The Simple Things is a Mickey Mouse cartoon that was released on March 27 1953, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Charles Nichols. This cartoon is notable for being the last theatrical short starring Mickey Mouse during the series' original run.

Synopsis

When Mickey and Pluto go to the beach for a relaxing fishing trip, they have to deal with a crabby clam and a greedy seagull.

Characters

• Mickey Mouse (voiced by Jimmy MacDonald)
• Pluto (voiced by Pinto Colvig; one bark by Clarence Nash)
• Seagull (voiced by Clarence Nash)
• Pack Of Seagulls (voiced by Clarence Nash)
• Clam (voiced by Jimmy MacDonald)
• Starfish (voiced by Jimmy MacDonald)

Releases

Television

• Disneyland, episode #3.12: "Pluto's Day"
• The New Mickey Mouse Club, October 31, 1977
• Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald, episode #19
• Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald, episode #53
• Good Morning, Mickey, episode #1
• Donald Duck Presents, episode #19
• The Disney Day Off: Adventures with Mickey
• Walt Disney's Wet and Wild
• Mickey's Mouse Tracks, episode #7
• Donald's Quack Attack, episode #7
• The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.2: "Mickey Landmarks"
• Have a Laugh!, episode #29
• Treasures from the Disney Vault, July 2, 2015

Home video

VHS

• Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Limited Gold Editions: Mickey (1968 reissue print without Buena Vista logo)
• The Cartoon Collection
• Walt Disney Cartoon Classics - Special Edition: Happy Summer Days (1968 reissue print without Buena Vista logo)

Laserdisc

• Walt Disney Cartoon Classics - Special Edition: Happy Summer Days / Fun on the Job! / The Goofy World of Sports

DVD

• Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color, Volume 2

Blu-ray

• Celebrating Mickey

Streaming

• Disney+: November 12, 2019

Have a Laugh! changes

The following scenes were deleted from the short release due to time constraints:

• The opening shot is halved, cutting out the seagulls flying away as Mickey and Pluto pass by.
• Pluto's encounter with a starfish.
• The clam hiding at the sight of Pluto.
• Pluto struggling to get the clam out of his mouth.
• Pluto, in trying to explain he has a clam in his mouth, Mickey interprets that as him wanting to something to eat and giving him a sausage, which the clam eats instead, after which it spits water in Mickey's face.
• Mickey giving Pluto another sausage, only for the seagull to eat it instead.
• The seagull's first attempt at catching one of Mickey's fish used for bait, resulting in it getting hit on a rock.
• The entire scene with Mickey and Pluto's collective struggle with the seagull; it cuts from the seagull hovering over Mickey and Pluto to it diving into the bucket of bait.
• Mickey throwing a rock into the bucket of bait as the seagull flies off with it so that it weighs down the bucket.
• The seagull telling the other seagulls about the "free fresh fish".
• Pluto barking at the seagulls as they come to attack Mickey and Pluto, before Mickey decides they should beat a retreat.

Gallery

Trivia

• This was the last Mickey Mouse cartoon to be produced by Walt Disney himself and also the last to feature Jimmy MacDonald as the voice of the lead character.
• This would be the last Mickey Mouse cartoon for 30 years, until 1983's Mickey's Christmas Carol was released.
• This is one of the few Mickey Mouse cartoons to feature an original song called "The Simple Things".
• Early storyboard sketches reveal that this short was originally titled "Boy Meets Gull" during its production.
• In a Disney Channel broadcast, the opening music was heard, but the title card was cut out and replaced by a new animated scene and the other scenes were cut.

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