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Favorite Mickey Mouse character when you were a child

3 years ago

I assume most people watched Mickey Mouse when they were children - I watched the Mickey Mouse Club Show when I was 5-6 years old, and I think I was part of the target audience. I did not like Mickey Mouse, however, partly because I hated his voice and partly because he was a mouse (I preferred cats in cartoons). Anyway, his personality did not appeal to me, and I tended to think of mice as pests, including Mickey. I did not like Minnie either, as I found her a bit boring and saccharine - like Mickey. I much preferred Donald Duck, but I also liked Goofey a bit - at least I found him more interesting than Mickey. I wasn't even fond of Jiminy Cricket, as I found him boring as well.

For the Mouseketeers, Annette was my favorite from the beginning - even before she became popular. My older sister liked someone else, whom I cannot remember, and in fact I do not remember most of the other Mouseketeers.

Did you have a favorite Mouseketeer? Did they become famous?

Did you watch other children's TV shows instead? MMC was on in the evening, as I remember, and of course I watched other children's shows in the morning.

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wildchild2x2
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I was weaned on the original Mickey Mouse Club. We were one of the few families to have a TV in our neighborhood and the kids I played with would come over to watch. I was just 4 years old the first year it aired. We didn't have favorites at that age. We just wanted to be members. Of course Annette was highlighted so we envied her and I was also drawn to Cubby and Karen because they were little like me. I didn't have a favorite Disney cartoon character. A couple years later when I learned to read I do recall buying a lot of Donald Duck comics with his nephews and Uncle Scrooge. But I do remember always looking forward to the Spin and Marty segments on the Mickey Mouse Club. My favorite cartoons were Mighty Mouse and Popeye when I was little. Favorite Disney show was Zorro. My two main playmates in the suburbs we moved to were boys so I ran around the neighborhood with them reenacting westerns, Mighty Mouse, Superman and the like. One of them was a couple years older than me and was always coming up with creative schemes and adventures based on the popular tv shows of the time.

We had a lot of local children's programing. I grew up watching the Brother Buzz Show, Captain Satellite and Mayor Art featuring Popeye Cartoons. I also watched the Ding Dong School and the Howdy Doody Show.
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Kathsgrdn
3 years ago
Chip n Dale.
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3 years ago
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Did anyone watch Romper Room? I wasn't crazy about it, but watched once in a while. The teacher would look through her "magic mirror" and mention names of the kids she "saw" watching the show. Once she said my name -- scared the #&%! out of me! Never watched it again.
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Lars
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3 years ago
I vaguely remember Romper Room, but it was a bit too unstructured for me, and I remember thinking that it was silly. I did watch Captain Kangaroo in the morning, and I especially liked the Tom Terrific cartoons. I was not a fan of Mighty Mouse (too violent), but I did like Underdog.
Michele
3 years ago
My favorites from Rocky and Bullwinkle were the Fractured Fairytales and Mr. Peabody.

I had just turned 6 when my cousins downstairs moved and my siblings (16 and 14) lost interest in tormenting me. At that point my parents moved downstairs. They turned the first and second floor into a duplex and rented out the third floor.

I’d always ask to take my tray of food upstairs to watch tv in my parents room while I ate. My father was a chef. He wasn’t home for dinner Monday-Saturday. My mother let me! I myself wouldn’t have allowed that. I liked being by myself so much better.

In any event, I watched a great deal of tv, besides the Saturday morning cartoons. Really pretty strange memory.
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bpath
3 years ago
Oh, Fractured Fairy Tales and Mr Peabody, those were so funny! Do they and Rocky and Bullwinkle seem a little sophisticated compared to today’s children’s animation? I think we only see the cartoons on PBS, some of which are good but have a different purpose. The Rocky show cartoons had so many interesting and worldly, and funny, punny, references. I think they really appealed to my love of words and wordplay.
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undertoad
3 years ago
I loved the Mickey Mouse Club. Thank you, roxsol, for the video of Tim Considine’s screen test!
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bragu_DSM 5
3 years ago
ad then there was foghorn leghorn and Henery hawk ...
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patriciae_gw
3 years ago
Not a Mickey fan. I thought the club was a group of dweebs. My mother watched so it was on when we came home from school. Reruns. They showed the same stuff over and over and over. To this day I can sing the Applegate mystery song...gold doubloons and pieces of eight handed down to Applegate....

I am a also a Rocky and Bullwinkle fan. I used to have them on video tape. I watched Captain Kangaroo as a very small child in New York. My favorite was Grandfather Clock. Every day I waited breathlessly for him to say something significant. He didn't. I despised the stupid Rabbit and Moose. I didnt even like the Captain. Mr Greenjeans on the other hand was nice. I loved magic drawing board and knew it was a person writing backwards. My mother tried to spoil it for me by telling me. I was even more impressed. Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog...
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Elizabeth
3 years ago
The real great adventures of ME......Tom Terrific!
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arcy_gw
3 years ago
The MIckey Mouse club is on the Disney Channel.
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Cherryfizz
3 years ago
Cinderella was my favourite Disney character. My Dad was a Quality Control Auditor for Chrysler and flew to California quite a bit. He once brought me home a Cinderella watch which I still have without the band.
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Lars
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3 years ago
I remember being terrified by the witch in Snow White as a child, but I don't remember being scared by other Disney villains.

I also remember reading in the newspapers in the 1960s that Disney would fire any employees that were discovered to be gay. I think Tommy Kirk (an early Mouseketeer) ended up being one of those, although he had other problems as well. Anyway, the employees I read about in the 1960s worked for Disneyland, and so I lost interest in going there. My grandparents refused to take me there when we visited Long Beach in 1968 because they said that they had been there and didn't like it and therefore I would not like it either.
caflowerluver
3 years ago
My favorite Disney show was Fantasia (1940), saw it at the theater late 1950's. That is the only time I liked Mickey Mouse, as the Sorcerer's Apprentice. Night on Bald Mountain gave me nightmares for months.
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raee_gw zone 5b-6a Ohio
3 years ago
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I watched the original MMC in reruns in the early 60's. I liked the show, and especially the serials especially the Hardy Boys and Spin and Marty (although I don't remember seeing the one with the dog). I liked Mickey, Chip & Dale, and Huey, Dewey and Louey (better than Donald). For some reason though I disliked Goofy, Pluto, and Clarabelle - probably the way they were drawn.

I never particularly liked any other cartoons, and recall thinking that 'The Flintstones' was just stupid. So on Saturday mornings I watched the live action shows (Sky King, My Friend Flicka, and so forth), never cartoons. Eventually I much preferred reading my older brothers' comic books.
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Michele
3 years ago
Does anyone remember Davey and Goliath? I remember thinking it was weird but I watched it anyway.

I remember being so scared of the monkeys in The Wizard of Oz. I was also terrified of clowns and robots. I couldn't stand when they'd watch Lost in Space or Red Skelton. I was a mess...what do I mean "was"? hee hee
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seniorgal
3 years ago
Mickey Mouse wasn't born yet when I was a child. But then--neither was TV!!!
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sjerin
3 years ago
Wow, Seniorgal! you just keep on trucking, don’t you? I love to see you post!
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