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6	-->''"Make way for the future!"''
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9	''Get a Horse!'' is a 2013 Creator/{{Disney}} animated short starring WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, the first theatrical short featuring the character since 1995's ''WesternAnimation/RunawayBrain''. It was directed by Lauren [=MacMullan=] (''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'') and is the first Disney property to be directed solo by a woman.
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11	In this 1928 throwback short, Mickey and his friends, including Minnie Mouse, Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar, enjoy a musical hayride until Peg-Leg Pete arrives in his runabout and tries to get them off the road. The resulting scuffle ends up with Pete kidnapping Minnie and Mickey separated from them, finding himself in a very unusual place in the process. As he tries to make his way back to rescue Minnie, Mickey soon discovers that the world he has found himself in works very differently from the world he's used to... and that he might be able to make this work to his advantage.
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13	This short is notable in that it utilized Creator/WaltDisney's voice for Mickey Mouse. The short was released on November 27, 2013, on the same theatrical bill as ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013''. It was nominated for the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Animated Short Film, but lost to ''WesternAnimation/MrHublot''.
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16	!!''Get a Horse!'' provides examples of:
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18	* AlertnessBlink: When Pete has Minnie in his clutches, Mickey's ears briefly turn into exclamation points.
19	* AmusingInjuries: [[spoiler:Happens to Pete over and over again once Mickey starts manipulating the theater screen.]]
20	* AnimationBump: The scene where we "chase" Pete from behind him, where not only is the background animated, but also tilts with the camera.
21	* AspectRatioSwitch: The short starts out on a small screen on black. When [[spoiler:Mickey breaks through the screen]], the rest of the wide area lights up to reveal [[spoiler:the theater the cartoon is playing in]]. Afterwards, [[spoiler:Mickey pulls back the curtains on the theater stage]] to reveal a wider animated screen underneath.
22	* BornInTheTheatre: [[spoiler:Mickey breaks through into the theatre.]]
23	* BrainBleach: After Pete gets a good look at Clarabelle and her udder, he rubs his eyes trying to get the image out of his head.
24	* BreakingTheFourthWall: [[spoiler:Not just "breaking" it, completely shattering it and dancing over the rubble.]]
25	* BrickJoke: When Pete arrives in his car, a chicken runs away from him and lays an egg, the egg then grows legs and also runs away. At the end [[spoiler:when all the characters and the scenery appear in CGI, the chicken and the egg also return]].
26	* BulletSeed: [[spoiler:Mickey uses Horace as a makeshift biplane and he spits Milk Duds as ammo.]] Later, Pete [[spoiler:closes up the screen by swallowing a can of nails and spitting them across the bottom.]]
27	* TheCameo: Near the end, WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit pops in for a quick cameo.
28	* ChaseScene: Pete chasing Mickey and his friends around and around [[spoiler:on both sides of the screen]].
29	* TheChewToy: Pete gets constantly battered in the short.
30	* CirclingBirdies: Mickey gets stars above his head when [[spoiler:Pete punches him into the theater's ceiling and hangs from an overhead pipe by his tail.]]
31	* ConfusedQuestionMark: Horace has one appear over his head. Also, Pete's hat curves into the shape of a question mark [[spoiler:when the animals swing against the screen]].
32	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The gag with Pete staring at Minnie, and the outcome thereof.
33	* ExorcistHead:
34	** Mickey's head does a 360 while following his crawling sentient shoe.
35	** As does Pete when viewing the wagon in the background.
36	* FilmWithinAFilm: [[spoiler:The premise of the short is that the characters somehow manage to literally break the fourth wall and thus, can go between it as long as there's a hole in it.]]
37	* FisherKingdom: [[spoiler:Our world not only makes the characters colored, it also depicts them as CGI characters.]]
38	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
39	** The anthropomorphic horn's line "Make way for the future!" becomes more poignant in that [[spoiler:1928's Mickey enters the world of 2013 and interacts with modern technology.]]
40	** So is Pete saying he's going to "knock [Mickey] into next week." [[spoiler:Only to overdo it and send Mickey into next ''century''.]]
41	* FoundFootage: Parodied. It was initially promoted as a "lost" Mickey Mouse cartoon that was made shortly after ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'', [[spoiler:but partway through, it proves to be anything but]].
42	* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Your nachos will get wrecked, too. [[spoiler:[[InvertedTrope And it works both ways;]] if Pete thinks the theater screen will protect him, he's got another thing coming (and then some).]]
43	* FourthWallGreeting: [[spoiler:After Mickey crashes through the screen, he initially greets the audience before realizing just where he is.]]
44	* FreezeFrameBonus: Blink during the end celebration and you'll miss [[spoiler:Oswald popping in to wave at the crowd]]!
45	* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
46	** When Mickey imitates an Army bugle to call the others for help, the hay wagon can be seen in the background moving like a tank.
47	** And when Pete gets covered in foam so as to resemble SantaClaus, it can be seen behind him moving like a Christmas sleigh.
48	* GenreThrowback: The animation is modeled after the earliest Mickey shorts. [[spoiler:The CGI animation is even rendered in a way similar to how the characters moved in 2D.]]
49	* GravityIsAHarshMistress: Played with; [[spoiler:Mickey flips the screen upside-down, causing Pete to fall from the ground above him.]]
50	* HighPressureEmotion: Steam comes out of Pete's hat when he gets mad.
51	* HumiliationConga: Pete undergoes this [[spoiler:when Mickey controls the screen to have him fall from the sky, get stabbed with a pitchfork, get electrocuted, etc.]]
52	* InvoluntarySmileOfIncapacitation: When Mickey controls the screen to [[AmusingInjuries comically injure Pete]], Pete lets out a few [[NonSequiturThud random statements]] with a large smile before collapsing.
53	* IrisOut: When the cartoon ends, [[spoiler:Pete tries to get back into the screen through the iris, but gets stuck.]]
54	* LogoJoke: The Disney logo at the end is in black and white, with "Disney" written in an older signature font and Clarabelle is jumping over the castle with a trail of "pixie dust" behind her.
55	* MaleGaze: Pete gives one to Minnie, illustrated by a dotted line going from his eyes to her. When Mickey places Clarabelle in front of Pete, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the line goes limp]].
56	* ManipulativeEditing: Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner, and Billy Bletcher reprise their respective roles as Mickey, Minnie, and Pete through edited audio from old Mickey cartoons. While Russi Taylor and Will Ryan provide new lines for Minnie and Pete, the editors decided not to do the same thing for Mickey. This created a problem when they learned that Walt Disney had never said the word "red" in Mickey's voice; it took two weeks for them to edit together the individual phonemes to assemble the word "red" and make it sound like a surprised statement.
57	* MediumAwareness: The characters become this once [[spoiler:Mickey was literally knocked right out of the cartoon.]]
58	* MediumBlending: [[spoiler:Traditional black-and-white animation combined with color computer animation.]]
59	* MickeyMousing: As a throwback to the classic shorts, the characters move to the soundtrack of the short.
60	* MonochromeToColor: The cartoon shows this when [[spoiler:Mickey enters the real world and becomes a colored 3D model, as opposed to the 2D black and white cartoon from which he came, to show how far animation has come]].
61	* NonSequiturThud: When Mickey Mouse was manipulating the theater screen to hurt Pete, he said, "Company dismissed!" (The line originally came from ''[[WartimeCartoon Donald Gets Drafted]]''.) And right before that, he said, "I used to have a little cat once!" (Originally from ''Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip.'')
62	* NotHyperbole: [[spoiler:Pete ''really'' knocks Mickey into more than next week. He knocks him into the present day, many decades later.]]
63	* OhNoNotAgain: [[spoiler:Pete cries, "Not again!" when Mickey manipulates the theater screen so that Pete's car drops on his head for the ''third'' time.]]
64	* TheOner: [[spoiler:Beyond the theater screen, the whole short takes place in one shot!]]
65	* ParachutePetticoat: Minnie's skirt acts as a parachute when she falls.
66	* PortalPicture: [[spoiler:The theater screen acts as a portal between the real world and the world of the cartoon.]]
67	* ReachingBetweenTheLines: When Mickey calls Pete [[spoiler:from a smartphone]], Horace sprays a fire extinguisher into it and the foam hits Pete on the other end.
68	* RealWorldEpisode: [[spoiler:The true premise of the film is that the ''Steamboat Willie''-era Mickey Mouse inadvertently managed to literally jump out of the theater screen while his short was playing. In modern day times.]]
69	* RealityWarper: [[spoiler:Mickey and pals flip the screen and warp gravity and time to thwart Pete.]]
70	* {{Retreaux}}: Done in the style of a 1920s cartoon [[spoiler:until Mickey Mouse finds himself in the real world.]]
71	* RewindGag: PlayedWith. [[spoiler:When Mickey [[BreakingTheFourthWall literally breaks the fourth wall]], he discovers he can use this trope to help him defeat Peg Leg Pete by rotating the screen. He rewinds and fast forwards the on-screen events in order to wear Pete down.]]
72	* RubberHoseLimbs: As a throwback to the original shorts, all the characters have them.
73	* RunningGag: [[spoiler:Whenever a character crashes into the theater's seats, a woman can be heard yelling "My nachos!".]]
74	* SceneryCensor: When Mickey jumps out of his shorts, he uses a fence to cover his shame.
75	* ScreenTap: A variation; Pete throws Mickey and Horace against the screen, causing it to bump, [[spoiler:until they break through into the real world.]]
76	* ShoutOut:
77	** Minnie's line "Where are we, Poughkeepsie?" delighted many citizens of that city in New York state.
78	** [[spoiler:Horace is briefly seen wearing a ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' T-shirt. Besides being a nice little CallForward to the later-released ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Cap is a contemporary of Mickey and the gang who ''also'' found himself in the modern day.]]
79	** [[spoiler:A cellphone left on the stage plays the iPhone [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNE_Ai5Q7ew "Marimba" ringtone]].]]
80	* ShownTheirWork: They really put effort to give it [[StylisticSuck that early sound film quality]], including cel mistakes, film scratches and poor-quality soundtrack.
81	* ShowSomeLeg: Clarabelle does this to hitch a ride on the wagon, revealing her udder as she does so.
82	* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Inverted: Pete's stare at Minnie is drawn with a straight dotted line, when Mickey notices and replaces Minnie with a Clarabelle, Pete's stare line becomes flaccid and limp.
83	* SplitScreenPhoneCall: A rather strange variation. Mickey, [[spoiler:from outside the screen]], calls Pete, [[spoiler:who is inside, with Mickey using a smartphone and Pete using an old candlestick phone.]]
84	* StockFootage: All of Mickey's dialogue is made up of voice clips recycled from old shorts. The same goes for Minnie and Pete's dialogue, mostly.
85	* TitleDrop: After Pete is defeated, his car horn comes to life and honks at him "Get a horse!"
86	* XRaySparks: When Pete hits the telephone wires, he gets a nasty shock portrayed in this fashion.

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