Playdate with Destiny

Name: Playdate with Destiny
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Released: 2020-03-06
Duration: 5 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Chris Edgerly

20202020
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5min

6.7/10

1.5K

Animation Short Comedy

Maggie and Marge are having a play-date at Springfield's finest toddler play park when Maggie becomes smitten with a little boy. It's love at first suck and Maggie dreams about seeing him ag... Read allMaggie and Marge are having a play-date at Springfield's finest toddler play park when Maggie becomes smitten with a little boy. It's love at first suck and Maggie dreams about seeing him again after a day full of make-believe romance.Maggie and Marge are having a play-date at Springfield's finest toddler play park when Maggie becomes smitten with a little boy. It's love at first suck and Maggie dreams about seeing him again after a day full of make-believe romance.

6.7/10

1.5K

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Chris Edgerly

Phonic Frogas Phonic Frog
(voice)

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Maggie and Marge are having a play-date at Springfield's finest toddler play park when Maggie becomes smitten with a little boy. It's love at first suck and Maggie dreams about seeing him again after a day full of make-believe romance. But when Homer is on baby duty the next day and takes Maggie to a different park with food trucks, she worries that she may never see her true love again - until she takes matters into her own hands. —Alex Reif

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Trivia
This short was shown before the screening of the Disney/Pixar film Onward (2020).

Crazy credits
The silhouette of Mickey Mouse is seen at the beginning only to reveal Homer with two donuts on his head, prompting the message "Disney Welcomes The Simpsons".

Alternate versions
The Disney+ printing originally began with the Disney+ Originals logo on the first day. However, the logo was removed the following day.

Connections
Referenced in The Simpsons: The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby (2020)

Top review

5/10

Disney Introduces The Simpsons

Disney now owns Fox and its properties, including "The Simpsons" cartoon TV series, in addition to Pixar already, in case anyone didn't know. This short, "Playdate with Destiny," accompanying the Pixar feature "Onward" (2020) feels like an advertisement of that fact. The youngest of the Simpsons family, Maggie, the now-thirty-something-years-old baby, takes center stage in this one. Although there's a bit of exploration of potentially more interesting avenues, with dreams and that the short plays out like a modern silent film, it's mostly a parody of a globetrotting romance flick, with the infants imagining themselves doing grown-up mush. The train gag is decent--probably reminiscent of far too many movies. As with the Pixar movie, I'm generally indifferent to it, so at least it makes for appropriate mediocre accompaniment to a mediocre feature.

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