Episode 16- Season 2, Episodes 26-30

This episode covers season 2 of the All New Mickey Mouse Club from November 1989- including a further look into the new club movie, The Secret of Lost Creek, a visit from Whoopi Goldberg & the Alex Trebek cutout, a science experiment involving aspartame and a group of peppy Jazzercise-ers. 

Transcript

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Happy Heidi Ho everybody, and welcome back to Mask a cast with Mandy. I'm Mandy, and thank you for joining me again on this journey as we head into season two, episodes 26 through 30 for the week of November the 6th through November the 10th of 1989. I apologize for the delay again. I don't have any good excuses, so I'll spare you trying to make up one. But if in between these podcast episodes you'd like to see what's going on with the channel, you can always visit us at Cast with Mandy at Facebook and MousekaCast on Instagram, where I am constantly posting content and anything that just kind of springs up and invokes a memory in my brain. And it's a lot of fun over there, especially at Instagram, where we often get comments and shares and likes from the actual cast and crew members. And if you are liking what you hear, I would appreciate it if you wouldn't mind just clicking the subscribe button on whatever platform it is that you listen to these episodes. So let's get right down to it. Buckle up because we are heading back to late 1989 when hairspray was structural. Square dancing was somehow still a thing, and every other sketch felt like it had been powered by pop rocks and diet coke. Okay, it's November 1989. The Berlin Wall is coming down, Janet Jackson is dominating our radios, and somewhere someone is trying to put the ribbon back inside of a cassette tape using a pencil. So let's get to it. Let's break down episodes 26 through 30. For this particular episode of the podcast, we're gonna give each day a little bit of a title. So for episode 26 from November the 6th, we're gonna call this one Fairy Tales and Gold Fever. After an introduction from Rocky, Mawayva, and Kevin, we kick things off with the fairy tale dating game. Fred returns as Chuck Smirk, the smarmiest host this side of the late night cable, trying to find a date for Mike Slick Chase, who is apparently, and I never put two and two together. He is apparently the brother of Vic Slick, the very one who did the song Sing in the last podcast episode, and the one that is the host at Club Mick. The Slick Cinematic Universe is ever expanding. So, of course, it's fairy tale feud. So who are the bachelorettes? We have the wicked queen played by Tiffany, Mary Poppins played by Dee Dee, and Ariel played by Brandy. Mike wastes no time getting down to the question, and he asks the queen what her dream date is. She says, staring into the mirror. Honestly, she was a self-care queen before it was a thing. Mary Poppins says that her ideal date is. She doesn't say her ideal date. She just says go fly a kite, which Mike interprets as an insult. Ariel says, jump in a lake. Also interpreted as an insult. Mike, my guy, there's context clues there, buddy. Mary describes her ideal man with a literal scroll of virtues. Kindness, courteous, loving. Ariel describes her worst state as being a real octopus. To which Mike replies, all hands, huh? Yeah, they went there. When Mary is asked to describe herself, she says that she is super califragilistic, expialidocious. How else would she describe herself? This becomes a spoken word breakdown of the song before the girls just start going into the umda lil umdalie. Somewhere Julie Andrews felt a ripple in the universe and begged them to stop. At the end of it all, Mike chooses the wicked queen. Why? Because she's a real looker. Naturally, before she actually meets Mike, she transforms herself into her old crone version that is played by Lindsay, who oddly enough is the youngest cast member and she's playing an old lady. She does this before she meets him, and when he sees her, he jumps right into Fred or Chuck's arms in terror, as one does. We have a mouse male segment next with Jennifer and Mawayva. One person writes in and asks if Chase played the geek in 16 Candles. He did not. That was many, many years prior. I think that movie came out in like 83, 82, 83, somewhere along in there. But he was in, in quotations, Splash, Mary Poppins, and The Parent Trap, among other videos, thanks to some aggressively 1989 superimposed graphics. Early deep fakes, Disney style. The next question comes from a watcher who wants to know what the cast does in between filmings. Well, Maweva goes into the story about how Lindsay and Damon are actually superhero cleaners, and we are treated to a SpongeBob and Mob Girl segment. More to come from them in future episodes. Marvel call them. Next we get our first episode of Secret of Lost Creek for this week. This episode is called Gold Fever. When we last saw Russy and Robert, they were trying to escape the mine using just the flash on Robert's camera while being followed by a creepy Amish looking dude. And they eventually do escape the mine using the flash, like it's the world's most inconvenient flashlight. And as they come out and decide to head right home, creepy Amish dude is still lurking. No explanation given as to why he is doing this. We just accept the energy. Because essentially, if you build it, they will come, and it is the tall tale of the gold. She lets him know that she is not planning on giving up anytime soon. Jeannie's gold story does, obviously, as we discussed at the end of the last week's episodes. It accidentally gets posted by Charlie, who did not realize that it was in the no pile, fell off Grandpa's desk with papers. It gets posted against Grandpa's wishes, which he of course is not pleased with, and then suddenly the town is overrun with treasure hunters. Its Oregon Trail meets Black Friday. That's the general energy you're getting from this. Grandpa reveals to Jeannie and Travis that this has happened before. 35 years earlier, he's not thrilled to be seeing it again, and he knows there's going to be backlash. An angry man storms into the newspaper office. Not exactly sure who he is, I'm guessing the mayor or something. I understand it. He doesn't want all these people in his quiet little town. This whole arc has the tension of a very wholesome Twin Peaks episode. Side note on this particular episode of Secret of Lost Creek, in the the episode of this, I'm gonna say episode a lot here. In this particular episode copy of episode 26 that I was watching on YouTube, the Secret of Lost Creek was not included. So I went on a search on YouTube to find it, and the only version I could find was in German. So subtitles did me very well in this case. And I learned that there was a show in Germany called Disney Club, which aired in 1991, and that is where this particular segment of Secret of Lost Creek came from. Music Day is next, and we have a repeat performance by Sapphire. This time she performs a song called Thinking of You. This is one of those songs that you forgot that you knew every word to until you hear it some 30 years after its release. I remember this song, and I've heard it on the radio a small handful of times since 1989 or 1992 or whatever. To my surprise, I never forgot a word of it. After her song, we go into some questions. They ask her how she came up with her name, and she chose her name because she just really likes the color sapphire, but she spells it very much differently. She spells it S-A-F-I-R-E. Very to the point. She feels very close to this particular song, Thinking of You, because she co-wrote it. The musicians that she loves and gets inspiration from are Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince, the Holy Trinity of 1980s pop. Another question is when did she start singing? Which she started doing at 12 in choir and in talent shows. Luckily, this segment ends with no cleaning obstacle courses this time. We close out the episode with Sapphire singing both the C and the Y, and that is Monday. Alright, now let's get into episode 27, which is the Tuesday episode of the week. And this one we'll call Whoopi and the Practical Jokester. We start off with an opening rundown by Chase, Tiffany, and Dee Dee. Then we meet Jack, the practical jokester. And if you do recall, we have met Jack one more time before, but we weren't actually given his first name, and that was when he pestered Bratman and made him run off to his mommy. He is a new student from Gotham High, subtle, and he is there to terrorize a classroom comprised of Rocky, Jennifer, Josh, Kevin, and Brandy, with Fred conducting the class as Mr. Moran. Jack enters the classroom with a joke by knocking on a surface that everyone assumes is a knock at the door, yet he's been hiding under the teacher's desk and he pops up as the teacher's looking out the door. Initially, everyone in the class has like a nervous, scared laughter, but to continue on, he starts to call Mr. Moran Mr. Moron. In an effort of a truce, Jack gives a teacher a can of nuts, much in the same manner as what he did to Bratman when he asked him to smell the flower pin on his jacket. Of course, this can of nuts is full of one of those like springy worm things. When he is told to take a seat, he of course asks, Where should I take it, Mr. Moron? Josh, for one, does not appreciate these antics, and he tells Jack that he is there to learn. Jack offers Josh a handshake. This just ends with Josh pulling off an extra glove because Jack is always eager to lend a hand. When they're told to take something out of their desk, Jack acts like there's something in his desk, and he's trying to show it to Josh, whose character's name is Mike, just leads to him shoving Josh into his desk. And of course, Josh freaks out.

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Oh Mikey, I'm sorry about that, buddy. I didn't mean anything by it.

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Josh just absolutely has the cutest freakout voice. Back to this. After Josh freaks out, he sits up and the class discovers that he now has a kick me sign on his back. 200 pepperoni pizzas are then delivered to the class in the style of spicoli. It's picoli style. Then Jack says, well, I guess this puts Mr. Moron in a cheesy situation. Later on in the skit, Mr. Moran actually accidentally refers to himself as Mr. Moron. But then, plot twist, we hear an unmistakable older female voice that sounds much like Jack's. And this is his mother's voice, and this is Mawava. And she drags him out of class by the ear because he's been misbehaving. But what would you expect from a kid that is called the practical jokester? Nothing ends a villain arc faster than an intervention by mom. Next is a PSA on pencil chewing. Dee Dee presents a chewed pencil like it's a crime scene. Some talented chewer has essentially whittled down the center of the pencil to just the lead. Very impressive because it looks like it could snap in half. And she asks, are you still teething? As in, why would you be doing this? It's so gross. We're warned that pencil chewing could turn you into an idiotic class clown who shoves pencils up his nose. She, of course, demonstrates, no one will ever touch those erasers after that. And this reminds me of a skit that will come in season four where Mark shoves two oversized crayons up his nose at one point. We need to restore the pencils to their dignified position. Don't chew on number two. That sounds kind of gross. This is paid for by the People for Pencils Foundation. Next, we are introduced to a channel that is basically just a bunch of sitcom stars and Disney cartoon characters making what they describe as fart noises. Awesome. So essentially the fart channel is just a bunch of people going. Bill Nye swings by to drop some knowledge about artificial sweeteners. And he demonstrates this by dropping a can of regular soda and a can of diet soda into two vats of water. The diet soda floats because aspartame is 150 times sweeter than sugar. So there is much less of the aspartame added to the soda, unlike the sugar, which is weighing the can down. Science is fun. We don't argue that. It was a simpler time before we knew the ultimate dangers of aspartame and artificial sweeteners. And I will stick to the sinking can because I can't stand aspartame. The guest day is, as you could guess, Whoopi Goldberg. And we meet Micah from LA, who gets to go and spend the day with Whoopi while she's filming Ghost. That makes me feel old. This visit starts in hair and makeup, where Micah is treated to a whoopee makeover. And then they take a walk around the studio lot and we see clips of Whoopi's stand-up, which makes sense. I thought it was nice to see because I'd never seen that side of her, honestly. I mean, I might have when I was younger, but I didn't make that big of an impression on me. Micah gets to ask her a few questions and she asks her where she gets her style from. Whoopi says that she prefers comfort over being hip. I like that because most people are just up with the trends. They wander around the lot and casually bump into Patrick Stewart and a random Klingon. I'm sure he was one of the characters from the show, but I didn't watch Star Trek, so I don't know who this guy is. I know who Patrick Stewart is. Whoopi wants people to feel better about themselves as they are. So she likes to have diversity in the characters that she plays because the grass is not always greener on the other side. So if you're just comfortable with yourself and you don't feel the need to be like everybody else, you'll really start to love the position you're in. She also emphasizes the importance of closeness and family and community and being able to go to your family about any problems you might be having. All of this is still very, very relevant today. Next is a quick rebuttal from Fred and Chase and their beaver forms from the beaver cafe. They are mad about the pencil PSA and the criticizing of pencil chewing. Pencil chewing is as American as Lincoln logs and it keeps your teeth strong. Also, pencils are very high in fiber and makes the chewers smarter because they're breathing in the oxygen that is stored in the wood as they're chewing. Quite a stretch, but they both stay very true to the beaver whistle that comes from their oversized teeth. Before we get to the video jam, three audience members play a quick game of mouse memory. Again, this is the game where they have to remember and recite in order various images of characters, both played in Disney movies in general, and characters that have appeared on the show. The third player ends up with the Dumbo trophy for never forgetting anything. Then we have the music jam, and this is On Our Own by Bobby Brown from the Ghostbusters 2 movie. I've always loved this song. The Mousketeers lean really hard into the costumes, and we get an explanation for this video later in the week. It's cheesy, it's adorable, it commits, there's actually a party for a bunch of children, and then all the while slime was onto the building. Yeah. I'll spare you from the rest of that. We love the commitment. And yes, there are Ghostbusters costumes. The closing has a Damon providing the C still as the practical jokester, and the Y is Fred and Chase, still in their Beaver costumes, complete with the lisp. Okay, now it is time for Wednesday, episode 28, which we will call Uncle Sal and the Karate Masters. The opening is Albert, Brandy, and Damon. Or is it? Damon has an Uncle Sal who looks suspiciously like not Damon. And he's filling in while Damon, the real Damon, decided he wants to spend the day at Disney World's Magic Kingdom writing Dumbo in the Teacups. Uncle Sal is a chaos in human form and absolutely commits to the bit. And his tagline is as he walks away or speaks to anyone, hey man, I love you. I mean that sincerely. I mean, I guess that's a little daemon-coded, but it seems a little aggressive. The musical performance to start things off is a mashup of Under the Boardwalk and Up on the Roof by Chase, Jennifer, Kevin, Dee Dee, Lindsay, and we'll just call him by his real name, Uncle Sal. While he is providing the bass parts of all the songs. The medley is great, as was the singing, but the performance as a whole is a little meh. It's a combination of, as you would guess it, on the boardwalk or up on the roof. And for some reason, Jennifer is wearing a scarf during this entire ordeal. Then we go right into our episode of Secret of Lost Creek. The mayor, or whoever that man was, that was mad at Grandpa and stormed into the newspaper at the end of the last episode, is complaining about the throngs of people that are hanging out in front of the bank. Grandpa gets the balls to tell Angry Dude that he will print whatever the heck he wants when Angry Dude says, no, you've got to stop printing about this. He's like, my paper, I'll do whatever the heck I want. Now, I did do a little backlog research because to be honest, I didn't take these notes to begin with. This is the first rhyme that everybody is looking for, or banking on, if you will. But dum bum. The middle of the night was dark and damp when I put my treasure in the Lost Creek bank. Nearest the bank from the tallest tree, five paces east, my treasure bee. So, as you would expect, everybody's looking at the actual bank. The town thinks that the gold is buried under the bank. Grandpa tells Jeannie and Travis that there is no gold under the bank. That search has been exhausted back some 35 or 35 plus years ago. Maybe the bank is actually a creek bank? Because the town is called Lost Creek, and creeks have banks, as do rivers. That is a lot of ground to cover if you're looking for a particular bank. But which tree? There's a lot of trees. Jeannie is obsessed and is itching to start working on the next clue. Grandpa is stubborn as many grandpas are. Angry townsfolk storm the newspaper office and demand more clues. In a very crotchety fashion, he posts the list of clues on the front window of the paper so that nobody will come back in and aggravate him. The next clue involves Sasquatch. And that clue goes a little something like this. Sasquatch watches and never sleeps. He will see my treasure keeps. Below the talking water where the grade is not so steep, the lost creek hushes, bends, and slowly falls to sleep. Well, that right there in my mind tells you that obviously it's a creek bank, but I guess these treasure hunters don't have much between their ears. Maybe Robert was on to something after all when he saw Sasquatch. Maybe this is just me thinking in the present moment. Go back to wherever the bus had to stop in that first episode and figure out where Robert saw Sasquatch, or baby Sasquatch, or mini Sasquatch, or whatever he was. The town is really just doing too much. They're talking about it in a diner where creepy Amish-looking dude is sitting and he hears him talking about it and his ears perk up. Obviously, he's a greedy little bugger. In a conversation with grandma, Jeannie learns that the reason that grandpa's got such an attitude about the treasure is because he had previously solved all of the clues except for the last one. And of course, he refuses to help her. And somehow we pivot to a square dance, which they're all about to be late for. The push for Jeannie to go is because Travis never misses one. Because in 1989, square dancing was never more than 12 minutes away when you lived out in a podunk town. My question is did people actually square dance outside of PE class, which was always One of the most mortifying weeks of the class. Some reason it always happened around my birthday. Hated it, but I always wish there was this one guy named Billy I would get paired up with. I think it happened maybe once in three years. Anywho, Jeannie gets jealous when they arrive to the square dance because she sees Travis dancing with another girl. We are now in our barncore era, and for some reason, Jeannie is dressed like Sandy at the end of Greece, except for she's wearing a dress and not skin tight leggings. That's the end of that. Uncle Sal is back to introduce the next installment of Name That Job. Mawayva is back as Candy with the same panel of Maureen, Greg, and Boopsy, Dee Dee, Kevin, and Tiffany. The contestant this time is Marco the Great, who is played by Josh, and he comes dressed like a magician and immediately pulls a rabbit puppet out of his hat. The questions that come result in the fact that he is not involved in construction. He is not in the manufacturing of dental floss, to which he pulls out flowers. He is not a florist, and Candy responds to the panel. It's almost like it's magic. Right panel? No, not right panel, they don't get it. He is not a pro wrestler as he pulls out handkerchiefs from his sleeve. And Candy is now getting really annoyed, as she does. He does not run a professional truck driving school. She also mentions to Marco that that was the dumbest guess, to which Boopsie asks again, Do you run a professional truck driving school? Yeah, Candy's boiling over now. The cape threw more ringing because she thought he might just be Batman but didn't want to reveal his secret identity. Good on you, Maureen. Uncle Sal is seen talking to a crew member who tells him that a reporter wants to talk to him. The reporter asks, How old are you? What's your favorite music group? Who's your favorite character to play? All of the answers that he gives make absolutely no sense to the real Damon. And then Uncle Sal imagines that Damon is currently riding the Dumbo ride in Magic Kingdom. We come to the conclusion of the episode with Anything Can Happen Day, and this is Ernie Reyes Sr. He is a karate master. Karate demonstrations include board breaking. They give pointers. Count to three, center yourself, believe in yourself, and then do the karate yell. As they are setting this up, they pull three members of the audience to participate in breaking a board, but only one of the audience members can actually do it, and that is because he is Ernie Reyes Jr. Ernie Reyes Jr. will later show up in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 movie and is already out here crushing boards. But notably in the mouseketeer, mouse club sense, he will also appear in a series that will come on in season four called My Secret Bodyguard. They show various kicks and moves to perfectly timed music. Then they discuss the attributes of martial arts, developing yourself physically, mentally, spiritually, and developing good character. Oh, and then of course, the ever important message: don't try this at home. Unless you have plywood and high confidence. The closing for this episode has the C from Ernie Reyes Sr. and Jr., and the Y is by quote Damon, i.e., Uncle Sal. The real Damon is still not present, but mid-closing, Uncle Sal sneaks out and meets the real Damon outside. Then they are approached by a bunch of fans who are looking for Damon. And then they both realize that they are looking for Uncle Sal and not actually Damon. This gentleman who plays Uncle Sal slash quote Damon will appear in other episodes in future seasons. The next episode we will call Squid Burgers and Rock and Roll. After a quick intro by Dee Dee, Damon, and Fred, we go over to another hot restaurant called Squid in a Box. We meet Wendy Wallow for the first time as she clocks in for her first day at Squid in the Box. She is a very notable character and she will come up for the remainder of the run of the show. Wendy Wallow is played by Lindsay. She is going to work at a Squid Fast Food restaurant. Nasty. I don't even like Captain D's or Long John Silvers, if Long John Silvers is even around, let alone fast food squid. Rocky is her boss or supervisor, whatever you want to call her, who tells her that her job is a cinch, but they all tell her that. Wendy is left alone for a bit and is told to listen for the timer that will indicate that the food is ready. When the timer goes off, Wendy is immediately attacked by a tentacle. Because why wouldn't she be? Apparently the food is not ready yet. Rocky comes out and says, Oh yeah, it's not ready yet, and then questions whether or not she's ever worked in a fast food restaurant. Boiler, Wendy has not. She hasn't worked many places, but she will. Frustrated, Rocky tells Wendy to prepare the buns and but to look out for the ink. Of course, when Wendy questions the ink, she is immediately squirted in the face by ink. Rocky says that the best part of working at this restaurant is the free food. Squid burgers. Fun. Yeah, sounds really slimy. Wendy needs to go check in the coolers to make sure they have enough food for the lunch rush. Right about this time, a customer played by Chase comes in. In the background for the remainder of the skit is absolute mayhem. Wendy is being chased by a gigantic squid who keeps carrying her off. But then at one point it turns into a whole squid matador sequence. And please commit this line to memory. Hi, I'm Wendy Wallow. I started work here today. Well, you're fired. Let that sink in. Let it dig deep in your psyche and your memory because you're gonna need to remember that. Next, we get a quick little blurb from Warren Eckstein and Ernie the pig, which seems a little rude after the prior days. Anything can happen day with Ernie Jr. and senior. He lets everybody know that pigs aren't dirty. They actually lack pores, which is why they roll in mud to cool off. Pigs are very smart and they will sit on command, much like a dog would do. My cat actually sits on command, so cats can do it too. Ernie the pig's favorite thing to do is to chew gum. Somewhere in the universe, babe is jealous that he didn't get there first. But babe can sing. That'll do, pig. That'll do. We get another cereal ad. This time it is Husky the Corn's Cornhusk Flakes. Of course, Husky the Corn is from Captain Cheapo's cartoon barge, you know, that knockoff pirate Captain from SpongeBob. He is actually part of the presentation, along with his ornary first mate, Margaret, i.e. Jennifer. Margaret declares that these corn husk flakes are nasty. It is the only cereal that includes all parts of the corn. Silk to husk. She is forced to take a bite, but ends up with the prize in her mouth, which was included in the bite, and it turns out to be a one cent stamp. Captain informs her that the box also turns into a puppet of sorts. I'll pass. I'll stick with the uh ant bran, which is funny enough because I'm actu actively eating raisin bran at work every morning. So yeah, I am thinking about eating ants every morning. What I want to be is a music video director. Hope from Orlando is invited to sit in on the making of the On Our Own video, which was featured this week on Tuesday, which was directed by a gentleman they refer to as Mouse Kateer Dave. This is the guy who makes most of their music videos for the remainder of the show, or for the entire run of the show, actually. Hope gets to automatically animate the puppet that is seen in the video. This is gonna be the what I show for homework for this episode. So you'll see what I'm talking about. The director says that he listened to the song about 200 times before forming his concept. I understand. I loved this song. I probably listened to it more than that, just in I don't know, in the entirety of its existence on earth. He wanted to include Ghostbusters references since that was the origin of the song. He tells Hope that it's very important to have a good relationship with both the talent and the crew from DP to janitor, which I love that he said that, because I've met some directors who care nothing about the below-the-line workers. They only care about the above-the-line. So I liked this little bit of advice. Mousketeer Dave says that the ears are very important. You must wear them whenever you're recording a mouseketeer video. He will shoot about four different edits of the video in order to cultivate what he wants, which tracks, because the song has the energy of someone who has listened to it 200 times. The video in its entirety is shown again as a reference point. Sidebar. There is another What I Wanna Be segment in the future about directing that I was actually contacted for because I said I wanted to be a movie director, but apparently my quote desire as a movie director was different from what they were actually looking for. I think that segment appeared in season four or five, but we'll get there. I'll know it when I see it. Great Moments in Sports is next. We are featuring the Pee-We Golf Invitational. This is Toddlers Playing Golf. Stinky Corrigan is an early favorite and wows the crowd with his whopping three-yard putt. Marcy Babe Wright gets stuck in a sand trap and just kind of her game falls apart from there. Stinky was looking good until he stopped to take a mid-game nap, which led Til Halpert to win the whole thing. Somehow Bob Hope was there and he came in third. Sure, why not? It's party day and we're having a rock and roll party. The whole party starts off with the song called Oogie Bay, the latest song by the Swinehards, a pig Latin band. Then we get some music news from Julie Tabouli, Brandy, who is the MMC answer to downtown Julie Brown on their answer to MTV. The first story is about Cher Prince and Madonna holding a benefit concert for people without last names. Honestly, would attend. That would be an absolutely amazing show. And of course, there's a couple other people we could add to that now. The free concert in the park will not be Sting, as previously mentioned, but Thing from the Adams family. This error was based on a typographical error. New kids on the block have moved and changed their name to something that would clearly not fit on a concert t-shirt. They will now be called The New Kids, two blocks down from where they used to live, across from Mama Luigi's Pizzeria. You can't miss it. Spike, Lindsay, has been burning up the charts with her new hit song Jack and Jill. Julie does a satellite interview with Spike, and she sings her song to for those who are not familiar with it at home. The complete album is titled Songs I Like to Scream, but she has one that comes out later, which is Lullabies I Like to Scream, Nursery Rhymes, Metal Band style. So we get an ad for Captain Cheapo's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum. The ad starts out with him singing that Diddy by The Swainhards while wearing what looks like a flesh-colored bodysuit with little bits of Prince Flair with the little, I guess you could call it a dicky in the front, some scarf, whatever. But he still has the ever-present parrot on his shoulder. The items in his collection include a tissue used by a drummer, or they very well could have said plumber, from the Fine Young Cannibals, a shoelace that was once owned by someone who almost went to a Debbie Gibson concert, and a half-eaten egg salad sandwich that was consumed by Buddy Holly back in 1956, glasses included. Can imagine that thing smells swell right now. He promises that there will be more items to view by the time you get there. Back to Julie Tabouli, and she introduces the musical performance with a little bit of spike added in, in which she screams that the song is gonna be the heart of rock and roll. Originally performed by Huey Lewis in the news, but this time it's Chase Damon and Josh. For some reason, Josh is dressed like Daniel from The Karate Kid, but he is just adorable as always. And I love that the whole yelling out of the cities portion of the song, Chase does get to yell out Oklahoma City, seeing that as that's where he is from. The closing has Brandy and Lindsay giving the C, and the Y is from Hope from the What I Wanna Be segment. When Brandy and Lindsay do their part, Lindsay does her part in the spike yell, which gets an annoyed look from Brandy. And now it's time for the Friday episode, which we are going to call Janet Jealousy and Word Power. After an opening by Kevin, Jennifer, and Brandy, we get a performance of Miss You Much by Janet Jackson with Rocky and Dee Dee on the leads and Chase, Tiffany, and Damon in the backup. The Janet choreography was almost shows up, but not quite. They have a little bit of it. And I remember this being a very memorable video with a very memorable dance. The backups start as silhouettes. I really liked that. It was really hard to sing along with though because the lyrics were so Disney fied that they chopped it all kinds of up into bits. We then get a bonus guest day segment with the Alex Trebek cutout. And the lucky club member that gets to spend time with him is Marty from New Jersey. When his mom told him that he was going to meet him, cardboard cutout, he had to lay down with a cold rag on his head. They go for a ride in a limo, they play Jeopardy, although Alex gives him the silent treatment, and they go to the Magic Kingdom and get to actually be grand marshals of the Daily Parade. My question is, who is this kid? Is he the child of a crew member? I Googled it to see if I could figure out who it actually was, but the think bot said that it was Jennifer who got to spend the day with the cutout. That is not the case. Secret of Lost Creeks episode is called Change Partners. We last left Jeannie at the square dance, and she was getting jealous over Travis dancing with somebody else. She acts aloof and then draws the attention of a real group of winners. One of the guys says that he is the man of her dreams, and I loved her response when she said, Oh, so you're Freddie Krueger? This dude is wearing a bolo tie and has Kenny G hair. He tells her that he is from the area to which she acts shocked because why else would you be there? Nobody wants to claim to be from there. She takes him up on his offer to dance, and this gets Travis's attention. He being Bolo Boy lets her know that there is nothing too square dancing. No kidding. It's basically a dance based on commands. Travis is mad that she's dancing with Bolo Boy, who we learn is named Hardy. She tells him to go have fun with Daisy May, and this turns into an angry square dance off, I guess you could call it. All the local boys are very taken by Jeannie and her city girl style. That girl has more flash than an neon sign, says the girl that Travis is dancing with. Ooh, sick burn Daisy May. Her name is actually Cammie. The guys start to ask Jeannie questions about the gold, but I'm wondering, shouldn't they already know since they are locals that they're boasting about so proudly? Travis comes over to stop the conversation and starts a tussle with Hardy. There's really no other word for what they're doing other than a tussle, but they're actually rolling in the hay. The whole thing looks super itchy because it's being done on top of straw. Barn Animals are released as a distraction by Robert and Russie, who have been watching from under the stairs. And this is all very peak 1990s, teen after school drama, like something from Saved by the Bell. The next day, Travis is holding an unbruised, non-swollen eye in an attempt to get sympathy from Jeannie. Charlie asks how the dance was. Charlie is a typesetter at the paper. To which Jeannie responds, it was a real barn burner. You're so witty. He says that he may be able to help them answer the next clue, which is about Sasquatch, but it will require a hike and camping. Jeannie is physically disgusted that she will have to be required to sleep on the ground. Grandpa continues to be irritated by the whole thing. Again, will not help. Cami casually wanders into the office and makes another lame ass dig to Jeannie. Then she essentially invites herself on this hiking camping adventure. And now we're hiking to find out where the Sasquatch never sleeps. Next is decrease your word power. Fred is back as Phineas Lingo and he introduces the word stridgel. This is a Roman carrot-shaped scraping tool that was used to scrape excess moisture off of the skin after bathing. So glad that towels were invented. I may actually be able to forget this one. You're welcome for the trivia. Hall of Fame is next, and we start off with Y Lana, a 14-year-old Chinese brush painter, who is the youngest person in the world at the time to have ever had an art show at the Smithsonian. And she speaks no English, so the whole thing is done through a translator. She started painting at two and a half years old because she wanted to copy her dad. By age six, she had completed over 4,000 paintings. The paintings don't take very long to do because she lets the brush sing and the ink dance, which is an old Chinese saying when it comes to Chinese brush painting. These are actually really cool little paintings. And she likes to draw animals because they emit the most emotions. Her favorite thing to do to paint are monkeys. She even ends the whole thing off by painting a Mickey Mouse. And then we get the aerobic diehards from Maryland. They show up looking like Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons had head banging party with these bangs. These 12 members met in dance class. If you looked at my social media earlier this past week, you would know that I would say, all I can say is squeeze, squeeze, squeeze your way to Slimmer Thighs and Vitamin C roundhouse reference there. The contrast is kind of crazy between a brush painter and an aerobic dance team. The closing splits the C and the Y between the group of girls. You get six of them doing one and six of them doing the other. So that's it. Five episodes. November 1989 was chaotic, wholesome, aggressively pun-filled, and somehow it all worked. Next week, more hairspray, more drama, possibly more livestock. And now it's time to say goodbye. Thank you for joining me on another episode of Mouseka Cast with Mandy for season two of the all-new Mickey Mouse Club. Two more weeks, and we'll be ready to dive into season three, which brings in a whole new fun cast of characters. And we're well on our way to some of the best people the show has ever seen. As always, I would love it if you would leave me a like and a subscribe and a comment on whatever platform you are listening to the podcast on. And I can always be reached at MouseKecast with Mandy on Facebook and MousekaCast on Instagram, where I like to post fun little things from this particular show and other topics. From the 1990s. I will see you again very soon. So I'll sign off by saying Mouska Mouska Mousketeer. Mouska Mandy's out of here. See you real soon.

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