4. Speech Impediment Swears
Speech impediments are no laughing matter they can be the bane of sufferers' lives and lead to them never realising their dreams of being voice-over artists or British Rail platform announcers, and they are now considered so heinous that Colin Firth recently won an Oscar for his own efforts to conquer a viscious stammer that plagued him throughout filming of The King's Speech. We take you back to 1937, and the animated short The Clock Cleaners. It was an older time, a simpler time, when no-one questioned why Donald didn't wear pants, and accusations of questionable Disney behaviour was kept to a minimum thanks to the lack of internet and higher employment rates among young adults who thus had less time on their hands. The short featured Donald Duck fighting with a giant spring, which infuriated him so much through mimicry that he apparently loses it briefly and shouts eff you at the inanimate object. You have to admit, it's pretty compelling evidence... http://youtu.be/aN_7T0yRUuY What's that you say? Donald could be saying anything in that video? Well, this isn't the last time Disney apparently used a character's speech patterns to allegedly hide naughty grown-up words in a children's production. It also supposedly happened in Aladdin, in which the street rat's simian side-kick Abu supposedly utters a profanity - oh, sh*t! - when he's about to suffer a firey, lava-based death as well as in the Lion King, where Rafiki is supposed to hide at least too profane phrases into his speech. The Explanation According to the script, Donald actually says Says you! Not all that convincing, but equally, the little white duck has such a massive problem with the simplest of words that it's not really too much of a stretch to accept it. The Aladdin example has a much more substantial explanation that relates to atmospheric noises interfering with the little monkey's exclamation of frustration that he is pretty much about to bite the big one.