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"Dennis the Duck" is the twenty-sixth episode of House of Mouse, it originally aired on ABC on May 18, 2002. It is notably the last episode to air on Disney's One Saturday Morning before the show moved to Disney Channel and Toon Disney.

Synopsis[]

It's Black-and-White Day at the House of Mouse, and the club is packed with old black and white cartoon characters. Donald doesn't think that black-and-white cartoons are funny, but Daisy thinks they are, with one particular favorite black-and-white cartoon character being Dennis the Duck, who arrives soon later. He tries to impress Donald with his "have-a-sandwich" routine, where the smacks his victims with a black-and-white sandwich. Daisy thinks it's funny, but Donald is less than impressed. In the meantime, Mickey shows the audience an old cartoon during the rubber-hose days.

Mickey later has the Rubber Hose band he hired to entertain the guests as he plays a clip of another old cartoon while Dennis continues to follow Donald and try to impress him with his sandwich routine. Having had enough, the annoyed colored duck exclaims that he doesn't think Dennis is funny, so Dennis dejectedly leaves Donald alone. Donald feels bad at first for upsetting Dennis, but he brushes it off as he sits in a chair. Daisy tells Donald that Dennis is his biggest fan and she hopes that Donald didn't upset the poor duckling. Mickey then shows another cartoon.

Mickey and Minnie ask Donald if he's seen Dennis anywhere, to which the colored duck denies. Mickey tells Donald that Dennis is the president, vice-president, and treasurer of the Donald Duck fan club, as well as the only member. An exasperated Donald agrees to look for Dennis, and he finds him trying to suicide by erasing himself. Donald tries to stop him and performs the sandwich routine on himself in order to make Dennis laugh, but the black-and-white duck says you're not supposed to hit yourself with the sandwich. Donald then hits Daisy with a sandwich, and he finds it funny with Dennis. The two ducks reconcile as Mickey closes the show.

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Accommodations for today's black and white toons provided by: "Inkwell Springs Resort"

Trivia[]

  • The guest character, Dennis the Duck, is most likely a reference to the prototype version of Donald seen in the 1931 poem More HooZoo, character design-wise.
    • He very likely served as a stand-in for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Walt Disney's first ever cartoon star of the 1920s, which was still under ownership of Universal and therefore didn't have the rights to at the time this show came out. Co-incidentally, Disney would successfully regain the rights to use Oswald from Universal for the first time since the 1920s in 2006.
    • Despite being billed as a classic cartoon character, Dennis the Duck is in fact not and was a parody of classic cartoon characters created specifically for the House of Mouse.
  • The goat that was in the Rubber Hose Band was fed the music sheets and had its tail turned like a crank to start the music, just like the one in Steamboat Willie.
    • In addition, the music that the Rubber Hose Band perform is "Turkey in the Straw", which is also from that same cartoon.
  • This episode has a dark moment in which Dennis tries to erase himself only to be saved by Donald. This is close to a suicide attempt, which is rather a dark moment for a show like this.
  • The animation of Mickey arriving onstage in his Steamboat Willie design was reused "Not So Goofy".

Censorship[]

In the B&W Mickey Mouse cartoon "The Whopee Party", there is a stereotypical scene in which matches burn themselves, which they then appear as if they have blackface, and then they say "Mammy". In this episode, this blackface matches gag is edited with repeated footage of the dancing matches plastered over it.

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Media
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Characters
Main Characters: Mickey MouseMinnie MouseDonald DuckDaisy DuckGoofyPlutoPeteMax GoofHuey, Dewey, and LouieClarabelle CowHorace HorsecollarGus GooseMortimer MouseLudwig Von DrakeMicrophone MikeChip and Dale

Recurring Guests: TimonPumbaaJafarIagoHadesMushuCri-KeeArielPrince EricKing TritonFlounderSebastianPeter PanTinker BellJiminy CricketPinocchioGeppettoBlue FairyBelleBeastLumiereCogsworthMrs. PottsChip PottsGastonLeFouDumboTimothy Q. MouseMad HatterMowgliShere KhanThe Three Little Pigs Cruella De VilChernabogMufasaSimbaGrumpyThe Evil QueenMagic MirrorAladdinJasmineCinderellaAnastasia TremaineDrizella TremaineLuciferMaleficentPain and PanicUrsulaBaby ShelbyGoat ManEmperor Kuzco

Episodes
Season One: "The Stolen Cartoons" • "Big Bad Wolf Daddy" • "The Three Caballeros" • "Goofy's Valentine Date" • "Unplugged Club" • "Timon and Pumbaa" • "Gone Goofy" • "Jiminy Cricket" • "Rent Day" • "Donald's Lamp Trade" • "Donald's Pumbaa Prank" • "Thanks to Minnie" • "Pluto Saves the Day"

Season Two: "Daisy's Debut" • "Goofy for a Day" • "Clarabelle's Big Secret" • "The Mouse Who Came to Dinner" • "Max's New Car" • "Not So Goofy" • "Everybody Loves Mickey" • "Max's Embarrassing Date" • "Where's Minnie?" • "Super Goof" • "King Larry Swings In" • "Ladies' Night" • "Dennis the Duck"
Season Three: "Suddenly Hades" • "Pete's One-Man Show" • "House of Crime" • "Mickey and Minnie's Big Vacation" • "Donald and the Aracuan Bird" • "Goofy's Menu Magic" • "Music Day" • "House of Scrooge" • "Donald Wants to Fly" • "Dining Goofy" • "Chip 'n' Dale" • "Humphrey in the House" • "Ask Von Drake" • "Salute to Sports" • "Pluto vs. Figaro" • "House of Magic" • "Mickey vs. Shelby" • "House of Turkey" • "Pete's Christmas Caper" • "Clarabelle's Christmas List" •"Snow Day" • "Pete's House of Villains" • "Halloween With Hades" • "House Ghosts" • "House of Genius" • "Mickey and the Culture Clash"

Songs
Rockin' at the House of MouseMortimer MouseSoup or Salad, Fries or Biscuits, Extra Olives, DonutsBibbidi-Bobbidi-BooBig Bad Wolf DaddyA Parrot's Life for MeLet's Slay the BeastThe Ludwig Von Drake SongIt's Our House Now!The Best Christmas of AllGrim Grinning GhostsHumphrey HopEverybody Wants to Be a WoofI Wanna Be Like M-O-YouPink Elephants on ParadeMy Name is PanchitoBoom-Da-BoomWe Are the Three CaballerosMe the Mouse (and I'm the Duck) (Reprise) • Daisy CrockettThe Daisy Duckie RoomMinnie Mouse (in the House)
Locations
House of Mouse (night club)Toontown
Objects
Maleficent's StaffPoisoned AppleSorcerer HatJafar's Snake Staff
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