No Smoking

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No Smoking
Goofy series
No Smoking poster.
Directed by	Jack Kinney
Story by	n/a
Animation by	n/a
Voices by	Pinto Colvig
Produced by	Walt Disney
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	November 23, 1951 (USA)
Format	Technicolor, 6 min (one reel)
Language	English
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No Smoking is a cartoon made by the Walt Disney Company in 1951, featuring Goofy. This cartoon is another episode of the "Goofy the Everyman" series of the 1950s. This cartoon begins by tracing the brief history of smoking, including how Christopher Columbus brought tobacco to Europe from the Native Americans, and then moves on to Goofy trying unsuccessfully to drop the smoking habit. This cartoon, because of its content, was banned from TV broadcasts. Finally, the cartoon was released on DVD as part of the Walt Disney Treasures line.

[edit] Goofy's Search For a Smoke

Throughout the cartoon, Goofy is searching for a smoke, while he keeps crying, "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!" Here's where he finds them, only to have them removed in some way or another.

• He tries to go into a tobacco store, only to find it closed. He then swipes a cigar from a wooden Indian statue near the door. He is about to light it, but a well-thrown tomahawk splits the cigar in half.
• He finds some tobacco and a small piece of paper. He then tries to roll his own cigarette the old-fashioned way, but he gets it everywhere.
• He tries to pick up a discarded cigar, but a foot steps on it, flattening it and gets his hand in the process, leaving an imprint on his hand that reads, "Pussyfoot".
• He picks up another cigar near an elevator doorway, but the door closes on the cigar and as the elevator rises, so does the cigar.
• He goes into a smoking room, but is kicked out because it's for women only.
• He struggles with a hobo to get a cigarette, but the hobo wins.
• He tries to grab a cigar rolling down the street, but it falls into a drainage grate.
• He grabs what looks like a cigar, but it's actually a now-leaky fountain pen.
• He picks up a pipe, but it gets blasted to bits as a target in an amusement park shooting gallery.
• He looks up to see someone drop a cigarette. He eagerly holds out his hand to get it, but when he does, it's spent completely; nothing but ashes are left of the cigarette.
• Finally, an elderly gentleman gives him a cigar, but it's an exploding cigar, which Goofy still smokes, while the narrator says, "Give a smoker enough rope, and he'll hang on to his habit."

[edit] Trivia

• One of the Goofies in this short is smoking a cigarette that's from "Phyllis Morrison", which is a parody of Phillip Morris. A subsequent Goofy skywrites an ad telling to "Smoke LOOKYs", which parodies the advertising message, "Smoke LUCKYs" (Lucky Strike brand).
• When Goofy pleads to the elderly stranger for something to smoke, he quotes various slang terms for various tobacco products, in the following order: cig, fag, pipe, nail, weed, rope, chaw, cigar, and snuff. (It is interesting for some modern audiences to find the British/Irish/Australian slang word for cigarette, "fag", used in this 1950's American cartoon, and also to find "weed" being used to mean tobacco, instead of the term's current meaning.)
• This cartoon is one of the cartoons featured in A Salute To Father (later renamed Goofy's Salute To Father), a 1961 episode of the Walt Disney anthology series, but the ending of the short was changed to tie in to the rest of the episode. Originally, Goofy is satisfied that he finally gets to smoke... even when the cigar given to him explodes in his face (an old cartoon gag). In the revised ending, after the explosion, Goofy announces that he has quit smoking for good.