Michael

"*Be careful, me fine friends. The gods have been angered by all the celebratin’! But, me buckos, every cloud has a silver lining.*"
—Michael[src]

## Michael

### Attractions

Magic of Disney Animation
Skipper Canteen
Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom
[[The Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management)]]
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room

### Performers

Fulton Burley (speaking)
Bill Lee (singing)

## Biographical information

### Affiliation

Enchanted Tiki Room
Enchanted Tiki Room Birds

## Physical description

### Species

Enchanted Parrot

**Michael** is one of the masters of ceremony from *Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room*.

## History

### Background

#### Origins

Michael as an enchanted, talking parrot who lives in the Enchanted Tiki Room of Polynesia in the 20th century. He had an Irish accent and serves as one of the four masters of ceremony for the Tiki Room's musical revues, being accompanied in this position by three other parrots named Pierre, Fritz and José.

By the 1930s, the Enchanted Tiki Room boomed in popularity as a musical-revue show, partly thanks to business from the Jungle Navigation Company. The company's founding-family the Falls would seemingly hang a chandelier in their mansion's parlour depicting the four masters of ceremony. The show also had a connection to Walt Disney who became the namesake of the Tiki Room's revue, "Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room".

#### Later history

According to José and Fritz, the Tiki Room would establish a routine in 1963 that went unchanged for decades. At some point around the 1990s (implied to be after the June of 1994), the Tiki Room was purchased by Hollywood executives and sold by the agent birds William and Morris to the birds Iago and Zazu. Iago intended on transforming the Tiki Room into a revue centred around himself, only to anger the goddess of disaster, Uh-Oa. Uh-Oa maimed Iago as punishment and it is likely that following this, the two birds revoked or reduced their management of the Tiki Room.

Following these events, the four masters-of-ceremony seemingly left their positions for new birds such as Danno, Scats, Buddy, and Lava around the 2000s.

## Jungle Cruise appearances

### Skipper Canteen

In the Falls family parlour of the *Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen* is a chandelier modelled after the four masters of ceremony of the Tiki room.

### Other connections

#### Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room

Michael is one of the Tiki Room's masters of ceremonies.

#### Magic of Disney Animation

In Minnie Mouse's Hollywood dressing room is the poster for a film titled Mouse Pacific filmed outside the Enchanted Tiki Room. The screenplay of said film is listed as one **Michael Burley**.

#### Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom

Michael appeared when Merlin attended the Tiki Room.

## Other appearances

### Disney's Hollywood Hotel

The poster for Mouse Pacific is in this hotel.

## Trivia

* During, "Lets all sing like the birdies sing", Michael does an impression of Louis Armstrong. Incidentally, the Magic Kingdom version of the Jungle Cruise played Louis Armstrong's *Jeepers, Creepers* in the queue.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.fromscreentotheme.com/Fun-Find-Friday-Minnie-Mouse-Posters-2.aspx