![]() MICKEY MOUSE CLUBHOUSE WATCHCARTOONONLINE MOVIEMainstream movie fans might remember him for his small bit in Yankee Doodle Dandy calling young George M. ![]() Dodd had a middling career as a journeyman character actor, mostly in western roles. As an adult he looked right at home with the kids and I'm not talking about Michael Jackson kind of at home. In fact Dodd I believe was a big part of the reason for the show's success. The show had two big Mooseketeers as they were called, Disney cartoonist Roy Williams who should have gotten a lot more money for looking so ridiculous and singer/actor Jimmy Dodd. Millions like me wished they were good enough to join. It seemed like if you put on those Mousekeears you could dance like Bobby Burgess, sing like Darlene Gillespie, or even play the drums like Cubby O'Brien. These kids in the Disney movies, in the serials on the Mickey Mouse Club and in their singing and dancing and all around talent were the role models of a generation. I wasn't one of them, but I sure knew where they were coming from. Kids who grew up watching this show faithfully when they learned the world according to Disney wasn't exactly the truth were the ones that tuned in, turned on and dropped out in the next decade. And wouldn't you like to leave the world you knew behind just to hang out with everyone from Annette and Bobby to the little ones Karen and Cubby. ![]() You got to wear those cool cowboy clothes at the end of the week on Talent Roundup Day. So what if you had to wear those dorky ears and in front of millions of viewers to be a member. For the five years of the run of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club it was the most exclusive club in the world for the cool kids. ![]()
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