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"Oh my goose down! You're naked in public! What is wrong with you?!"
Daisy (to Donald)

"No Service" is the first season 1 short (and one of the two Grand Premiere shorts) of the new Mickey Mouse (2013) series created by Paul Rudish for the Disney Channel and Disney.com. It's the first to air on the Disney Channel while it's the second to be put up on Disney.com.

Mickey and Donald arrive at a beach boardwalk, where they're expecting Minnie and Daisy to meet up with them for lunch but Goofy's Snack Shack has a Dress Code that won't let either in. When Mickey is left bare, he must avoid being seen until Donald finishes.


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  • Behind a Stick: How Mickey hides from Minnie and Daisy. Exaggerated when he walks behind a wrought iron fence with only his ears and feet visible.
  • Bowdlerise: The digital comic adaptation of this short cut out a lot of the scenes where Mickey desperately tried to hide his nudity and replaced the "Look at those hot buns" innuendo with Mickey saying "This is takin' way too long!"
  • Company Cross References: The letters "DMV" on Mickey's I.D. are written in a font called "Started by a Mouse", which is the same font used primarily for Disneyland.
  • Drawing Straws: Or rather, feathers.
  • Dress Code: Of the "No shirts, no shoes, no service" variety.
  • The Freelance Shame Squad: Mickey saved himself from this when he regained his clothes (and got Donald's as well). Donald ended the episode being chased by one of those squads.
  • Hypocritical Humor:
    • Goofy enforces the dress code because he wants to run a "classy establishment." He says this while swatting a bug and flipping food with the same spatula. And at the end when a naked Donald is fleeing from a laughing crowd, he says to himself: "Some people ain't got no class!" while scratching his belly button.
    • Donald after laughing and taunting Mickey says "That's not funny!" when Mickey starts taunting him right back.
  • "Oh, Crap!" Smile: Donald once he realized the I.D. he gave Goofy was Mickey's.
  • Out-of-Character Moment: Nice Guy Goofy is a bit grumpy in this short. He also doesn't seem to recognize Mickey or Donald. Though this is probably just a case of Goofy receiving the "George Geef" treatment by him getting cast in random roles. Plus, Goofy often was grumpy in some of his classic shorts, too, especially in the '40s, '50s and '60s ones (i.e., "Motor Mania", in which Goofy plays an average suburbanite who is an entirely different person once behind the wheel).
  • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: When Goofy sees that Donald's I.D. is really Mickey's, he angrily says to him, "That. Ain't. You.", and kicks him out.
  • Title Drop: Given when Goofy yells at Mickey and Donald his "No shirt, no shoes, no service" policy.
  • Troll: Donald made every effort to make Mickey feel embarrassed when he was naked.
    Donald: [pointing to Goofy toasting hamburger buns on the grill, but directing his comment at Mickey hiding outside] Look at those hot buns!
    Goofy: Yeah! I like to rub those buns with olive oil so's they don't get burned.
    Mickey: [to Donald] You're a riot.
  • Unsound Effect: When Mickey notices that he's naked, he runs off-screen with a "Streak" visual sound effect.
  • Urine Trouble: One of the things Mickey hides behind to conceal his nudity is a dog. He ends up having to change hiding places when the dog starts to leave its mark on a hydrant.

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