In addition to the video game and toyline, Disney Tsum Tsum also has a series of shorts on YouTube following the adventures of Tsum Tsums in Disneyland. It premiered on March 22, 2015 in Japan and December 16, 2014 in the United States.
The show also appears on the Disney Junior channel, the "Disney Junior on Disney Channel" programming block, Disney's official YouTube channel, and the TV Everywhere app DisneyNow.
This show provides examples of:
- Adaptational Villainy: The Cheshire Cat wasn't exactly originally "a villain", but he still helps Maleficent scare Mickey and Minnie in "Spook At Graveyard".
- All Just a Dream: The ending of "Tsum Tsumoon" reveals the entire thing with Mickey going to the moon and all was actually a dream.
- Animated Adaptation: Of the game and the toyline.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The flower monsters in "Jungle Tsum", as they pose as innocent and friendly to try and eat the tsums. It's downplayed as they end us taking in Eeyore as their "king" in the end.
- Camera Fiend: Dumbo serves as this in these cartoons. He's rarely seen without his camera, and as the sole tsum that can fly, he's great at getting aerial shots.
- Human Ladder: The tsums' go-to tactic for reaching high places or lifting anything up is stacking themselves on top of each other, pushing it up. They also enjoy forming pyramids at the end of each short for Dumbo to take a photo of.
- Laser-Guided Karma: In "Spook At Graveyard", Maleficent and the Cheshire Cat team up and spook Mickey and Minnie in a graveyard. They both end up getting a taste of their own medicine in the end.
- No Mouth: Most tsums play this straight with a few subverions as a few tsum tsum like Olaf having a tooth.
- Puni Plush: Just look at those adorable round pill-shaped plushies doing cute things!
- Running Gag: Not every episode, but often, something will mess up Dumbo's final photo at the end of each short.
- Self-Duplication: If a tsum sneezes (deliberately or accidentally), they will generate copies of themselves.
- Sizeshifter: The tsums can inflate themselves and increase their size at will, commonly using this ability to push handles and the like. However, they have to hold their breath to do so; once they let it out, they involuntarily deflate.
- The Speechless: Everyone on the show communicates in squeaks only.
- Towering Flower: All the flowers shown in the series are absolutely gigantic. Justified however, since the tsums are so small.
