Lonesome Ghosts (1937) on Netflix
The Ajax Ghost Exterminators, staffed by Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, take a call from a haunted house. Its four ghosts, Jasper, Boo, Moss and Grubb, have nobody left to frighten.
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Plot summary
On a snowy night, Jasper, Boo, Moss and Grubb sit inside a haunted house with nobody left to frighten. Moss finds a newspaper advertisement for the Ajax Ghost Exterminators, run by Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, and the ghosts decide to hire the three of them for a prank. Mickey, Donald and Goofy are asleep at their office when the telephone rings; Grubb speaks in a woman's voice and says the house is haunted. When the three arrive, Mickey knocks on the front door, which falls flat. Nobody answers, and as they tiptoe in, the door rises, tosses them through the doorway and shuts behind them, scattering their equipment. A mousetrap snaps onto Goofy's nose, and laughter from the ghosts makes Mickey decide that the three should split up to surround them.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lonesome Ghosts (1937)
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- Lonesome Ghosts is often speculated to have inspired Ghostbusters: the 1937 cartoon contains the line "I ain't scared of no ghost", close to a line Ray Parker Jr. wrote for the bridge of the 1984 film's theme song.
- Lonesome Ghosts, the 98th Mickey Mouse short and the ninth released that year, marked the first use of one of Goofy's catchphrases: "Somethin' wrong here!"
- Singer-songwriter Rod McKuen used the scream sound effect from Lonesome Ghosts, along with the ghosts' laughter, in his 1977 instrumental song "Full Moon over the Ansonia Hotel", on the album Slide... Easy In.
- The scream sound effect heard at the beginning of Lonesome Ghosts was reused in 1957 in the fourth episode of Zorro, "The Ghost of the Mission", which aired on Halloween.
