"New York Weenie" is one of the season 1 shorts of the Mickey Mouse (2013) series created by Paul Rudish for the Disney Channel and Disney.com. It's the fourth to air on the Disney Channel and the third/fourth to be put on Disney.com.
In New York City, Mickey and Minnie are strolling down Central Park, but when Minnie becomes hungry, Mickey must deal with a dog who has stolen his hot dog from her.
Tropes:
- Anthropomorphic Food: The hot dog.
- Art Shift: The lion looks realistic when Mickey returns to Minnie with the hot dog.
- Baby Carriage: At one point, the hot dog ends up in an empty one, which ends up rolling down a slope and end up in the middle of a bunch of carriages. Mickey's solution is to remove the sheets from those carriages, though this only cause the babies inside to cry, and their angry mothers to beat the crap out of him.
- Big Applesauce: The episode is set in New York City.
- Blank White Eyes: Mickey as he becomes more feral-like.
- Creepy Crossdresser: Goofy
- The Determinator: Mickey, to the point of turning insane and animal-like.
- Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Mickey tells Minnie that it's the only walk they had that he can remember. Mickey realizes what he just said and tells her that it makes it the loveliest.
- Face Plant: When Mickey trips on a fork trying to reach the hot dog in a baby carriage, he literally falls flat on his face.
- Funny Background Event: When Mickey becomes so savage that he roars and pounds his chest, there's a sign right next to him that says, "Beware! Wild animals".
- Gross-Up Close-Up: The hot dog after Mickey brings it back to Minnie.
- Growling Gut: Minnie's stomach makes the entire city shake.
- Kiss of Distraction: The weenie does this to Mickey when he finds it inside a baby carriage.
- Mama Bear: The babies' mothers are... less than pleased with Mickey waking them up in his search for the runaway hot dog and proceed to pummel him.
- Mythology Gag:
- Mickey also dealt with a living hot dog that was meant for Minnie waaaay back in the 1929 short, The Karnival Kid.
- Oswald the Lucky Rabbit also dealt with a similar anthropomorphic hot dog in his short "All Wet".
- Primal Chest-Pound: When the hot dog bounces into the zoo, Mickey, who by that point turned completely feral and beast-like, roars and thumps his chest before entering the zoo.
- Recycled Animation: Prior to this short, the animation of Mickey tripping and falling flat on his face is used in the opening cutscene
of the Where's My Mickey? chapter "Fanning the Flames". - Sanity Slippage: Mickey gets so impatient with chasing after the hot dog, he ends up in a feral, beast-like state.note
- Spaghetti Kiss: Mickey and Minnie have one with a hot dog.
