Let's Stick Together (cartoon)
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''Let's Stick Together'' is a 1952
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featuring
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and Spike the Bee. It was released by
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Plot

An aged Donald Duck is working as a park custodian. An elderly Spike the Bee lives in a tree, where he is sitting on his rocking chair smoking a pipe. Spike recalls that years ago, he actually worked with Donald, then flashes back to a time when both were young and struggling. Spike had been perusing help wanted ads of a discarded newspaper when Donald claims it for
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. The spiked stick Donald uses to collect garbage inspires Spike to try something, remarking "I had a talent I never knew" and realized that he could use his own stinger to do the same. Spike does Donald's work, which inspires Donald to try new ideas. Donald then sells balloons to children at a
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while telling Spike to then pop them for unnecessary repeat business, but this comes to an end when Spike also ruins a balloon-dance sideshow. Donald then takes his business to Navy boys when the ship pulls in, where Spike uses his stinger to
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them. Realizing that Spike can rapidly switch colors with his stinger, Donald is inspired to try his grand idea of
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production, where Spike is hooked up to a multi-spooler and makes various cloth items. The huge demand wears out Spike, who requests a vacation "somewhere in the country". Donald grants this by providing a greenhouse, to which Spike recalls "that man was a genius, he brought the country to me!". When a female bee is frolicking in the greenhouse, then Spike falls in love with her, prompting him to deface all the clothes with hearts and messages of love. Angered that his business is ruined, Donald deduces the cause of the problem and attempts to swat the girl bee. Spike then recalls "the thing that brought us together was about to rift us apart", aims his stinger at Donald, and stings him, and recues the female bee. The scene returns to the present, where Donald approaches Spike about a job. Spike has no interest in that, saying how he has enjoyed wedded bliss for years. Spike's wife then throws pots and pans in a rage, shrewishly ranting how Spike does nothing at home except sit in that rocking chair while she cooks and cleans. Spike then answers Donald "Well, what are you waiting for?" as both run off to resume their business partnership.


Voice cast

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Clarence Nash Clarence Charles "Ducky" Nash (December 7, 1904 – February 20, 1985) was an American voice actor and impressionist. He is best remembered as the original voice of the Disney cartoon character Donald Duck. He was born in the rural community of W ...
as Donald Duck * Bill Thompson as Spike *
June Foray June Foray (born June Lucille Forer; September 18, 1917 – July 26, 2017) was an American Voice acting, voice actress and radio personality, best known as the voice of such animation, animated characters as Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Natasha F ...
as Spike's wife


Home media

The short was released on November 11, 2008 on '' Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Four: 1951-1961''. It was also later made available to stream on
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References


External links

* 1952 films 1950s Disney animated short films Donald Duck short films Films produced by Walt Disney 1950s English-language films 1950s American films Films scored by Oliver Wallace English-language short films 1952 animated short films {{1950s-US-film-stub