Mickey’s Parrot
A parrot belonging to an escaped killer washes up in Mickey’s basement. Mickey hears it talking and thinks the parrot is the killer he’s just heard about on the radio. While Mickey is skulking about the basement, Pluto runs into the parrot, first hidden under the fish, and then inside a leftover turkey.
One of the best-liked Mickey shorts on the original site, and a properly constructed piece of comic suspense. A parrot in a dark basement, a radio warning, and a mouse who has convinced himself there is a murderer downstairs. The joke is that the audience knows the truth from the start and Mickey never does — the oldest suspense trick there is, executed cleanly.
Built on a radio bulletin about an escaped killer; the tone is suspenseful throughout.