Chip 'n Dale
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| First appearance | Private Pluto, 1943 |
| Created by | Walt Disney Company |
| Voiced by | Tress MacNeille, Corey Burton, James MacDonald, Helen Silbert, Dessie Flynn/Dessie Miller |
| Also known as | Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers |
Chip 'n' Dale are two fictional, animated chipmunks created by The Walt Disney Company. Their names are a pun based on the name "Chippendale" (see Thomas Chippendale). This was suggested by Bill "Tex" Henson, a story artist at the studio.
According to Disney, Chip is the logical schemer, and Dale is the dumb schemer. An easy way to visually tell them apart is that Chip has a small black nose and one centered protruding tooth, whereas Dale has a big red nose and his two prominent canines exposed. Chip is also depicted as having smooth, short fur atop his head while Dale's tends to be ruffled.
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[edit] Early Cartoons
[edit] Antagonists of Pluto
Chip 'n Dale first appeared in the cartoon Private Pluto (1943) where they antagonize the dog Pluto.
[edit] Antagonists of Donald Duck
Chip 'n Dale did not get their names (or the traits that separate them) until the cartoon Chip an' Dale (1947) where they antagonize Donald Duck. Chip is the (slightly) more intelligent one with the black nose, and Dale is the one with the red nose and gapped teeth and is prone to smart-aleckness. They continued to appear in animated cartoons, usually annoying/terrorizing Donald, until the mid-1950s.
[edit] Chicken in the Rough
Chip 'n' Dale wander into a farmyard to collect as many acorns as they can but Dale mistakes an egg for a nut.
[edit] Two Chips and a Miss
Chip 'n' Dale struggled for the affections of another chipmunk, Clarice, a performer at the Acorn Club, in "Two Chips and a Miss" (1951). After much battling between the two, she chooses neither one.
[edit] The Lone Chipmunks
Chip 'n' Dale in the old west and tries to bring Black Pete to jail.
[edit] List of Chip 'n' Dale Shorts
Walt Disney animated shorts starring or featuring Chip 'n' Dale:
- Private Pluto (Clyde Geronimi/Apr 2, 1943)
- Squatter’s Right (Jack Hannah/June 7, 1946)
- Chip an’ Dale (Jack Hannah/Nov 28, 1947)
- Three For Breakfast (Jack Hannah/Nov 5, 1948)
- Winter Storage (Jack Hannah/Jun 3, 1949)
- All In A Nutshell (Jack Hannah/Sep 2, 1949)
- Toy Tinkers (Jack Hannah/Dec 16, 1949)
- Crazy Over Daisy (Jack Hannah/Mar 25, 1950)
- Trailer Horn (Jack Hannah//Apr 28, 1950)
- Food For Feudin’ (Charles Nichols/Aug 11, 1950)
- Out On A Limb (Jack Hannah/Dec 15, 1950)
- Chicken In The Rough (Jack Hannah/Jan 19, 1951)
- Corn Chips (Jack Hannah/Mar 23, 1951)
- Test Pilot Donald (Jack Hannah/Jun 8, 1951)
- Out Of Scale (Jack Hannah/Nov 2, 1951)
- Donald Applecore (Jack Hannah/Jan 8, 1952)
- Two Chips And A Miss (Jack Hannah/Mar 21, 1952)
- Pluto’s Christmas Tree (Jack Hannah/Nov 21, 1952)
- Working for Peanuts (Jack Hannah/Nov 11, 1953)
- The Lone Chipmunks (Jack Kinney/Apr 19, 1954)
- Dragon Around (Jack Hannah/Jul 16, 1954)
- Up A Tree (Jack Hannah/Sep 23, 1955)
- Chips Ahoy (Jack Kinney /Feb 24, 1956)
[edit] Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
In 1989, Chip and Dale were chosen to be the title characters in a new animated series, Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers, in which they form a detective agency with some new characters created for the show: female mouse inventor Gadget Hackwrench, strong-armed adventuring Australian mouse Monterey Jack, and Zipper the fly. While in the original shorts the duo are frequent troublemakers who are concerned only with themselves, in Rescue Rangers they are crime fighters who help the less fortunate.
In this series the personality differences between the two are much more pronounced, with Chip as the responsible, no-nonsense leader and Dale as the goofy, laid back free spirit. Additionally, they wear clothes in this series; Chip wears a coat and fedora akin to Indiana Jones while Dale wears a Hawaiian shirt.
[edit] Comics Series
Chip 'n' Dale also had their own comic book title, first from Dell Comics with Four Color Comics #517,581,and 636, then their own title for issues #4-30 (1955-62), which was then continued by Gold Key Comics with #1-64 (1967-78).
[edit] Other Appearances
[edit] Mickey Mouse Works
Chip 'n' Dale occasionally appears on Mickey Mouse Works, House of Mouse and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
[edit] Goofy Gophers
A recurring schtick often mistakenly attributed to Chip 'n' Dale is the characters' alleged use of politeness: "after you..." "no, I insist, after you!" This gag, from the early-1900s Alphonse and Gaston comic strip, is used by another studio's characters: Warner Bros' Mac and Tosh as the Goofy Gophers.
[edit] Voice Actors
Today, Chip is voiced by Tress MacNeille and Dale is voiced by Corey Burton. The classic voices of Chip 'n' Dale were mostly provided by Helen Silbert, Dessie Flynn/Dessie Miller, and James "Jimmy" MacDonald. The earliest voices were provided by female office staff, without credit.
[edit] Video games
- Chip & Dale appear in a Rescue Rangers spin-off video game that was produced for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Capcom in 1990. A sequel was released in 1994.
- Chip and Dale also appear in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II as mechanics for the Gummi Ship, the game's form of transportation from one world to another.
- Chip and Dale appear in Disney's Toontown Online as non-playable characters.
[edit] External links
- Chip at the INDUCKS
- Dale at the INDUCKS
- Disney Archive Entry
