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All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Coming!! Snafu, Gripes & Spies

    • January 1, 1943

    This animated film features the goofy, simpleton Private Snafu, voiced by Mel Blanc. Pvt. Snafu becomes commander of an Army camp and allows everyone to goldbrick. Private Snafu has a secret: his ship leaves for Africa at 4:30. He's determined to keep it, but bit by bit it slips out, and eventually, the details end up right on Adolf Hitler's desk, and the ship is attacked.

  • S01E02 The Goldbrick, The Infantry Blues & Fighting Tools

    • January 1, 1943

    The lazy, Snafu doesn't want to get up, so the "Goldbrick fairy" appears and sings to him several things to do to avoid his duties. Pvt. Snafu complains about being assigned to the infantry only to learn that other branches have their own problems. In this installment, Private SNAFU learns the lessons of a weapons maintenance.

  • S01E03 The Home Front, Rumors & Booby Traps

    • January 1, 1943

    Pvt. Snafu, in an Arctic outpost, learns by magic television that U.S. citizens are working wholeheartedly for the war effort. Private Snafu passes along a latrine-o-gram. Private Snafu learns about the hazards of enemy booby traps the hard way.

  • S01E04 Snafuperman, Private Snafu vs Malaria Mike & A Lecture on Camouflage

    • January 1, 1943

    The second in the snafu series, this time a spoof on superman. Snafu learns hard way the consequences of not protecting himself from malaria infection. Private Snafu - A Lecture on Camouflage.

  • S01E05 Gas, Going Home & The Chow Hound

    • January 1, 1943

    SNAFU learns about using a gas mask. Although it was completed by May or June, 1944, Going Home was never released. The rationale behind the decision is unknown. The prevailing theory is that the secret weapon able to obliterate entire islands was deemed a bit too close in nature to an actual military secret: the atomic bomb. Private Snafu learns about food.

  • S01E06 Censored, Outpost & Payday

    • January 1, 1943

    Snafu writes to Sally that he is going to the South Pacific. He tries to mail the uncensored letter. On a Pacific island he dreams that he was successful but that the Japanese got the information and set a trap. He awakens and realizes the danger of revealing information. Private Snafu Trains Army personnel to cope with boring assignments. Private Snafu learns why his pay doesn't go quite as far.

  • S01E07 Target: Snafu, Three Brothers & In the Aleutians, Isles of Enchantment

    • January 1, 1943

    A armada of malaria-laden mosquitoes seeks human targets and finds Private Snafu who fails to protect himself adequately against their onslaught. We meet the 2 brothers of Private Snafu -- a pigeon keeper named Tarfu & a dog trainer named Fubar. A humorous look at the Aleutian Islands and their strategic value.

  • S01E08 It's Murder She Says, Hot Spot & No Buddy Atoll

    • January 1, 1943

    A mosquito past her prime reminisces on the good old days. In Iran, a Harold Peary-sounding Satan warns Private Snafu about the hazards of working in the heat. Private Snafu is stranded on a tiny island with a Japanese officer; he must depend on his wits to defend himself against his sword-wielding foe.

  • S01E09 Operation Snafu & Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu in the Navy

    • January 1, 1943

    Snafu steals some top secret Japanese documents, and has to disguise himself as a geisha girl to elude the General chasing him. Private Snafu introduces his Seaman brother, Tarfu.

  • S01E10 Education for Death & Seven Wise Dwarfs

    • January 1, 1943

    Walt Disney's "Education for Death" (1943) features Hans, a boy raised in Nazi Germany and trained to become a fanatical soldier. War Bond Advertisement.

  • S01E11 Donald Duck - Der Fuhrer's Face, Donald Duck - Commando Duck & The Ducktators

    • January 1, 1943

    Donald Duck finds himself in nightmare that he is living in a country run by Nazis. Donald "Commando" Duck is sent on a parachute mission to locate and enemy airfield. The birth of the "Ducktator" on the farm leads to a Nazi uprising that must be stopped.

  • S01E12 Wacky Blackout & Donald Gets Drafted

    • January 1, 1943

    A series of gags from the farm related to emergency preparedness during World War II.

  • S01E13 Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves & Cholly Polly

    • January 1, 1943

    The first film is an animated Castle Films presentation titled "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp." The second film is a Castle Films excerpt from the photoplay "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." The third film is an animated Official Films presentation titled "Cholly Polly," in which the protagonist, a duck, attempted to stir up trouble after being influenced by Nazi literature.