“Someone’s Getting Fired”: Donald Duck Shocks Guests With Interesting Gesture

It’s always something guaranteed to light up any Disney Park Guest’s face.

Whether you’re walking down Main Street, U.S.A. or making your way across Fantasyland to get to your next attraction, if you catch a glimpse of your favorite Disney character you’re sure to feel like a child again.

Ever since Disney Parks reopened after their pandemic closures, Guests have seen a slow return of “normal” character meet and greets, with social distancing and selfies now the new norm.

But one Guest in a Disney theme park recently got more than they expected when a popular Disney character took a very risky approach to greeting a fellow character!

Across Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme parks, and at Disneyland Park and Disney’s California Adventure, there are so many opportunities to spot your favorite Disney character and get that coveted photo.

From calling out Cinderella’s name during the recently returned Festival of Fantasy parade, or meeting Mickey Mouse at Town Square Theater, Guests can always bet they’ll run into some classic Disney character magic.

Disney CFO Christine McCarthy recently promised “normal” meet and greets will be returning to Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California soon, after hugs came back to Disneyland Paris last month.

But that hasn’t stopped Disney characters from still having fun in their magic-making theme park roles, especially the mischievous Donald Duck.

TikTok user @just_disney shared a video this week of Donald Duck making a very bold – and pretty outrageous – move at Disney that has left Guests shocked and entertained:

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The video shows Donald going up to Clarice, a rare Disney character, and hitting her on her “behind”. Donald then mischievously walks up to the Cast Member entrance door and beckons her in.

The video has a somewhat different tone to what we usually see from Disney characters and shows that, sometimes, Cast Members have more fun than usual in creating the magic!

Whether that fun gets them “fired”, as some Guests are debating, is up for question.

The video appears to be filmed at Tokyo DisneySea, a theme park at the Tokyo Disney Resort located in Japan. The popular, and very unique, Disney Parks opened in September 2001, with The Oriental Land Company owning the Park, and licensing Disney characters and themes from The Walt Disney Company.

Clarice is a very prominent character at the Tokyo theme parks, and can often be found as a meet and greet at World Bazaar or Toontown in Tokyo Disneyland, and in American Waterfront at Tokyo DisneySea.

Clarice is a chipmunk who made her debut as the love interest of Chip and Dale in the Disney cartoon short Two Chips and a Miss, released on March 21, 1952. She makes rare appearances at Walt Disney World Resort but is popular in Tokyo Disneyland.

We’re intrigued to see what Daisy Duck thought of Donald’s antics, and hope that the fun behavior doesn’t cause any drama for Donald’s Cast Member friend!