Chip 'n' Dale

Ahörnchen and authorities Nchen (English: Chip 'n ' Dale or Chip an ' Dale ) are two fictional comic chipmunks ( in German translations also chipmunks ) that were created by the Walt Disney Company. Since 1991 they are in the series " Chip and Dale - The Knights of the law " means, in Germany as Chip and Dale; Comics will also continue to be published under their original names ( see below). The English name of Chip ' n ' Dale is a pun on the name " Chippendale " (see Thomas Chippendale ).

She first appeared they were in 1943 in the animated short Private Pluto in which they annoy the dog Pluto. They got your name but only at their third appearance in the Oscar - nominated short film chip an ' Dale (1947 ), in which she first docked with Donald Duck, of their opponent should be in the sequence at most performances. In 1951, she got her own cartoon series, but in the framework emerged just three short films.

Ahörnchen (chip ) is the intelligent part of the duo. He has a black nose. He is calculating, and thus presents a contrast to authorities Nchen (Dale), which is marked next to his red nose and wide-spaced front teeth through his broken -down behavior.

Various German names

Your first comic appearance had the two chipmunks 1952 as " Ahörnchen and Beehörnchen ". Readers were presented as follows:

Until early 1957, Be ( e) remained croissant - whose name was now shortened to an e - a female, then you made ​​him Ahörnchens brother. Dale is both a men's and a woman's name in the United States. Sometimes also appeared other spellings, eg they are written on a video cover of the 1980 A- and B - croissant croissant.

1991 was the television animated series " Chip and Dale - The Knight of the Right" ( Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers ) on German television. To do this you named Ahörnchen and authorities Nchen into Chip and Dale. Also in the resynchronization of the old cartoons they got this name. In the comic publications since both names appear: The classic loose dresses chipmunks are still called Ahörnchen and authorities starlet. Comics based on the TV series, however, run under the name of Chip and Dale.

International designations

In the Netherlands, the series under " Knabbel en Babbel ", in France " Tic et Tac ", in Spain under "Chip y Chop " in Italy " Cip e Ciop " in the successor states of the former Yugoslavia as " Cik i Cak ", the Middle East under " Sanjub wa Sanjoob " in Sweden as" Piff och Puff " in Brazil under" Tico e Teco " and in Norway under" Snipp og Snapp " known.