"Safari, So Good" is the 7th episode of Season 5 of the new Mickey Mouse (2013) series created by Paul Rudish for the Disney Channel and Disney.com. It's the 84th in the series.
Mickey and Minnie venture through Africa's Serengeti after missing the bus back to their hometown.
Tropes:
- Balloon Belly: Mickey and Minnie when they drink up an entire watering hole.
- Cuteness Proximity: Minnie hugs a dik-dik... and accidentally saves it from a leaping cheetah.
- Eek, a Mouse!!: A mother elephant reacts this way toward Mickey and Minnie. Also serves as a Furry Reminder.Mickey: My friends call me Mickey!
- Everything Is an Instrument: Minnie plays a wildebeest's horn like a saxophone, and Mickey plays a hippo's bottom teeth like a piano.
- Friend to All Living Things: Played for Laughs. Mickey and Minnie adore wild animals and their habitats, but their ideas of "fun", end up abusing the animals in a variety of ways, causing them to run away.
- Lame Pun Reaction: A pack of hyenas stop laughing when Mickey tells a lame joke.
- Mythology Gag:
- Much of the music is reminiscent of The Lion King (1994).
- The baby elephant resembles Bobo from the classic short Mickey's Elephant.
- Mickey and Minnie using animals as musical instruments is a throwback to Steamboat Willie.
- When Mickey and Minnie repaint the animals, a cheetah is given the stripes and color scheme of the Cheshire Cat.
- Obliviously Evil: Mickey and Minnie are completely unaware of how miserable their antics are making the wildlife.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Mickey and Minnie propose staying in the African plain forever, the wild animals pile into the bus and escape.
