Moving Day

Moving Day is a Mickey Mouse short released 20 June 1936.

Summary
Mickey and Donald are six months overdue on their rent. Sheriff Pete bangs on the front door, then punches Mickey in the face when he answers. Pete gives them a "Notice to Dispossess" authorizing him not only to evict them, but to sell off their belongings. He strikes a match on Donald's bill to light his cigar, throws it into his mouth and then leaves to put signs for cheap furniture.

As Donald and Mickey decide to move before Pete can sell all their belongings, Goofy, employed as an iceman, arrives with a delivery. Mickey and Donald have him help with the relocation.

While Mickey struggles with an overloaded suitcase, Goofy attempts to load an upright piano onto the truck, but the piano keeps rolling out of the truck when he leaves it unattended. It runs over him like a car and he battles it around the house. Meanwhile, Donald, in his haste to pack everything he sees, grabs a gas heater, breaking the gas line in the wall. Seeing the leaking gas, he casually plugs it with a plunger, but the pressure in the line shoots the plunger out and it sticks to Donald's buttocks. He struggles to remove the plunger, but squeezes it so hard it flies upward like an airplane propeller and cuts through a lamp, making Donald hang from the wall and then once again get stuck in a fish tank.

As Donald struggles with the tank, Goofy taunts the piano, it rolls out of the truck, smashes through the door, and strikes him in the back again, which catapults him into the icebox and makes him end up eating a watermelon. Donald finally frees himself from the fish tank, only to get catapulted across the room and gets his head stuck on the gas valve, which makes his body fill up with gas like a balloon, and get launched and fly around the room, knocking over dishes and throwing Mickey and Goofy's clothes everywhere. Outside, Pete hears the commotion and storms into the room to scold the trio for making a mess. Unaware of the gas leak, he strikes another match on Donald's bill. The resulting explosion destroys the house and catapults the furniture, piano, and other items, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy into Goofy's truck. Pete ends up in a bathtub, and as he tries to arrest the trio for their vandalism, he accidentally turns the hot water on. Donald is satisfied with his victory, but the toilet plunger once again lands on his tail.