Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
Micky mouse clubhouse.jpg
Format Animated series
Created by Robert Gunnaway
Directed by Rob LaDuca
Donovan Cook
Starring Wayne Allwine
Bret Iwan
Tony Anselmo
Russi Taylor
Bill Farmer
Tress MacNeille
Country of origin United States
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 70 (including Mickey's Great Clubhouse Hunt) (List of episodes)
Production
Running time 23 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney
Picture format 1080i (HDTV)
4:3 (SDTV)
16:9 (SDTV)
Audio format Stereo
Original run May 5, 2006 (2006-05-05) – present
Status On hiatus

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is a children's television series, that premiered in prime time on Disney Channel on May 5, 2006. The program is part of the Playhouse Disney daily block of shows intended for preschoolers.

Production of the show was put on a four-month suspension in the spring of 2009, due to the death of voice artist Wayne Allwine, the long time voice of Mickey Mouse. Bret Iwan will be the voice of Mickey Mouse in forthcoming new episodes.

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[edit] Premise

Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy, and Pluto star in the series, which focuses on interacting with the viewer to stimulate problem solving. Ludwig Von Drake, Chip 'n Dale, Pete, Mr. Pettibone, Willie the Giant, Clarabelle Cow, Butch, Figaro the Kitten, Humphrey the Bear, Salty the Seal, Buzz-Buzz the Bee and Mortimer Mouse have made guest appearances.

Each episode has the characters help viewers "solve a specific age-appropriate problem utilizing basic skills, such as identifying shapes and counting through ten."[citation needed] The series uses Playhouse Disney’s "whole child" curriculum of cognitive, social and creative learning opportunities. Once the problem of the episode has been explained, Mickey invites viewers to join him at the Mousekadoer, a giant Mickey-head shaped computer whose main function is to distribute the day's Mousekatools - a collection of objects needed to solve the day's problem - to Mickey. Once the tools have been shown to Mickey on the Mousekadoer screen, they are quickly downloaded to Toodles - a small, Mickey-head shaped flying extension of the Mousekadoer. By calling, "Oh Toodles!" Mickey summons him to pop up from where he's hiding and fly up to the screen so that the viewer can pick which tool Mickey needs for the current situation.[1][2] One of the tools is a "Mystery Mouskatool", which is a surprise tool represented by a question mark.

The Walt Disney Television Animation-produced program was initially announced on March 1, 2005 by Gary Marsh, Executive Vice President, Original Programming and Production, Disney.

Mickey and friends previously appeared on television in Mickey Mouse Works (1999-2001) and Disney's House of Mouse (2001-2002).

The show features two original songs performed by 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 the show, "Hot Dog!", which echoes Mickey's first spoken words in the 1929 short The Karnival Kid.

This is the first time the major Disney characters have appeared on television in computer-animated form (except for Donald, who appeared in CG in the Mickey Mouse Works short "Computer.don"). The characters debuted in CG form in 2003 at the Magic Kingdom theme park attraction Mickey's PhilharMagic, then in the 2004 home video Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas. However, in this latest incarnation, Mickey's and Minnie's 3D renderings are truer to their original hand-drawn likenesses, in that their ears remain distinct perfect circles regardless of which way their heads are turned. Along with improved animation for the second season, the series is now available in HD on Disney Channel HD.

[edit] Voice actors and their characters

[edit] Main actors

[edit] Recurring actors

[edit] Episode list

Main article: List of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episodes

[edit] International broadcasting

[edit] Home media releases

Title Episodes Release Date UPC
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey Saves Santa Mickey Saves Santa
Mickey Go-Seek
Goofy's Bird		 November 14, 2006 786936704266
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Great Clubhouse Hunt Mickey's Great Clubhouse Hunt (double length)
Donald's Hiccups		 March 20, 2007 786936715149
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Treat Mickey's Treat
Goofy the Great
Doctor Daisy, M.D.		 August 28, 2007 786936743548
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Story Book Surprises Minnie's Mystery
Donald the Frog Prince
Minnie Red Riding Hood
Sleeping Minnie		 September 2, 2008 786936764581
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Big Splash[3] Pete's Beach Blanket Luau
Mickey Goes Fishing
Pluto's Bubble Bath
Donald's Ducks (bonus episode)		 May 5, 2009 786936789355
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Adventures in Wonderland Mickey's Adventures In Wonderland
Goofy Goes Goofy (bonus episode)		 September 8, 2009
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Choo-Choo Express[4] Choo-Choo Express
Mickey's Big Job (bonus episode)		 December 1, 2009

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Oh Toodles! Clubhouse Stories - Mickey Mouse Clubhouse - Playhouse Disney". http://atv.disney.go.com/playhouse/mickeymouseclubhouse/stories/ohtoodles/index.html. Retrieved 2008-06-07. 
  2. ^ "Playhouse Disney's Mouskatool and Handy Manny Morning". http://atv.disney.go.com/playhouse/mmch/mouskatoolmorning/. Retrieved 2008-06-07. 
  3. ^ [1]
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[edit] External links

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