Cured Duck

When Donald is unable to open a window to get rid of his cigar smoke, he goes ballistic. He absolutely destroys Daisy's house. She orders him to get some help with his temper or she will not go out with him anymore. He signs up for a temper control class. Of course, we know that there will be consequences. This one is pretty good, just for the full blown tirade he goes on.

One of my favourite Donald Duck cartoons. The gags are spot-on here, right from the beginning with Donald destroying Daisy's house, Donald taking the radio's insults to help control his temper and especially the fun ending involving Daisy, a ridiculous-looking hat and a complete reverse of events. The animation is as ever colourful and the background art is suitably fluid, and the music is perfect, action-enhancing, full of energy and very dynamic especially when Donald loses his temper. The story is simple and perhaps familiar territory yet crisp and always fun, almost a nice mix of Self Control and Modern Inventions. As for the two characters, Donald is as temperamental and likable as ever, and Daisy matches him in every way, looking remarkably detached as Donald destroys her house yet her temper is almost as bad as his. All in all, a great cartoon, one of my favourites and one of Donald's funniest. 10/10 Bethany Cox

If you see it as one of Donald Duck cartoons, yes, it is more than nice. If you discover it as a reasonable reflection of couple relations, it is just brilliant. Short, a seductive short animation about temper, ladies, effort to be loved and not the best cure.

This is another hilarious Donald Duck cartoon, where Donald attempts to control his temper after trashing Daisy's house as a result of not being able to open her living room window for her. Daisy promises not to see him again until he cures his temper.

The laughs piles as Donald orders a machine that hurls insult after insult to him and will declare Donald cured if he can endure the machine for 10 minutes without losing his temper. What results are classic slapstick humor and gags one after the other, from Donald getting his ears blasted with loud noise to him being socked in the face. Him trashing Daisy's house was also hilarious.

Daisy also gets a little temper-tantrum as well - very funny as she quarrels with Donald. Funny stuff here - one of the best Donald and Daisy cartoons!

Grade A

A Walt Disney DONALD DUCK Cartoon

Daisy demands that Donald become a CURED DUCK - cured of his ungovernable temper if he wishes to keep seeing her.

Any cartoon which has Donald's rages as its main theme has got to be funny, and this one certainly is. The Insult Machine (from the Tootsberry Institute of Temperism) is an inspired creation and worth of inclusion in the Duck's classic MODERN INVENTIONS (1937). Big Roy Williams, later one of the adult members of The Mickey Mouse Club on TV, scripted this film. Clarence Nash gives Donald his unique voice.

Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a storm of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.