History WesternAnimation / HouseOfMouse

[[caption-width-right:350:''We're all rockin' at the House of Mouse!'']]

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Mickey, Goofy, and Donald attempt to disguise themselves as the [[PaperThinDisguise Quack Street Boys]]. This includes webbed feet and duckbills for Donald.

* BumblingDad: Goofy to Max, ''House of Mouse'' only.

* DoNotTauntCththulu: When Hades is the only guest in the house keeping it from being closed for good, Mickey hires Chernabog to perform "Night on Bald Mountain" for him. When it works and entertains Hades, Pete attacks with a bulldozer to shovel Chernabog away. However, this incurs the wrath of Chernabog’s spirits from the underworld, who begin chasing Pete down to make him ''join'' them.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: With Minnie -- though she doesn't tend to in Mickey's shorts she runs into a fair amount of slapstick in her own cartoons. Daisy, however, is almost never on the receiving end, though not out of isolation from the comedy; that itself is part the joke as her character in the shorts tends to be "[[KarmaHoudini obliviously annoying kook who gets her friends into trouble while totally avoiding consequences.]]"

* SingleTargetRule: "Pete's House of Villains" shows Jafar taking up Donald's role as the doorman/bouncer, telling the rest of the cast of Aladdin that ''no'' monkeys, tigers, flying carpets, genies or street rats are allowed inside. ''Princesses'', right this way.

* AuthorGuestSpot: The nasty fax Mickey intended to send to Mortimer ends up going to [[spoiler: Roy Disney.]]

* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: Almost every Disney cartoon show has had "Disney's" prefacing the title, but ''House of Mouse'' is ''always'' referred to as '''''Disney's''' House of Mouse'' on Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: The Mickey, Donald and Goofy cartoons often boil down to Mickey getting the focus while Donald and Goofy are the sidekicks. "Mickey Foils the Phantom Blot" is a good example as Mickey is really the only one who moves the plot along. This could be seen as a subversion from the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts, were the mouse was almost absent in favor of Donald and Goofy's antics.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Mickey, Donald and Goofy cartoons often boil down to Mickey getting the focus while Donald and Goofy are the sidekicks. Mickey Foils the Phantom Blot a good example as Mickey is really the only one who moves the plot along. This could be seen as a subversion from the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts, were the mouse was almost absent in favor of Donald and Goofy's antics.

The concept of ''House of Mouse'' was that Mickey and his friends were now running an eponymous nightclub, whose entertainment consisted of special musical guests and showing the cartoon shorts produced for ''Mouse Works'' (some of which had not aired previously), and occasionally classic Disney shorts from the Golden Age of Animation to an audience of Disney characters. The guests consisted almost entirely of characters from all of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon films up to 2001's ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'',[[note]]But none of the Creator/{{Pixar}} films, for obvious reasons, though Donald did dress in costumes relating to them in one episode. Also, while ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', which is known for its crossovers, didn't appear since that film wasn't released at the time of production, the titular duo did appear in a Flash game.[[/note]] and sometimes characters from the ''Silly Symphonies'' shorts (mostly "WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs", though). The series ''did'' feature cameo appearances by characters from other Disney TV cartoons (WesternAnimation/PepperAnn and her mom are seen ''outside'' the House in the first episode), the comic books ([[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]] bought the House in one episode), [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks theme park attractions]] ([[Franchise/TheHauntedMansion the Hitchhiking Ghosts]], also in the first episode), and even live-action movies (Herbie from ''Film/TheLoveBug'', Benny the Cab from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' and the lightcycles from ''Film/{{Tron}}'' in "Max's New Car", which also featured Susie the Little Blue Coupe), but these were few and far between. Curiously, unlike the later ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'', ''House of Mouse'' also did not do any {{Crossover}}s with other currently-running Disney cartoons like ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' (although Donald wears a Buzz Lightyear outfit in one episode, resembling the design of his suit from the show) and ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace'', aside from the aforementioned Pepper Ann cameo.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: With Minnie - though she doesn't tend to in Mickey's shorts she runs into a fair amount of slapstick in her own cartoons. Daisy, however, is almost never on the receiving end, though not out of isolation from the comedy; that itself is part the joke as her character in the shorts tends to be "[[KarmaHoudini obliviously annoying kook who gets her friends into trouble while totally avoiding consequences.]]"

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: With Minnie - though she doesn't tend to in Mickey's shorts she runs into a fair amount of slapstick in her own cartoons. Daisy, however, is almost never on the receiving end, though not out of isolation from the comedy; that itself is part the joke as her character in the shorts tends to be "[[PoisonousFriend obliviously annoying kook who gets her friends into trouble]] [[KarmaHoudini while totally avoiding consequences.]]"

* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The animatronic parrot on the pinball machine in "Mickey's Pinball" is clearly a three-dimensional computer model masked with cel shading.

* ScalingTheSummit: "Mickey's Mountain" has Mickey and Pete racing on Unnamed Mountain to rename it (Mickey wants to name it after Minnie, while Pete want to name it after himself). At the end, it turns out that Minnie made it first, having taken a ski lift.

* ShockAndSwitchEnding: In "Topsy-Turvy Town", it looks like as if the executioner is about to chop Mickey and Minnie's heads off as part of their punishment for breaking the titular town's rules, but then it turns out he was only cutting some lemons for two glasses of ice cold drinks and said "punishment" is a luxurious beach vacation spot. Mickey and Minnie are both perfectly fine with this.

* ShockAndSwitchEnding: In "Topsy-Turvy Town", it looks like as if the executioner is about to chop Mickey and Minnie's heads off as part of their punishment for breaking the titular town's rules, but then it turns out he was only cutting some lemons for two glasses of ice cold lemonade and said "punishment" is a luxurious beach vacation spot. Mickey and Minnie are both perfectly fine with this.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Minnie, Daisy, and Clarabelle in "Ladies' Night" all host the club together while Mickey, Donald and Goofy are out on a bowling night. Daisy's nieces April, May and June even take over for Donald's nephews' performance.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Minnie, Daisy, and Clarabelle in "Ladies Night".

** "Mickey's Piano Lesson" also has a bizarre dream sequence of Mickey having to deal with sentient music notes and a giant piano monster.

** In ''Mickey's Remedy'', Mickey reminds Huey, Dewey and Louie that if they don't change their ways, they'll end up going to "[[{{Hell}} The Bad Place]]". Similarly, in "Hickory Dickory Mickey", he delivers the alarm clock to "Hades" before spawning back at the bedside table with hints of fire.