth a little. 3 stars.

Mini Golf Mayhem

Why is Donald kissing the money? Does he have any idea of where it's been? Totally gross.

Also, why is it blue? 2 1/2 stars.

Episode Overall: 3 stars.

The show is often SO hard for me to understand without dialogue. 1 1/2 stars.

Cruisin' For A Bruisin'

Return of Gyro Gearloose. Also blatant Steamboat Willie reference is blatant. 2 1/2 stars.

Tap That Sap

I don't much like the cartoon but even I can admit that when Chip and Dale hug each other in either joy or terror it's pretty much adorable. 3 stars.

Episode Overall: 2 1/2 stars.

You know what? I HATE "self-improvement" gifts. If somebody gives you a gym membership as a present, really that is nothing but a veiled insult. It should be viewed as such.

Interestingly, it's this premise (among other things) that has led me to believe the Chip and Dale on this show are an actual couple. Sharing a bed is another thing as it the alarming amount of face nuzzling they do. It's sort of cute. 5 stars.

Beetlemania

Weird premise. 3 stars.

Nut My Parcel

Like many of the shorts, it's incomprehensible to me without dialogue. 1 1/2 stars.

Episode Overall: 3 1/2 stars.

That is one funny-lookin' pig.

I am both amused and disturbed that we see several clear shots of his puckered anus.

We sure this show isn't Japanese? 3 stars.

Beauty And The Butch

Not just Pluto appearing, but Butch, and even Fifi too. Some Disney Deep Cuts there. 3 1/2 stars.

Are We Nut Enough?

This adds further fuel to the fire that Chip and Dale are an actual couple on this show.

Initially the awkwardness of the reunion in the animal diner was played sort of like an Indie film. I saw what it was channeling there even if things turned goofy soon enough. 3 stars.

Episode Overall: 3 stars.

I imagine it must be easier to cast actors for Donald Duck when they don't actually have to enunciate real words.

Daisy appears, first in a cutaway indoors (rare) and in a scene with no cartoon animals (unheard of till now).

Cute enough. 4 stars.

Farm Life

The parts that weren't boring were gross. 1 1/2 stars.

The Apprentices

Harmless enough, but that isn't something I was itching to see parodied. I kind of want to forget about it. 2 stars.

Episode Overall: 2 1/2 stars.

Once I saw the raven take out the picture of Magica De Spell I sat up and took immediate notice and interest. The character's name wasn't listed in the end credits, but I knew I was gonna check Wikipedia to find out for sure. If the character was named Ratface from the Uncle Scrooge comics, the show is awesome. If he's Mr. Poe / Poe DeSpell from the lousy DuckTales cartoons instead, it's lame. The hat shoulda been the dead giveaway. It's lame.

It kills me that absolutely nobody currently making Disney cartoons is on the same side of the Disney Comics Duck Wars as I am. It is lonely being a Barks and Rosa purist in 2023. 2 stars.

Duck Pluck:

You know what? This was pretty mean and nasty. Also, where did Chip get a cell phone? 1 star.

Nuts And Dragons

Thankfully more cool Middle-Earth / D&D than awful Game Of Thrones. But the grim seeming fake-out deaths were definitely a parody of the third thing. 3 stars.

Episode Overall: 2 stars.

Boring. 2 stars.

The Housesitter

Boring 2 stars.

Keep Smiling

Boring. Are you sensing a theme here? Normally if a show comprised of three cartoons in a single episode does one overarching theme in all three shorts, I'm impressed, but "That was dull as dirt," is not a story premise I demanded, much less one I am happy to see repeated twice more. 2 stars.

Episode Overall: 2 stars.

This made no sense. They are old at the end but then they are not?

I did like the resolution that Dale was only pretending to like the much-hyped cactus and secretly thought it was as sucky as he knew it would be. 2 1/2 stars.

Dale And Daler

It's not just the red nose that you will need to make that guise work, Chip. You will also need a second buck tooth, and for them to be spaced out of the opposite upper sides of the mouth. 2 1/2 stars.

Time Traveler: Part 1

Okay, by the end, that wound up a LOT more comprehensible than it had any right to be. This is not a plot that should be attempted by a show with no dialogue.

But the cliffhanger isn't resolved in the next part? Disney didn't bother putting the conclusion in ANY of the episodes it dropped? That seem like a mistake to anyone else?

Still, points for me being able to follow a complex plot for once. The show almost always sucks at that specific thing. 3 1/2 stars.

Episode Overall: 3 stars.

You know what? That was WAY too dark. Huey, Dewey, and Louie wailing in misery over their Unca Donald being missing and presumed dead? Not cool. At all. 1 star.

The Gift

Also creepy and disturbing. Remember when this show used to be cute? 1 star.

Pest Friends

Donald is portrayed as far too evil in the first half of this. Worse, the episode can't decide if his later repentance is a good thing or not. Messed up cartoon in an entirely messed up episode. 1 star.

Episode Overall: 1 star.

I think the Mickey cast was a deliberate nod to "Pluto's Christmas Tree". Fun Fact kids today might not know: "Pluto's Christmas Tree" is actually one of the most famous Disney cartoons in history. It's never cited in best of lists, or as a major part of the studios history, but I would not be surprised if more people have seen it than ANY other Disney short. I grew up the 1980's and I don't know if young people will understand this, but Disney cartoons were scarce back them. You could see compilations on VHS tapes or on the then Premium cable channel The Disney Channel. But back then Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Caspar, Mighty Mouse, all the big classic cartoons could be either seen in syndication or Saturday morning. Disney hoarded those cartoons instead. I feel a similar level of perplexity in 2023 over how the Beatles estate has hoarded that band's music and made it unaffordable to hear in movies or TV shows, which is how a LOT of young people first hear and connect to classic music. Disney merch was big in the 1980's, but until Disney Television Animation got started with Gummi Bears and Wuzzles, cartoons were scarce.

Once in a while The Wonderful World of Disney aired a compilation of classic shorts. VERY rarely. There were also "Sport Goofy" syndicated specials. But as a rule the only real Disney cartoon shorts we saw with any regularity was that and the Donald Snowball fight one because those two aired every year before "Mickey's Christmas Carol" on NBC. Neither of those shorts made cartoon history. But I would bet money that more people have seen them than EVER saw Steamboat Willie, The Band Concert, Clock Cleaners, or Lonesome Ghosts. So yeah, I appreciate the vibes here. 4 stars.

Hark! The Squirrel Sings:

It's to the episode's credit that the song is not distinctive enough to become an earworm after the fact and stuck in my head. But it's still awful and makes the cartoon unpleasant to watch and listen to. 1 star.

The Christmas Roast:

The show has a real problem being dialogue free. For this short for example I couldn't remotely understand what message they were trying to send the audience by the things shown. Cartoons CAN work without dialogue (see Shaun The Sheep for a great example of that). This show often sucks because it sometimes can't do it. 1 1/2 stars.

Episode Overall: 3 stars.