Donald’s Diary
Donald is writing in his diary and narrating (in a rather sophisticated voice) about his romance with Daisy. She was able to snare him into a relationship in which they got to know each other better and Donald got to meet Daisy’s family. Finally, Donald decides to marry Daisy but when waiting for her to arrive so he can pop the question, he falls asleep and has a nightmarish vision of what married life would be like (among other things that he’ll be forced to do all the housework and be served a burnt T bone for dinner). Needless to say, the marriage is called off when he awakens.
Narrated in a suave, un-Donald-like voice, this is the studio at its most sardonic: a romance told as a diary and ending on a punchline about escaping matrimony. It has a small cult reputation among animation fans for being so unlike the house tone, and for a nightmare sequence that is startlingly stylised for 1954.
A cynical joke about marriage aimed squarely over children's heads.