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Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas

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Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas is a direct to video Christmas movie featuring three segments.

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The stories are Donald Duck in "Stuck On Christmas", Goofy Goof in "A Very Goofy Christmas", and Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse in "Gift of the Magic". The stories were narrated by actor Kelsey Grammer.

Plot

Donald Duck stuck on Christmas

It is Christmas morning, and Donald's three nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie are excited because they get lots of presents, including three sleds from Donald. When Daisy, Scrooge, and Aunt Gertie come for Christmas, the boys rush pass them to go out and enjoy their new sleds. When Daisy calls the boys in for dinner, they rudely eat their food by shoving it into their mouths and burping a lot. When Scrooge asks everyone to sing carols, the boys do not participate because they want to play with their toys. When it is time for bed, the boys are sad because Christmas is over, so they make a wish on a star in the sky that it could be Christmas every day.

When the boys wake up the next morning, they find that their wish came true and it is now Christmas every day. The boys initially enjoy this, but they soon grow bored with having Christmas being every day. They then decide to change the day with pranks, including swapping a live turkey with the cooked one. Unfortunately, this day turns out to be a bad Christmas. After learning how hard their family has tried to make Christmas better for them, the boys become guilty for their pranks. They then decide to make amends and make the next day the best Christmas day ever. They switch the turkey with ham, give Aunt Gertie exclusive kisses, and build a boat (made from their sleds) for Donald. The next day, the boys wake up happy to find out that Christmas is over. The narrator explains that Christmas can't always be here but that the feeling it gives us can always be here.

A Very Goofy Christmas

Goofy and Max are writing their letter to Santa Claus. They finish it and rush off after the postman, managing to catch him just in the nick of time. Max reveals to his dad that he wants a snowboard for Christmas and hopes Santa will brings it, but their neighbor Pete insists that Santa does not exist. Goofy tells Max that Santa does exist and that he should never stop believing in him.

The next evening, Goofy and Max go to a poor family's house to give them a Christmas dinner. Goofy then dresses up as Santa Claus to impress the kids, but one of the family's kids pulls off his hat and exposes him. This upsets Max and makes him think that his dad was lying to him about Santa, and he runs home upset.

Goofy tries to prove to Max that Santa Claus really exists by staying up and watching for Santa. After quite a few hours of waiting, Goofy sees someone coming out of the chimney on Pete's roof, but it turns out to be a Beagle Boy robbing Pete's house. Goofy then falls off the roof and goes into a deep depression, now believing that everything Max said was true. Max eventually cheers his dad up by dressing as Santa Claus himself. After Goofy finds out it's actually Max, they look up into the sky and see the real Santa Claus, who gives Max the snowboard he wanted and then blows the snow from Goofy's house onto Pete's house to teach Pete a lesson. Max then tells his dad that he is going to go share his present with little Jimmy, the poor kid next door. The narrator explains that Christmas is found in the way that we live by not what we receive but by what we give.

Mickey and Minnie's A Gift of Magic

It is Christmas Eve, and Mickey wants to get Minnie a chain for her watch, while Minnie wants to get Mickey a case for his harmonica, but neither of them have any money. Mickey is working at Crazy Pete's Tree Lot and makes a lot of money for his kindness and helping people. But when he suggests a poor family buy a small Christmas tree that he found out back instead of one of Pete's ten-foot Christmas trees, Pete takes away the money he has earned and kicks him out. Pete then accidentally puts his cigar in his pocket, which eventually results in him setting his trees on fire. Meanwhile, Minnie is working in the gift-wrapping department at Mortimer's department store, hoping that her Christmas bonus from her boss, Mortimer Mouse, will be enough to pay for Mickey's present. Unfortunately, her Christmas bonus is nothing but a fruitcake.

Mickey plays his harmonica for a Charity Toy Drive and is told that his harmonica plays so great that it must be worth lots of money. Mickey gets the idea to trade his harmonica for the chain, so he and Pluto rush off to the store. Later, at Minnie's house, Mickey gives Pluto a bone for Christmas and Minnie gives her cat, Figaro, a ball of yarn. Mickey and Minnie then give their presents to each other. Minnie's present to Mickey is a case for his harmonica, and Mickey's present to Minnie is a chain for her watch. Both of them reveal that they gave up what meant the most to them to buy each other a present for Christmas. The narrator explains that giving a present from the heart is cherished forever and that a present is best when love is given too.

As the movie comes to a close, we see Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Goofy, Max, Donald, Daisy, Huey, Dewey and Louie joining each other in the streets outside and singing a medley consisting of "Jingle Bells", "Deck the Halls", and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas".

Voice Cast

Japanese
  • Takashi Aoyagi as Mickey
  • the late Yuko Mizutani as Minnie
  • Koichi Yamadera as Donald
  • the late Yu Shimaka as Goofy
  • Bill Farmer as Pluto
  • Mika Doi as Daisy, Huey & Dewey
  • Mako Hyodo as Louie
  • Hideyuki Umezu as Chip n Dale
  • Miina Tominaga as Aunt Gertie
  • Keiko Toda as Max
  • Ikuko Tani as Scrooge
  • Rokuro Naya as Pete
  • Frank Welker as a Turkey & Figaro
English

Trivia

  • It aired on Toon Disney on December 2, 2005 and December 9, 2005. Including December 24, 2005. It aired again on December 27, 2005 and on December 14, 2006. It aired again on December 25, 2007 and on December 18, 2008. The last time it aired was December 24, 2008.
  • It aired on Disney XD on December 20, 2009.
  • It aired on Disney Channel on December 24, 2007.
  • Clarabelle Cow, Horace Horsecollar, Owl, and a Beagle Boy make silent cameos
  • One of Goofy's Christmas tree ornaments resembles Angelique from Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas.
  • In the "Gift of the Magic" segment, Mickey performs one of his dance moves from Mickey's Birthday Party.
  • Scenes from this movie were used for the 2002 version of Very Merry Christmas Songs.
  • Huey tearing off the calendar page was reused for the Toon Disney Weekday Bonus Stacks promo.
  • Ironically, Ducks eating turkey is considered cannibalism.
  • This is the only post-Goof Troop project where someone else besides Jason Marsden voices Max, due to him being a much younger child in this film.
  • Stuck on Christmas segment marks Tress MacNeille's first performance as Daisy Duck.
  • One of the stores in the shopping mall Goofy visits is called Lumberjack Lingerie. This is a reference to Monty Python's "The Lumberjack Song", in which the titular lumberjack reveals himself to be a crossdresser.
  • The band that Mickey plays harmonica with is based on the Firehouse Five Plus Two.
  • The cover art for the home video releases was done by Rick Law. However, despite Mickey's appearance on the cover, he's never seen in his iconic red shorts and yellow shoes in the movie.
  • In the segment "Mickey & Minnie's Gift of the Magi", the Dixieland jazz band at the charity toy drive is made up of firefighters and named the Firehouse 5. This is a nod to the Firehouse Five Plus Two, a seven-piece Dixieland jazz band founded in 1949 and consisting of Disney animation staff (including lead animators Ward Kimballand Frank Thomas, two of Disney's famed Nine Old Men).
  • In the "A Very Goofy Christmas" segment, there are lawn flamingos dressed up for the holidays. They are based on the flamingos from "The Carnival of the Animals" segment in Fantasia 2000 (1999), which was in production at the same time as "Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas".
  • The department store Minnie works at, in the segment "Mickey & Minnie's Gift of the Magi", is named "Mortimer's". Mortimer is the name Walt Disneyoriginally intended to give to Mickey Mouse. (Minnie's boss at the department store is Mortimer Mouse, a character who first appeared in the cartoon Mickey's Rival (1936).)
  • Jim Cummings voices eight different characters in this movie.
  • The scene in the mall, during the "A Very Goofy Christmas" segment, parodies several "Indiana Jones" escape sequences.
  • The snowboard Max asks for is a twin tip, but the board he received is a directional single tip.
  • Despite this movie being 3 different stories created together, this is the first time that the entirety of Disney's classic sensational six appear in their very own full-length animated feature.
  • This is the last non-theatrically released Disney movie of the 20th century.
  • Mortimer is voiced in this movie by Jeff Bennett. In his later appearances, Mortimer is voiced by Maurice LaMarche.
  • Jim Cummings (the voice of Pete) and Mae Whitman(the voice of the little girl) would later star in The Jungle Book 2 (2003) as the voices of Kaa and Colonel Hathi, and Shanti, respectively.

Chronologically-wise, the first segment of this movie, "Stuck on Christmas", serves as a functional prequel to the 1987 DuckTales animated TV series.

  • In this segment, Huey, Dewey, and Louie are depicted as children who live with their Uncle Donald, which was their status quo prior to the first episode of DuckTales, in which the boys are sent to live with their great-uncle, Scrooge McDuck, after Donald joins the Navy.
  • What's more, "Stuck on Christmas" also presents Donald as having dreams and aspirations of sailing on the high seas, which is what he wants to do upon joining the Navy at the beginning of DuckTales.
  • Furthermore, Huey, Dewey, and Louie are presented as far more rambunctious and troublesome than they ever were in DuckTales, similar to their depictions in the classic Donald Duck shorts, but by the end of "Stuck of Christmas", they reform themselves to behave more civilly, further matching up with how they act in DuckTales.

Meanwhile, the second segment, "A Very Goofy Christmas", is definitely a prequel to the Goof Troop animated TV series and its two feature films A Goofy Movie and An Extremely Goofy Movie.

  • In this segment, Goofy lives in a suburban house as a single father to his son, Max, and both of them live next-door to Pete. This is the very same status quo of Goofy, Max, and Pete as seen in Goof Troop(however, see the next first-tier bullet point further below).
  • Max is also depicted as a child of a much younger age than he was in Goof Troop, for the purposes of telling the story that this short wanted to tell, of Max questioning his beliefs in the existence of Santa Claus, which is more of a thing that younger children do rather than older children. This would place "A Very Goofy Christmas" and the final caroling scene of this special a few years before the time of Goof Troop.
  • As a bonus piece of continuity, this special also introduces a teddy bear of Max's named Old Stuffed Bear, who would go on to make a second appearance in An Extremely Goofy Movie in the very next year after this special's release.

However, there is a potential continuity error between the segment "A Very Goofy Christmas" from this special and Goof Troop.

  • In this special, Goofy and Max already live in a house next door to Pete, who acts like Goofy and Max have been his next-door neighbors for quite some time, as Pete behaves in a rather chummy manner with the two of them in one scene. This is at odds with the premiere episode of Goof Troop having Goofy and Max start off by living in a trailer and only just then moving into the house next-door to Pete for the first time, even moving to Spoonervillefrom another city entirely. Plus, everyone in that episode acts like Goofy and Pete hadn't seen each other in years (since high school), and act like Max and Pete had never met each other beforehand.
  • On the other hand, Goof Troop itself also tended to forget that Goofy and Max first moved to Spoonerville at the beginning of the series, with several episodes of theseries instead treating Goofy and Max as having always lived in Spoonerville next-door to Pete for many years, while only two episodes ever referred back to the events of the series premiere. So, this is just a case of Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas simply reiterating a pre-existing continuity error.
  • Officially, no fix for this has ever been given, but one possible, theoretical solution would be to think of the Pete from this special as a different Pete from the one seen in Goof Troop, A Goofy Movie, and An Extremely Goofy Movie, since the Pete who lives next to the Goofs in this special doesn't seem to harbor the same deep-seeded hatred of Goofy that the Pete from Goof Troop has for most of that series. In addition, this "Pete" in the segment has brown fur, unlike his other appearances in the Mickey Mouse segment "The Gift of Magi" and his other appearances where his fur is black.
  • Plus, the city that Goofy and Max live in during "A Very Goofy Christmas" is never actually named, so it very well might not be Spoonerville, but could very well be the other city that Goofy and Max first lived in before they move to Spoonerville (the two would have simply had to have first moved out of their house from this special and into their trailer at some point between this special and Goof Troop for everything to line up).

With Pete also living in this same city in "A Very Goofy Christmas" and being Mickey's employer during "Gift of the Magi", it could very well be that the cities seen in both segments are actually one and the same, which would mean that Goofy and Max originally lived in the very same city that Mickey, Pluto, and Minnie all live in. And since Mickey, Minnie, and Pluto don't live in Spoonerville either, that further supports the notion of this city being a different one from Spoonerville.

  • This also raises the possibility that Goofy and Max might have moved to Spoonerville from none other than Mouseton, the traditional hometown of Mickey, Pluto, and Minnie (as well as Goofy himself in certain media external to the Goof Troop universe).
  • Overall, this implies that both the events of DuckTales and Goof Troop take place at the exact same time, with this film serving as prequels to both TV shows.

all information on Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas came from http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Mickey's_Once_Upon_a_Christmas

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