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1Let's just say many Disney Cartoons have some funny moments, but these ones stand out.
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3!!Shorts with their own Pages:
4* ''Funny/DerFuehrersFace''
5* ''Funny/LonesomeGhosts''
6* ''Funny/TheMadDoctor''
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8* Mickey Mouse, of all characters, [[OutOfCharacterMoment threatening Donald Duck with a gun]] in "Symphony Hour"!
9* The ferocious climax of the Goofy cartoon "Hockey Homicide", which throws in rapid-fire images from past Disney cartoons ([[GretzkyHasTheBall many of them sports-themed]]), including a brief appearance by Monstro the whale from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}''!
10** The RunningGag involving Icebox Bertino and Fearless Ferguson, the star players of their respective teams that continually get into a fight (strangling one another and beating one another with their hockey sticks), getting sent to the penalty box, then getting right back into a fight once they are released.
11-->'''Sportscaster:''' Here come Bertino and Ferguson out of the penalty box...\
12''(fight commences between them; referee blows whistle and sends them back into penalty box)''\
13'''Sportscaster:''' ...and there go Bertino and Ferguson back into the penalty box.
14* Two instances occur in the WartimeCartoon "WesternAnimation/TheVanishingPrivate":
15** The priceless expression on the general's face when he shakes his head no after Pete asks him if he has seen "a little guy [Donald] that you can't see".
16** At the very end, Pete is in a cell, wearing a straitjacket, [[{{Irony}} with the now-visible Donald guarding him!]]
17--->'''Pete:''' I ain't crazy! You know I ain't crazy! Go tell the general that I ain't crazy.\
18'''Donald:''' Do you think ''I'm'' crazy?
19* In "Pluto's Party", Pluto opens the gate only to be trampled on my a horde of mice children who knock the front gate down. When the leave near the end, the gate stands back up on its own.
20* Nearly all of ''Goofy Gymnastics''.
21* In ''The Plowboy'', we see a pig, chicken and goat running Horace and the runaway plow from as they crash into a tree and get combined into some weird hybrid creature.
22* A lot of moments in ''WesternAnimation/GetAHorse'', but special mention goes to the scene where a CGI Horace walks up on the stage wearing modern t-shirt (themed to Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}, which Disney had only recently bought!) while eating popcorn.
23** Also Mickey finding a smartphone Horace took, with a guy on the other end shouting "Give me back my phone!".
24* In ''Hawaiian Holiday'', when Goofy finally succeeds in surfing a recalcitrant wave, after he shouts triumphantly, "Hey, look! I made it!", a voice is heard saying, "Oh yeah?", before the wave throws Goofy off again. It's possible that it was ''the wave itself'' that said this line.
25* The flypaper sequence in ''Playful Pluto''. There's a reason it was used on ''Film/SullivansTravels'' to show the power of laughter.
26* In ''Mr. Mouse Takes A Trip'':
27** Pete's unintelligible babbling as he announces the train stops.
28** Mickey tries to sneak Pluto away from Pete disguised as a conductor. The line Mickey speaks in a deep voice was voiced by Billy Bletcher rather than Walt Disney.
29--->'''Pete''': ''Hey''! Did you see a mutt and a little runt around here?
30--->'''Mickey''' ''(normal voice)'': Yeah! They went- ''(clears throat and changes to a deep voice)'' ''They went that way.''
31--->'''Pete''': Thanks, conductor. ''(beat)'' ''Conductor?!'' W-why that's me!
32** There's also this exchange between Pete and Mickey, when the former is suspicious of the latter trying to hide Pluto and tries to ferret him out. It's especially funny when you see Billy Bletcher voice recording.
33--->'''Pete''': ''(to Mickey)'' So, it's ''you'', huh?\
34'''Mickey''': ''(laughs nervously)'' Yeah, it's me, I guess.\
35'''Pete''': All alone, without your dog.\
36'''Mickey''': Yeah, all alone, heh-heh.\
37'''Pete''': You know, I used to have a little cat once. And when it was left all alone, it'd cry... ''[[LargeHam MEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW]]''!\
38''(Pluto pops out of Mickey's suitcase, barking wildly, [[OhCrap then sees Pete and jumps back in the suitcase]])''\
39'''Pete''': I t'ought so!
40* In ''Officer Duck'', there is Pete's (that is, Tiny Tom's) version of "This Little Piggy":
41-->'''Pete:''' ''(touching one of Donald's webbed toes)'' This little piggy had a racket, see? ''(touching a second webbed toe)'' And this little piggy had none. ''(touching Donald's third webbed toe)'' This little piggy tried to muscle in, so Tiny went... ''(imitating a machine gun while poking Donald's webbed foot)'' bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub!
42* Most of ''Mickey's Circus'', starting with the seal pup who keeps stealing Donald's fish, and ending with Mickey and Donald stranded on the highwire as the orphans run amok.
43* In ''Aquamania'', Junior has him and Goofy enter a boat race. Goofy tries to tell his son to slow down as he holds onto the towline for his dear life.
44-->'''Goofy:''' STOP!!\
45'''Junior:''' [[PoorCommunicationKills FASTER?! OKAY, DAD!]]
46* ''Ye Olden Days'': When Minnie Mouse and Clarabelle Cow are locked in the top of the tower due to [[ChildMarriageVeto the former's refusal to marry Prince Goofy]], they're both distraught. Minnie's crying is very sad, [[MoodWhiplash but then]] Clarabelle [[InelegantBlubbering starts bawling like an Italian man]].
47* ''Tugboat Mickey'': Donald is having trouble connecting one of the pistons of the engine, which turns out to be sentient.
48-->'''Donald:''' So!\
49'''Piston:''' ''(hissing)'' So what?\
50'''Donald:''' You wanna get rough, huh? I'll show ya! ''(struggles to pull the piston out)''\
51'''Piston:''' ''(hissing)'' Says you. ''(goes back in place)''\
52''(Donald begins throwing one of his classic temper tantrums and [[CopycatMockery the piston mimics him]])''
53* "WesternAnimation/TheBandConcert", the first color Mickey Mouse cartoon, has a great running gag where ice-cream peddler Donald derails the band's "William Tell Overture" by playing "Turkey in the Straw" on a fife. Mickey keeps snatching the fife away and snapping it in two; Donald keeps producing another one from thin air and continuing. At one point the trombonist grabs Don by the neck with the horn's slide and shakes him violently, sending dozens of fifes flying from his person.
54* There's a lovely scene in "Mickey and the Beanstalk" where Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are eating dinner. It's a slice of a single bean and two thin slices of bread. Donald frowns at the sandwich when he looks at it vertical and we can see the bread is so thin as to be ''translucent'', looks along its length, keeps frowning, and then completely loses it, [[BreakingTheFourthWall yelling at the Narrator to "SHUT UP!"]]
55* "Mickey's Fire Brigade" - as Mickey, Donald, and Goofy fight a fire in an apartment building, they hear what sounds like a scream for help behind a door. When Goofy looks in through a transom window, it turns out to be Clarabelle Cow, oblivious to the fire, singing in the bathtub. She sees Goofy staring in at her and starts shrieking at the Peeping Tom. He tries to explain the situation, but is so flustered that he can't put three words together through his guffawing.
56* In "The Picnic", Mickey tries to salvage his picnic supplies when it starts raining and various animals (who've been raiding the picnic earlier) scurry out of the blanket, the basket and even ''the phonograph''.
57* In "WesternAnimation/TheNiftyNineties", Mickey puts his car to full speed and tells Minnie "Here we go!". The top speed is 20 mph.
58* "How to Play Golf" is a good contender for the funniest of the Goofy "How-to" films.
59** Goofy does dozens of precise calculations before trying to sink an easy putt... only for the ball to circle the rim and land outside the hole. Goofy is so frustrated he mimes shooting his brains out with a FingerGun... and it ''goes off''.
60** A stick figure used to demonstrate the proper swing steps into the picture after Goofy ties himself in knots with his swing.
61** Funniest of all is the frantic chase at the end, as Goofy takes "play the ball where it lies" too far and hits the ball off a sleeping bull's nose. The bull chases Goofy and the stick figure all across the course, with Goofy still keeping the ball in play.
62*** At one point Goofy misses the ball and runs back to hit it, moments before the bull charges in and leaves a big crack on the ground where the ball was.
63*** The bull accidentally lets out a "baa" instead of a "moo" and stops to get his bellow straight before resuming the chase.
64*** The chase ends at the clubhouse bar, where the bull is now chums with Goofy and the stick figure, sharing a drink and singing a drinking song.

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