If Disney UnCancelled House of Mouse....

I'd argue that we got at least a few characters who were originally fairly dissonant from the rest of Disney visually - and that in those cases, the characters were redesigned slightly to match up better. Mortimer is the most obvious, but several of the characters from their less mainstream movies were modified in some way.

Well, you got to see his taxi friend at one point...I fear though, that certain parents would make a fuss if they add Jessica to a TV show geared towards children. But that would be a great episode...her turning up and all the toons loosing their control....

Really?

Ah, House of Mouse was one of my favorite cartoons (mostly because of the Mickey Mouse Works shorts in them). For obvious reasons it probably won't ever return, although it would be cool if they did expand the crossover concept.

I always considered the shorts the weakest part of them...the show was at its best when it showed the classic shorts instead of the Mickey Mouse Works ones, imho.

Which obvious reasons?

edited 1st Dec '14 2:02:28 AM by swanpride

I wish the show would return.

Make a new House of Mouse, only in CGI. This would open up VI Ps for all the newer characters.

While some of the MouseWorks shorts were rather childish, I feel like overall they were a pretty good bunch of cartoons. The best ones were always the Donald Duck shorts, Goofy shorts, and the ones with Mickey, Donald, and Goofy doing odd jobs.

I'll admit, I haven't seen that many of the classic Disney shorts. Been meaning to for a while. Something always bugs me about the color palette used in a lot of them, though—seems really overly dull and dark in a bunch of the shorts I've seen, especially when compared to, say, the Looney Tunes shorts of that era, which generally had a more varied color palette with a lot more bright colors. I'll admit, maybe it's a superficial thing to be turned off by, but I'm a sucker for a good color scheme, and dull colors can make me think less of something. Even dull album covers can make me like the music I'm listening to less. Maybe it wasn't always the case there for them—maybe the Disney archive of shorts hasn't been maintained and cleaned up over the years as well as the Looney Tunes archive.

edited 1st Dec '14 10:44:54 AM by Odd1

While the Mouseworks shorts varied in quality and definitely weren't consistently as polished as the film/classic shorts, a few of them are among my favorite Disney shorts ever.

Like "Mickey and the Seagull." Or "How to Haunt a House."

I liked those shorts, for the most part. They weren't too below the current batch of redesigned Mickey shorts, plot and comedic timing-wise, even if they are far less daring and striking visually. The only ones I really didn't like were most of Donald's solo shorts. Other than the one where Donald got stuck in his computer, they seemed to go with the motions of old Donald shorts without achieving their traditional comedic value. You cringed at Donald's misfortunes more than laughed at them.

I have to say I rather liked what they did with the Minnie/Daisy relationship, since Minnie was a character in dire need of something to make her actually funny.

They'd have to re-hire that opera singer to voice Mickey Mouse for the Arabic version.

No, seriously, the dude who voices Mickey Mouse in the Arabic translations is an operatic bass-baritone. I attended a masterclass with him, once. It was neat. Got the voice dead on.

edited 1st Dec '14 11:44:30 AM by Pannic

Yeah, but Daisy kind of got the short stick in this. I think she and Minnie were both way better characters in their House of Mouse persona...especially Minnie. Talk about an upgrade for a character which started out as molestation object for Mickey.

I'll admit my favorite versions of Daisy would have to be the Quack Pack one and the Intrepid Reporter seen in the Brazilian comics.

How was Daisy earlier on? Because I haven't liked her in any iterations I've seen.

Shrill, unreasonable, overly demanding, hypocritical and manipulative girlfriend.

IIRC Carl Barks never liked her.

So she's always been awful. Good to know.

Ah, it depends on the Cartoon. There are a few in which she is very supportive towards Donald.

This cartoon had an awesome theme. Wouldn't mind it coming back just for the theme

Or you could just listen to music by the Brian Setzer Orchestra

that too lol

When the show was originally airing, I liked the fact that they had a mixture of old and new shorts. Even though I wasnt a big fan of them. Plus, they freakin had all of the cartoon characters together in one huge dinner theater laughing, making jokes, and having a fun time. I know Disney fanatics love that

edited 1st Dec '14 10:31:21 PM by teddy

I wanna see George Gray replace Rod Roddy as the voice of the microphone. That would be a great Mythology Gag.

Holy crap, I never realized that was Rod Roddy until now. That's pretty awesome.

edited 2nd Dec '14 2:14:28 AM by Odd1

...it would likely cater to today's demographic of children and no one here would like it.

edited 6th Dec '14 3:59:11 AM by PhysicalStamina

Huh, I never knew this show had a reputation as being "underwhelming". It must have something to do with my own nostalgic fondness for it.

Underwhelming? Odd. Oh, well. I like it. I respect their opinions.