Both the Steamboat Bill[1] and the Steamboat Willie[2] wikipedia pages state that this was about parodying the title. Note that there was also a 1910 song "Stea

Both the Steamboat Bill[1] and the Steamboat Willie[2] wikipedia pages state that this was about parodying the title. Note that there was also a 1910 song "Steamboat Bill"[3]. > The film inspired the title of Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie (1928), which was released six months later and is considered the debut of Mickey Mouse. > The title of the film may be a parody of the Buster Keaton film Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), itself a reference to the song by Collins. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat_Bill,_Jr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat_Bill,_Jr. [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat_Willie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat_Willie [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat_Bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat_Bill