Mickey's Surprise Party (1939)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Release Date:

18 February 1939 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Short

Plot:

Minnie is baking cookies. When she leaves for a short while, her dog Fifi accidentally drops popcorn kernels in the dough...

Plot Keywords:

Fifi | Pluto | Minnie Mouse | Mickey Mouse | Character Name In Title

Cast

Walt Disney	...	Mickey Mouse (voice)
Marcellite Garner	...	Minnie Mouse (voice)

Runtime:

USA:5 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivia:

Produced for the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco) to show at the 1939 World's Fair.

Quotes:

Minnie: I wanted to make them the way your mother did.
Mickey: Aw, my mother used to burn the whole batch all the time!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Kingdom Hearts II (2005) (VG)

Well-done commercial

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

This short film (Easter egg on Mickey in Colors, vol. 2 - not to be confused with Mickey's Birthday Party) features just a little party between Minnie (who wants to bake cookies like his mother did) and Mickey (plus Pluto and Minnie's dog).

The cookie-baking goes bad, but to make Minnie happy, Mickey and Pluto go shopping, and return with a variety of Nabisco products for mice and dogs "like Mickey's mother used to buy" (because her home-baked cookies also always burnt to charcoal...)

After all, this is just a commercial, but quite nicely done, and even the Nabisco product exhibit has its museum-like charm, 70 years later. The Oreo packaging hasn't changed that much...