Lonesome Ghosts

"Lonesome Ghosts" is a 1937 Disney animated cartoon featuring the Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy trio as members of the agency "Ajax Ghost Exterminators" (often described later as precursors of the Ghostbusters).

They are hired by phone to evict a number of ghosts from a haunted house. Unknown to them they were hired by the ghosts themselves, four lonesome ghosts who are bored because nobody has visited the house they are haunting for a long time. They wish to play tricks on the mortals. And they do through a series of inventive gags, but by the end the trio has managed to scare the ghosts out of the house.

As Donald observes "So you can't take it, you big sissies!". But Goofy offers what is considered the short's most memorable quote while warily looking around him: "I'm brave but I'm careful." Another Goofy quip is "I ain't scared of no ghosts!", a line repeated in Ray Parker, Jr.'s hit "Ghostbusters", the theme song of the 1984 film of the same name.

Lonesome Ghosts was also the basis for, and title of the fourth level in the game, Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse [(for Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Sega CD and Sony PlayStation (as Mickey's Wild Adventure)] .

Home video

Lonesome Ghosts is available on the Walt Disney Home Video Release of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in the 1980's, one of the segments Mickey's House of Villains, and the DVD release of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.

Other references

This short was one of the many featured in "Donald Duck's 50th Birthday".

This cartoon was inspired for one of the Mickey Mania video game levels for systems like Playstation and Sega Genesis.

External links

* [http://www.disneyshorts.org/years/1937/lonesomeghosts.html 'Lonesome Ghosts'] at [http://www.disneyshorts.org The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts]