History WesternAnimation / TheNiftyNineties

* ProtestSong: "Come Home, Father!" is a real nineteenth-century song that was used to advocate for prohibition prior to the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. The [[DryCrusader W.C.T.U.]] even adopted it as their anthem. This cartoon having been made several years after prohibition ended, it doesn't take the song's temperance message seriously.

-->''At TheGay90's!''

-->''At TheGayNineties!''

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[[caption-width-right:350: Hey, if this is the '90s, where are all the [[TheNineties flannel shirts]]?]]

!!Tropes:

-->''A day in the ninties''

-->''At [[TheGay90s the Gay Nineties]]!''

-->''Grandpa cussed when the thing wouldn't go''

-->''At the Gay Nineties!''

* UniversalAdaptorCast: Mickey, Minnie, and the rest are all the same, just relocated to the 1890s.

* ProtestSong: "Come Home, Father!" is a real nineteenth-century song that was used to advocate for prohibition prior to the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. The [[DryCrusader W.C.T.U.]] even adopted it as their anthem.

* AnachronisticSoundtrack: The song "In the Good Old Summer Time" is actually from 1902. The other featured songs all existed in the 1890s, although some originated earlier.

* AnachronismStew: The song "In the Good Old Summer Time" is actually from 1902. The other featured songs all existed in the 1890s, although some originated earlier.

* TheCoverChangesTheGender: Well, not exactly the gender, but the cartoon's rendition of "The Fountain in the Park" does come with a pronoun change. In the original version, it's sung from the perspective of the man, who refers to himself in the first person ("I was taken by surprise"). Here, it's sung by an off-screen chorus, with both parties referred to in the third person ("He was taken by surprise").

* TheCoverChangesTheGender: Well, not exactly the gender, but the cartoon's rendition of "The Fountain in the Park" does come with a pronoun change. In the original version, it's sung from the perspective of the man, who refers to himself in the first person. Here, it's sung by an off-screen chorus, with both parties referred to in the third person.

* CreatorCameo: Fred and Ward, "two clever boys from Illinois", are caricatures of animators Creator/FredMoore and Creator/WardKimball, who also provide the voices.

* ArtShift: The vaudeville sequence has a non-animated slideshow done in the sketchy style of John Held, a [[RoaringTwenties Roaring '20s]] illustrator who also liked to send up TheGayNineties.

As the title suggests, it takes the classic Disney characters back to the olden days of the '90s -- the 1890s, that is to say. The plot, such as it is, consists of Mickey meeting Minnie in the park, taking her to a vaudeville show, and then taking her for a ride in his "horseless carriage." But really, the storyline is just an excuse to showcase and/or parody tropes associated with the Mauve Decade.

* ArtShift: The vaudeville sequence has a non-animated slideshow done in the sketchy style of John Held, a RoaringTwenties illustrator who also liked to send up TheGayNineties.