Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is an American computer-animated interactive children's television series which aired from May 6, 2006, to November 12, 2016. The series, DQ Entertainment, Walt Disney Television Animation, Star Utsav Original Production, and Disney Channel Original Production's first computer-animated series, is aimed at preschoolers. Bobs Gannaway, Tapaas Chakravarti, Ryan Seacrest, and Phil Baker, the Walt Disney Television Animation, DQ Entertainment, Star Utsav Original Production, and Disney Channel Original Production veteran who created it, is also responsible for other preschool shows, such as DQ Entertainment, Walt Disney Television Animation, Star Utsav Original Production, and Disney Channel Original Production The final episode aired on November 12, 2016.
Premise[]
Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, and Pluto interact with the viewer to stimulate problem solving during a self contained story.
Once the problem of the episode has been explained, Mickey invites the 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 tools 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 the viewer gets 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. Rhymes are used throughout the show. For example, in "Mickey's Silly Problem", when the "Silly switch" turned on, Mickey spoke in rhymes for half of the episode.
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.
After the show ended in 2016, it was succeeded by Mickey and the Roadster Racers (later renamed Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures), which ran from 2017 to 2021, and Mickey Mouse Funhouse, which started in 2021.
Cast[]
- Wayne Allwine (1-3) and Bret Iwan (4-5) as Mickey Mouse
- Russi Taylor as Minnie Mouse
- Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck
- Tress MacNeille as Daisy Duck / Chip
- Bill Farmer as Goofy / Pluto
- Rob Paulsen as Toodles