Synopsis

Narrator Doodles Weaver

Doodles Weaver

Winstead Sheffield Weaver , who used the professional name Doodles Weaver, was an American actor and comedian on radio, recordings, and television. He was the brother of NBC executive Sylvester "Pat" Weaver and the uncle of actress Sigourney Weaver.Born in Los Angeles, Weaver was given the nickname...

 explains the rules of ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 in satirical format. The narration's emphasis on good sportsmanship is countered by the violence of the players (all of them "played" by Goofy

Goofy

Goofy is a cartoon character created in 1932 at Walt Disney Productions. Goofy is a tall, anthropomorphic dog, and typically wears a turtle neck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat originally designed as a rumpled fedora. Goofy is a close friend of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck...

). Eventually, confusion over many extra hockey pucks leads the players and spectators to get into a massive brawl, during which snippets from other Disney cartoons (including Pinocchio

Pinocchio (1940 film)

Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the story The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. It is the second film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, and it was made after the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and was released to theaters by...

, How to Play Football, How to Play Baseball

How to Play Baseball

How to Play Baseball is a cartoon released by Walt Disney Animation Studios in September 1942, produced at the request of Samuel Goldwyn and first shown to accompany the 1942 feature film The Pride of the Yankees.-Synopsis:...

, and Victory Through Air Power

Victory Through Air Power

Victory Through Air Power is a 1942 non-fiction book by Alexander P. de Seversky. It was made into a 1943 Walt Disney animated feature film of the same name: Victory Through Air Power.-Theories:...

) are included to emphasize the mass confusion.

Production notes

• The names of all the players are named after various members of the Disney staff. The list below is from the scorecard early in the short.

Referee	Scorer
Clean Game Kinney Jack Kinney Jack Ryan Kinney was an American animator, director and producer of animated shorts.Jack Kinney attended John Muir Junior High School in Los Angeles, California , and attended John C. Fremont High School there with Roy Williams...	Myron Nelson
Loose Leafs Roster	Ant Eaters Roster
Kewpie Nichols Charles August Nichols Charles August "Nick" Nichols was an American animator and film director.-Biography:Nichols was born in Milford, Utah....	Zip Zinnen
Slugger Hannah Jack Hannah Jack Hannah was an animator, writer and director of animated shorts.Hannah was born January 15, 1913, in Nogales, Arizona. He moved to Los Angeles in 1931 to study at the Art Guild Academy. One of his first jobs was designing movie posters for Hollywood theaters...	Tiger Adelquist
Swede Larson Eric Larson Eric Larson was an animator for the Walt Disney Studios starting in 1933 and was one of the "Disney's Nine Old Men."...	Bullet Sebern
Catfish Nolley	Lightning Shaw
Ice Box Bertino Al Bertino Al Bertino , was an American animator best remembered for his work with the Walt Disney CompanyBorn in California in 1912, Bertino began work for Walt Disney in 1935...	Fearless Ferguson Norman Ferguson William Norman "Norm" Ferguson was an animator for Walt Disney Studios and a central contributor to the studio's stylistic development in the 1930s. He is most frequently noted for his contribution to the creation of Pluto, one of the studio's best-known and most enduring characters, and is the...
Moose Williams Roy Williams (artist) Roy Williams was an artist and entertainer for The Walt Disney Studios, perhaps best known as "Big Roy," the adult mouseketeer for four seasons on the Mickey Mouse Club television series....	Wildcat Karpe
Killer Kahl Milt Kahl Milton Erwin Kahl was an animator for the Disney studio, and one of Disney's Nine Old Men....	Iron Pants Dunham
Hurricane Smith Paul Smith (composer) Paul J. Smith was an Academy Award-winning American music composer. He was born in Calumet, Michigan. Smith spent much of his life working at Disney as composer for many of its films' scores, animated and live-action alike, movie and television alike...	Butch King Hal King Harold King , is a retired Major League Baseball player who played catcher from -. He played for the Houston Astros, Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, and Cincinnati Reds....
Terror Sibley	Bomber Nordberg
Jack Boyd Jack Boyd John Charles Boyd was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1973 until 1984. He was a member of the Country Party and its successors....	Speed Peed Bill Peet Bill Peet , was an American children's book illustrator and a story writer for Disney Studios...
Spike Riley	Dippy Dyson

• the part where some things are snippets from other Disney cartoons Such as Pinocchio
  Pinocchio (1940 film)
  Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the story The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. It is the second film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, and it was made after the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and was released to theaters by...
  
  , How to Play Football, How to Play Baseball
  How to Play Baseball
  How to Play Baseball is a cartoon released by Walt Disney Animation Studios in September 1942, produced at the request of Samuel Goldwyn and first shown to accompany the 1942 feature film The Pride of the Yankees.-Synopsis:...
  
  , and Victory Through Air Power
  Victory Through Air Power
  Victory Through Air Power is a 1942 non-fiction book by Alexander P. de Seversky. It was made into a 1943 Walt Disney animated feature film of the same name: Victory Through Air Power.-Theories:...
  
  is Reused for the Noah Byrd movie, when Noah pees in the toilet every one screams, yell, throw things, Etc.