Editing House of Mouse (section)

==Premise==
[[File:Houseofmousecdcover.jpg|thumb|left|[[Mickey Mouse]] and his friends run the House of Mouse nightclub together.]]
The basic premise of the show focuses on [[Mickey Mouse]] and his friends operating a [[dinner theater]] club in downtown ToonTown.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilkinson |first=Matthew |date=January 10, 2021 |title=Disney's Mickey Mouse: 10 Best Mickey Mouse Productions (Ranked According To IMDb) |url=https://screenrant.com/disney-best-mickey-mouse-productions-ranked-imdb/ |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=[[Screen Rant]] |language=en}}</ref> Considered a popular venue by the residents, the club is frequented by a host of characters from [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] [[Animation|animated properties]]; a feature of the series is that every film produced by [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Feature Animation]] prior to the start of the series (between and including ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' and ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]'', with the exception of the CGI ''[[Dinosaur (2000 film)|Dinosaur]]'') are featured in the series. Such characters mostly appear as paying guests of the club, and would often have speaking roles, although a number sometimes operate as performers for the club. The series also includes many relatively obscure and otherwise rarely used Disney characters, often with speaking parts for the first time – for example, [[Li'l Bad Wolf]] and [[April, May and June]], who had appeared very often in Disney comic books but never before in an animated cartoon, made their animated debuts on ''House of Mouse''. The show also featured some cameos by characters created for other television cartoons such as ''[[Pepper Ann]]'' and [[Disney Parks, Experiences and Products|theme park attractions]] like [[The Haunted Mansion]], but these appearances were few and far between.

Each episode focuses on a story involving Mickey and his associates facing an issue during an evening's operation of the club, and their efforts to overcome it – the most common plot for episodes involves the group dealing with a serious problem caused by [[Pete (Disney)|Pete]] in his attempts to shut down the club and use it for his own gains. These stories, often involving [[Farce|farcical]] mishaps, tended to act as a wraparound for the cartoon shorts played in between scenes, the theme of the story contributing towards the story-lines of the cartoon shorts shown in the episode.<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Ken Tucker|title=Bob The Builder; Disney's House Of Mouse; Jackie Chan Adventures; Static Shock; X-Men: Evolution|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=January 26, 2001|url=https://ew.com/article/2001/01/26/tv-show-reviews-bob-builder-disneys-house-mouse-jackie-chan-adventures-static/|access-date=February 11, 2019}}</ref> Cartoon shorts played in episodes focused on elements from classic theatrical cartoons of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, though most were reruns from ''[[Mickey Mouse Works]]'', and featured a simple story. Some stories were set to a specific theme for a specific character, but with differing scenarios – for example, one set focused on Mickey seeking to rescue Minnie from Pete, against a different obstacle in each short, while another set focused on Pluto's efforts to get Mickey his paper while facing a different problem.