Mickey Mouse in Living Color

Mickey enters Pluto into a dog show, and the two are out of place from the get-go. Pluto is in awe of a female dog, and his behavior is not near worthy of a ribbon of any kind. The two are thrown out, but when a fire breaks out, Pluto makes a heroic save of the object of his affection. This is the only short in the set with the old look of Mickey Mouse, most notably the entirely black eyes.

Mickey and Pluto go hunting, and when the dog screws things up, Mickey gets really mad. But Mickey can't stay mad at him, and they give hunting another try. While birds pluck hairs from Pluto, Mickey stirs the wrath of a massive brown bear.

Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are together on a ship and sustaining misadventures with the boat's ware. The short runs entirely on sight gags, which may or may not be a good thing, depending on your tastes.

As he does any time there's questionable material, Leonard Maltin pops up with an introduction (which can easily be skipped) warning about dialect humor in this short. This entertaining cartoon features a magic lamp which houses a wise-cracking genie inside. The genie proceeds to build a doghouse for Pluto. Things go awry when the genie takes what he hears on the radio as instructions. This short is also on the Escape to Witch Mountain DVD, without the warning.

Maltin again pops up to tell that Mickey's Native American impersonation in this short is not done with malice. Mickey and Pluto are looking to hitch a ride to the Redwood Forest. But train conductor Pete throws them off as part of a "No Dog" policy. They get back on board and try to outwit Pete, in a number of amusing ways.

Drawn in by the scent of Minnie's cake baking, Mickey offers to clean her yard. Things are going just fine until the title character, a tiny tornado, makes work a bit more challenging for Mickey. They duel, and the little whirlwind comes back with a huge friend.

Maltin comes on here to let us know that "there is nothing funny about drunkenness." And that the vaudeville film "Father, Dear Father" that Mickey and Minnie watch in this short is making fun of melodramas, not alcoholism. Next is Fred and Ward (an obvious homage to Disney animators Fred Moore and Ward Kimball) who dance and tell jokes. Then Mickey and Minnie go for a ride around town in a primitive motorcar

A group of orphans are treated to a benefit concert. Donald Duck bombs trying to reciting poems. Clarabell Cow and Goofy do a dance number that goes wrong and draws laughs. Next, Mickey plays the piano while Madam Clara Cluck clucks. Meanwhile, the audience of orphans gets exceedingly rowdy with Donald.

Minnie and the gang throw a surprise birthday party for Mickey. They give him an organ, which Minnie plays while Mickey dances. Everyone starts dancing, including Goofy while he bakes in the kitchen.

In a 27-second introduction, Mr. Maltin again warns about dialect humor and how rather than shelf a cartoon like this, we should watch it and realize "how far we've come today." The Maltin intro (which is skippable) is certainly favorable to redubbing a la "Tom & Jerry." In this case, the content in question is Pete playing Mr. Macaroni, a thick-accented Italian who is sponsoring a symphony orchestra conducted by Mickey. With Mr. Macaroni sitting in the Sponsor's Booth and dreaming of money, Mickey takes the symphony through a successful rehearsal. When the day of the concert arrives, though, Goofy has an elevator mishap and all the instruments are ruined. The Macaroni Symphony Hour is a disaster, and Sylvester Macaroni is not pleased, until he hears the audience's reaction.

It's the night of the big dance and Mickey's dozing in his chair. Agitated, Minnie calls and wakes him up. Reminded of his date, Mickey must get ready in a hurry, and Pluto tries to help. Getting there is quite the adventure for Mickey, but he lucks out and gets by with a little help from his dog. A light-hearted, fun little short.

Mickey ventures down to Australia, with Pluto and a red boomerang. While Pluto mixes it up with the boomerang, Mickey takes an egg from a massive ostrich.

After a day of feeding the seals at the zoo, Mickey is surprised to see that one of them has gone home with him. The baby seal bathes with Mickey, and has Pluto in a mad rush to tell Mickey.

Maltin makes a warning about gun play in his brief intro to this short. Mickey and Pluto stay in a cabin, where the rules say all dogs must be leashed and muzzled. A frustrated Pluto gets his revenge in his dreams. That cat that took his dinner becomes his personal servant and cook, and Pluto can sit on a royal bed and eat all day long.

Pluto chases a raccoon, who he 'sees' with his nose. That's about all that happens, save for the clever way that the raccoon gets away. This is one of a few shorts in which Mickey's role is small and secondary to his dog.

Pluto is excited about his birthday party. Mickey makes him clean up before having any cake. The guests arrive, and give Pluto a present he doesn't expect. There's a round of "Pin the Tail on Pluto" and the guests eat all of Pluto's cake. But Mickey comes to the rescue in a sweet little ending.

Mickey and Pluto go looking for a Christmas tree, and they encounter Chip and Dale. Little do they know that the tree they cut down is Chip and Dale's home. Mischief ensues between the two chipmunks and Pluto.

Mickey and Pluto take a trip to the beach, and as the formula goes, the dog gets into mishaps that he is unable to explain to Mickey. In this instance, it's a testy clam. Then Mickey goes fishing, but seagulls eat all the bait, and just generally spoil the holiday for the duo

After thirty years with no new big screen material, Mickey returned in this featurette-length condensed adaptation of Charles Dickens' immortal classic A Christmas Carol. Scrooge McDuck is a natural choice to play the role of Ebenezer Scrooge, a grouchy miser who loves money and hates Christmas. Mickey plays Bob Cratchit, Scrooge's hard-working and under-appreciated secretary.

Seven years after Christmas Carol, Disney saw fit to make a new half-hour featurette adapted from a classic piece of literature. The source this time was Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, a tongue-in-cheek tale of class-switching and mistaken identity. With the King of England ill, his captain of the guard (Pete, of course) is robbing and terrorizing the people in the king's name.

Though this short returned to the traditional length of classic Mickey shorts, as Maltin states in the intro, "this is not your father's Mickey and Minnie." It opens with Mickey playing a video game in which Snow White's Dopey is beating up on the Wicked Witch with some high-powered jump kicks, which certainly sets the pace and tone of this piece.