The fourth and final of the “Wonder Season of” series of The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse specials, this time taking place in the Fall. Premiered on Disney+ on November 18, 2022.
Mickey Mouse and friends go to the leafy hamlet of Pumpkin Ridge where Mickey is to inherent a long lost ancestor’s farm estate. It doesn’t take long for Mickey to find out that his ancestor, Culpeper Mouse was the an extremely inept farmer and the town laughing stock even in the present day. Mickey decides to redeem his family name by farming a crop of pumpkins with the help of Donald and Goofy; unfortunately Donald’s quick growing chemical ends up transforming their harvest into an army of mutant pumpkins. Meanwhile, Minnie and Daisy try to tap some maple syrup in the woods, only to end up going overboard and creating a very Sticky Situation.
Tropes:
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In this case, it's attack of the fifty foot mutant pumpkin.
- Mickey uses the formula on himself to also grow gigantic in order to fight the giant pumpkin.
- Banana Peel: Donald quickly eats a banana and throws it at the giant mutant pumpkin to make it slip.
- Barely Missed Cushion: Inverted when the giant pumpkin monster falls toward a steeple with a very pointy roof, but instead safely rebounds off of an inflatable bounce house directly next to it.
- Becoming Part of the Image: The portrait of Culpepper Mouse and his family falls on top of Mickey and Mickey's head goes through where Culpepper's is; Mickey even gets a large bump on his head that matches Culpepper's dunce cap.
- Berserk Button: Daisy seems to hate store bought syrup, like really hates it.
- The Cameo:
- Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar appear in the town.
- Ichabod Crane and Tilda from the Legend of Sleepy Hollow segment of "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" are seen as residents of the town.
- Friend Owl from Bambi is shown in the woods at night. (This making it his second cameo in the Wonderful Season of" Mickey specials with the first being The Wonderful Winter of Mickey Mouse).
- Desert Skull: Culpeper's estate is much less farm land and more like a barren wasteland. A lone cow skull animates and coughs while begging for water.
- Died Happily Ever After: The ghost of Culpepper Mouse appears by his estate to thanking Mickey for all he did; though the moment is kinda ruined after he trips over a pumpkin. ("I hate these things").
- Dinner Deformation: Goofy eats a prize winning pumpkin and his body deforms into a pumpkin shape.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: The mutant pumpkins all have very sharp teeth, one in particular is shown to have two circular rows of teeth.
- Motivation on a Stick: Mickey has Goofy plow the field like a horse by holding up a stick with a picture of a pumpkin on it in front of his face.
- Mythology Gag:
- Ranger J. Audubon Woodlore from Classic Disney Shorts (usually alongside Donald Duck) is refitted as the host of the town's harvest festival. The town puts on a play which includes Humphrey the Bear and some other nameless bears from the same shorts.
- The song in the play is from the short "In the Bag" but with alternate lyrics.
- Humphrey Bear plays Culpepper Mouse in the play and is clearly wearing a mouse ears hat that's very similar to the ones sold at Disneyland.
- "Not Wearing Pants" Dream: Mickey's nightmare of "Mouseing up" his harvest ends with him naked and the town laughing at him.
- Person as Verb: The term the villagers use to describe Culpepper Mouse's bad farming skills is "Mouse it up" and Mickey worries that he too will "Mouse it up" as well.
- Produce Pelting: Throwing pumpkins and squash at the statue of Culpeper Mouse seems to be a regular thing. Once the town finds out that Mickey is his descendant, they switch to pummeling him.
- Rake Take: Happens multiple times. At one point, Mickey weaponizes this trope to squash some of the mutant pumpkins.
- Rapid Hair Growth: The key ingredient in Donald's crop growing formula is hair tonic that instantly grows long and luchcious hair, as shown when Donald tests it on himself; Daisy certainly looked pleased by the results.
- Smelly Skunk: Farmer Skunk infuses his maple syrup with his own special scent, after Minnie sniffs it, she reacts appropriatly.
- Sticky Situation: Minnie and Daisy's syrup tapping ends up causing a huge flood of maple syrup resulting in this trope.
- Wedgie: The giant mutant pumpkin does this to Mickey. At the end the townsfolk immortalize the moment in a statue as "appreciation" for Mickey helping them.
