Mickey's Service Station

{{Infobox film

|name = Mickey's Service Station

|image = 074_-_Mickey's_Service_Station.jpg

|alt =

|caption = Title card

|director = Ben Sharpsteen

|producer = Walt Disney

|story =

|narrator =

|starring = Walt Disney
Clarence Nash
Pinto Colvig
Billy Bletcher

|music = Leigh Harline

|animator = Paul Allen
Art Babbitt
Milt Kahl
Eric Larson
Dick Lundy
Wolfgang Reitherman
Bill Tytla

|studio=Walt Disney Productions

|distributor = United Artists

|released = {{Film date|1935|03|16}}{{cite book |last1=Kaufman |first1=J.B. |last2=Gerstein |first2=David |title=Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History |date=2018 |publisher=Taschen |location=Cologne |isbn=978-3-8365-5284-4}}

|color_process = Black-and-white, later colorized

|runtime = 7:22

|country = United States

|language = English

}}

Mickey's Service Station is a 1935 animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The film, which stars Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as car mechanics, was also the final black-and-white appearance of Donald, Goofy, and Pete and the penultimate animated black-and-white film produced by Disney after Mickey's Kangaroo which was released later the same year. It was also the first team-up of the classic trio of Mickey, Donald, and Goofy.{{cite book |last1=Kaufman |first1=J.B. |last2=Gerstein |first2=David |title=Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Ultimate History |date=2024 |publisher=Taschen |isbn=978-3-8365-5280-6| page=35}} Mickey's Service Station was directed by Ben Sharpsteen, who at the time had directed only Silly Symphony shorts, and starred the voices of Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, and Billy Bletcher. It was the 74th Mickey Mouse short film to be released, and the third of that year.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/108/mode/2up |pages=108–109}}

The cartoon has been colorized and is available in color on DVD releases.

Plot

Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy are working together at a car service station to fix a broken car. Soon Peg-Leg Pete comes by, and demands that they fix a squeak in his tire. Mickey discovers a grasshopper stuck inside the car. The trio smash several pieces of the car with hammers before Mickey is able to drive away the grasshopper, the car ends up all wrecked and damaged.

The trio then gets to the job of repairing the car, but they end up hurting each other comically. Donald gets hit in the face with car parts, Mickey having problems fixing one of the tires, and Goofy getting his foot stuck in a bucket before slipping like crazy on a pool of oil. When Pete arrives, the car won't start. They tiptoe away while Pete is distracted. They then watch as the car starts beating Pete up and dismandling itself only leaving the engine intact. The engine chases Pete away, it spins around and rams him in the rear end.

Voice cast

Walt Disney as Mickey Mouse
Clarence Nash as Donald Duck
Pinto Colvig as Goofy
Billy Bletcher as Pete

Home media

The short was released on December 2, 2002, on Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White.{{cite web |title=Mickey Mouse in Black and White DVD Review|url=https://www.dvdizzy.com/mmblackwhite.html |website=DVD Dizzy |access-date=19 February 2021}}