Society Dog Show

Society Dog Show is a Mickey Mouse short that was released in 1939.
==Synopsis==
Mickey Mouse enters Pluto in a ritzy dog show. The two arrive there in a makeshift wooden car. While Mickey grooms Pluto, Pluto starts swooning over Fifi the Peke. When Pluto is called to the judge's stand, Mickey quickly retrieves him. Things don't look good for Mickey and Pluto after he attacks the judge (due to him being rude to Pluto), resulting in the two getting kicked out. Upon hearing trick dogs coming onstage to perform, Mickey decides to reenter Pluto in the dog show as a trick dog, but Pluto is nervous about the idea. When a photographer attempts to take a picture of the trick dogs, the camera's flash powder ignites the streamers, causing a fire to break out in the building. Fifi gets stuck under a fallen microphone stand. As Mickey is about to go back in with Pluto as a roller skating dog, a crowd of people and dogs run out. Pluto hears Fifi and bravely goes in, still wearing his roller skates. Mickey tries to follow, but is stopped by falling debris. After hitting a column and narrowly avoiding a collapsing part of the floor and a falling wall, Pluto skates his way across wooden beams and saves Fifi just before the floor that she's on gives way. They escape the burning building by crashing through a window and land on a drain pipe that folds down like a spring and launches them out onto the street. Mickey and the others gather around Pluto and the judge awards Pluto with a medal as everyone cheers for him, hailing him as a hero. Pluto then uses his ear to pull Fifi behind the medal, presumably sharing a kiss.
==Characters==
*Mickey Mouse (voiced by Walt Disney)
*Pluto (voiced by Lee Millar)
*Fifi the Peke
*Judge (voiced by J. Donald Wilson)
==Notes==
*This cartoon is notable in that it was the last appearance of Mickey's older character design, which had been around for the past ten years since 1929's The Opry House.
*This cartoon showcases several modifications in Pluto's design, which include a brighter orangish-yellow body and shiny eyelids, which would become his standard look throughout much of the run of his later cartoons.
** This is the first appearance of Pluto wearing a green collar instead of red (the poster still shows that Pluto's collar is red).
*There was later a comic strip based on it by Floyd Gottfredson although the comic strip was portrayed quite differently than the cartoon.
*This is Mickey's 100th appearance in a Disney cartoon.
*The original opening titles to the cartoon appear on the Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Starring Pluto & Fifi VHS.
*This cartoon may have been the inspiration for "Dog Show", another short film with a similar title and plot that was released in 2013 as a part of the Mickey Mouse television series.
==Credits==
*Direction: Bill Roberts
*Music: Oliver Wallace
*Animation: Al Eugster, Norman Ferguson, Shamus Culhane and John Lounsbery
==Releases==
===Television===
*The Mickey Mouse Club, January 28, 1958
*Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald, episode #46
*Good Morning, Mickey, episode #60
*Donald's Quack Attack, episode #73
*The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.37: "Mickey's Pal Pluto"
*Have a Laugh!, episode #36
*Treasures from the Disney Vault, June 6, 2018
===Home Video===
VHS
*Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck Cartoon Collections, Volume 2
*Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Starring Pluto & Fifi
*Mickey Loves Minnie (1956 reissue print)
*Mickey and Minnie's Sweetheart Stories
Laserdisc
*Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Starring Donald & Daisy / Starring Pluto & Fifi
DVD
*Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color, Volume Two
*Mickey and Minnie's Sweetheart Stories
===Streaming===
*Disney+, November 12, 2019
==Have a Laugh! changes==
The following scenes were deleted from the short release due to time constraints:
*The entire first half, including Mickey taking Pluto to stall 13, grooming him, and Pluto flirting with Fifi.
*Mickey having to pull Pluto away from Fifi when Pluto is called to the judge's stand.
*Mickey escorting Pluto to the stand.
*Pluto's ineptitude that angers the judge, who in turn angers Pluto, too.
*The judge calling for Pluto to be thrown out.
*Mickey telling the judge that Pluto won't bite, even though Pluto does just that to the judge's pants.
*Pluto trying to navigate the burning building to save Fifi is shortened, as is the roller coaster-like escape.
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Category:Mickey Mouse shorts
Category:Animated shorts
Category:Pluto shorts
Category:1939 shorts