''Mickey Mouse'' (also known as ''Mickey Mouse Shorts'') is an American animated

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produced by

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. Featuring Disney cartoon characters

Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse is an animated cartoon Character (arts), character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The longtime mascot of The Walt Disney Company, Mickey is an Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red sho ...

Minnie Mouse Minnie Mouse is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company. As the longtime sweetheart of Mickey Mouse, she is an anthropomorphic mouse with white gloves, a bow, polka-dotted dress, white bloomers, and low-heeled shoes occasionally w ...

Donald Duck Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie. Donald is known fo ...

Daisy Duck Daisy Duck is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company. As the girlfriend of Donald Duck, she is an anthropomorphic white duck that has large eyelashes and ruffled tail feathers around her lowest region to suggest a skirt. She is ...

Goofy Goofy is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company. He is a tall, Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic dog who typically wears a turtle neck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat originally designed as a rumpled f ...

and

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in contemporary settings such as

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and

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, the series has the

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feel of the earliest ''Mickey Mouse'' shorts while providing a modern update, and "presents Mickey in a broad range of humorous situations that showcase his pluck and rascality, along with his long-beloved charm and good heartedness". The animation is provided by

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. The series was developed by artist Paul Rudish, who was the co-creator of the

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television series ''

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'' and is also the series' executive producer and supervising director, while Joseph Holt is the series' art director. Paul Rudish, Jenny Gase-Baker and Joseph Holt won three

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for their work on the series in September 2013. The pilot episode, "Croissant de Triomphe", was first released as a special preview on March 12, 2013, on

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. The series officially premiered on June 28 of that year on

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, followed by the releases on Disney.com and Watch Disney Channel. A total of 18 episodes aired in the first season while the second season, premiering on April 11, 2014, consisting of 19 episodes. The third season premiered on July 17, 2015, with 20 episodes aired. The fourth season premiered on June 9, 2017, with 19 episodes aired. The fifth (later final) season of the original series premiered on October 6, 2018, with 18 episodes aired. The series was succeeded with '' The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse'', which premiered on

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, on November 18, 2020, to coincide with Mickey's 92nd birthday.

Voice cast

* Chris Diamantopoulos as

** Diamantopoulos was cast instead of

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, because the producers wanted a voice that sounded similar to the one used by

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for Walt's portrayal of Mickey. ** However, Iwan voices Mickey in the app game '' Where's My Mickey?''. *

Russi Taylor Russi Taylor (May 4, 1944 – July 26, 2019) was an American voice actress. She is best remembered as the official voice of Minnie Mouse from 1986 to 2019, and was notably married to voice actor Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse, until his ...

and

Huey, Dewey, and Louie Huey, Dewey, and Louie are triplet cartoon characters created by storyboard artist ( screenwriter) Carl Barks for The Walt Disney Company from an idea proposed by cartoonist Al Taliaferro and are the nephews of Donald Duck and the grand-ne ...

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* Bill Farmer as

and

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and Chip *

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Pete Pete or Petes or ''variation'', may refer to: People * Pete (given name) * Pete (nickname) * Pete (surname) Fictional characters * Pete (Disney), a cartoon character in the ''Mickey Mouse'' universe * Pete the Pup (a.k.a. 'Petey'), a character ...

* Corey Burton as Ludwig Von Drake and

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as Clarabelle Cow * Alan Young (2015–16) and

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(2016–18) as

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Cameos

Episodes

Broadcast

As of March 2014, a total of 100 million viewers in the United States had seen the series, and it was airing in 160 countries. As of June 2014, the show, translated in 34 languages, had reached over 135 million viewers worldwide.

Home media

Awards and nominations

Theme park attractions

A Mickey Mouse-themed attractions,

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and Vacation Fun – An Original Animated Short with Mickey & Minnie, replaced

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and Star Wars: Path of the Jedi at Disney's Hollywood Studios at

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in Orlando,

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. This attraction was also announced to open at the

Mickey's Toontown Mickey's Toontown is a themed land at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland, two theme parks operated by Walt Disney Parks & Resorts and The Oriental Land Company respectively. At Tokyo Disneyland, this land is named Toontown. A similar land existed ...

section of

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at the

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for a planned 2023 opening date in

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. The attraction is the third Mickey Mouse-themed attraction at any Disney property worldwide, only behind

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, directly based on the series and involves guests watching the premiere of a new Mickey Mouse cartoon and then entering the cartoon itself. The show's creative team, including Paul Rudish, Joseph Holt and composer Christopher Willis, collaborated with Walt Disney Imagineering to create the attractions, which opened on March 4, 2020, at Disney's Hollywood Studios.

Music

On July 21, 2023, Walt Disney Records released a soundtrack album of several songs from the series.

Soundtrack

Notes

References

External links

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Review of "Croissant de Triomphe" at FLIP animation magazine
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