Motor Mania

Motor Mania is a Goofy cartoon released by Walt Disney Productions on June 30, 1950. Goofy (during his "Everyman" period) is a Jekyll and Hyde split personality, who provides the lowdown on how not to drive safely.
==Synopsis==
The cartoon shows how the character, as the pleasant, friendly, and good-natured "Mr. Walker" who "wouldn't hurt a fly nor step on an ant", undergoes a change in personality to the violent "Mr. Wheeler" when he gets behind the wheel of his yellow car. As Mr. Walker he is polite, safe, and good-natured while as Mr. Wheeler he is very mean, reckless, and short-tempered. Upon reaching town and leaving his automobile, he reverts to the mild-mannered Mr. Walker, whereupon he is the victim of other motorists' unsafe (and sometimes even predatory) driving habits. However, once he returns to his car, he becomes Mr. Wheeler again, seeking to impose his own will upon traffic, to the point of blaming the tow truck which hauls him away for his slow pace after his own auto accident, and breaks the fourth wall by telling the narrator, who is educating him on safe driving habits, to "shut up".
==Voices==
*Bob Jackman - Mr. Wheeler
*Jimmy MacDonald - Additional Voices
*John McLeish - Narrator, Mr. Wheeler (some lines)
*Pinto Colvig - Mr. Wheeler laughs (archive sound)
==Trivia==
*This is the first Goofy cartoon to have a fully-redesigned Goofy, with a lack of both floppy ears and front buck teeth. It was also the first short to use a jazz remake of the theme song used in Goofy shorts prior.
**According to "The Goofy Success Story" from Disneyland, the in-universe explanation for the apparent disappearance of Goofy's ears is that, for this film, he had his ears tied above his head and hidden under his hat. The absence of his buck teeth is not explained.
*This cartoon was used as an army commercial film in 1955.
*Although the term "road rage" was coined in the 1980s, the 1950 short demonstrates that the behavior has been around much longer, and is an issue that applies to each generation of drivers.
*Due to its subtle topicality, it and two 1965 Goofy cartoons about road safety, Freewayphobia #1 and Goofy's Freeway Troubles, have been shown in driving schools across the United States.
*This short was awarded the Buyer Trophy for the best film on traffic safety.
*Mr. Walker makes a cameo reading a newspaper in Toontown in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
*A few clips from this short were shown in the House of Mouse episode "Max's New Car" to prove Max's point about Goofy being a bad driver.
**In this episode, Mr. Wheeler yelling at his neighbor before crashing his car into another vehicle has been changed; the line "Hey, Geef! Watch where you're going, stupid!" has been dubbed over with "Excuse me!" while all other lines of dialogue remain unedited, most likely to remove any connections to Goofy's alter ego George Geef.
*The "motor mania" term was also used in The Wind in the Willows short in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad to explain Mr. Toad's obsession with motor vehicles.
==Releases==
===Television=== 
*Disneyland, episode #2.12: "The Goofy Success Story"
*Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, episode #9.5: "Man Is His Own Worst Enemy"
*The New Mickey Mouse Club, September 12, 1977
*Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald, episode #66
*Good Morning, Mickey, episode #11
*Donald Duck Presents, episode #13
*Mickey's Mouse Tracks, episode #64
*Donald's Quack Attack, episode #46
===Home video===
* The Wind in the Willows (VHS)
*Goofy's Greatest Hits (VHS)
*Driver Safety (DVD)
*Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy (DVD)
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Category:Goofy shorts
Category:Animated shorts
Category:1950 shorts