This show aired from 1999 to 2000 and was designed to replicate the golden age of Disney animated shorts. After a little research, I learned that the three other shorts - a retelling of The Nutcracker starring Minnie Donald entering an ice skating race and Mickey creatively decorating his house - all came from a Disney series called Mickey Mouse Works. While Mickey’s Christmas Carol and Pluto’s Christmas Tree are on Disney Plus, the other three shorts are mysteriously absent. I thought maybe I could cobble together a DIY version of the special, at least, using the shorts that are available on Disney Plus - but only two of them are! Hey, what gives, Disney? Image: Disney The special itself is available to rent for $7.99 on YouTube and Prime Video, but the fact that it wasn’t readily available on Disney Plus, a service I am already paying for, irked me. Unfortunately, not a single episode of House of Mouse is on Disney Plus. When Disney Plus debuted, I was thrilled - I could finally spend the holidays watching my beloved childhood favorite. ![]() Eventually, our VHS player broke and our viewings transitioned to DVD… till that DVD player broke and the Christmas special lived on in memory only. To me, the Ghost of Christmas Past will always be Jiminy Cricket, and Uncle Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker will always sound vaguely like Ludwig von Drake. All other adaptations of those stories will always pale in comparison to my first time. Snowed in at the House of Mouse was not just my first exposure to various classic Mickey Mouse shorts, but also my first exposure to classic Christmas stories like A Christmas Carol and The Nutcracker. While Mickey is happy to play host for longer, Donald is in a grumpy anti-Christmas mood for an unspecified reason, so to cheer him up, the gang decides to play their favorite Christmas shorts. The Christmas special, as the name implies, takes place on a night when all the guests are snowed in. But the important thing was the fact that all the characters were hanging out and watching them together. Some of these shorts were created specifically for the show, while others came from Disney history. ![]() ![]() That was the biggest gimmick of House of Mouse, a Disney Channel animated show centered on Mickey and his friends running a dinner theater club - the fact that characters from across various Disney animated properties attended the club and watched various Disney shorts. Grumpy and the rest of the dwarves wishing for bunk beds for Christmas? Phenomenal filmmaking, cinema at its finest. Jasmine and Aladdin flying in on a magic carpet? Fantastic. This was, of course, before I knew that fanfiction was a thing, so just seeing a mega crossover thrilled me. Growing up, nothing matched the high of seeing all my favorite Disney characters come together at the end of Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse to sing “The Best Christmas of All” together around a beautifully lit Christmas tree.
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