"The Scariest Story Ever" is a special installment of the new Mickey Mouse (2013) series created by Paul Rudish for the Disney Channel and Disney.com. It's the 67th to air on the Disney Channel and be put up on Disney.com, but was released earlier on DVD and the DisneyNow app.
On Halloween night, Mickey tries to weave a scary Halloween story to his and Donald's nephews.
This short marks Russi Taylor's final performance of Huey, Dewey, and Louie before her passing in the Summer of 2019.
Tropes:
- And Then John Was a Zombie: The second story ends with Mickey becoming a vampire. The others are unimpressed, however, as they all saw it coming.
- Berserk Button: The thing that causes Mickey to snap and traumatize everyone with his third story? The kids making fun of his lederhosen.
- Beware the Nice Ones: When the boys start making fun of Mickey for not being able to tell a scary story, he decides to get down to brass tacks.Mickey: Grrrr... SIT!!
- The Bus Came Back: This special marks the first appearance of Mickey's nephews, Morty and Ferdie, in the series and their first major appearance in animation since their roles as Tiny Tim and Peter Cratchit in Mickey's Christmas Carol.
- The Cameo:
- Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, The Headless Horseman and Chernabog appear briefly during the opening sequence.
- The third story features cameos by Clara Cluck and Dirty Bill from the Silly Symphony short The Robber Kitten.
- Cliché Storm: The first two stories Mickey tells are based on Frankenstein and Dracula and have the usual horror story tropes, which is why they don't scare the boys.
- Continuity Nod: Mickey's costume is his Swiss outfit from "Yodelberg".
- Crapsaccharine World: After Goofy points out that Mickey is too much of a nice guy to tell a straight up scary story, Mickey decides to use this kind of setting in his last tale. It works.
- Cutting the Knot: In the second story, whenever the protagonists come across an obstacle to the vampire's lair such as a maze or a locked door, Donald's character simply uses his baseball bat to smash through it.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: In Mickey's third story the kids act like drug addicts going through withdrawal after eating the pie, tweaking out and trying to lick the last remaining crumbs of themselves, each other and the floor.
- Deranged Animation: When the witch reveals herself in Mickey's third story.
- Downer Ending: Mickey's third story involving the witch who bakes pies of naughty kids ends with Huey (just barely) failing to escape the witch's clutches and baked into a pie like his brothers and friends. But on the bright side, this ending does seal the deal with scaring the living hell out of the boys.
- Dungeon Bypass: In the second story, Donald bursts his way through maze made of bones by running straight through it while wielding a bat.
- Follow Your Nose: Grannyʼs pie does this; the scent is purple-colored, and it tickles the boy's fancy.
- Framing Device: The special actually consists of three stories told by Mickey.
- Gone Horribly Right: Mickey does end up succeeding in telling an actual scary story to his and Donald's nephews—however, the story turns out to be so scary that it not only scares the nephews, but also Donald, Goofy and eventually Mickey himself when he witness the witch herself who is actually Minnie in costume shows up to his house. The eight spend the rest of the night hiding under the covers.
- Halloween Episode: A full-length one, much like "Duck the Halls".
- Innocent Innuendo: At first it seems that Ferdie was so scared by Mickey's story that he is wetting his pants. Then the camera pulls back to reveal that he is just actually crying really hard.
- Let's Split Up, Gang!: In Mickey's final story, the boys split up in the old lady's house to find the pie.Goofy: DON'T SPLIT UP! (shakes Donald) WHY DO THEY ALWAYS DO THAT?!
- Mood Whiplash: Invoked. After two failed attempts at scary stories, Mickey just kinda...snaps, and his third story is a lot darker.
- The first story ends with a cheery musical number.
- Mythology Gag:
- Goofy is dressed as Super Goof.
- Huey, Dewey and Louie are wearing the Halloween costumes they wore in the classic short Trick or Treat (and it's confirmed Huey is the one dressed as the Devil, Dewey the Warlock, and Louie the ghost). The town is also designed to resemble the one from the same short.
- Goofy tells Mickey that he can't be scary because he "comes from the happiest place on Earth."
- Never Trust a Trailer: The promos show Mickey scaring the nephews by using candy corn as fangs, when in the actual episode, that was actually after the second story which the nephews didn’t like, and they’re actually scared at the aftermath of the final story.
- Real After All: Subverted. The witch from Mickey's last story seemingly appears at his front door, but it was just Minnie in a costume.
- Safe Under Blankets: Mickey tells a scary story about a witch that bakes children into pies, which terrifies his and Donald's nephews, as well as Donald and Goofy, and makes them all run upstairs and hide under the covers. When Mickey thinks he sees the witch from his story at his door (actually Minnie in costume), he goes up and joins them.
- Scary Flashlight Face: Donald does this when he tries to tell a scary story.
- The Secret of Long Pork Pies: In the third story, the old lady is a witch who makes pies out of naughty little children.
- Shout-Out: In the opening scene, a group of kids are dressed as the Lost Boys from Peter Pan.
- Throat Light: In the third story, the kids' eyes and mouths light up after consuming the extremely delicious pie.
- Tiny-Headed Behemoth: The first story features a hulking Frankenstein Monster with Mickey's head.
- Wild Take: Several; the most extreme one being when Mickey screams and his head goes through the roof.
