In this classic Jack King-directed Donald Duck cartoon, Donald is a truant officer who spies his nephews luxuriating in a pond when they should be at school — or so he thinks. He artfully nabs each of them — one by net, one by stick, and one by carefully shot toilet plunger — but, as you might expect, mayhem then ensues. By the time Donald has successfully hauled Huey, Dewey, and Louie to school, he discovers, to his great embarrassment, that school year has ended for the summer. Truant Officer Donald remains to this day one of the funniest Donald shorts ever made, and it was nominated for an Academy Award® in 1941 for Best Cartoon — only to lose to Lend a Paw, a Pluto cartoon released just a couple months after Truant Officer Donald.
