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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is a children's television series, that premiered in prime time on Disney Channel on May 5, 2006. The program is part of the Playhouse Disney daily block of shows intended for preschoolers.

Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy and Pluto star in this series, which focuses in on interacting with the viewer to stimulate problem solving. Ludwig Von Drake, Chip 'n Dale, Black Pete, Mr. Pettibone, Willie the Giant, Clarabelle Cow, Butch, Figaro the Kitten and Mortimer Mouse have guest starred in the series so far.

Each episode has the characters help viewers "solve a specific age-appropriate problem utilizing basic skills, such as identifying shapes and counting through ten." The series uses Playhouse Disney’s "whole child" curriculum of cognitive, social and creative learning opportunities. Mickey and friends also get aid from a computerized flying machine named Tootles, who brings "Mouse-ka-tools" to them should he be needed (accompanied by "Oh, Tootles!"). He will usually bring four tools with him, although one episode had Tootles bringing only three tools, and other had him bringing five. One of the tools is a "Mystery Mouse-ka-tool", which is a surprise tool Mickey and friends might use later on, and is usually used last, although many episodes have the "Mystery Mouse-ka-tool" being used next-to-last. And in the episode "Dr. Daisy MD" it was used first.

The Walt Disney Television Animation-produced program was initially announced on March 1, 2005 by Gary Marsh, Executive Vice President, Original Programming and Production, Disney.

Mickey and friends previously appeared on television in Mickey Mouse Works (1999-2001) and Disney's House of Mouse (2001-2004).

The show features two original songs performed by They Might Be Giants, including the opening theme song, in which a variant of a Mickey Mouse Club chant is used to summon the Clubhouse. this chant is, "MEESKA MOOSKA MICKEY MOUSE!". They Might Be Giants also perform the song used at the end of the show, "Hot Dog!", which echoes Mickey's first spoken words in the 1929 short The Karnival Kid.

This is the first time the major Disney characters have appeared on television in computer-animated form (except for Donald, who appeared in CG in the Mickey Mouse Works short "Computer.don"). The characters debuted in CG form in 2003 at the Magic Kingdom theme park attraction Mickey's PhilharMagic, then in the 2004 home video Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas. However, in this latest incarnation, Mickey's and Minnie's 3-D renderings are truer to their original hand-drawn likenesses, in that their ears remain distinct perfect circles regardless of which way their heads are turned.

New episodes are scheduled to begin again on January 26, 2008, during the Big PremEar Weekend [[1]].

• Wayne Allwine - Mickey Mouse, Woodpecker, Toodles
• Russi Taylor - Minnie Mouse
• Bill Farmer - Goofy, Pluto
• Tony Anselmo - Donald Duck
• Tress MacNeille - Daisy Duck, Chip 'n Dale, Baby Red Bird, Mrs. Claus, Mommy Red Bird

• Dee Bradley Baker - Santa Claus, Boo-Boo Chicken
• Corey Burton - Ludwig Von Drake
• Jim Cummings - Pete, Frog, Sparky, Clyde, Mystery Patient
• Will Ryan - Willie the Giant
• Frank Welker - Mr. Pettybone, Butch the Bulldog, Teddy Bear, Big Red Gooey Fish, Bella, Sheep
• April Winchell - Clarabelle Cow

In April 2007, Disney released an extended-length episode, Mickey's Great Clubhouse Hunt, direct to DVD. It was the second such release, following on the heels of the 2006 holiday episode, Mickey Saves Santa.

Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines. The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.

• Mickey's ToonPlane is from his very first animated short Plane Crazy
• At the startmost moments when Mickey walks up the small hill before saying "He-hey everybody!", he actually ascends from inside the ground. The hill is so gently sloping that it's impossible to walk it uphill other than from inside the ground.

• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse at the Internet Movie Database
• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse at Playhouse Disney
• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey Saves Santa at UltimateDisney.com
• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse at TV.com