Wynken, Blynken and Nod (film)

Did You Know?

• In The Disney Films, Leonard Maltin described the short as 'as extravagant as any Disney feature'.
• The short set a standard that was probably too extravagant to maintain, with most effort turned toward feature-film production in the late 1930s.

Plot

The three sleepy children sail their shoe-boat and become briefly trapped in a cloud. They encounter several problems with their fishing rods: Nod catches a fish-shaped starfish that wriggles in his pants, and a starfish snags Wynken and Nod's rods baited with candy canes, causing Nod to fall overboard. Wynken reels Nod in, but the fish-shaped starfish mock Nod, licking him; Nod kicks one, then another licks him, and four pull at his pajamas. While the starfish tease Nod, mistaking him for a candy cane, Blynken's pajamas come undone, exposing his bottom, but he buttons them and grabs Wynken.

A comet passes; they catch it in a net and are towed violently into another cloud, where storms toss them. Nod and Blynken hold the sail, Nod's pajamas come undone, and he buttons them. The storm snaps the mast and sends them back to Earth, where they are revealed to be a single child whose pajamas keep coming undone while he sleeps.