Mickey's 60th Birthday

"Mickey's 60th Birthday" is a 1988 television special broadcast as an episode of The Magical World of Disney on November 13, 1988 on NBC. As the title suggests, it was produced for the 60th anniversary of Mickey Mouse. Not unlike Who Framed Roger Rabbit (which had been recently released at the time), much of the footage featured in the film is live-action with newly-made animation (although some of the animation used for some scenes were made from existing footage). It was rebroadcast on Disney Channel Europe on November 13, 2008, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the special and the 80th Anniversary of Mickey Mouse.
==Synopsis==
Mickey's 60th birthday show is being taped and as it is getting closer to the finale, Mickey finds himself trying to decide what he should do next for his audience. Rummaging through an old trunk, he finds the magic hat from The Sorcerer's Apprentice and considers using it. But he is warned by a sorcerer who owns the hat (who is not Yen Sid this time) that he should not be using other people's magic when he has his own, to which Mickey initially doesn't understand. With that in mind, Mickey goes out on stage along with his birthday cake, provided by Roger Rabbit, who realizes too late that he mistakenly placed a stick of dynamite on the cake instead of a candle. Roger ends up destroying the set in a failed attempt to extinguish the dynamite fuse, which prompts Mickey to use the magic from the hat to repair the damage. The audience screams for more and Mickey agrees to do so, but when he does, he suddenly vanishes.
The Sorcerer, annoyed that Mickey disobeyed his warning, decides to teach the mouse a lesson on how to find his own kind of magic by casting a spell on him in which anyone he runs into fails to recognize him as Mickey Mouse. The Mouse is then returned to the real world, where he's found by Andy Keaton of , who mistakenly believes him to be a good impression of the real thing. Andy shows Mickey off to his sisters Mallory and Jennifer, but when they're not convinced, even his brother Andy turns him down. Dejected, Mickey goes to the bar from , only to realize that he has no money to buy himself a drink. He then sings "Happy Birthday" to . When that doesn't make her happy, he then gives her a pep talk that cheers her up so much that she takes him out to dinner and a movie.
Meanwhile, The Walt Disney Company organizes a search party to find the missing mouse, which was reported on a local news show. In the process, the reporters, Dudley Goode and Mia Loud, begin to suspect Donald Duck after being told of how upset he was that he wasn't going to appear in Mickey's special. Their suspicions go even further when they find old footage of Donald doing his own version of The Mickey Mouse Club theme song, and Donald is soon arrested after he unsuccessfully tries to testify his innocence (he claimed that the kidnapper was either Minnie Mouse, "the guy who framed Roger Rabbit", the Wicked Witch or ). Donald is to be represented by the legal firm of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney, and Kuzak. As they continue with their reports on the search, the reporters show various clip montages of Mickey and various tributes people were putting out to him.
As the special nears its end, Mickey returns to Disneyland, where a custodian (Cheech Marin) mopes over the fact that he can't see any point in his profession if the guest of honor isn't going to show up for his own birthday party. then sings a song called "Magic, It's All Up to You" with Mickey accompanying the ensuing song-and-dance number. At this point, the sorcerer reappears and congratulates Mickey now that he's finally found his own magic inside him having learned his lesson and thus breaks the spell. Just as the sorcerer exits, Roger rushes up to Mickey and instantly recognizes him. The news of Roger having "found" Mickey is brought to the news and the innocent Donald is released from jail just in time. Out of thanks and humility, Mickey invites Donald to join him in the forthcoming celebration at Disneyland. Soon, a parade appears, taking Mickey to Sleeping Beauty Castle, where Minnie is standing. People in the parade throw him up to the balcony of Sleeping Beauty Castle and Mickey and Minnie are finally reunited. Mickey declares that this is his best birthday ever.
==Notes==
*In Donald's version of "The Mickey Mouse March", when Jiminy Cricket tosses the cards spelling Donald's name into the air, the cards actually still have the letters in Mickey's name on them right before they reach the point where they freeze in midair.
*For the sequence where Mickey visits Cheers, Michael Eisner contacted James Burrow and asked for the Cheers writers to write the scene, due to the first draft by Disney's own writers not being very good. After the Cheers writers revised the scene into what appears in the finished special, they later each received tote bags filled with Disney merchandise."The night Mickey Mouse entered CHEEERS" blog post by Cheers writer Ken Levine
*Mickey arrives at the Cheers bar on the evening of November 16th, and then shows up back at Disneyland before dawn on November 18th. In reality, driving from Boston, Massachusetts (where Cheers takes place) to Disneyland would take at least 44 hours, which is a much longer amount of time than what passes between the two sequences.
*Animation of Mickey dancing during the "Magic, It's All Up to You" song near the end was recycled for the "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" segment in Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration. In addition, some animation of Mickey from his visit to the Keaton household here was reused for the Magical World of Disney promo reel used in ALF Takes Over the Network.
===Clips used in the montages===
Minnie montage ("Someday My Prince Will Come")
*Puppy Love
*Touchdown Mickey
*The Nifty Nineties
*Brave Little Tailor
Stunts montage ("Shake, Rattle, and Roll")
*Tugboat Mickey
*Mickey's Delayed Date
*Brave Little Tailor
*The Band Concert
*Mickey's Fire Brigade
*Mickey's Circus
*Clock Cleaners
*The Little Whirlwind
*Mickey's Trailer
*The Pointer
*Thru the Mirror
*Lonesome Ghosts
Pluto montage ("Friends" by Elton John)
*The Pointer
*Society Dog Show
*Mickey Down Under
*Plutopia
*Mickey's Delayed Date
*Pluto's Dream House
*Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip
*A Gentleman's Gentleman
"We may never see Mickey again" montage
*Thru the Mirror
*Brave Little Tailor
*Mickey's Garden
*Mickey's Parrot
*The Nifty Nineties
*Symphony Hour
*Magician Mickey
*The Little Whirlwind
*The Sorcerer's Apprentice
==Cast==
*Wayne Allwine as Mickey Mouse (voice)
*Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck (voice)
*Charles Fleischer as himself and Roger Rabbit (voice)
*Carl Reiner as Mel Pollini
*John Ritter as Dudley Goode
*Jill Eikenberry as Mia Loud
*Russi Taylor as Minnie Mouse (voice)
*Brian Bonsall as Andy Keaton
*Justine Bateman as Mallory Keaton
*Michael J. Fox as Alex Keaton (in flashback clip)
*Tina Yothers as Jennifer Keaton
*Ed McMahon as himself
*Ted Danson as Sam Malone
*John Ratzenberger as Cliff Clavin
*Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane
*Kirstie Alley as Rebecca Howe
*Cheech Marin as the custodian at Disneyland
*Phylicia Rashad as herself
*Peter Cullen as the Sorcerer (voice)
*Phylicia Rashad as the Disneyland dancer
*Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter
*Bea Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak
*Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo
*Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux
*Betty White as Rose Nylund
*Burt Reynolds as Himself
*Dyan Cannon as Herself
*Phil Collins as Himself
*Annette Funicello as Herself
*Bette Midler as Herself
*Barbara Hershey as Herself
==Gallery==
Donald demands to be on the show.jpg|Donald demands to be on Mickey's birthday show.
Mickey pulls out the Sorcerer hat.jpg|Mickey finds the Sorcerer's Hat in his trunk.
603.jpg|The unnamed sorcerer warns Mickey not to use other people's magic.
Roger with his voice actor.jpg|Roger with Charlie the stagehand (Charles Fleischer).
RogerRabbit5.jpg|Roger volunteers to bring in Mickey's cake.
606.jpg|The sorcerer furious about Mickey disobeying his warning.
Mickey Sorcerer to Tuxedo.gif|The sorcerer casts his spell on Mickey.
Charlie doesn't recognize Mickey.jpg|Thanks to the sorcerer's spell, Charlie the stagehand doesn't recognize Mickey.
Minnie crying about Mickey's disappearance.jpg|Minnie crying over Mickey's disappearance.
Mickey visits Family Ties.jpg|Mickey can't seem to convince Andy and his sisters that he's the real thing.
Reporters suspect Donald.jpg|Meanwhile, Goode and Loud begin to suspect Donald is behind Mickey's disappearance.
Donald Duck Club intro screenshot.jpg|And Donald's version of the Mickey Mouse Club theme song furthers their suspicion.
Donald tries to testify his innocence.jpg|Donald honestly admits he's not the kidnapper...
Donald is arrested.jpg|...but it only makes his situation worse.
The Cheers gang watching.jpg|The Cheers gang watching the news reports about Mickey's disappearance.
Mickey with Sam Malone.jpg|Mickey with Sam Malone.
Kirstie and Mickey 3.jpg|Mickey with Rebecca Howe.
Cheech Marin is sad about Mickey's disappearance.jpg|Cheech Marin depressed about Mickey's disappearance.
608f.jpg|The sorcerer, seeing that Mickey has learned his lesson, undoes the spell.
MickeyWithRoger.jpg|Roger, having "found" Mickey, takes a picture.
Mickey's 60th Birthday - Mickey and Donald.png|Donald, acquitted of the charges, reunites with Mickey.
Roger Rabbit Mickey's 60th Birthday.jpeg
==References==
==See also==
*Here's to You, Mickey Mouse
*Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration (another Disney anniversary special featuring the cast of Cheers)
==External links==
*The Entertainment Nut's review
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