Ninety-eight years, a thirty-year hole in the middle, and the best of it made in 2013.
There is no order. Ninety-eight years, around a hundred and thirty theatrical shorts and eight television series, and Mickey has no arc at all: he is a fireman, a sorcerer's apprentice, a nightclub owner and a preschool teacher as the format requires and none of it connects. So this is a library, and what follows is a route through it rather than a sequence.
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Watch it once because it is the beginning, then stop expecting it to be funny. It is a four minute novelty about synchronised sound and that was the point of it.
The Band Concert, Thru the Mirror, Clock Cleaners, Lonesome Ghosts, Brave Little Tailor, The Pointer. About forty-five minutes, and this is Mickey at his actual peak as a performer rather than as a logo.
For The Sorcerer's Apprentice, which is the single most famous thing he has ever done.
Skip thirty years of nothing and land here. Paul Rudish's shorts are three minutes each, hand drawn, genuinely funny, and they look like the 1930s filtered through something much nastier. Start anywhere in the first season. The 2020 series is the same show continued.
In December, and it needs nothing before it. Twenty-six minutes and the best known Mickey thing of the last fifty years.
If you want a series rather than shorts, this is the one. The joke is that every Disney villain is in the audience.
Then what? The preschool series, Clubhouse through Funhouse and Clubhouse+, are made for three-year-olds. They are not bad, they are simply not for anyone else, and nobody should feel they have three hundred episodes to get through. If you want context rather than viewing, Mickey: The Story of a Mouse does that job better than any list.
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