# Why doesn't Donald Duck wear pants? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2009, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041 "2009-12-04T23:19:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Susanann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Susanann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susanann)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/21 "2009-12-05T02:43:20Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > And how much people care depends on how fit you are I suppose, but there are some places where shirtlessness would definitely be unacceptable. ? Donald Duck was created in 1934, a time when it was illegal for most males to be shirtless in public in most states…even at the beach!! ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/22 "2009-12-05T03:18:54Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Mine don’t, due to my two X chromosomes. I don’t have to wear pants? No. Next question? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/23 "2009-12-05T11:28:28Z")
A _Better_ Question About Perverted Cartoons In the Moral Majority 80s, there was a cartoon called _GI Joe_. A villainess named the Baroness played a significant role. She had red lips, good looks, a curvy figure, wore a black leather catsuit, boots, gloves, schoolmistress glasses, & spoke with a rather sultry Eastern European accent. In other words, an Eastern European Schoolmistress/Dominatrix appeared on a kids cartoon. How the Hell did they get away with this?😕 ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/24 "2009-12-05T13:40:44Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > This was a topic an early Mad parody by Harvey Kurtzman, back before it was Mad Magazine. (The title started out in comic book format.) “Hey, Darnold…Duck!!” My favorite bit was in the opening panel of “Mickey Rodent” where Horace Horsecollar was being hauled away by Walt Dizzy’s storm troopers for failure to wear white gloves! (“And it’s so hard to find these three-fingered ones!”) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/25 "2009-12-05T13:44:38Z")
Anyone else now stuck singing [Donald Where’s Your Trousers?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2fizeoT22g) ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Medlo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hi\_Medlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Medlo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/26 "2009-12-05T13:56:19Z")
Donald wears swim trunks and no shirt at the beach… ---
**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/27 "2009-12-05T16:43:26Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > Ducks, like all birds, have internal naughty bits. The only time we can see them through the feathers is for a brief moment during mating. The cloaca in the male and female everts, and sperm cells are transferred. I feel compelled to point out that many species of ducks do, indeed, have phalluses. Granted, they’re retractable, and they lose them and regrow them every year, so at any given time Donald may not have an external phallus. But the possibility exists. Also, a species of duck possesses the largest known avian phallus. 42.5 cm. [Cite](http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_366856.htm)(warning: graphic duck penis). God, I feel dirty now. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/28 "2009-12-05T16:57:08Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > And how can Goofy, a dog, have a pet Pluto, also a dog? > > It’s madness people! Goofy’s girlfriend is [a cow](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarabelle_Cow). Shameful! ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/29 "2009-12-05T17:40:51Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > Mickey is Disney, everybody covers their no-no’s in Disney. > > Bugs, Daffy, Porky, etc. all go au naturale for Warner Brothers. But Donald Duck is a Disney character… ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/30 "2009-12-05T18:18:22Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > In the Moral Majority 80s, there was a cartoon called _GI Joe_. A villainess named the Baroness played a significant role. She had red lips, good looks, a curvy figure, wore a black leather catsuit, boots, gloves, schoolmistress glasses, & spoke with a rather sultry Eastern European accent. > > In other words, an Eastern European Schoolmistress/Dominatrix appeared on a kids cartoon. > > How the Hell did they get away with this?😕 The “Moral Majority” was never a majority. Many young parents of 1984 had undoubtedly seen a [real,\* whip-snapping dominatrix](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyrNTKNoBG8) on TV in their childhoods, so why would they be shocked? - Well, live-action anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/31 "2009-12-05T19:59:04Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > This is even weirder. So he walks around all the time with his crotch totally exposed, but then gets modest and covers himself when he takes off his shirt? IOW, his behavior is contradictory. So what? Come on. He’s only human. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/32 "2009-12-05T20:36:29Z")
> [@runcible\_spoon](#): > > …graphic duck penis… Band name! Sorry. I couldn’t resist. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/33 "2009-12-05T20:46:04Z")
No naughty parts are drawn on Donald Duck. In cartoons it what you don’t draw that matters. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/34 "2009-12-09T18:57:33Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Goofy’s girlfriend is [a cow](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarabelle_Cow). Shameful! Ah, but does that make it bestiality? Or just miscegenation? \* I really think that that is nothing compared to suggestions of incest in the cartoons. Petunia Pig, Porky’s girlfriend, was originally shown to be his…[sister](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_of_the_Stuttering_Pig)! * * * - One may wonder why no fuss was made of this apparent promotion of miscegenation in the cartoons. Wasn’t there a huge amount of opposition in those days? Actually there is a simple reason it was overlooked. Nobody cares because… Goofy and Clarabelle Cow were both black! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/35 "2009-12-09T19:21:12Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > And the only time Bugs Bunny wears clothes is when he’s crossdressing. Except for the gloves. Bugs always wears gloves. Nevermind “What’s Up Doc?”, what’s up with the gloves? ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/36 "2009-12-09T22:05:43Z")
I have a carton of Disney dried fruit (similar to a little raisin box) that has a Donald Duck comic on the back. On the front is a single panel of Donald with a ‘shocked realization’ look on his face, and he’s saying “I forgot to wear my pants **again**!” So really, he’s just very very forgetful. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/37 "2009-12-16T18:50:09Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > Mickey is Disney, everybody covers their no-no’s in Disney. I thought that Disney characters \*\*\*had \*\*\*no no-no’s. Isn’t that part of their definition? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/38 "2009-12-16T19:00:32Z")
> [@runcible\_spoon](#): > > I feel compelled to point out that many species of ducks do, indeed, have phalluses. Granted, they’re retractable, and **they lose them and regrow them every year** OK, that’s something I never knew. “Ooops, sorry, I just shed my phallus.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_the_turtle/32/2926_2.png) [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_the_Turtle)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/39 "2009-12-16T19:16:32Z")
“Pants? You know how long that’ll take?” “We’re talking million dollar pants” “PUT PANTS ON THAT HOG!!” C’mon - someone had to quote that ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041/40 "2009-12-16T19:18:14Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > OK, that’s something I never knew. > > “Ooops, sorry, I just shed my phallus.” > > :eek: “Keep the tip!” Sorry! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-donald-duck-wear-pants/520041.md?page=3)