Motor Mania


Motor Mania is a cartoon released by Walt [Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions] on June 30, 1950. In this short, Goofy is a Mr. Hyde-type split personality, who gets behind the wheel and shows the dangers of not driving safely.

Plot

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 Strange Case of [Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde|Jekyll-and-Hyde]-like change in personality to the violent "Mr. Wheeler, motorist" when he gets behind the wheel of his yellow car. As Mr. Walker, pedestrian, he's polite, safe, and good-natured while as Mr. Wheeler; he is very mean, reckless, and predatory. Upon reaching his destination in town and leaving his automobile, he reverts to the mild-mannered Mr. Walker, whereupon he is the victim of other motorists' unsafe driving habits. However, once he returns to his car, he becomes Mr. Wheeler, motorist, 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 collision, and breaks the fourth wall by telling the narrator, "Ah, shut up!"

Home media

The short was released on December 2, 2002, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy.

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