"Dumb Luck" is the 18th episode of Season 4 of the new Mickey Mouse (2013) series created by Paul Rudish for the Disney Channel and Disney.com. It's the 76th in the series.
Mickey must find a way to change his luck for the better after his mirror accidentally breaks.
Tropes
- Banana Peel: Mickey's first misfortune when getting seven years of bad luck is slipping on a banana peel. One sign of now having good luck after he finds the lucky penny is that a banana peel in his path quickly gets up and moves away to instead slip up an old woman.
- Bittersweet Ending: Mickey's luck changes when he finds a lucky penny, when Goofy points out he'll have to do the same every day for the next seven years.
- The Cameo: Mickey attempts to remove a horseshoe from Cyril Proudbottom.
- Cub Cues Protective Parent: Mickey catches a ladybug, but is soon confronted by a giant ladybug, presumably its parent.
- Groin Attack: Happens to Mickey when he slips on a banana peel and falls crotch-first on a fire hydrant.
- Ocular Gushers: Mickey cries like this after his house is foreclosed.
- Superstition Episode: After the mirror breaks, Mickey starts having bad luck and needs to find a way of getting good luck.
- Trauma Conga Line: Mickey, because of his bad luck, has to endure slipping on banana peels, getting struck by lightning, getting eaten by a whale, having safes fall on him, Minnie breaking up with him, having his house foreclosed, and getting struck by lightning AGAIN.
- X-Ray Sparks: When Mickey gets struck by lightning, his skeleton is visible.
