The Plausible Impossible

This scene shows Donald Duck meeting his cousin Gus Goose. Gus greets Donald with a handshake that is seemingly impossible. For one, geese and ducks don't have the same hand bones as humans do so a "finger clasping" handshake should be impossible for the two relatives. The second impossibility is the fact that Gus makes Donald squash down and spring up again. Handshakes are a human like trait that when applied to humanoid like creatures, such as the human like Donald Duck, we as viewers believe that that is a-ok and nothing is off about. While the handshakes we receive often feel as though the other party is trying to throw you around with a shake, we know that this is highly unlikely to happen in a standard handshake.

The next scene shows Gus beginning his very extravagant meal by literally inhaling a bowl of soup. Gus does not eat soup how soup is even considered to be eaten. Gus is using two spoons to literally shovel soup into his mouth in gigantic quantities and appears to be spilling quite a bit despite there being no evidence of liquids on the table or on himself. This is impossible because liquid cannot be "shoveled" in such a manner that it flings itself into a persons mouth and they are able to eat it at that speed. This is plausible however as the term "shoveling down food" is often used to describe someone who can consume large quantities of food at an extremely fast rate.

The Next scene I chose was the one in which Gus goes to sit down to begin his feast at Donald's dinner table. Gus gains a massive amount of momentum and jumps into the chair which causes it to act like a spring thats just been flicked and it reverberates back in forth drastically. This is impossible because chairs do not have that level of springiness to them that would allow them to do that. On the other hand if you do run at a chair full speed or even just run at a chair it will get knocked backwards and possibly even fall down due to momentum of your body hitting the chair.

The next scene was Gus making a sock out of spaghetti noodles using knitting needles. This is impossible as noodles are not very structurally stable and are very fragile. However, in theory this could work if the noodles were tough enough and the person knitting was an expert knitter and could create a sock with ease.

The final scene is one in which Gus is making a sandwich by folding the ingredients like a deck of cards and shuffling the ingredients together to form a gigantic stacked sandwich. This is impossible because there is no way to shuffle the lunch meats and cheeses into stacked slices of bread and effectively make a sandwich. This could be possible if you went slowly layer by layer stacking the ingredients in a card like manner and made a giant sandwich out of it.