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* CartoonThrobbing: Donald's fist throbs after punching the shark.

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Nice Hat is now a disambiguation page.


* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' hurt Donald's NiceHat.

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* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' hurt Donald's NiceHat.nice hat.



* NauticalKnockout: Donald orders his nephews to hoist the sail, but instead of unfurling the sail, they accidentally hoist the boom. Donald orders them to lower the boom, which they do... right on Donald's head. Provides the page image.
* NiceHat: Donald's admiral hat, which proves to be a plot element.

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* NauticalKnockout: Donald orders his nephews to hoist the sail, but instead of unfurling the sail, they accidentally hoist the boom. Donald orders them to lower the boom, which they do... right on Donald's head. Provides the page image.\n* NiceHat: Donald's admiral hat, which proves to be a plot element.
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* FortuneTeller: At one point Donald finds himself wrapped up by some flags holding a flagpole ball which makes him resemble a turban-wearing fortune teller with a CrystalBall.
* GreenAndMean: The shark is colored green, [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife oddly enough]]. It does suit its villainous role nicely, though.


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* ReusedCharacterDesign: The green shark is the same that appears in the 1934 WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies short ''Peculiar Penguins''.
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* PrayerIsALastResort: When it looks like the shark might actually get Donald, Donald folds his hands and begins to say his prayers.

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* PrayerIsALastResort: SayYourPrayers: When it looks like the shark might actually get Donald, Donald folds his hands and begins to say his prayers.pray.
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* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' hurt Donald's NiceHat.


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* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The shark has a mouth full of them. Oddly, though, its plan seems to be to swallow Donald whole rather than chomping.


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* PrayerIsALastResort: When it looks like the shark might actually get Donald, Donald folds his hands and begins to say his prayers.
* SceneryPorn: There's a remarkable amount of detail in the animation, especially the sea effects.
* SharkFinOfDoom: The shark's fin appears in the water next to Donald's hat to signal things have gone FromBadToWorse. At one point, the fin even slices through a log like a bandsaw.
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* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: When the sail breaks off from the boat, Donald gets caught with it when his foot is caught in a rope. Raised high into the air, out over the water, he calls for his nephews to pull him down, which they start to do. But as he is lowered then he spots a shark in the water and calls for his nephews to pull him back up.

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* LetsGetDangerous: When the shark chase results in Donald's admiral hat getting destroyed, he stops running from the shark and instead attacks it in retaliation.

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* LetsGetDangerous: HatDamage: The shark chase results in Donald bumping his head against the side of his boat so hard that his head goes through his beloved admiral's hat.
* LetsGetDangerous / UnstoppableRage / MegatonPunch:
When the shark chase results in Donald's admiral hat getting destroyed, he stops running fleeing from the shark and instead attacks charges head-on at the shark and lays it in retaliation.out cold with a single right cross.



* MegatonPunch: Donald manages lay the shark out cold with this in retaliation for it getting his hat destroyed.
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* BirdPoopGag: Implied. A seagull looks at Donald's hat, so Donald moves away, the implication being that the seagull wanted to poop on the hat.


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* NauticalKnockout: Donald orders his nephews to hoist the sail, but instead of unfurling the sail, they accidentally hoist the boom. Donald orders them to lower the boom, which they do... right on Donald's head. Provides the page image.
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* ThreateningShark: A shark comes in to eat Donald.

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* ThreateningShark: A shark comes in to eat Donald.Donald.
* VisualPun: The cartoon ends with the nephews rowing Donald back to shore, the latter sitting on the stern with a life preserver in his rear and the words "S.S. Rear Admiral" written on it.
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[[quoteright:323:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/donald_duck_sea_scouts_poster_2.jpg]]
''Sea Scouts'' is a 1939 animated short film from Creator/{{Disney}} starring WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck.

Donald Duck takes Huey, Dewey and Louie out on a sailing trip, but things go wrong as they have difficulty with the anchor and the sails. And then a shark arrives on the scene...

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* ChekhovsGag: Donald's admiral hat, which he tries to protect early on in the short. And then it gets damaged during the shark chase...
* LetsGetDangerous: When the shark chase results in Donald's admiral hat getting destroyed, he stops running from the shark and instead attacks it in retaliation.
* LiteralMinded: When Donald demands that his nephews lower the boat's boom, they accidentally do so right on his head. This is immediately [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Donald...
-->"Sometimes they take me too literally."
* NiceHat: Donald's admiral hat, which proves to be a plot element.
* MegatonPunch: Donald manages lay the shark out cold with this in retaliation for it getting his hat destroyed.
* ThreateningShark: A shark comes in to eat Donald.

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