History WesternAnimation / ModernInventions

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Upon activating the Automatic Bundle-Wrapper, Donald attempts to flee upon seeing arms coming to grab him but is quickly caught by the dangerous machine. Later on, he attempts to leave the baby carriage when it throws milk to his face, but the carriage locks him in order to not let the "baby" fall from itself.

The short begins with Donald deciding to visit "The Museum of Modern Marvels", which showcases various futuristic electronic appliances and inventions, and enters the museum for free thanks to his trusty coin in a string.

** The robot butler doesn't take it well if a visitor is breaking the rules, chasing Donald when he rebels by wearing a civil war kerpi hat upon having his napoleon hat stolen.

* EveryoneHasStandards: While the museum doesn't usually have warnings about the robots defects, even it finds the Automatic Bundle-Wrapper to be extremely dangerous and has a warning in front of it to warn the visitors to not touch it, which Donald ignores.

* HumiliationConga: The very final new invention Donald Duck comes across is a robot barber chair that cuts hair. Donald uses a coin-on-a-string to fool the machine into having a haircut for free : but it goes horribly wrong when the machine flips Donald upside down and starts to trim his butt. While in the middle of being molested by the machine he gets a shoeshined face. The cartoon ends with Donald having a shiny black face and a trimmed butt that's now wearing his hat, which to add insult to injury, is taken away by the robot butler, leaving him without any hats left. One wonders what he may have tried to do to get home after he left the Museum of Modern Marvels.
* {{Manchild}}: Upon realizing that he hid on a robotic baby carriage, Donald decides to act as a brat while he stays on it.
* PackedHero: Donald is wrapped in cellophane by a gift wrapping machine.

** On the baby carriage, Donald duck is accidentally pinched in the ass when the automatic baby carriage puts a diaper on him.
** The robotic barber chair turns Donald upside-down, ties a towel around his feathery fanny and gives his tail feathers an unwanted trim and heats his rear end with a hot towel.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Just after taking Donald's Napoleonic hat, the Robot Butler's eye turns red with anger after witnessing Donald with a civil war kerpi insulting him, and began chasing Donald, much to his horror.

* HostileHitchhiker: The Hitch-Hiker's Aid pokes Donald's eyes, but to be fair, Donald tricked him into coming out of his briefcase and laughted at him.

* HostileHitchhiker: The Hitch-Hiker's Aid pokes Donald's eyes, but to be fair, Donald tricked him into coming out of his briefcase.

** The robot butler doesn't take it well if a visitor is breaking the rules, chasing Donald when he disobeys it wearing a civil war kerpi hat.

* {{Hammerspace}}: Donald keeps pulling out hats out of seemingly nowhere.

* HumiliationConga: The very final new invention Donald Duck comes across is a robot barber chair that cuts hair. Donald uses a coin-on-a-string to fool the machine into having a haircut for free : but it goes horribly wrong when the machine flips Donald upside down and starts to trim his butt. While in the middle of being molested by the machine he gets a shoeshined face. The cartoon ends with Donald having a shiny black face and a trimmed butt that's now wearing his hat, which to add insult to the injury, is taken away by the robot butler, leaving him without any hats left. One wonders what he may have tried to do to get home after he left the Museum of Modern Marvels.
* {{Manchild}}: Donald while he stays on the automatic baby carriage.
* PainToTheAss: The robotic barber chair turns Donald upside-down, ties a towel around his feathery fanny and gives his tail feathers an unwanted trim and heats his rear end with a hot towel.
* RaisedByRobots: The automatic baby carriage is designed with this intention.

* RunningGag: The robot butler taking Donald's hats, with each time Donald summoning another one.

* PainToTheAss: The robotic barber chair turns Donald upside-down, ties a towel around his feathery fanny and gives his tail feathers an unwanted trim.

* NiceHat: Besides his iconic sailor hat, Donald summons various hats through the episode, but almost all of them are taken away from him by the robot butler, with the sole exception of the civil war kerpi.

[[caption-width-right:350:Your hat sir!]]

The short finishes with Donald attempting to scam a robotic barber chair with the same stingy coin he used to enter the museum and winds up getting a haircut on his behind and a shoe-shined bill.

* CoinOnAStringTrick: Donald uses one to enter the museum for free. Later, near the ending, he tries the same trick with a robotic barber chair to get a free haircut, but ends up being having a bad haircut.

* HumiliationConga: The very final new invention Donald Duck comes across is a robot barber chair that cuts hair. Donald uses a coin-on-a-string to fool the machine into cutting his feathers for nothing : but it goes horribly wrong when the machine flips Donald upside down and starts to trim his butt. While in the middle of being molested by the machine he gets a shoeshined face. The cartoon ends with Donald having a shiny black face and a trimmed butt that's now wearing his hat, which to add insult to the injury, is taken away by the robot butler, leaving him without any hats left. One wonders what he may have tried to do to get home after he left the Museum of Modern Marvels.

* NiceHat: Besides his iconic sailor hat, Donald summons various hats through the episode, but all of them are taken away from him by the robot butler.

* HumiliationConga: The very final new invention Donald Duck comes across is a robot barber chair that cuts hair. Donald uses a coin-on-a-string to fool the machine into cutting his feathers for nothing : but it goes horribly wrong when the machine flips Donald upside down and starts to trim his butt. While in the middle of being molested by the machine he gets a shoeshined face. The cartoon ends with Donald having a shiny black face and a trimmed butt that's now wearing his hat, which to add insult to the injury, is taken away by the robot butler, leaving him without any hats left.]] One wonders what he may have tried to do to get home after he left the Museum of Modern Marvels.

* GagHaircut: Donald gets an embarrassing haircut on his butt and gets his face painted in black polish face after he tries to scam the robot chair
* GooGooGetup: While hiding in the automated baby carriage, Donald changes hit hat to a baby bonnet and decides to play the role of an infant to test the carriage.

* GooGooGetup: While hiding in the automated baby carriage, Donald changes hit hat to a baby bonnet and decides to play the role as an infant to test the carriage.

* CoinOnAStringTrick: Donald uses one to enter the museum for free. Later, near the ending, he tries the same trick with a robotic barberchair to get a free haircut, but ends up being having a bad haircut.

* Manchild: Donald while he stays on the automatic baby carriage.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Just after taking Donald's Napoleonic hat, the Robot Butler's eye turns red with anger after witnessing Donald with a civil war kerpi insulting him, and began chasing Donald much to his horror.

''Modern Inventions'' is a 1937 animated short film from Creator/{{Disney}}, directed by Jack King. It is notorious for having the first contribution of Carl Barks in the Franchise/DonaldDuck franchise, and being the final Disney short to be released by United Artists.

* AdultsDressedAsChildren: While hiding in the automated baby carriage, Donald changes hit hat to a baby bonnet and decides to play the role as an infant to test the carriage.

* CyberCyclops: The robot butler is a one-eyed robot footman. He's not evil, but is rather imposing... and insists on taking one's hat, much to Donald's chagrin.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Just after taking Donald's napoleonic hat, the Robot Butler's eye turns red of anger after witnessing Donald with a civil war kerpi insulting him, and began chasing Donald much to his horror.

The short begins with Donald deciding to visit "The Museum of Modern Marvels", which showcases various futuristic electronic appliances and inventions, and enters the museum for free thanks to his trusty coin in a string. In the museum, Donald encounters and struggles with many strange and whimsical machines, such as a butler robot that constantly chases him and takes away his many hats, a robotic hitch-hiker that pokes him after tricking it, a wrapping machine that is actually dangerous and whose warning Donald ignores, and a fully-automated baby carriage that is a bit overprotective. The short finishes with Donald attempting to scam a robotic barber chair with the same stingy coin he used to enter the museum and winds up getting a haircut on his behind and a shoe-shined bill.

''Modern Inventions'' is a 1937 animated short film from Creator/{{Disney}}, directed by Jack King.

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* CantYouReadTheSign: Donald tosses away the museum's warning that the Automatic Bundle-Wrapper is too dangerous to use and activates the machine anyway. As a result, the machine traps him and wraps him in plastic.

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