Chip 'n Dale are two fictional, animated chipmunks created by The Walt Disney Company.
Their names are a pun based on the name "Chippendale" (see Thomas Chippendale).
They first appeared in the cartoon Private Pluto (1943) where they antagonize the dog Pluto, but they didn't get their names (or the traits that separate them) until the cartoon Chip an' Dale (1947) where they antagonize Donald Duck. Chip is the (slightly) more intelligent one with the black nose, and Dale is the one with the red nose and gapped teeth. They continued to appear in animated cartoons, usually annoying/terrorising Donald, until the mid-1950s. They were also made regulars in comic books.
They eventually got their own animated series, titled Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers in 1989. In that show they teamed up as detectives with two mice named Gadget Hackwrench (a female inventor mouse whom Chip and Dale are both attracted to) and Monterey Jack (an Australian muscle mouse who has a fear of cats and a constant craving for cheese), and a fly named Zipper. Their usual adversaries include a cat crime boss named Fat Cat and his henchmen: an alley cat named Mepps, a lizard named Wart, a mole named Mole, and a rat named Snout. They also encounter a mad scientist named Professor Norton Nimnul.
Chip 'n Dale Movies
Private Pluto
Private Pluto was a cartoon made by The Walt Disney Company in 1943. In this cartoon Pluto is in the army and he gets antagonized by two chipmunks. This is the cartoon that introduced Chip n' Dale, although their names were not mentioned in this cartoon.
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