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{{short description|1950 animated short film starring Goofy}}
{{for|the unrelated video game|Motor Mania (video game)}}
{{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Motor Mania''}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Motor Mania
| image = Motormaniaposter.jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = [[Jack Kinney]]
| story = [[Dick Kinney]]<br>Milt Schaffer
| animator = John Sibley<br>[[Charles August Nichols|Charles Nichols]]<br>Ed Aardal<br>Jack Boyd 
| layout_artist = Al Zinnen
| background_artist = Claude Coats
| music = [[Paul Smith (film and television composer)|Paul J. Smith]]
| starring = Bob Jackman<br>John McLeish
| producer = [[Walt Disney]]
| studio = [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]]
| distributor = [[RKO Pictures|RKO Radio Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|1950|06|30}}
| country = United States
| color_process = [[Technicolor]]
| runtime = 7 minutes (one reel)
| language = English
}}
'''''Motor Mania''''' is a [[cartoon]] released by [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]] on June 30, 1950.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/86/mode/2up |pages=86–87}}</ref> In this short, [[Goofy]] is a [[Jekyll and Hyde|Mr. Hyde]]-type split personality, who gets behind the wheel and shows the dangers of not driving safely.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maltin |first1=Leonard |title=The Disney Films |date=1984 |publisher=Crown Publishers |isbn=0-517-55407-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/disneyfilms00malt/page/312 312] |edition=2nd |url=https://archive.org/details/disneyfilms00malt |url-access=registration |access-date=16 February 2020}}</ref>

==Plot==
The cartoon shows how the character, as the pleasant, friendly, and good-natured "Mr. Walker" who "wouldn't hurt a fly nor step on an ant", undergoes a [[Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde|Jekyll-and-Hyde]]-like change in personality to the violent "Mr. Wheeler, motorist" when he gets behind the wheel of his yellow car.  As Mr. Walker, pedestrian, he's polite, safe, and good-natured while as Mr. Wheeler; he is very mean, reckless, and predatory. Upon reaching his destination in town (he apparently only wanted to buy a newspaper) and leaving his automobile, he reverts to the mild-mannered Mr. Walker, whereupon he is the victim of other motorists' unsafe (and sometimes even predatory) driving habits.  However, once he returns to his car, he becomes Mr. Wheeler, motorist, again, seeking to impose his own will upon traffic, to the point of blaming the tow truck which hauls him away for his slow pace after his own auto accident, and breaks the [[fourth wall]] by telling the narrator, "Ah, shut up!"

==Home media==
The short was released on December 2, 2002, on ''[[Walt Disney Treasures: Wave Two#The Complete Goofy|Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Complete Goofy DVD Review|url=https://www.dvdizzy.com/completegoofy.html |website=DVD Dizzy |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>

==Voice cast==
* Goofy: Bob Jackman 
* Narrator: John McLeish

== References ==
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{{Goofy in animation}}
{{Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde}}

[[Category:1950 films]]
[[Category:1950s Disney animated short films]]
[[Category:Goofy (Disney) short films]]
[[Category:Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Jack Kinney]]
[[Category:Films produced by Walt Disney]]
[[Category:Films scored by Paul Smith (composer)]]
[[Category:Animated films about automobiles]]
[[Category:1950s English-language films]]
[[Category:English-language short films]]
[[Category:1950 animated short films]]


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