CHIP 'N DALE

'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).
According to Disney, Chip is the logical schemer, and Dale is the dumb schemer. An easy way to tell them apart is that Chip has a black nose and one centered protruding tooth, whereas Dale has a red nose and his two prominent canines exposed.

Contents

Early Cartoons

''Private Pluto''

Antagonists of Donald Duck

Two Chips and a Miss

List of Chip 'n' Dale Shorts

Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers

Comics Series

Other Appearances

Mickey Mouse Works

Goofy Gophers

Voice Actors

Video games

External links

Early Cartoons

''Private Pluto''

They first appeared in the cartoon ''Private Pluto'' (1943) where they antagonize the dog Pluto.

Antagonists of Donald Duck

They didn't 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. They continued to appear in animated cartoons, usually annoying/terrorizing Donald, until the mid-1950s.

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.

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)

Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers

They eventually got their own animated series, titled ''Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers'' in 1989. In the show they team up as detectives with two mice named Gadget Hackwrench (a female inventor mouse whom Chip and Dale are both attracted to) and Monterey Jack (an Australian muscle mouse who has a fear of cats and a constant craving for cheese), and a fly named Zipper. Their usual adversaries include a cat crime boss by the name of Fat Cat and his henchmen: an alley cat named Mepps, a lizard named Wart, a mole named Mole, and a rat named Snout. They also encounter a mad scientist named Professor Norton Nimnul. Their appearances and personalities are changed slightly for this cartoon. While in the original shorts they are concerned only with themselves and are frequent troublemakers, in Rescue Rangers they are crimefighters who help the less fortunate. In addition, the personality differences between the two became more pronounced, with Chip being the responsible, no-nonsense leader, and Dale being the goofy, laid back free spirit. This was also the first time they were given different voices, while Chip kept his original highpitched voice, Dale's became slightly deeper and raspier. They also acquired clothes for the first time, with Chip donning a bomber jacket and fedora (not unlike Indiana Jones), and Dale wearing a red-and-yellow Hawaiian shirt (not unlike Magnum P.I.).

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).

Other Appearances

Mickey Mouse Works

Chip 'n' Dale occasionally appears on ''Mickey Mouse Works'', ''House of Mouse'' and ''Mickey Mouse Clubhouse''.

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.

Voice Actors

Both modern-day Chip and Dale are often voiced by Tress MacNeille, but there have been a few times were Tress would only voice Chip, while Dale would be voiced by Corey Burton, as heard in ''Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers''. 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.

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 will soon appear in Disney's Toontown Online as a non playing character.

External links

★ Chip 'n Dale Fan Page

★ Their entry in the Disney Archive (Note: This entry is missing some information.)

★ Their profile in the Disney HooZoo