History WesternAnimation / ChipAndDale

%%* ScrewySquirrel

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Must have gone unnoticed by the American makers, but one cartoon shows a bottle of arsenic of which only "arse" can be seen ([[DontExplainTheJoke which is British English for "butt"]]).

* DivergentCharacterEvolution: In the earliest shorts, Chip and Dale were identical in looks and mannerisms. Eventually, Dale gained his red nose, buck teeth, and goofier personality to set him apart from Chip.

* NoNameGiven: Until the 1947 cartoon ''WesternAnimation/ChipAnDale'', when they were given names.

* ChristmasEpisode: "Toy Tinkers", in which Chip and Dale's tree is chopped down by Donald for a Christmas Tree.

* NoNameGiven: Until the 1947 cartoon ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysontheTin Chip an' Dale]]'', when they were given names.

* SpeakingSimlish: In the classic shorts, they spoke in varying forms of heavily-accented, barely understandable English, to complete gibberish. ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' and ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' has them speaking normal English.

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%%* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering

%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dale.

%%* CuriousAsAMonkey: When they're not bothering someone intentionally, they're usually just this.

* IdiotHoudini: In other shorts, while not intentionally meaning harm, they still managed to irritate others by [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace nosing around their property]] or performing other collateral damage in their curious bumbling. When their adversary finally bites however, it is free game for them to retaliate for [[MoralMyopia bothering THEM]].

%%* KarmicTrickster: In the shorts where Donald is the one who starts trouble.

%%* LoveTriangle: With Clarice in ''Two Chips and a Miss'' and Gadget in ''Rescue Rangers''.

%%* ScrewySquirrel
* ShoutOut: ''Two Chips and a Miss'' borders on being Creator/TexAvery's ''WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood'' [-[[RecycledInSpace WITH CHIPMUNKS]]-] minus the AbsurdlyLongLimousine and the horny grandma. Both Chip and Dale actually grow wolf faces.

%%* SpinOff: ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''.

%%* TooDumbToLive: Dale, at times.
%%* VitriolicBestBuds

* {{Foreshadowing}}[=/=]HilariousInHindsight: ''Two Chips and a Miss'' gives you a glimpse of what happened to the 'munks [[WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers 37 years later]]. Let's just say this isn't the last time that Chip wears a hat.

* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering?

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dale.

* CuriousAsAMonkey: When they're not bothering someone intentionally, they're usually just this.

* KarmicTrickster: In the shorts where Donald is the one who starts trouble.

* LoveTriangle: With Clarice in ''Two Chips and a Miss'' and Gadget in ''Rescue Rangers''.

* ScrewySquirrel

* SpinOff: ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''.

* TooDumbToLive: Dale, at times.
* VitriolicBestBuds

* [[ScrewySquirrel Screwy Chipmunks]]

** IdiotHoudini: In other shorts, while not intentionally meaning harm, they still managed to irritate others by [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace nosing around their property]] or performing other collateral damage in their curious bumbling. When their adversary finally bites however, it is free game for them to retaliate for [[MoralMyopia bothering THEM]].

* ShoutOut: Yes, already back then.
** ''Two Chips and a Miss'' borders on being Creator/TexAvery's ''WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood'' [-[[RecycledInSpace WITH CHIPMUNKS]]-] minus the AbsurdlyLongLimousine and the horny grandma. Both Chip and Dale actually grow wolf faces.

Their initial turn in the spotlight came in the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts, usually giving DonaldDuck a reason to demonstrate his famous BerserkButton. (You probably remember that one cartoon where Donald was an apple farmer.) In the late 1980s, they were dusted off and given revised characters, more comprehensible voices and their own TV show, ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''. Like many other Disney regulars, they returned to perform their original roles in revivals such as ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''.

Their initial turn in the spotlight came in the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts, usually giving DonaldDuck a reason to demonstrate his famous BerserkButton. (You probably remember that one cartoon where Donald was an apple farmer.) In the late 1980s, they were dusted off and given revised characters, more comprehensible voices and their own TV show, ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''. Like many other Disney regulars, they returned to perform their original roles in revivals such as ''HouseOfMouse''.

Their initial turn in the spotlight came in the ClassicDisneyShorts, usually giving DonaldDuck a reason to demonstrate his famous BerserkButton. (You probably remember that one cartoon where Donald was an apple farmer.) In the late 1980s, they were dusted off and given revised characters, more comprehensible voices and their own TV show, ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''. Like many other Disney regulars, they returned to perform their original roles in revivals such as ''HouseOfMouse''.

* TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation

Chip 'n Dale are {{Disney}} cartoon characters, a pair of mischievous chipmunks. Chip is the relatively smart ([[SurroundedByIdiots albeit more neurotic]]) one; Dale is the [[CloudCuckoolander less smart one]] with the tendency to do the clumsiest or least sensible thing possible at any given moment.

Chip 'n Dale are {{Disney}} cartoon characters, a pair of mischievous chipmunks. Chip is the relatively smart ([[SurroundedByIdiots albeit more neurotic]]) one; Dale is the [[CloudCuckooLander less smart one]] with the tendency to do the clumsiest or least sensible thing possible at any given moment.

Their name may be a pun on the famous 18th-century furniture style. It certainly ''doesn't'' haven anything to do with the ChippendalesDancers, whom they predate by many, many years.

* BreakoutCharacter

** IdiotHoudini: In other shorts, while not intentionally meaning harm, they still managed to irritate others by [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace nosing around their property]] or performing other collateral damage in their curious bumbling. When their adversary finally bites however, it is free game for them to retaliate for [[MoralMyopia bothering]] ''[[MoralMyopia them]]''.

* {{Nearly Normal Animal}}s: Aside from speaking to each other in semi-intelligible English, they mainly act like real squirrels.

** ''Two Chips and a Miss'' borders on being TexAvery's ''RedHotRidingHood'' [-[[RecycledInSpace WITH CHIPMUNKS]]-] minus the AbsurdlyLongLimousine and the horny grandma. Both Chip and Dale actually grow wolf faces.

* VitriolicBestBuds

Their name may be a pun on the famous 18th-century furniture style. It certainly ''isn't'' anything to do with the ChippendalesDancers, whom they predate by many, many years.

* DivergentCharacterEvolution: In the earliest shorts, Chip and Dale were identical in looks and mannerisms. Eventually, Dale gained his red nose, buck teeth, and goofier personality to set him apart from Chip.

* NoNameGiven: Until the 1947 cartoon [[ExactlyWhatItSaysontheTin Chip N Dale]] when they were given names.

* NoNameGiven: Until the 1947 cartoon [[ExactlyWhatItSaysontheTin Chip N Dale]] when they were given names.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Chip and Dale's three solo shorts that did not pair them up with Donald or Pluto were some of the rare Disney shorts not to be released on the otherwise fairly thorough Disney Treasures sets. Two of these, "Two Chips and a Miss" and "Chicken in the Rough" were put on one of the Cartoon Classics DVD releases, but the third, "The Lone Chipmunks" has never seen a DVD release to this day.

* CrossDressingVoices: In the earliest shorts, both chipmunks were voiced by various (uncredited) female members of the office staff at Disney. In modern-day appearances, Chip is voiced by Tress [=MacNeille=].