. . . ruins any chance for DONALD'S DOG LAUNDRY being a good cartoon by skimping on the music budget. In the previous Don Duck outing, the Dizzy dolts were too tight to pay any royalties to the Rossini estate, so they substituted a fake version of The William Tell Overture for their "High Ho, Silver!" music. Similarly, what should be the crux of DOG LAUNDRY--the mechanical robotic washing scene in which Pluto sneezes Donald into his own contraption--is crammed into the final half minute in a truncated form, because Dizzy was too cheap to shell out a nickel for the obligatory "Powerhouse" piece for this sort of thing by composer Raymond Scott. How sad.

"Donald's Dog Laundry" is an American 8-minute cartoon from 1940, so this one is from the earlier days of Worrld War II and it is already over 75 years old. The names working on this one (King, Barks, Nash etc.) are all top-notch, so I am certainly a bit disappointed that it turned out rather weak. I don't think that the problem is that it has no war references unlike many other cartoons from these days. I think the problem is rather that it is never really a funny watch in my opinion. Creative maybe, maybe witty too, but just not on a level that makes you laugh out loud. The only scene I found kinda funny early on was when Donald carries Pluto on the back and Pluto turns the tables on him. The following scenes with the fake bone were not really funny and the cat dummy scenes are only minimally better in my opinion. I guess this one here is an example of how Donald and Pluto are not a perfect match from an entertainment perspective and that's maybe why we see them almost never together. I still must say about this one here that I enjoyed it more when I saw it the first time. Watching it today I must say it was genuinely mediocre. No surprise the Oscars ignored it. I give it a thumbs-down and suggest you to follow the Oscars' decision.

Donald's efforts to franchise a high efficiency dog washing machine are better left on the drawing board. Using Pluto as his foil, he fails time and again to get the dog to cooperate. The problem with this cartoon is that there is little funny about it. There are no high moments. It's mostly Donalds trying to attract Pluto with a rubber bone.