Movies and TvShows featuring "given-the-hook" theme.

Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and other characters attempt to perform a recital at a theater. Chaos ensues as they face various mishaps, including getting hit with hammers and bricks, throwing food, and dressing as makeshift parachutes.

Bob Hope stars as an inept member of the chorus boy in a turn of the century stage show. After being fired, he finds himself starring acting as a decoy when a killer goes after the real star.

Orphans' Benefit is a funny and heartwarming animated short film from 1941. It follows a group of orphans as they prepare for and perform in a talent show. The film is filled with laughter and silly moments as the orphans showcase their unique talents.

Mickey Mouse and his friends stage their own production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.

In Mickey's Revue, Mickey Mouse tries to perform on stage with his friends, but chaos ensues when Pluto gets loose and causes trouble. It's a hilarious and entertaining comedy that will leave you laughing.

A behind-the-scenes documentary hosted by Joanna Cassidy on the making of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

The bull is watching through a knothole as the great bullfighter, Woody Woodpecker, is showing off for the spectators. Unable to take it no longer the bull dashes into the arena and charges Woody so hard that he makes a shambles of the stadium. Woody, as always, equal to the task at hand is soon serving bull-burgers to the crowd.

Professor Smelts the band leader gets into a romantic rivalry with one of his musicians over the affections of a pretty girl.

Casper, the Friendly Ghost, is thrown out of The Frightening Army by its Unfiendly Ghost's members, and wander on over to Fairy Tale Land, where he finds Little Bo Peep crying over her lost sheep.

Casper befriends Short Tail, the beaver.

An Aesop fable installment from Paul Terry and co.

It's basically a series of visual gags that takes place on a greyhound race track with the racers chasing a mechanical rabbit attached to a gate (though the rabbit seems lifelike, at least for a cartoon).