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Animated TV series that encourages preschoolers to solve problems using basic skills such as identifying shapes and counting to ten, with a little help from. Seasons 2-4 have the Mousekedoer song's new lyrics heard in Disney-MGM Studios before it became. Main article: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (season 4).
Contents Premise, and star in the series, which focuses on interacting with the viewer to stimulate problem solving., and have made guest appearances. Disney says that each episode has the characters help children 'solve a specific age-appropriate problem utilizing basic skills, such as identifying shapes and counting through ten.' This is similar to shows such as Sesame Street, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Dora the Explorer and Zoobilee Zoo. The series uses 'Disney Junior's common 'whole child' curriculum of cognitive, social and creative learning opportunities.' Once the problem of the episode has been explained, Mickey invites viewers to join him at the Mousekadoer, a giant Mickey-head-shaped computer whose main function is to distribute the day's Mousekatools, a collection (usually 3,4, or possibly 5) of objects needed to solve the day's problem, to Mickey. Once the tools have been shown to Mickey on the Mousekadoer screen, they are quickly downloaded to Toodles, a small, Mickey-head-shaped flying extension of the Mousekadoer.
By calling, 'Oh Toodles!' Mickey summons him to pop up from where he is hiding and fly up to the screen so the viewer can pick which tool Mickey needs for the current situation. One of the tools is a 'Mystery Mouskatool', which is a surprise tool represented by a question mark. The Walt Disney Television Animation-produced program was initially announced on March 1, 2005, by Gary Marsh, Executive Vice President, Original Programming and Production,. Mickey and friends previously appeared on television in (1999–2000) and (2001–03). The show features two original songs performed by They Might Be Giants, including the opening theme song, in which a variant of a chant ('Meeska Mooska Mickey Mouse!' ) is used to summon the Clubhouse.
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.
This marked the first time that all 6 of 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 attraction, then in the 2004.
However, in this latest incarnation, Mickey's and Minnie's 3D 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.
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