Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

**Mickey Mouse Clubhouse** is an American children's television series created by Bobs Gannaway. The series aired on Playhouse Disney and Disney Junior from November 15, 2005 to November 6, 2016.

## Plot

Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Goofy, Daisy and Donald interact with the viewer to stimulate problem solving during each episode's story.

Once the problem of the episode has been explained, Mickey invites viewers to join him at the Mousekedoer, a giant Mickey-head-shaped computer whose main function is to distribute the day's Mouseketools, a collection of objects needed to solve the day's problem, to Mickey.

One of them is a "Mystery Mouseketool" represented by a question mark, in which, when the words "Mystery Mouseketool" are said, the question mark changes into the Mouseketool you get to use. Another one is a "Mouseke-Think-About-It Tool" represented by a silhouette of Mickey's head with rotating gears, in which characters must think of what to use before telling the Tool "Mouseke-Think-About-It-Tool, we pick the (object)". Once the tools have been shown to Mickey on the Mousekedoer screen, they are quickly downloaded to Toodles, a small, Mickey-head-shaped flying extension of the Mousekedoer. By calling "Oh, Toodles!" Mickey summons him to pop up from where he is hiding and fly up to the screen so the viewer can pick which tool Mickey needs for the current situation.

The show features two original songs performed by American alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, including the opening theme song, in which a variant of a Mickey Mouse Club chant ("Meeska Mooska Mickey Mouse!") is used to summon the Clubhouse. They Might Be Giants also perform the song used at the end of every episode, "Hot Dog!", which echoes Mickey's first spoken words in the 1929 short The Karnival Kid.

This is the first time that the major Disney characters have regularly appeared on television in computer-animated form. The characters previously appeared in CG form in 2003 at the Magic Kingdom theme park attraction Mickey's PhilharMagic and then appeared in the 2004 direct-to-video special Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas.

## Cast and Characters

### Main

* Wayne Allwine and Bret Iwan as Mickey Mouse
* Russi Taylor as Minnie Mouse
* Pluto
* Bill Farmer as Goofy
* Tress MacNeille as Daisy Duck
* Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck
* Rob Paulsen as Toodles

### Recurring

* Jim Cummings as Pete
* Tress MacNeille and Corey Burton as Chip and Dale
* Corey Burton as Ludwig Von Drake
* April Winchell as Clarabelle Cow
* Will Ryan as Willie the Giant
* Wayne Allwine and Bret Iwan as Martian Mickey
* Russi Taylor as Martian Minnie / Quoodles
* Bill Farmer as Goofbot and Goofles
* Dee Bradley Baker as Santa Claus / Cuckoo the Cuckoo Bird
* Tress MacNeille as Baby Red Bird / Mommy Red Bird
* Dee Bradley Baker as Boo Boo Chicken / Coco the Monkey
* Figaro
* Butch the Bulldog
* Mr. Pettibone
* Maurice LeMarche as Mortimer Mouse
* Dick van Dyke as Captain Goof-Beard
* Avalon Robbins and Grace Kaufman as Millie and Melody Mouse
* Nika Futterman as The Singing Lock
* Bret Iwan as Count Mickula
* Chloë Grace Moretz as Boodles
* David Tennant as Igor the Door

## Episodes

See Also: List of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Episodes

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## Spin-offs

### Minnie's Bow-Toons

Minnie's Bow-Toons is a spin-off series which premiered in the fall of 2011 and concluded in 2016. It aired in the daytime Disney Junior programming block for younger audiences. It is based on the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode "Minnie's Bow-tique" and depicts Minnie's continuing adventures in business as proprietor of her own store which makes and sells bows for apparel and interior decoration. She interacts with many of the characters seen in the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse series.

### Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures

A second spin-off, Mickey and the Roadster Racers, debuted in January 2017 after Mickey Mouse Clubhouse stopped showing episodes in November 2016. It was renamed Mickey Mouse: Mixed Up-Adventures for the third season.

## Production

Mickey Mouse was originally voiced by Wayne Allwine with Bret Iwan taking over the role following Allwine's death in 2009. The final episode to feature Allwine as Mickey aired posthumously in 2011. Bill Farmer, the voice actor for Goofy and Pluto, stated in February 2014 that the recording of dialogue for new episodes has ceased, but that "it will be quite a while before the show runs out of new episodes for TV. We have been on the air consistently since 2006 and we started recording in 2004. So there is always a long lead-in time between recording and seeing it on TV. So don’t worry more is still to come, we just are not making any more."

## Reception

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse received mixed to positive reviews, Common Sense Media rated the show a 4 out of 5 stars, stating, "Parents need to know that Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is a lively series designed to help preschoolers acquire problem-solving and early mathematics skills, and does so in a fun, exciting way. Although the show is very learning-focused, it's engaging without being intimidating."

David Perlmutter in The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows says that the show "was yet another case of vintage cartoon characters embarrassing themselves for the enjoyment of preschoolers in a heavily dumbed-down format. While it demonstrated the wide appeal of the Disney brand, it also indicated that this brand could be compromised as any other could through association with an inferior product."

## Home Media

See Also: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Videography