On House of Mouse

[Fatal hilarity]

Oh sure, screenshots would be great. But don't you think it'd be better to get them from the DVD? Or am I jumping to conclusions?

A Duck Dodgers DVD would be utterly fantastic. It's one of my favorite shows! I think it's the best thing to happen to Looney Tunes since the original classic shorts.

[Fatal hilarity]

Good news: I'm in the process of buying the House of Mouse DVD collection that went missing- it showed up again!
Bad-ish news: Of all episodes, the only one that's missing is "Pete's House of Villains". >.< Because of that, I have to buy part of another collection to get it- it's cheaper that way. Unfortunately, I've never bought anything from the website before, so I'm not certain if I'm really gonna get it.
Also, it may be a few days before I get the more complete collection. Apparently I need a response from the seller...

EDIT: Okay, they're both being shipped. The second one looks legit so far...

[Fatal hilarity]

Okay! That second DVD that I had doubts about is the real deal. It has "Pete's House of Villains"!
First of all, there's a bunch of completely naked weasels who run off from under a table, stealing Prince John's gold (he's one of the main characters in Robin Hood).
And yes, Pete does in fact hire weasels as waiters. They wear nothing but red bow ties.
...That's it.

It seems so unreal to actually see it... no Toon Patrol, no Slimy or Flasher, just completely generic weasels without any clothes on.
I'll mention others if I spot any.

...
...XP

EDIT: Okay, a weasel with the same head design as the salesman makes a very brief cameo in the short "Mickey's Piano Lesson", as part of the episode "Mickey and the Culture Clash". Like, for one second.
Another serves as Donald's agent for a brief time, when he wants to be more famous.

[psychoangel51402]

ewwkayyyyy....

[Fatal hilarity]

I've gotten the entire series, by the way. Once I get through it, and read the second Pop Weasel comic when it arrives, I'll put up the latest version of my guide. There's been a LOT for me to go through...
EDIT: Need to fix external drive...

[Fatal hilarity]

I should mention that my external drive has been fixed here, too. (Not that anybody cares anymore...)

[jebikun]

Oh congrats! your amazing data resources came back!
Are you enjoying Bonkers? I might get paypal just to buy that thing+_+

[Fatal hilarity]

Ah- spoke too soon...
Oh yes, I've been enjoying Bonkers. Not only is it insightful to the WFRR world, it's very entertaining and funny too. Lucky's one of the best straight men I've ever seen.

[Fatal hilarity]

For the sake of convenience, I'm posting what I wrote about the weasels appearing in this series here as well:

Mickey Mouse Works

salesman weasel
Mickey Mouse Works season 2, episode #1, short #4- “Mickey's Mechanical House”
(Note: This short also appears in Mickey Mouse Works season 2, episode #6 as short #3, House of Mouse season 4, episode #10- “House of Genius”, and the Halloween special Mickey's House of Villains. Don't ask me why it's so popular.)
When Mickey's house becomes too much of a rickety nuisance, and John Cleese the narrator agrees in Seussian fashion, Mickey decides to move into a house of the future! This smarmy, grinning weasel salesman pitches it's many cutting-edge technological conveniences. You'd think Mickey of all people would suspect something fishy when a weasel is selling him a house, but I guess good ol' Walt's enthusiasm for progress rubbed off on him, making him dazzled by the house's chrome-plated sheen. As it turns out, the house is pretty much one of those HAL-esque robotic dictators.
This guy certainly doesn't have the best of fashion sense, although he still sports bright colors, which is a weasely tradition. The main thing is that he wears these Mickey-style white gloves and lumpy golden brown shoes. Otherwise he's fine, if you consider that he's supposed to be a tacky salesman- he wears a creamy yellow jacket, a cream-colored shirt with an upturned collar, and a tie that matches his shoes.
Mickey Mouse Works season 2, episode #2, short #5- “Mickey's Piano Lesson”
(Note: This short also appears in House of Mouse season 4, episode #9- “Mickey and the Culture Clash”.)
What, a weasel that appears in more than one cartoon? What a concept! Unless you count the Mr. Toad weasels, which I don't. Anyway, this weasel at least has the same head. This time, it's only a brief cameo, where he serves as an audience member who gets startled when Mickey runs into the auditorium.
House of Mouse season 4, episode #6- “Music Day”
This guy's final appearance occurs some years later in this episode, as a photographer for Huey, Dewie, and Louie's genre-jumping pop/rock trio, with a different voice. Nevertheless, he has a distinctive design, so I include this incarnation.
His costume now consists of a purple jacket, a bright lime green shirt, a red tie, and of course those white Mickey gloves.
He plays a relatively peaceful role this time, inadvertently causing the trio to break up when he asks the “leader” to be in the middle, not realizing that no leader had been established. Instead of being horrified, though, he seems to see it as a big scoop, if his wide-eyed smile is any indication- which would be more typical of a weasel.

restaurant weasel
Mickey Mouse Works season 2, episode #2, short #2- “Donald's Dinner Date”
(Note: This short also appears in House of Mouse season 1, episode #15- “Goofy for a Day”.)
Similar in design to the salesman weasel above, this guy appears in a crowd shot that cheers on waiter Goofy's antics, much to the annoyance of Donald and Daisy. He wears a grey suit with a white shirt and red tie and white gloves. Strangely enough, he seems to have a single blunt tooth.

House of Mouse

agent
House of Mouse season 1, episode #3- “The Three Caballeros”
The Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse series can cause a good deal of confusion because the shorts they show almost completely overlap one another. So there must be a distinction made between the two, because the shorts originally come from Mickey Mouse Works, before House of Mouse, and the latter has new animation in between the shorts. Some shorts were made specifically for House of Mouse, and some remained Mickey Mouse Works exclusives, which will be noted.
And so, whenever a weasel shows up, ones from the shorts will most often come before the ones that appear in between the shorts on House of Mouse.
This guy is the first to appear on House of Mouse, and in contrast to the salesman, he has a much more traditional Mr. Toad-based head design. He deviates from such a design from having an extremely narrow waist. Otherwise, he has a pretty ordinary costume for any toon: a dark green jacket, green pants, a peach shirt, black tie, white gloves, and black shoes. He carries a brown suitcase.
The reason he shows up is because Donald is disappointed at the lack of recognition he has compared to the other two Caballeros, and so he decides to turn himself into “The Duck Formerly Known as Donald” and wears some weird rapper outfit. With this comes a new agent, who Mickey has to go through, including the agent's agent and their legal team (who all look freakishly alike), in order to talk to Donald.
I guess he qualifies as a typical weasel because acting agents are known to be... sharks? I wouldn't really know. He does inflate Donald's ego and blatantly advertise him... but what I notice most is his collection of clones.

“Cheesy” (named by my brother)
House of Mouse season 1, episode #9- “Rent Day”
This weasel has a pretty cushy job as Mickey's drug dealer- er, cheese seller. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he relishes in encouraging Mickey's cheese addiction and causing him to spend the rent money. What other weasel has access to the Mouse himself, with the ability to indulge his one true weakness? And they said it'd be a lousy job, working at a cheese store...
And it's a good thing it isn't, because otherwise the indignity of being forced to wear a giant piece of cheese for a hat would be insufferable for a weasel. It's even dopier than the hats at Hot-Dog-on-a-Stick, what with the yellow cheese and blue brim. The uniform also includes a dorky red bow tie, a baby blue collarless jacket, and a white shirt.

truck driver weasel
House of Mouse season 1, episode #12- “Thanks to Minnie”
Because one-trick-pony Clarabelle spread the rumor that Mickey thought Minnie wasn't needed, Minnie quit, and the club begins to fall apart. Minnie apparently took care of the bills, so the club's huge widescreen television gets repossessed without her. The whole thing, ripped straight out of the stage wall, is taken away by a truck, driven by this weasel.
Once again, he's more or less based on the Mr. Toad design, wearing a dark grey turtleneck and dark blue newsboy cap. Even he's gotten wind of the rumor, and grins at the thought of the trouble Mickey is in.

law firm weasel
House of Mouse season 1, episode #15 “Donald's Pumbaa Prank”, short #1- “Mickey's April Fools”
After Mickey gets a kick out of playing mean tricks on Minnie and Mortimer on April Fool's Day, he gets a taste of his own medicine when the law firm that's offering him a million-dollar inheritance believes that he's dead (due to one of his more elaborate pranks). The weasel behind the desk doesn't seem to believe his own eyes, despite Mickey's best efforts.
This weasel is arguably the most unattractive of any Disney weasel, sporting an enormous sausage-like schnoz, a wrinkled grin, and squinty, beady eyes. Possibly most unusual of all, his muzzle color extends to around his eyes, forming a face mask. He's also rather fat.
He wears a grey blue suit with a single gold button, white shirt and red tie, a matching red hanky tucked in his breast pocket, and white gloves like the salesman. His pants are beige, and his shoes are goofy-looking black and white wingtips or something similar. He also wears a pair of tiny round spectacles that sit on the bridge of his nose.
It's just as well that he's so weird looking, since it's doubtful this person actually exists- twice, it's revealed that it's only a disguise, and is really Mortimer and Minnie, respectively.

two Mr. Toad weasels
House of Mouse season 2, episode #4- “Max's Embarrassing Date”
What could be merely a random decision of whoever was choosing who would appear in the background, is the presence of these Mr. Toad-based weasels. Strange that among all the weasels in this series (and Mickey Mouse Works), only these two are directly based on the original classic designs, despite Mr. Toad's occasional cameos. It's almost as though the Disneyland ride's toning down of weasels caused Mr. Toad himself to be less associated with his nemeses...
Anyhow, this time their clothing consists of a baby blue sweater, blue pants, and a lavender newsboy cap on the right, and a dark grey jacket, olive green sweater, crimson pants and a light brown newsboy cap on the left.
After Goofy finishes his huge pratfall, we see that he smashed their table and knocked them to the ground, and apparently were sitting near Mr. Toad for whatever reason. Whether or not they were trying to trick him into giving them Toad Hall again, especially since he wasn't seen in their first shot, is up to debate.

moar weezils
House of Mouse season 4, episode #4- “Pete's House of Villains”
It is truly sad to see the enthusiasm for weasels fade and the variety created by the Toon Patrol disappear. In some ways a lot of Disney weasels nowadays are even more faceless than they were in Mr. Toad! These guys have almost no clothes! Mickey Saves the Day was released just around three years before this episode aired, and they were almost completely naked as well. It's a strange contrast to the interesting variations seen in the rest of this series...
These guys are particularly disappointing because it was rumored that they were the Toon Patrol themselves. But alas, they are not- so whoever started that rumor was simply being ignorant, assuming that because they have similar body and head shapes and fur color, that they could be nothing else but the Toon Patrol. What that tells us is that the person thought the Toon Patrol weasels were the only weasels, and that their costumes didn't matter. Sheesh, at least check to see if they wore similar clothing!
But I digress- Pete, who has always been a big blowhard, thinks that the show Mickey is putting on stinks and that he could do better. So what does he do? He appeals to those Disney fans that are obsessed with their villains and hires them to do all of Mickey's staff's jobs!
The trouble begins when a group of weasels, who wear nothing but red bow ties, steal gold from one of the customers- Prince John from Robin Hood. When it turns out that the villains Pete hired are ruining costumer satisfaction, he fires them all, but not without some struggle. The weasels replaced the usual waiter penguins (which is more of a direct reference to WFRR than these weasels are, and also explains the bow ties), and they object to being fired- so they drop a safe on Pete.
And the moral of the story is: don't hire weasels as waiters, or they'll rob the customers. Also, if you try to fire them, they'll rebel against you. C'mon, Pete- they've been faithful to you so far! Don't expect them to serve people food when their specialty is crime! Firing them is just gonna tick them off. Where else are they gonna find jobs? Besides cheese stores, I mean.

...Am I completely insane or what? XP

[psychoangel51402]

Oh! I'm glad for you that your computer is fixed! I know the pain of not having one...
So those are all the weasels in House of Mouse...I thought there were only the salesman and the waiters! Wow...
So...can you get screenshots of them up yet? Er, not that I'm trying to rush you or anything...

[Fatal hilarity]

Screenshots of every weasel I've found will come eventually. If I can, I'll put up links to people's YouTube videos as well...
Since I worked so darn hard on this, I'm going to have my brother take care of the screenshots. I can't tell you for sure how prompt he's going to be, though...

[psychoangel51402]

Darn...when he gets to it, can you have him grab a couple extra shots of Panchito Pistoles and Jose Carioca for me? If it's not a pain, that is...

[Fatal hilarity]

Hmm... yeah, why not? Luckily, one of the episodes with a weasel in it centers around the Three Caballeros... that'll make things simpler.

[theamericanmarten]

Nov 5, 2008 14:34:49 GMT -5 psychoangel51402 said:

i got a reliable tip-off that the weasels, including Slimy and Flasher, were on "The House of Mouse", that was corrugated by several others. Can anyone confirm or offer any information?

Are you sure?