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Developed by Paul Rudish, famed for his work on the Cartoon Network shows Dexter's Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls (1998), Mickey Mouse (also titled Mickey Mouse Shorts) is a Revisiting the Roots take on the classic franchise. Premiering in 2013, it brings the titular character, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy and Pluto in contemporary settings such as New York City, Paris and Tokyo. It takes the humor of Classic Disney Shorts and places Mickey in humorous situations that showcase his pluck and rascality, along with his long-beloved charm and good hearted-ness. The episodes are indexed in the Recap page.

The cartoons have also inspired a Disney Theme Parks attraction, Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway. The ride opened at Disney's Hollywood Studios on March 4, 2020, with a West Coast version opening at Disneyland in 2023. Walt Disney World also has an exclusive Mickey Mouse cartoon called "Vacation Fun" which is shown at the "Mickey Shorts Theater".

It's important to note that this is the second Disney animated TV show to get renewed for a fifth season^note Disney shows produced for the main Disney branded networks (animated or otherwise) are typically only allowed to have 4 seasons (and before that, 65 episodes), the first being Doc McStuffins. In September 2020, it was announced that the series would be retooled into The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, a series of 7-minute shorts that debuted exclusively on Disney+ beginning November 18th (Mickey and Minnie's birthday). Season 2 consists of four half-hour specials themed around the four seasons. The Grand Finale premiered on July 28, 2023 and is a crossover with Steamboat Willie titled "Steamboat Silly", bringing a homage to Classic Disney Shorts.

Mickey Mouse provides examples of:

• Anger Born of Worry: In "Duck the Halls: A Mickey Mouse Christmas Special", Daisy grows concerned for Donald's health, she and Donald's family decide to go back home and bring him down south. She notes that as soon as she knows he's safe, she's going to kill him until he's revived with the rest of group. Upon their arrival, Daisy gets even more worried about her Donald and faints when she thought he is a now dead, roasted duck, but he is actually alive and well. When they're reunited, she slaps him after exclaiming that he scared her for making her think he was dead. But then her anger turns to true dramatic happiness, and she kisses him because she also missed him so much and is really happy because he's alive and safe.
  Daisy: (looking at her lover with a red face) YOU SCARED ME! (She then slaps him as her anger turns into happiness) I MISSED YOU! (She smooches her beau in happiness)
• Adaptational Dumbass:
  • In the classic shorts, Goofy was just The Klutz who was never that bright & can seem pretty dumb because of his clumsiness as a comic relief character or can be the total opposite where it was Depending on the Writer. While Flanderization did make Goofy an Insufferable Imbecile at times for newer cartoons, this is really highlighted in these shorts.
  • Mickey himself can be incredibly oblivious Depending on the Writer. The same goes for Minnie as well.
• Adaptational Jerkass:
  • Donald is even angrier and Trigger-Happy than his original incarnation. Although it's Played With in the later shorts Depending on the Writer.
  • It doesn't happen often but in some shorts, Goofy plays a more antagonistic role with a Jerkass personality, rather than his usual Nice Guy behavior.
  • Even Mickey can be angry, bonkers, and selfish compared to the more gentle and happy-go-lucky character of previous adaptations. Though considering how he acted in the original shorts, it is somewhat arguable.
  • Really, a case could be made for every other character as well, with many mistreating Mickey for no real reason. At worst, Minnie herself has moments of this.
• Adaptational Ugliness:
  • Goofy has an unhealthier look than usual, with an unshaven muzzle, an exaggeratedly long, gangly build, worn-out clothing, and yellowish eyes.
  • Downplayed with Pete, who was never really meant to be a cute or conventionally nice-looking character. However, in this series, he also gains a furry white muzzle, whiskers, and yellow sclerae, just like Goofy. This actually works in his favor by making him look rougher, scruffier, and more sinister.
• Animation Bump: This series is one of the much better uses of Flash-esque Toon Boom Harmony animation techniques, being very fluid, full and natural-looking on many occasions.
• Apathetic Citizens: In "Cable Car Chaos," the cable car that Mickey and Minnie are riding speeds out of control when the driver gets knocked out. Mickey and Minnie are the only ones who panic, while all the other passengers just sit there, looking unfazed or confused. Some are even sleeping. After Minnie makes an announcement on the cable car's intercom, one passenger calmly offers to drive the cable car, but he says he can't do it without his instruction manual. When a chicken flies off with the manual (it makes sense in context), he just nonchalantly gives up and sits back down.
• Art Shift: While the series does pay tribute to the Mickey Mouse cartoons from the 30's, it clearly has more modern ToonBoom style animation as well as more present day timing and comedy.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: "The Wonderful Autumn of Mickey Mouse" shows Mickey using a mixture of water and some growth formula to grow some pumpkins for the festival. This results in one of the pumpkins growing to a huge size and becoming a monster. Mickey ends up using the formula on himself, causing him to grow to the same height as the monster.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Donald and Daisy's relationship in a nut shell. They will argue and complain about one another until they are 5 seconds away from killing one another, but then in the end it will be shown how much they love each other.
  • The Christmas special also shows that, for all the crud they put the poor duck through, Donald's relatives do care about him.
• Badass Adorable: Since this new series is a retread to the early days where Mickey was more adventurous and scrappy, he is naturally this.
  • Minnie has her moments as well, such as in "Cable Car Chaos" and "Sock Burglar".
  • Donald too, such as in "Tapped Out", "Keep on Rollin", and "Supermarket Scramble".
• The Big Damn Kiss: There are two instances of this.
  • In "Duck the Halls: A Mickey Mouse Christmas Special", after Daisy felt her angered and worried expression suddenly turn into extreme happiness, Daisy tells Donald she missed him so much, and without any thought or hesitation, the female duck forces her beak into the male duck's beak, giving him a huge lip-to-lip (or beak-to-beak) kiss, causing Donald to get surprised as his sailor hat flies off and spins in the air during the kiss as his girlfriend gives him the biggest smooch he's ever had (lasting for about 2-3 seconds) in the Paul Rudish series, which is the first one they've had since he arrived. She then removes her beak from his and looks at him dreamily after the kiss as the expression on the now fully recovered Donald becomes one of happiness as he looks touched.
  • In "Over the Moon", after several failed attempts, Mickey and Minnie end up finally sharing a passionate yet prolonged kiss (it was a really, really long kiss, lasting for about 20 seconds) in order to distract the moon until the sun rises, forcing him to call it a night.
• Big Eater: Donald and Goofy are occasionally big eaters, as they tend to eat a LOT. In one short, Goofy eats Mickey and Minnie.
• Bilingual Bonus: There are several shorts that take place in countries outside the United States and have all the dialogue in the language of said country:
  • "Croissant de Triomphe" is spoken entirely in French.
  • "Tokyo Go" is spoken entirely in Japanese.
  • "Panda-monium" and "Year of the Dog” are both spoken in Mandarin Chinese, though the former takes place in Beijing while the latter takes place in Shanghai.
  • "'O Sole Minnie" and "Amore Motore" are spoken entirely in Italian, though the former takes place in Venice while the latter takes place in Rome.
  • "O Futebol Clássico" and "Carnaval” are both spoken entirely in Portuguese—also, not only do both shorts take place in Brazil, both shorts take place in Rio de Janeiro.
  • "Mumbai Madness" is spoken entirely in Hindi.
  • "Clogged" is spoken entirely in Dutch.
  • "Al Rojo Vivo" and "¡Feliz Cumpleaños!" are both spoken entirely in Spanish, though the former takes place in Spain while the latter takes place in Mexico.
  • "Dancevidaniya" is spoken entirely in Russian.
  • "Turkish Delights" is spoken entirely in Turkish.
  • "Locked in Love" is spoken entirely in Korean.
  • "Our Floating Dreams" is spoken entirely in Thai.
• Birthday Party Goes Wrong: Mickey explains to his friends that he does not want a surprise birthday party, because the surprise frequently just ends up scaring him. In an attempt to make up for this, Minnie decides to make the birthday party as big as she can, and the friends spend the whole day making a massive birthday cake. Mickey, not being able to find anyone, is left in a constant state of fear all day, just waiting for the surprise. When he finds out what they are up to, the cake-making has gotten so out of hand that the cake is growing so big that it endangers Mickey and friends' lives.
• Black Comedy: Incorporates elements of this.
• Blade Footwear: In "Three-Legged Race", Mickey is excited to play in the town’s three-legged foot race, but once he comes to partner with Minnie, he becomes horrified that she’s working with her friend Daisy, because they keep losing each year. Mickey warns her that Daisy is a cheater, and a very dangerous one at that. To emphasize this point, Daisy shines her boots before a sharp pike shoots out from the tip. So instead, Mickey teams up with Pete, who’s an even bigger cheater. During the race, Pete eliminates the competition by grabbing a hold of Minnie and Daisy, by twirling Minnie away, and releasing Daisy’s spikes to shoot her away on a tree, like a dart.
• Body Bridge: In "New Shoes", Mickey swaps bodies with Goofy and uses his new tall body to help people, including holding onto broken ends of suspended tracks so Casey Junior can roll over him.
• Butt-Monkey:
  • Surprisingly enough, while Donald is still a frequent victim of slapstick, Mickey is even more of a victim than he is.
  • For whatever reason, Snow White is treated pretty shabbily among the other iconic Disney heroines. In her first appearance, Snow White had filthy water splashed on her face by an oblivious Mickey and Minnie, followed by the dwarves later ignoring her when she entered a coma. In Snow White's second appearance, the Magical Mirror abruptly refers to Mickey as "fairer" than her, causing the wicked stepmother to ignore Snow White as well. Even in "The Wonderful Summer of Mickey Mouse", a teasing joke is made about Snow White's iconic scene with the wild animals, with Minnie indirectly noting how unsanitary it'd be to make a pie with them.
  • Oswald’s first appearance has Mickey digging him out of a pile of garbage only to toss him right back in.
• The Cameo: There are plenty of cameos from other Disney characters, from Snow White to Belle and the Beast.
  • Though he only made one physical appearance in the show so far, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit has made multiple background cameos throughout the series.
• Characterization Marches On: Instead of his original mischievous rascal persona or his everyman persona, these shorts instead tend to take Mickey's heroism and determination and play them for laughs.
• Clip Show: The short "Vacation Fun" consists of flashbacks from previous episodes.
• Company Cross-References: This series contains many of these to Disney as a whole, particularly the Disney Animated Canon, has taken a page or two from nearly every single dominant animation studio to ever operate in Hollywood as a tip of the hat, and also, occasionally, the Disney Theme Parks get a nod:
  • In "Croissant de Triomphe", as Mickey tries to fight traffic in Paris, he races through Cinderella's castle (looking exactly the castle from Walt Disney World) and goes between Cinderella and Prince Charming as the prince is about to put the glass slipper on Cinderella's foot. As the mouse races by, the prince drops the glass slipper and it shatters.
  • "Tokyo Go" has several: 1) Mickey's job as a live steam train conductor, which is a reference to Walt Disney's Carolwood Pacific Railroad (a photo of Walt is visible at the end of the cartoon); 2) The train in question resembling Casey Jr. (whose theme song is heard playing in the background); 3) The bullet trains' horn sounds sounding the horn sounds of the Disneyland Monorail; 4) When the bullet train goes through the tunnel, the animation takes on a Mario-esque style (complete with the Mushroom get sound effect from the original Super Mario Bros. for the NES); and 5) When Mickey is getting ready to jump to the bullet train that will take him to Casey Jr., a TIE Fighter shrill can be heard as the trains blaze through Tokyo.
  • "Potatoland" looks exactly like Disneyland made out of potatoes, gravy, and lumber.
  • In "'O Sole Minnie", Willie the Whale from the Make Mine Music segment "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met" interrupts Mickey's serenade. At another point, Mickey bumps onto the Disneyland "it's a small world" clock tower.
  • In "Third Wheel", Lady and the Tramp are at the restaurant having spaghetti. They are about to do a Spaghetti Kiss, but Goofy accidentally ruins the moment.
  • In "The Adorable Couple", Donald bumps into Belle and the Beast while dancing and gets beat up.
  • In "O Futebol Clássico", Jose Carioca is the announcer at the football game. Also, similar to Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the players and spectators are all animals.
  • "Down the Hatch" has several to the old Disneyland attraction "Adventure Thru Inner Space", culminating in Donald singing the song "Miracles From Molecules" in the credits.
  • "Wish upon a Coin" not only features Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but inserts a small dose of Shrek parody in it with the villainous scheme and how things go.
  • "Mumbai Madness" features the vultures and King Louie's monkey troop from The Jungle Book (1967).
  • "¡Feliz Cumpleaños!" features The Three Caballeros in a birthday band for Mickey, who also tries to pin Eeyore's tail on the lead piñata.
  • "Wonders of the Deep" has several BIG ones to the Disney classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), including Captain Nemo's organ and a giant Kraken monster. And then there are cameo appearances by Pinocchio and Geppetto, who had been swallowed by the Kraken.
  • In "Couple's Sweaters", the dancing couples are the teenagers from the Make Mine Music segment "All the Cats Join In".
  • In "Touchdown And Out", none other than the Devil himself, Chernabog from Fantasia, rises from Hell to lend Pete some demon players for his football team.
  • In “The Perfect Dream”, the Cinderella song “A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes” plays several times throughout the episode.
  • In The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse, Mickey hoards a lot of stuff from his 94 years in existence in a crate, including his hat from Steamboat Willie, his famous sorcerer's cap from Fantasia, and even his Keyblade from Kingdom Hearts. Kermit The Frog, the lamp and ball from the Pixar short Luxo Jr., and R2-D2 and BB-8, can also be found amongst the clutter.
• Composite Character: Mickey in this show is a combination of his overly Nice Guy persona used in most Mickey works since the 1940s, taking that aspect and playing it for laughs, and his more adventurous and mischievous persona from the late '20s-mid '30s shorts, Fantasia, Runaway Brain, and Epic Mickey.
• Creator Cameo: Many side characters are voiced by members of the show's production team, including Paul Rudish and Dave Wasson.
• Cutting the Knot: In "Outta Time," Goofy goes back in time and becomes king of a bunch of cavemen, accidentally messing up the time continuum. Mickey and Donald go back in time to find and retrieve Goofy. When they see Goofy surrounded by a large army of cavemen, Mickey says they'll need a plan to get Goofy, and he starts building a catapult. But a few seconds later, it's revealed that Donald has already charged in and grabbed Goofy himself, and is now running for his life from the cavemen.
• Day in the Limelight: Several episodes such as "Eau de Minnie", "Clogged", "Sock Burglar" and "No Reservations" focus on Minnie instead of Mickey.
• Demoted to Extra: Pluto, Pete, and Daisy to an extent, who appeared many times in the classic shorts, got the least amount of appearances. They make appearances in more shorts later in the series, however. The three even have prominent scenes in Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway with the rest of the main cast.
• Denser and Wackier: There is a lot much more bonkers material, brutality, elements of Black Comedy, physical slapstick, and surreal jokes in this series than there were in the Classic Disney Shorts....to a point where it has more in common with shows like Ren & Stimpy and more modern Disney channel shows than the classic shorts.
• Deranged Animation: It's often been compared (either favorably or unfavorably) to The Ren & Stimpy Show in terms of how the shorts are animated. Especially when Mickey ends up going off the deep end (which is surprisingly very frequent).
  • A few elements of the classic Tex Avery MGM Cartoons can also be spotted in these shorts.
• Didn't Think This Through: "Goofy's First Love" has Donald think that Scrooge would hand him a million dollars to help out Goofy. The only thing that can be argued is whether it was more stupid to ask him a million dollars or to ask Scrooge for money.
• Disaster Dominoes: A lot of episodes start with a small mishap that starts snowballing to put Mickey and his pals through the wringer.
• Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • The whistling tune heard in the ending credits of Season 1 was slightly different. Though it reappears briefly in "House of Tomorrow", where it plays when one of the Disney Parks' old costumes is shown.
  • The Season 1 shorts had a lot less dialogue than Season 2 and The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, with some shorts almost not having any at all (e.g., "Bad Ear Day", "Ghoul Friend").
• Extreme Doormat: Mickey is often taken advantage of because of his idealistic outlook and desire to help everyone.
  • This is most obvious in "No," where various characters take all of Mickey's belongings (and also, Mortimer Mouse takes Minnie) because Mickey can't bring himself to say "no" to anyone.
  • In "A Pete Scorned," Mickey does nothing to stop Mortimer from bullying him. Pete gets jealous because HE'S the one who normally bullies Mickey. At one point, Mickey implies that he has a regularly scheduled time for Pete to come and bully him.
  • In "Three-Legged Race," Mickey faces tons of mockery for being the only person who wants to win the three-legged race without cheating. (Except Goofy, who is running it as a sack race because he simply misunderstood.)
• Fatal Flaw: Mickey's constant optimism and willingness to be nice to everyone often plunges him into many, many awkward and embarassing situations.
• Egg-Laying Male: Donald lays eggs multiple times.
• Feather Fingers: While Donald, Daisy and the rest of the ducks' designs usually avert this, their redesign for this series seems to have devolved their arms back into wing-arms, like Donald had in his very first appearance.
• Foe Romance Subtext: The plot of "A Pete Scorned" effectively casts Mortimer as an Attempted Homewrecker trying to "steal" Mickey from Pete; this in turn causes Pete to become jealous and depressed, and Mickey desperately works to reassure him and show he's still committed to the bully/victim relationship.
• Formerly Fat: Implied. In "Doggone Biscuits," Minnie puts Pluto in a sauna to try and help him lose weight. She then looks at the camera and says "After all, it worked for me," while standing next to a photo of herself looking much more overweight.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: "New Shoes" has this occur between Mickey, Donald and Goofy.
• Funny Photo Phrase: In "Carried Away", Goofy tries to take a photo of some tourists at Niagara Falls when, thanks to Mickey's shenanigans, a piranha bites him on the nose.
  Goofy: Okay, everyone! Say, "Chee—"(SNAP!) YEOOOWWWW!
  People: Chee-yow!
• Furry Confusion: After all the years of confusion, the fact that Pluto and Goofy are both dogs is addressed for once in "Dog Show", where Mickey has Goofy switch places with Pluto after Pluto gets injured jumping off a cliff trying to catch a stick (caused by Goofy no less).
• Gainax Ending: The ending of "Bee Inspired" reveals that Minnie's painting is actually a Droste Image and every single time the camera zooms out to reveal another layer of said image, Mickey and Minnie change into another one of the many official designs they've had over the years.
• Gift of Song: In the episode appropriately titled "The Birthday Song", Minnie writes a special song for Mickey as a birthday present, and the episode follows her misadventures attempting to perfect it before performing it for him.
• Gross-Up Close-Up: Happens on occasion.
• Harmless Liquefaction: In "Stayin' Cool", during the hottest day of the year, Goofy gets so hot he melts into a puddle. He's fine in the very next scene.
• Hartman Hips: Rather than just being a palette swap of Mickey, Minnie Mouse has a much larger butt than usual in this series to denote her femininity. Best demonstrated in Carnivale where her costume shows that her figure is almost literally a pear.
  • Also frequent on a lot of background women. Two more prominently featured examples are Erica from Shipped Out and the synchronized swimmers from Roll 'Em.
• Hibernation/Migration Situation: In the Christmas Episode "Duck the Halls", Donald and the other ducks migrate south every winter, so he's never celebrated Christmas with Mickey and Goofy. He decides to stay and enjoy the holidays, but it turns out ducks can't survive the cold, and the toll on his body, compounded with his desire to stay, leads to Sanity Slippage.
• Hot Food Hurts: In the special "Duck the Halls", Donald is becoming sickly from staying home in the dead of winter, so Goofy offers him a cup of hot cocoa with the expected results.
  Goofy: Might wanna let that co—(FWOOMF!)
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: In "A Pete Scorned" Pete has a moment of this.
  Pete: What's the idea letting that guy pick on you? That's my job!
• Hypocritical Humor: In "Two Can't Play," Donald and Daisy scold Mickey and Minnie for using wristbands with specialized technology to cheat at tennis. Turns out, Donald and Daisy were also wearing technologically-enhanced clothing the whole time.
• Informed Ability: In "Captain Donald" it turns out that Donald's ability as a sailor is this. He only wears the suit because Daisy loves a man in uniform.
• Jerkass: Most often Pete. Also the pigeons from Feed The Birds and the flamingo waiter from No Reservations. The pig bikers from ''Road Hogs'' start out as this, with even their own BIKES being bullies, but become considerably nicer after Mickey saves their boss.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As per usual, Donald and Daisy. Also Depending on the Writer, Pete is this.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Donald, due to being an Adaptational Jerkass, he has his moments.
  • In "Bronco Busted", he, Mickey, and Goofy needed money to fix their car, and get the idea to compete in a rodeo to get the necessary money, with Donald pretending to be a horse. A millionaire offers to give Mickey and Goofy money in exchange for Donald due to mistaking him for an actual horse. Mickey is about to correct the millionaire until Donald eagerly accepts his offer, but he did it more because of the millionaire's promise to treat the "horse" like a king. After happily giving the money to Mickey and Goofy on behalf of the millionaire, Donald's parting words to them at the end of the short are even "So long, suckers".
  • "Wonders of the Deep" has him comfort Mickey when he blames himself for Professor Ludwig Von Drake being shot into sea, only to agree with him that it is his fault. That said, he does kinda have a point.
• Leeroy Jenkins: In "Outta Time," Mickey tries to come up with an elaborate plan to retrieve Goofy, who is surrounded by a large army of cavemen because he made himself their king. While Mickey is trying to build a catapult, Donald runs in, grabs Goofy, and runs away while the cavemen furiously chase him.
• Mickey Mousing: The animation and musical beats match up. Especially noticeable in episodes like "The Birthday Song", where a song is the main focus.
• Mistaken for Toilet: In "Outta Time", Mickey and his pals visit Ludwig Von Drake's science expo, and Goofy bugs Mickey over where the bathroom is. Mickey points to something out of sight, and Goofy ends up going into one of Von Drake's time pods, which transports him back to prehistory.
• Negative Continuity: Much like the classic shorts, many of these shorts have Mickey and friends in different settings and some even have their own versions on how they met like Turkish Delights, Year Of The Dog, and Our Floating Dreams.
• Nice Guy: Mickey, to almost exaggerated degrees. He's so nice, he can't bring himself to cheat during a Three-Legged Race, is physically incapable of saying "No", and will put himself through harm's way in order to save a Bee's life.
• Noodle Incident: In "Eau de Minnie," Minnie's reflection starts talking to her and warning her not to put on too much perfume. Minnie's reflection tells her to remember an incident in Barbados.
• Not Dead, Just Asleep: In "Flushed", Mickey mistakes a sleeping Gubbles for being dead and flushes him. At the end of the episode, he mistakes a loudly-snoring Pluto for being dead, too.
• "Not Illegal" Justification: Subverted and Played for Laughs. In "Swimmin' Hole," Pete digs the Swimming Hole (a pond where Mickey and friends like to swim) out of the ground and tries to take it away. When Mickey tells Pete he can't do that, Pete claims there's no law that forbids stealing. Mickey reminds him that there actually is.
  Pete: Hey, there ain't no law against stealing!
  Mickey: Uh, yeah, there is.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: In "Carried Away," Minnie sings Mickey a love song while the two of them are in a boat. A series of comical misfortunes causes their boat to be launched to various locations around the world. Mickey frantically tries to protect Minnie and himself from danger, while Minnie keeps singing with her eyes closed, seemingly oblivious to everything that's happening. As a result, Mickey misses almost the entire song. At the end, Minnie coyly asks Mickey what his favorite part of the song was before revealing that she knew what was happening all along, and she's fully willing to sing the song again so that Mickey can pay attention this time.
• Only Sane Man: Amusingly, Donald can serve as this when together with his friends, occasionally being annoyed by their obliviousness.
• Out-of-Character Moment:
  • In "No Service", Goofy deviates from his usual bumbling self and becomes quite a jerk as he runs a seaside snack shack, strictly following its "no shirt, no shoes, no service" policy. As part of all that, he unceremoniously turns Mickey and Donald away because the former does not wear a shirt and the latter does not wear shoes. He's tryin' to run a classy establishment!
  • Goofy seems to slightly be going back to his "George Geef" days in some of these, a period in the 1950s when Goofy would appear in a number of bit parts as various characters.
• Pie-Eyed: Everyone has these eyes, making it a throwback to the classic shorts. The slit is used for a few gags too, like when Mickey's eyes turn along with a clock's hands in Yodelburg, or when his eyes scream and run away in Entombed.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Daisy wears a pink shirt and bow on her head, while Donald wears his blue sailor suit and hat.
• Pink Means Feminine: Daisy wears a pink shirt and bow on her head, along with pink flowers on her boots.
• Proper Pinky: During his Training Montage in "The Fancy Gentleman", Mickey accidentally pokes himself in the eye with his upraised pinky while learning how to drink tea properly.
• Recycled Soundtrack:
  • "Third Wheel" uses the melody from "Some Day My Prince Will Come" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
  • "The Perfect Dream" involves Mickey and Minnie trying to finish a duet of "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" from Cinderella (1950).
• Reality Has No Subtitles: The episodes not in English are rarely subtitled, unless used for a joke like in "Panda-monium". Some of the YouTube versions of the videos include what they are saying in the foreign language, but others simply say "(speaking [language])". "Our Floating Dreams" includes English subtitles in the YouTube closed captioning.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: As usual, Mickey is the blue to Donald Duck's red.
• Retro Universe: Aside from the character designs owing more to the original shorts, the technology and aesthetic greatly owe to the '50s.
• Revisiting the Roots:
  • The series is like this, since it has the characters return to their golden age roots from the 1930s.
  • This is also apparent with Mickey himself. Not only is his (alongside Minnie's) design inspired by the earlier black-and-white cartoons, but his voice also hearkens back to Walt Disney's performance as opposed to the later staple voice by Wayne Allwine.
• Sadist Show: Some shorts occasionally border on this; one example occurring in "Croissant de Triomphe", when Mickey speeds past Prince Charming and causes him to drop Cinderella's glass slipper before he can get her to try it on.
• Same Language Dub: In one of the most interesting examples of this trope, the episodes that are spoken in other languages were actually re-dubbed with actors from their respective foreign language dubs for broadcast outside English-speaking areas. For example, the episode "Croissant de Triomphe" is shown in multiple countries with the actual European French dub's cast voicing the characters instead of the original English ones, with the script altered to sound more natural.
• Sanity Slippage: Mickey suffers these surprisingly often, especially when the whole world seems to turn against him.
• Seasonal Baggage: Season 2 of The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse consists of four half-hour specials each dedicated to the four seasons. The former two were Vignette Episodes (Winter and Spring), while the latter two have an ongoing narrative; Summer consisting of a "Rashomon"-Style story while Autumn is a self-contained story.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: Mickey and Minnie are often very lovey-dovey with each other. That said, other than Donald, everybody seems to enjoy watching their openly affectionate relationship.
• Slapstick: Unlike the Classic Disney Shorts, no character is exempt from getting hurt for the sake of a laugh. In particular "Eau de Minnie", "Clogged", and "No Reservations" are episodes that have prominent instances of this trope in them.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Minnie has made the most appearances with a total of 63 shorts in all (65 counting "Perfect Picnic" and "Vacation Fun"), followed closely by Goofy who appeared in 52 shorts (54 counting "Perfect Picnic" and "Vacation Fun"), and then by Donald with 41 shorts. By contrast, Daisy and Pete each appeared in 20 shorts, and Pluto in last with 19 shorts, though he gets one more short than the former two if "Perfect Picnic" and "Vacation Fun" are counted with 21 shorts. Minnie has even gotten no less than three whole shorts to herself, "Eau de Minnie", which only features Mickey as a cameo near the end, "Clogged", in which Mickey doesn't make an appearance at all (but Donald does, albeit, again, in a cameo), and "Doggone Biscuits", which does feature Mickey, but places most of the emphasis on Pluto. As of "No Reservations", it's officially five shorts.
• "Spread Wings" Frame Shot: In "Three-Legged Race," when Mickey declares that he's going to win the race fair and square, he gains a light background and sprouts wings from his back, making him look like an angel. But then, it turns out that there was a bird behind him, and it flies away.
• Stock Scream: The series occasionally makes use of the Goofy Holler, though usually provided by Bill Farmer.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In one episode, Mickey tries to slow down Pete's car by standing in the road and bracing himself. Another bit of slapstick and Toon Physics to come? Nope; Pete just drives around Mickey and keeps going. Afterwards, Mickey seems shocked that Pete thought of that, as Mickey gasps in surprise before trying to grab onto the car's bumper.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Played straight with Daisy, but actually a bit inverted with Minnie. While she retains her usual eyelashes, bow, and dress; Minnie has also been given a much larger and rounder feminine posterior than her male counterpart.
• Token Evil Teammate: While "evil" is a stretch, Donald is usually the most selfish, antagonistic, and scheming out of the main protagonists.
• Toon Physics: There's a lot of it. Characters frequently get squashed flat, get blown up, go Off-Model for a moment, and randomly do things that would be impossible in real life. In one episode, a desk fan blows Mickey's ears off his head. And when Mickey can't find them, Mickey plucks Goofy's ears off and uses them as a substitute. In another, Mickey attempts to follow an out-of-control streetcar by pedaling a bike up a 90-degree angle street. And in a baseball scene, a batter inflates his muscles like balloons by blowing on his thumb before appearing to swing, then just bunting the ball, but this launches the baseball so far that the ball reaches the sun... which shatters like glass when the baseball hits it. All of this is Played for Laughs, as continuity rarely transitions from short to short, or even scene to scene.
• Toothy Bird: Donald Duck doesn't typically have teeth, but he sometimes briefly gains teeth for certain gags.
• Unsound Effect: Some examples:
  • "PICK" and "SPLOSH" in Eau De Minnie.
  • Most of the sounds just barely heard after Mickey loses his ears in Bad Ear Day.
• Visual Pun: A few crop up from time to time.
  • In "No Reservations", Minnie, Daisy and Clarabelle attempt to sneak into a fancy restaurant by blending in with a group of female chickens. It's a hen party.
  • In "Split Decision", in order to demonstrate Donald's tendency to go into an angry rant "at the drop of a hat", Mickey pulls out a hat out of nowhere and drops it (of course causing Donald to lose his temper).
  • In "Touchdown And Out", as Mickey, Donald and Goofy are getting trounced in a football match, the latter laments that they have to find an idea, otherwise they'll get their backsides handed to them. Cue Chernabog (yes, THAT Chernabog ; he's on the opposing team) literally handing them their asses.
• Vocal Evolution: Chris Diamantopolous's interpretation of Mickey started sounding more like what anyone doing an imitation of the Mickey voice would do. But as the series progressed, his Mickey voice became almost indistinguishable from Bret Iwan's and even Wayne Allwine's.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Donald sometimes has this with the other protagonists. The Christmas special showcases just how much the gang treasure their friendship with him.
• World Tour: Well, not exactly a tour, per se, but certain episodes transplant Mickey & Co. to exotic cities and locales, with them speaking the language and wearing the dress. These, more often than not, involve Mickey trekking across said cities, such as him taking the wrong train on the Tokyo Metro, racing across Paris to deliver croissants, or driving an auto rickshaw in Mumbai.
• Zebras Are Just Striped Horses: A one point in the episode, "Safari, So Good," the zebras sound like donkeys.