Mickey's Delayed Date

Mickey's Delayed Date is a Mickey Mouse animated short that was released in 1947.
==Story==
Angry that he is late for their date at a party, Minnie calls Mickey, who has been sleeping all this time. Pluto answers the phone, licking it when he hears Minnie's voice, his drool somehow splattering onto Minnie from the other end. She wipes her face and asks him to take the phone to Mickey. As soon as Minnie wakens him, she warns Mickey that if he doesn't arrive in the next fifteen minutes, their relationship is over. With the help of Pluto, Mickey gets well-dressed in a tuxedo and ready for the date and leaves his house, unaware that he left the tickets for the party. Pluto notices the tickets and quickly takes them to bring to Mickey. Rushing to the party, Mickey's top hat flies into a garbage can.
Mickey reaches in the garbage can to get the black top hat, but Pluto bumps into the garbage can, accidentally knocking the garbage can down the street with Mickey in it and crashes into a street lamp. Mickey emerges from the garbage can with his tuxedo clothes wrecked and finds out that he reached his destination, where Minnie greets him and compliments him on his costume. This works out for Mickey, since the party he and Minnie are going to is a "Hard Times" costume party. Minnie tells Mickey that they can go in as soon as Mickey gives the tickets. Mickey realizes that he left the tickets at home, but Pluto arrives just in time to give them the tickets, making everything turn out alright at the end.
==Characters==
*Mickey Mouse (voiced by Walt Disney)
*Minnie Mouse (voiced by Ruth Clifford)
*Pluto (voiced by Pinto Colvig)
==Trivia==
*The animation of Pluto tussling with the top hat is reused from Mickey's Grand Opera, while the animation of Mickey trying to dodge traffic is reused from The Country Cousin with Mickey in place of Abner Countrymouse.
*This is Minnie's last major appearance in a Mickey Mouse cartoon up until Mickey's Christmas Carol. She would, however, make a brief cameo in Pluto's Christmas Tree.
*This short has a lot of similarities with "Bad Ear Day", an episode of Mickey Mouse's most recent short series. Except for the fact that Mickey lost his ears. 
*This was the last Mickey Mouse cartoon to feature Walt Disney as the original voice of Mickey Mouse.
*Certain clips from this short can be found in the screen of the Disney Store in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 during the Times Square scene.
*This is one of the few times Mickey is seen without his gloves.
*In 1988, this cartoon was loosely adapted into a Disney Read-Along story, titled Mickey's Tattered Tale.
==Releases==
===Television===
*The Mickey Mouse Club, October 15, 1957
*The New Mickey Mouse Club, September 21, 1977
*Disney's Wonderful World, episode #26.8: "Donald's Valentine's Day Salute"
*Walt Disney, episode #29.13: "Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald" 
*Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald, episode #48
*Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald, episode #74
*Good Morning, Mickey, episode #20
*The Magical World of Disney, episode #33.15: "Mickey's Happy Valentine Special"
*The Magical World of Disney, episode #34.16: "A DuckTales Valentine"
*Lifestyles of the Rich and Animated
*Mickey's Mouse Tracks, episode #75
*Have a Laugh!, episode #11
===Home video===
VHS
*Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Limited Gold Editions - Minnie (1962 reissue print without Buena Vista logo)
*Love Tales (1962 reissue print)
*View-Master Interactive Vision: Disney's Cartoon Arcade
DVD
*Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color: Volume 2
*Mickey and Minnie's Sweetheart Stories
*Walt Disney's Classic Cartoon Favorites: Volume 10 - Best Pals: Mickey & Minnie
*Have a Laugh!: Volume 3
Blu-ray
*Mickey & Minnie: 10 Classic Shorts - Volume 1
===Streaming===
*Disney+, November 12, 2019
==Have a Laugh! changes==
The following scenes were omitted from the short release due to time constraints:
*The scene where Pluto takes the phone to Mickey, who sleepily tells Pluto not to bother him.
*Pluto getting Mickey's suit ready.
*Mickey accidentally dropping the tickets.
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Category:Animated shorts
Category:Mickey Mouse shorts
Category:Minnie Mouse shorts
Category:Pluto shorts
Category:1947 shorts