Lonesome Ghosts

Lonesome Ghosts is a Mickey Mouse short that was released on December 24, 1937.
==Synopsis==
Four ghosts, bored with having nobody around to scare, decide to look in the phone book and call some ghost exterminators to mess around with. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy arrive, are subject to the ghosts various pranks, and eventually scare them off when they crash into a mixture of flour and molasses that makes them look like really frightening trio of white slime monsters.
==Characters==
*Mickey Mouse (voiced by Walt Disney)
*Donald Duck (voiced by Clarence Nash)
*Goofy (voiced by Pinto Colvig)
*Short Ghost (voiced by Billy Bletcher)
*Three other ghosts (voiced by Jack Bergman, Don Brodie, and Harry Stanton)
==Legacy==
A character named the Lonesome Ghost was originally planned to have been included as part of The Haunted Mansion, acting as an early rendition of the Ghost Host. The Lonesome Ghosts would appear in House of Mouse (including the direct-to-video film Mickey's House of Villains) and The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, and levels based on the short appeared in Mickey Mania and Epic Mickey.
Goofy's line, "I ain't a-scared of no ghosts," would later be modified into "I ain't afraid of no ghost" for use in the Ghostbusters movies.
==Releases==
===Television===
*Disneyland, episode #1.1: "The Disneyland Story"
*Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, episode #15.11: "The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show"
*The Mouse Factory, episode #4: "Spooks and Magic"
*The New Mickey Mouse Club, March 25, 1977
*The Wonderful World of Disney, episode #24.5: "Halloween Hall o' Fame"
*Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald, episode #60
*Good Morning, Mickey, episode #79
*A Disney Halloween
*Donald, the Star-Struck Duck
*Goofy's Guide to Success
*Sing Me a Story with Belle: "Sleepover"
*The Ink and Paint Club
**Episode #1.22: "Classic Mickey"
**Episode #1.55: "Oooh! Scary!"
*Have a Laugh!, episode #1
*Treasures from the Disney Vault, October 28, 2015
*Treasures from the Disney Vault, September 11, 2017
===Home video===
VHS
*The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
*Mickey's Magical World
*Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Scary Tales
*Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Halloween Haunts
*Mickey's House of Villains
*Everybody Loves Mickey (non-U.S.)
*View-Master Interactive Vision: Disney's Cartoon Arcade
Laserdisc
*Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Scary Tales
*Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Donald's Scary Tales / Halloween Haunts
DVD
*Bonus on The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
*Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color
*Mickey's House of Villains
*Have a Laugh!: Volume 1
*Everybody Loves Mickey (non-U.S. release)
Blu-ray
*Mickey & Friends: 10 Classic Shorts - Volume 2
===Streaming===
*Disney+, November 12, 2019
== Trivia ==
* This short was released 3 days after the premiere of Walt Disney's first theatrical full-length film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and on Christmas Eve.
* Many of the laughs made by the ghosts would be used in both versions of the Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House. Most are heard as part of the track "Screams and Groans" on the original 1964 release, while other laughs are included as part of the "Ghosts and Phantoms" collection of sound from the 1973 release.
**The yawn heard at the beginning of the cartoon would be used as a bumper on a number of tracks for the original 1964 release.
* On Mickey's House of Villains, the ending theme plays over the crowd cheering once the cartoon ends.
==Have a Laugh! changes==
The following scenes were deleted from the short release due to time constraints:
*The opening scenes of the ghosts complaining about how bored they are; it opens with the ghosts looking over the ad in the phone book.
*The ghosts going over to dial the phone.
*Mickey's group asleep in the office.
*Mickey's group all exclaiming, "A customer!" when Mickey hangs up.
*The ghosts watching the exterminators arrive at their door, then disappearing.
*The ghost stalking Mickey sticking his fingers in the latter's shotgun so that it explodes and is destroyed; it cuts sloppily from Mickey aiming his gun at the ghost to the gun already destroyed by the ghost.
*Mickey opens a closet door the ghosts are hiding in and is flooded with spectral water that the ghosts use to surf on, with one riding in a motorboat on it.
*The entire second half of Donald's scene with the ghosts, including the numerous scenes of one ghost striking Donald on the rear with a wooden plank and Donald getting into a fight with this ghost and managing to punch the ghost so that it falls backwards and land an invisible pool of icy water.
*Goofy saying, "I ain't a-scared of no ghosts."
*The entire teasing scene with the ghost in the mirror.
*The scene with Goofy's alleged struggle with the ghost in the chest of drawers, including Goofy inadvertently strangling himself and then poking himself in the rear with a pin.
==Gallery==
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