Line #11 Headscratchers/HouseOfMouse


1	* Just why ''did'' this show never have any cameos by Disney TV Animation characters (excluding WesternAnimation/PepperAnn in the first episode)? Did the staff have something against those characters? Was it the same kind of xenophobia exhibited by the guy who wrote ''Disney Dossiers'' (a book that also ignores the TV Animation characters)? Or was the show written by people who didn't have access to the episodes of the other cartoons?
2	** Most likely for two reasons-1. They couldn't get the rights to use said characters (Yes, it is possible for one series to not allow characters from another series to appear despite being owned by the same company (For a good example, various DC supervillains were no longer allowed on ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' due to said villains appearing on WesternAnimation/TheBatman...both shows were owned by Warner Bros.)) and/or 2. They simply wanted to focus mainly on characters from classic Disney shorts and Disney animated films. And, even then, they only used a handful of characters despite the ''numerous'' Disney animated characters to choose from. Note how, for example, they use mainly Timon & Pumbaa for ''Franchise/TheLionKing'' characters but rarely use Simba (despite being the ''main'' character of the movie), Scar, Nala, Zazu, or the Hyena Trio (Ed, Shenzi, and Banzai). It could be likely that including ''every'' single Disney character would take too much time and cost too much money for the animators at Disney to handle.
3	** Disney licensing has something against mixing television and movie characters. It's why ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' is the way it is.
4	** Having to go back and forth with changing the appearances of some certain, established characters from the feature films and featurettes, who'd later star in their t.v. series (e.g. Chip & Dale, who'd later become a pair of the Rescue Rangers) to interact once again with characters who originated from the same series in one episode and then appear as their initial selves in the next may have been too complicated. Confusing for some viewers as well (if those who are new to the modifications of past characters from the full-length films and shorts aren't as familiar with them as others are).
5	** Plus, opening the floodgates to other media outside the animated movies and classic old shorts would risk the danger of the "trendy" characters usurping the show from the movie ones it's supposed to be focused on.
6	*** Not to mention it would have been astronomically expensive to get everyone (writers, voice actors, lawyers) involved. Can you imagine if this show was made today, with Disney having ''The Muppets'', PIXAR, Marvel, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox, Hulu, National Geographic, and possibly even ''Kingdom Hearts''? As awesome as it would be to have everyone hanging out at the club, it would have required a lot of logistical coordination from all parties to ensure the characters were depicted respectfully and accurately, the money to get their voice actors back (or soundalikes if they couldn't) would have cost more than Disney would have been willing to pay, and it could have stolen a lot of valuable screen time from everyone else. Who would come to see Mickey Mouse and Co. run the House if ''Darth Vader'' was in the audience while coldly staring down Doctor Doom and Mr. Burns from across the aisle?
7	*** Both these points, ''and'' the fact that a lot of the properties they own nowadays aren't really appropriate for children. Seriously, can you imagine characters like Peter Griffin and the ones from ''WesternAnimation/LittleDemon'' showing up as guests?
8	* Since [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Jafar]] is still stuck as a genie here, how come he didn't think of having one of the other villains wish him free of his lamp in ''Mickey's House of Villains''?
9	** Typical villain incompetence or over-confidence (to put it more adequately). A villain (in this case Jafar) believes that he has won against the hero (IE: Mickey Mouse) and that no one can stop him. Cue the hero saving the day, trapping (or possibly killing) the villain due to said villain overlooking some minor/major flaw in his plan that leads to his downfall.
10	*** Likewise, hindsight is 20/20...as the old saying goes.
11	** Alternately, Jafar doesn't trust the other villains enough. Remember the line "Only greedy dirty deeds are allowed !". What villain would be generous enough to use a wish to free Jafar? Even totally heroic Aladdin had a dilemma about freeing the Genie! Jafar prefers to avoid mentioning that he's still a genie because at least one of the other villains could take his lamp and make wishes ''against'' him.
12	** Also, when Mickey had gotten the lamp, the other villains immediately ran away like cowards.
13	* What bothered me about ''House Of Villains'' was that they listed Tick-Tock (the Crocodile from ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'') as one of the villains. Um, didn't the writers/producers/etc. of the show forget that Tick-Tock was a ''subversion'' of the ReptilesAreAbhorrent trope. He's pretty much ChaoticNeutral or TrueNeutral (He's not evil, just hungry... which still makes him dangerous, but not for any downright "evil" reasons) and is Captain Hook's (the ''real'' villain of the classic story) mortal enemy (Possibly even more so than Peter Pan himself).
14	** Maybe he just going along with the villains because he was planning on chowing down on Hook when he least expected it at some point?
15	* I don't like that, in this show, Huey, Dewey, and Louie was voiced by the same guy doing Donald's voice. Because they sounded exactly like Donald, it tends to confuse me if I'm looking the other way while the boys are talking. Granted, that's how it was done back in the days of the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts, but by this time, Russi Taylor had done the trio's voices on ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' and was still doing them in the direct-to-video movies and video games, and her voice for them sounds different from Donald's. So why did she not reprise their voices on this show? Heck, in the ''House'' segments, the boys even seem to have their ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' designs, so why have them voiced by ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' voice actors?
16	* Why does Website/TheOtherWiki always, ''always'' refer to this show by its full title with the "Disney's" preface? Practically every cartoon show Disney has made has "Disney's" prefacing the title, but we never refer to, say, ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' as ''Disney's WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' in casual conversation. And even Disney seems to have this same conceit as well. What makes ''House of Mouse'' any different when it comes to being referenced in conversations or articles?
17	** It's just how people say the title. I mean, a lot of people say ''Rocky Horror'' instead of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' or ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' instead of ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?'' (Or any of the numerous spinoffs).
18	** Possibly for legal reasons, just in case someone else tries to make a show by that same name. Make it clear DisneyOwnsThisTrope.
19	* Why is there only one character from ''{{WesternAnimation/Tarzan}}'' (in this case, it's Tantor) in this show?
20	** Because Tantor and the others from that movie were already appearing in the spin-off t.v. series, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'', which premiered the same year as House of Mouse. Presumably, whose ever idea it was to limit the number of characters from that film to appear on this show chose to do it this way, because of either having to commit and devote the Tarzan cast to that other Walt Disney Television Animation production onlyord intentionally or there might have been plans for the cast to appear in both shows, but somehow a feasible plan just couldn't be reached.
21	** It's the same for numerous other characters from other series. Kronk never showed up despite the show having Kuzco and Yzma, despite the fact he's arguably the most popular character ''and'' Disney had ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'' not too long after ''HOM'' popped up. They never brought Casey Jr. in from ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' despite his popularity (though it's pretty hard to justify getting a steam engine into a nightclub with no tracks), nor were there many appearances from other {{Ensemble Dark Horse}}s like [[Franchise/TheLittleMermaid Ariel's sisters]] or [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the Bimbettes]]. Unfortunately, they had to pick and choose which characters they could use, and Tarzan, Kronk, Casey, Triton's kids, and Gaston's admirers got the short end of the stick.
22	* Ever notice that ''House of Mouse'' actually spoiled the ending of ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''? This is most noticeable with [[TheHighQueen Kida's]] appearance and outfit for this show.
23	** Actually, they were trying to make her look more modest, this is supposed to be a ''kid's show'', hence they made her wear a dress and a tiara.
24	* There are several shorts created for this show but were unfortunately cut short after being finished. The most famous one of these is the one about [[WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup Pluto]] being left behind at Minnie's house while [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mickey]] is on vacation, and thus prompting [[GoodAngelBadAngel his conscience]] to threaten him into thinking that Minnie's out to get him. Why weren't any of those shorts aired in the first place? Is it because the aforementioned short's plot showed Pluto having a nightmare about Minnie burying him alive and later going to Hell?
25	* Since there isn't a Fridge section for this piece of Fridge Logic and Fridge Horror, could you imagine how much of a [[MindScrew Mind Screw]] it must be for all these people of different worlds, cultures, periods, and moralities to get together under one roof? Theologically, we could have Chernabog (the devil from Fantasia) asking the Greek gods (from Hercules) which one of them is his mortal enemy, the Christian God. Environmentally, we have various predators (Simba and Timon and Pumbaa from The Lion King) at a mere dinner table away from their prey (Bambi from Bambi and Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio, respectively). When it comes to dining, we have Ariel (the eponymous Little Mermaid) watching as other people order fish. Finally, how does a fight not break out every night with so many heroes and villains in the same room, especially mortal enemies? Jafar, Maleficent, Queen Grimhilde, and Ursula are all in the same place as Aladdin, Aurora, Snow White, and Ariel!
26	** There's the whole PunchClockVillain concept--the villains are only truly evil when they're in their respective films, as they are just "acting". But when they're "off the clock", they're more restrained and just relaxing. And when they do something bad off-camera, it's usually out of "mischief" rather than "malice".
27	** The show does take place in Toon Town from ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'', so they have leeway in that all parties involved are AnimatedActors off the clock when they aren't working in the films or the parks. It would be too confusing for all of them, especially given how much Disney has grown today if they tried mixing and matching everything. Can you imagine if they had the modern Disney properties they bought? Like Simba asking Mufasa why Darth Vader sounds like him? Too much of a headache for anyone.
28	* Is Mickey's odd appearance in "Timon and Pumbaa" a reference to old shorts, or is he just OffModel? There's just something not right about his mouth and unmoving eyes...
29	* A commercial for the special ''Snowed In at the House of Mouse'' has Goofy worry about how they (Mickey, Donald, and him) will get home to their friends and families. Don't all of their current family and close friends work there with them? Who are they missing?
30	** At least in Donald's case, Scrooge doesn't work at the House of Mouse, and neither does Grandma Duck.
31	** Also, the comic books have featured several other characters that don't work there, like Eega Beeva and others.
32	** I also doubt Mickey wants to go home to spend time with Mortimer Mouse, whom ''everyone'' in the club hates.
33	* At the end of ''House of Crime'', Mike the microphone says the Phantom Blot has been creating havoc since 1947. What is the significance of this date? The newspaper serial that introduced the Blot was published in 1939, so were the writers just mistaken, or is the date a reference to something else?
34	** I think it's just a mistake. There ''is'' a somewhat important event in the Blot's history that took place in 1947, but it's something utterly obscure, that the writers had little way of knowing before the Internet era: it's in 1947 that the Blot's debut appearance was translated into Italian for the first time[[note]] It's a bigger deal than you'd think, as Italy is one of the countries that produce the greatest amount of Disney comics and was the first to re-introduce the Blot as a recurring villain. [[/note]] But really, I think it was just a goof.
35	* In ''Ask Von Drake'', how on Earth did Monstro get inside the House? The door's not all that wide, certainly not wide enough for a ''whale'' to come in. (Besides, one could question what a non-anthropomorphic ''whale'' is doing in the House of Mouse anyway — it's an animal, it can hardly enjoy watching the cartoons or something — but let's give it a free pass on that).
36	** How is this even a question? There are so many obvious ways for Monstro to get in there.
37	*** The Genie, Jafar, Fairy Godmother, Blue Fairy, etc. simply poofed him into the building (why I'm not sure; Genie is the one most likely to do something so seemingly random and counterproductive)
38	*** Someone simply lifted a wall, toon-style
39	*** Mad Madam Mim, Merlin, the Fairy Godmother, etc turned Monstro into something smaller that enabled him to enter, and he regained his usual form later.
40	** That, or maybe the club just has some sort of side entrance for larger characters? But we just don't see it. Maybe?
41	*** Possibly, but not everyone's inside the club (as far as we've seen). Casey Junior's not puffing around given the lack of tracks, but it's established that a lack of traditional methods of movement is not a problem for all the characters. Monstro's got someone helping him squish inside and not have to worry about flopping around.
42	* In ''Not Too Goofy'', Un-Goofy hands out specific dishes to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I understand most of them, but the only ones I don't get are No seafood for Bashful and no complex carbohydrates for Dopey.
43	** Dopey being, [[JustWhatItSaysOntheTin ya know, dopey]], he'd be confused by complex carbohydrates and would prefer simple ones. Seafood... "see food"... Bashhful doesn't want to see his food because he's shy. I say [[Fridge Brilliance just swap the orders--fish is said to be brain food, and Dopey could use some help in that department]].
44	* Why does Pete want to tear down the club? He's a landlord, and they're paying him money to use the space. Logically, the more money they make, the more he makes.
45	** It's Pete. The guy's not exactly much for brains, and he only looks at his short-term profits and how much they're making him. He wants more in the long term, but the club's not giving him ''enough'' to make him happy.
46	** Maybe he's trying to concoct some sort of land scam involving the club, with him walking away with all the money?
47	* Why did Pete not think of having Captain Hook fill Max's position as the parking valet in the episode "Pete's House of Villains"? In an episode where he had Ursula take over running the front desk and Jafar being in charge of greeting guests at the door, you'd think he'd assign Hook to parking duty.

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