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  • Acting for Two:
    • By reusing archived dialogue from his original appearances, Sterling Holloway is able to voice The Cheshire Cat, Kaa, and Winnie the Pooh in the same short.
    • The performance of James Macdonald is likewise reused for both Jaq and Gus.
    • Frank Welker noises are used (probably reused) for Abu and Joanna.
    • Bill Farmer, as usual, is both Goofy and Pluto.
    • Jim Meskimen plays both Merlin and Eeyore.
    • In the big musical number, both Baloo and Pooh are sung by Jim Cummings.
    • The Latin Spanish dub has several actors voicing different characters.
      • Arturo Mercado Jr. voices both Mickey Mouse and Prince Charming.
      • Mario Filio voices both Goofy and Wreck-It Ralph.
      • Héctor Emmanuel Gómez voices both Peter Pan and Aladdin.
      • José Gilberto Vilchis voices Kristoff and Kuzco, while Jiminy Cricket is sung by him.
      • Ricardo Tejedo voices three characters: The Mad Hatter, Carl and Iago.
      • Luis Leonardo Suárez voices Timon and J. Thaddeus Toad.
      • In the case of Romina Marroquín Payró, she voices four characters: Judy Hopps, Anna, Rapunzel and Raya. In the big musical number, Minnie is even sung by her.
      • In the big musical number, both Snow White and Mulan are sung by Maggie Vera.
  • Blooper: When Tigger pounces Pooh near the end, the White Rabbit is standing off to the side, in his regular clothes. However, during the group shot (literally the very next shot), he's now in his more royal attire that he wears in the 2nd half of Alice in Wonderland.
  • Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: The official audio description track on Disney+ calls Elliot from Pete's Dragon "Pete the Dragon".
  • Creator Cameo: Directors Trent Correy and Dan Abraham are among the artists leaving work for the day, holding open the door for Burny and the intern.
  • Deleted Scene: Some storyboarded scenes that were later cut include:
  • Descended Creator: In addition to serving as director of hand-drawn animation, Eric Goldberg animated a few characters, including the Genie, and several Ward Kimball characters such as the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, Pecos Bill and Widowmaker.
  • Dueling Works: Rival studio Warner Bros. also released a centennial animated crossover special with the Teen Titans Go! episode "Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary".
  • Early-Bird Release: Two days before its television premiere, the film debuted in theaters when it accompanied a two-week limited re-release of Moana, the climax of a months-long Disney100 screening series. It was also shown as part of Destination D23 at the Contemporary Resort in Walt Disney World.
  • Exiled from Continuity: There were a number of characters excluded due to this trope:
    • Many of the more dated characters from the pre-Civil Rights era were excluded such as Dumbo's crow friends and Tiger Lily. This goes double for the Br’ers; no characters from that movie whatsoever appear.
    • Characters from several 1930s films where Disney provided animation services, but were otherwise done by other companies not owned by Disney. As Disney was quite minuscule back then, the legal rights to these old films and characters more likely lie with those who own the films. On that note, Walt Disney Animation Studios also had done commercials, Public Service Announcements, and educational films; no representatives of those appear in the film.
    • Both Merida and Roger Rabbit and his pals had been briefly animated by Walt Disney Animation Studios, but are legally considered to be Pixar and Amblin characters respectively. With Roger and pals, they're co-owned by Steven Spielberg.
    • Pre-Pete characters like Julius the Cat; while they are in the Public Domain, so there were no issues using them, the studio proper didn't exist when they were created, instead being "Laugh-O-Gram Studios". Additionally, one of the biggest stars of that period, Alice herself, was live-action (though she had been briefly animated in low detail).
      • Julius' absence can possibly be chalked up to legal reasons, as he was specifically designed (because of Executive Meddling and against Walt's wishes) to closely resemble Felix the Cat. An illustration of Julius in the book "Mickey and the Gang: Classic Stories in Verse" repainted him green to avoid legal issues with the owners of Felix. Of course, it's not like they couldn't have colored him green for this short.
  • First Appearance: Of Asha, who would eventually become the protagonist of Wish.
  • Harpo Does Something Funny: Josh Gad ad libbed the line "It's all in the wrist."
  • In Memoriam: This film is dedicated to Burny Mattinson, who played himself at the beginning of the film and died just months shy of celebrating his 70th year with the company.
  • Late Export for You: Possibly due to reasons regarding the casting,note  Japan had to wait until December 15, 2023 to get a dubbed version of the short, which debuted along with the Japanese dub of Wish.
  • Meaningful Release Date: The short's release date on Disney+ was October 16, 2023, the exact date as Disney's 100th anniversary.
  • Milestone Celebration: This is a tribute to Disney Animation's 100th anniversary. It could also be seen as a 95th anniversary short for Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
  • The Original Darrin:
  • The Other Darrin: Strangely common in the original English track. Of all of the pre-Renaissance characters who have newly-recorded dialogue in the short, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Cinderella, and Pooh are the only characters to be voiced by the actor who typically plays them.
    • Rather than being voiced by Bret Iwan, Chris Diamantopoulos voices Mickey Mouse this time (though it also doubles as a Role Reprise from the newer TV cartoons).
    • The Mad Hatter is voiced by Alan Tudyk rather than his official current voice actor, Corey Burton. This not only allows Tudyk to keep up his string of Disney Animation appearances, but also calls back to his performance as King Candy, where he deliberately invoked the original performance of Ed Wynn as the Hatter.
    • Another Burton character, Grumpy, is played by Josh Robert Thompson.
    • Piotr Michael replaces the late Gilbert Gottfried as Iago. He also replaces Barrett Leddy, who had voiced Iago in LEGO Disney Princess: The Castle Quest.
    • Jess Harnell replaces Chris Edgerly as Scuttle.
    • Eeyore and Merlin are voiced by Jim Meskimen, rather than either Peter Cullen, Gregg Berger, Brad Garrett or Bud Luckey for the former, and the latter's official current voice actor Jeff Bennett.
    • Bob Joles replaces the late David Ogden Stiers as Cogsworth.
    • Baloo is voiced by Jim Cummings, rather than Joel McCrary (Baloo's regular voice actor since 2003).
    • Keith Ferguson replaces Christopher Daniel Barnes as Prince Charming.
    • With previous voice actors having hit puberty (and that Pinocchio's original voice actor Dick Jones has passed away), Griffen Campbell and Luke Lowe voice Pinocchio and Flounder.
    • As Phil Harris had passed away decades prior, Richard Epcar takes over as Little John.
    • Lee Slobotkin replaces Blayne Weaver as Peter Pan.
    • Natalie Babbitt Taylor replaces Katie von Till as Snow White.
      • However, Katie von Till and Linda Larkin (Jasmine's main VA) provided additional voices.
    • Due to Brian Bedford's passing in 2016, Daniel Woolf takes over as Robin Hood.
    • In the Italian dub:
    • In the Japanese dub:
    • In the Latin Spanish dub:
  • Posthumous Credit:
    • By reusing much of the character's dialogues from their respective films (or in the case of Robin Williams as The Genie, unused dialogue he had previously recorded), many of the actors are able to appear in the special long after their deaths, such as Pat Carroll as Ursula, Sterling Holloway as Winnie the Pooh, Kaa, and the Cheshire Cat, Bobby Driscoll as Peter Pan, and Clarence "Ducky" Nash as Donald Duck.
    • The Castilian dub also reused archived dialogues from some of the characters through their films' Latin American dubs, whose actors also are long dead. Nicky Tavares as Peter Pan, Pablo Palitos as Jiminy Cricket, Alberto Gavira as Merlin, Serena Olvido as Ursula and Guadalupe Noel as Flora.
  • Role Reprise:
  • Spoiled by the Merchandise: The climactic group photo was shared on social media by a few Disney cast members that received a commemorative lithograph of the scene as a gift.
  • Two Voices, One Character: Via a combination of new dialogue recorded by their current actors as well as reusing old dialogue from previous projects, some of the Disney characters have two voices. This includes:
  • Uncredited Role: For some reason, only two voices in the short are uncredited, those of Elliott and Cody, who appear together. Both are voiced by archive audio from their original appearance.
  • Voices in One Room: The choral part of When You Wish Upon a Star that plays when the Magic Brooms, Fix-It Felix, Hercules and the Fairy Godmother help Goofy with the camera, the ladder and the shot was recorded by the additional voice actors in one big group.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • According to a production brief file for the short, an early version was going to be about Disneyland rides coming to life but was quickly decided on the photos on the wall at the Roy E. Disney Animation Building coming to life.
    • A lot of the employees at Disney got a request form during the film's production and many of the requests wanted Alan Tudyk's characters to be in a room together because they all love him. However, it was scrapped due to Alan only voicing one character in the short (The Mad Hatter), according to this article.
    • Ariel was originally going to just be seen in the ladies' room combing her hair with her "dinglehopper" with no lines, but the directors decided not to let Jodi Benson's voice go to waste, even putting Ariel's Beautiful Singing Voice to good use during the finale.
    • Chernabog was going to be cut from the short film due to his size being as big as a mountain thus being hard to faithfully fit him inside a building. However, Chernabog still got to appear in the short during a gag scene rather than joining in the group photo due to an idea from Dan Abraham.
    • When deciding how Mickey and his friends would look in the film, the creators thought of having each character designed as they did at a certain point in time (i.e., Goofy being rendered in his 1932 "Dippy Dawg" design). It was soon decided to have them appear as they did in Mickey's Birthday Party for the sake of uniformity with Mickey.
    • The short was originally going to be attached theatrically to Wish (hence Asha appearing in the finale) instead of Moana; until Disney began bundling Wish and Once Upon a Studio on home media, the only country that saw them together was Japan. According to Jennifer Lee, this was because the studio wanted to release the short closer to the actual centennial date; among all the movies re-released during Disney100, Moana happened to be the one running in American theaters on that date.
    • One concept had some of the characters taking selfies with their phones, but then it was decided it wouldn't be as special if they were gathering for the family portrait.
    • In the concept art with Rapunzel in the group selfie and when she's elbowing Flynn to cut him off when he asks whose idea was it to have Goofy take the photo scrapped scene, she has her long hair which was changed to the braided look for the short itself.
    • One scene would have had Bagheera, Jim Hawkins, Bongo (on a unicycle), Jasmine and Lady and the Tramp walking down a hallway before Cinderella and Prince Charming show up. The scene was replaced with Ursula and Splat while Jim Hawkins got his scene with Sisu and Lady and the Tramp appearing during "When You Wish Upon a Star".
    • Scrooge, Robin Hood and Little John's appearance would been different with Captain Hook (looking at a ruby on his hook) and Mr. Smee walking past Scrooge's portrait. Scrooge then jumps out and follows them, followed by Robin Hood and Little John leaning out of their portraits, grabbing some sacks of money from Scrooge's portrait and tapping them together.
  • Working Title: A Picture is Worth 100 Years.
  • If someone does not count the The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh characters as also representing Winnie the Pooh (2011), this is the only Disney Animated Canon film to not be represented — Christopher Robin has his classic design rather than his unique 2011 incarnation and the sole character to debut in the 2011 film, the Backson, does not appear.

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