![]() While Mickey’s Christmas Carol and Pluto’s Christmas Tree are on Disney Plus, the other three shorts are mysteriously absent. ![]() I thought maybe I could cobble together a DIY version of the special, at least, using the shorts that are available on Disney Plus - but only two of them are! Hey, what gives, Disney? Image: Disney The special itself is available to rent for $7.99 on YouTube and Prime Video, but the fact that it wasn’t readily available on Disney Plus, a service I am already paying for, irked me. Unfortunately, not a single episode of House of Mouse is on Disney Plus. When Disney Plus debuted, I was thrilled - I could finally spend the holidays watching my beloved childhood favorite. Eventually, our VHS player broke and our viewings transitioned to DVD… till that DVD player broke and the Christmas special lived on in memory only. ![]() To me, the Ghost of Christmas Past will always be Jiminy Cricket, and Uncle Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker will always sound vaguely like Ludwig von Drake. All other adaptations of those stories will always pale in comparison to my first time. Snowed in at the House of Mouse was not just my first exposure to various classic Mickey Mouse shorts, but also my first exposure to classic Christmas stories like A Christmas Carol and The Nutcracker. While Mickey is happy to play host for longer, Donald is in a grumpy anti-Christmas mood for an unspecified reason, so to cheer him up, the gang decides to play their favorite Christmas shorts. The Christmas special, as the name implies, takes place on a night when all the guests are snowed in. But the important thing was the fact that all the characters were hanging out and watching them together. Some of these shorts were created specifically for the show, while others came from Disney history. That was the biggest gimmick of House of Mouse, a Disney Channel animated show centered on Mickey and his friends running a dinner theater club - the fact that characters from across various Disney animated properties attended the club and watched various Disney shorts. Grumpy and the rest of the dwarves wishing for bunk beds for Christmas? Phenomenal filmmaking, cinema at its finest. Jasmine and Aladdin flying in on a magic carpet? Fantastic. This was, of course, before I knew that fanfiction was a thing, so just seeing a mega crossover thrilled me. Often seen with Mickey Mouse, these two are a pair we all root for and love to pose with while visiting a Disney park.Growing up, nothing matched the high of seeing all my favorite Disney characters come together at the end of Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse to sing “The Best Christmas of All” together around a beautifully lit Christmas tree. Minnie Mouse is also known world wide and is a prominent figure at the Disney theme parks. This television show was Minnie's very first starring role. She also taught Robert Carradine, who played a nerd, how to be totally cool at the "Minnie Mouse Center for the Totally Un-hip". In this television show, Minnie sang a duet with Elton John on the song "Don't Go Breakin My Heart". This was a musical television special with Suzanne Sommers as the host and guest appearances by Mickey Mouse, Donald, Goofy and Pluto. In 1988 Minnie Mouse got her own starring role on television in Totally Minnie. The rivalry between the two first began in the cartoon Mickey's Rival. As with all happy ending stories, Mickey Mouse always wins Minnie's heart. Over the years we have seen both Mickey Mouse and Mortimer Mouse compete for Minnie's affections. Finally, in 1986 Russi Taylor became the voice of Minnie Mouse and still does her voice today. These ladies all came from Disney's Ink and Paint Department at the Disney Studio. Next to voice Minnie Mouse was Thelma Boardman from 1940-1942 and Ruth Clifford from 1942-1952. Marcellite Garner first voiced Minnie Mouse. Many ladies have done the voice of Minnie Mouse. During this year she became much better known and finally received the recognition she deserved for so long. 1986 was declared Minnie's Year at the Disney theme parks. In popularity Minnie Mouse runs a close second to Mickey Mouse. She appeared in approximately 73 cartoons with Mickey Mouse (including Plane Crazy before Steamboat Wille and Gallopin' Goucho - which was shown after the debut of Steamboat Willie) and Pluto since 1928 and can be seen now on the Disney Channel's House of Mouse. Like Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse was also born in 1928 in the debut of Steamboat Willie.
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