Episode 18- Season 2, Episodes 36-40

Welcome back to Mousekekast with Mandy as we dive into MMC Rewatch – Season 2, Episodes 36–40 (Nov 20–24, 1989). This Thanksgiving-week run mixes wacky wigs, worm songs from the MMC Choir (Kevin substituting for David), the “Where It’s Been” street-quarter vignette, and a running Bigfoot mystery in The Secret of Lost Creek (German-dubbed). Episode 37 features a student debate showdown (Westlake Prep vs. Wiseguy High) with silent-film bits, furniture stunts, and a Donny Osmond moment. Episode 38 keeps the pace with in-park games and interstitials, plus fan interactions and a continuing Lost Creek thread. Episode 39 foregrounds more fan mail and contest teases; Episode 40 wraps with performance clips, park antics, and a reflective closer on the era’s charm. Mandy guides with warmth and sharp humor as we celebrate MMC’s quirky chaos, invite listener memories, and tease what’s next.

Transcript

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Happy hi everybody. My name is Mandy, and welcome to Mouse the Cast with Unity, a deep dive into the amazing show that was the all-new Mickey Mouse Club or the MMC from the 1990s. We will be breaking down all of the episodes, learning more about the individual cast members, and exploring their subsequent projects. So grab your Letterman's jacket and join me in the diner.

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Happy hi everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Mouska Cast with Mandy. It is currently April the 1st of 2026, and it has been a busy couple of weeks in the Mauski universe. I will not get into all of the little things that have happened because they haven't all been good, but I will point out the good ones. Ryan hosted Saturday Night Live and he wore an MMC shirt in the closing, as well as having his movie Project Tale Mary come out. I have not yet seen it. Hopefully I can do that very soon. And JC had a big couple of weeks. He signed on to be a producer on a Broadway play, Titanic, which is a Titanic-esque adjacent, whatever you want to call it, play that he's also doing producing with Joey. And JC just got back from his very first fan convention, which from what I can see went swimmingly and he had a ton of fun. So I hope we get to see him again in the future doing such events because sidebar, I work a lot of those kinds of events. So I'm hoping to see him do more so that I can see him again for the first time since I was 17. We are back with the second to last week of episodes from season two. I realized that in my last episode I said that it was the second to last episode or second to last week of episodes before the end of season two, but I was wrong. This is the final one. We made it to Thanksgiving week of 1989, and I hope you're ready for another mix of heartfelt chaos, questionable wigs, and singing babies. That's right, we are diving into season two, episodes 36 through 40, airing November 20th to the 24th. It's a week that includes worm salads, fake debates, baby parties, and a continuing Bigfoot mystery. So grab your Pepsi Clear and buckle up. Let's get to it. Actually, on second thought, I think that Clear Pepsi didn't come out until like 1992 because I clearly remember the video being set to right now by Van Halen. I'm sorry, Van Hagar, but it matters not. Let's get right into it. Alright, this first episode, episode 36, which aired on November the 20th, 1989. We're going to call Nobody Likes Me But the Worms Sure Do. The episode opens with Tiffany, Josh, and Damon introducing the lineup for the show, and then we go into another visit with the Mickey Mouse Club choir. But this time we have Kevin in place of David, since he is no longer on the show. We kick off this rousing performance with Nobody Likes Me, aka the Worm song. But Albert is acting absolutely thrilled about the Juicy Worms, like loves the juicy worms. And then we jump into On Top of Spaghetti, except instead of cheese, we get worms. Thanks to Albert again. The other songs include Ice Cream for Ice Cream, Do Your Ears Hang Low, and Be Kind to Your Web Footed Friends. Rocky, as always, is delivering a flawless performance that is being wasted on a nonsensical song, but nonetheless, it is very enjoyable. And we end with Albert once again praising the worms for one last time. Then we go into a segment called Where It's Been. The topic is the street quarter. Lindsay is a very convincing little girl with her pigtails, and Maweva is her mom. Lindsay's hopping down the sidewalk and she sees a quarter and wants to pick it up, but her mom says, You don't know where it has been. At least the quarter in question was heads up, so it's pick-upable. I am super superstitious and will not pick it up if it is tails up. But anyway, that's just me. This leads into the life of a random street quarter, mostly done through stock footage. It goes from the minting to a mailman in Midville, Ohio, which is basically Mickey Mouse Club's version of Dairy Main, to his nephew's Piggy Bank, which was acquired through a bribe to stop playing his accordion. Until his nephew's Piggy Bank encountered an unfortunate accident and the quarter was set free. At this time, the quarter made its way to a comic book store and it was used to purchase a Sponge Head and Mop Girl comic. Then it fell out of the comic book vendor's pocket to where it was lying on the street again, where Lindsay and Moeva discovered it. Educational? Not really. Adorable? Sure. The segment was sponsored by the National Foundation to cram kids' heads full of useless information. Honestly, that's pretty much all I have up there. I'm really good at trivia because of all this useless knowledge. And in this whole entire skit, Lindsay is really giving boo for Monsters Inc., so I may have to post a side by side. So stay tuned to my social media for that. Next is a plug for a contest that we are yet to hear about. This is the Mousketeer for a day contest, which is not actually plugged during the show, but in the quote unquote commercials in between shows. I say quote unquote because essentially all of the ads that are shot on this channel have to do with other things on this channel. They're not regular, like General Mills toys kind of ads. They're all about shows coming up and a lot of previews later on. We'll get music videos and a lot of good content for the Mickey Mouse Club that if you blink, you might miss. But this was shown in the channel appropriate content shown in between shows. The winner will be announced on Friday and will be on one of the shows the following week. Truly, I would have passed out if I had won this award. But I guess I missed it. Next is Mouse Mail, and Damon reads a fan mail letter for Rocky, who asks who her influences are. She says they are Patty LaBelle, Anita Baker, Barbara Streisand, Oprah Winfrey, and Michael Jackson. Basically, an entire VH1 Divas live lineup. And her biggest influence is her mom. The next letter is actually for Damon, and Fred reads it and it asks, where does he come from? This then leads into a, I guess we could call it skit that hints that Damon is from Gilligan's Island, and this whole skit is acted out with the help of Bob Denver, which is Gilligan. This opens with a Gilligan riding a bike to make a record player work in a very Gilligan's Island manner. And Damon very soon after leaves for the mainland. No questions were asked as to how he actually got back to the mainland, seeing as the boat crashed or whatever. I never really watched Gilligan's Island. We then check in with The Secret of Lost Creek and yet another German dubbed episode. This one is called Return to Stoneface. Actually, all of the episodes for this week were watched in German as they were not included in the episodes I watched on YouTube, and the translations might be a little off at times. Again, these were all originally shown on Club Disney, which was the German version of Mickey Mouse Club, and these were shown a couple years later. Shocker, stupid ass Hardy, is the one who was stealing Robert's Bigfoot photos, as I had suspected. And his disguise, if you want to call it that, is a cross between a swashbuckler and an old timey detective. But Creepy Amish dude is lurking and he sees him steal the photo. The next morning, Jeannie, Travis, and Grandpa discover that the photo is missing and are looking for it, but they come up short. This makes Robert fear that he will never be famous now. Ah, the times before you could just go viral with a picture. But who knew that the picture even existed? For some reason, Charlie blames the Yeti? Huh? I blame the translations because this is confusing. But they all end up blaming who they refer to as Blackbeard, but I prefer to call him Creepy Amish Dude. The ad that creepy Amish Dude was taking up in the paper when they all stumbled across him in the paper when, you know, it was announced that Robert took a picture, blah blah blah, was about a runaway mule. You know, the ad that cost all $2.25 to post. Jeannie runs off to find Dude or his mule. Again, subtitles are not my friend. Grandpa does not want the authorities involved in knowing that there was a theft at the newspaper. And I learn here, apparently Yeti is German for Bigfoot. Hmm, who would have thought? Jeannie runs into one of the sisters at the bank, but also sees some white-haired guy talking in a congratulatory manner to stupid ass Hardy, as I am from here on out gonna refer to him as. She is immediately sus over this behavior from Hardy and white-haired dude. She is then on the hunt for Travis to share her findings, but she is told that he is having ice cream with Charlie, who actually turns out to be Daisy May. I mean Cammy. She still goes and interrupts their little date, and she runs up and tells him what she just saw at the bank and that she is going to go back to Stoneface to investigate further. And you guys have no idea how many notes I just took for a five-minute episode. Again, I blame the German. Next is an in-part game of balloon shaving, which is always interesting. One girl actually successfully achieves shaving said balloon, but I am thinking that the cap must have been on the razor because everybody else had that thing pop in their face within like 0.2 nanoseconds. We wrap the episode with the Jets performing Same Love, which is genuinely a very pretty song. The message of the song is how can this love bring me so much joy, but also bring me so much pain? That is a very valid question. And, you know, one for the ages. It's a great love song topic. However, these people are all family members. And it was verified to me just last weekend that the one that I previously referred to as Curly from the Boys Club in season one, whose name is actually Gene, was indeed part of this family and once a member of the Jets. Before he went off with Glen Madearos and formed the Boys Club, and then Glen Madearos went off and just went on his solo thing. So, you know, Curly or Gene or whatever is just out there flapping in the wind for all we know. There is a shot of a girl in the audience who looks absolutely miserable during this whole song segment. One of the members of the band is named Moana, which actually makes sense since this entire family is from Tonga. They recorded their first album at Prince's studio, which is escaping me at the moment. I know it's something part. Please chime in and let me know what it is because it's escaping my brain at the moment. And they said it was an incredible experience that Prince had everything you could dream of having at a recording studio to blow off steam, and they just said it was a very positive experience. Their musical influences are all over the board and span many, many years, and they are very active in the Jess Say No campaign to keep a positive vibe and positive message with their fans and keep everybody safe. The band's name, The Jets, came from the song by Elton John called Benny and the Jets. They didn't go any further as to why they chose the Jets. I don't know, maybe their dad's name is Benny or something. I don't know. But Fred asks the hard-hitting question: how do you manage a band with 16 siblings in one house? The bathroom schedule must have looked like a NASA launch grid. The closing has the C being delivered by the female lead, whose name I still haven't written down, and the Y being delivered by the male lead, who I also am yet to write down. Okay, and now we're going to get into episode 37, which we're gonna call National Student Debates of Doom. But before I do that, I just need to say Paisley Park is the name of Prince's Recording Studio. I knew it would come to me, though. In all transparency, I looked it up. Anyway, this episode starts off with Fred, Dee Dee, and Lindsay opening the show and giving a brief rundown. And then Mueva hosts as two schools face off in a debate. This is Westlake Preparatory Academy, Tiffany, Rocky, and Josh, versus Wise Guy High, Chase, Brandy, and Damon. The first topic: who was America's greatest president? Josh promptly earns his team seven points with his thoughtful answer of Lincoln and a lengthy supporting argument. The wise guys immediately start off flinging paper airplanes so you know where this is headed. Their response, if he was so cool, why is he only on the five dollar bill? Grant is on the $50 bill, so he must have been better. This earns them eight points. Others' questions include, should students be involved in determining the curriculum? Tiffany is trying to deliver another thoughtful response, but the wise guys are pretending to fall asleep and it throws her off her game. And then they start mocking her, which earns them 10 points and earns Tiffany a little meltdown. Their rebuttal is just to stick their tongues out at the other team. For this, they earn 25 points.

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What kind of argument is that, Miss Moderator?

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The 25 point time, Miss Student. In the end, the wise guys earn points just for making comments, and Westlakes loses points for complaining. We get a silent film segment called The Movers. Again, this is Fred and Moeva as always, where Moeva accidentally ends up surfing a mattress down the stairs of a brownstone, which is actually a lot of fun. You should try it. We did that once in college. Fred starts to toss furniture over the side stairwell, which also has a lower stairwell where Moeva is standing, and she's off to the side, and Fred is just basically burying her in furniture. As usual, the silent film leads into invention connection. In this case, it's related to furniture. We have a creator named Kristen who has made something that looks like a series of blocks, but is kind of the predecessor to the Love Sack couches. Her foam blocks can be turned into either a bed, a couch, or a chair. But from the looks of it, for a much smaller person. Then we meet Bob Denver again of Gilligan's Island. This time he is warning viewers that they need to remove their hat once a month or risk having it permanently fused to your head. Yeah, I guess they're just trying to make up some time there. Then we follow another fan named Kristen who gets to spend the day with Donnie Osman as he is preparing for his show in Arizona. They play a clip of a song called Sacred Emotion, which I had completely, completely forgotten the song existed. Honestly, that song has 1989 written all over it, and I am here for it, because that was a pretty good song, if I remember back in the day. Anyway, Kristen gets to sit in on his sound check and then she mentions how scared he must be to be performing in front of all of these people. He's Donnie Osmond, I'd say not so much. He is trying to change the image of himself from the TV show to be a bit edgier. Don't know exactly what he means by that. He's still pretty darn clean cut these days. Though his cousin Jared Osmond, ooh, if you watch Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, you know where I'm getting with that one. Back to Donnie. He also feels like he missed out on a lot of teenage stuff due to the way that he lived at the time. But those experiences made him who he is now. Though I often wonder how a teenage experience of just a regular, non-strict high school student varies to a Mormon, strictly Mormon high school student. That's actually a topic for another day. This will get a good laugh from Chad because he knows what I'm getting at for this one. But back to Donnie and Kristen. She ends up this entire time, her segment, with Donnie Osman watching his show from the stage. He's sweet, he's reflective, he's basically the OG Jonas Brothers energy before they started touring together. I'm sorry, I was not a Jonas Brothers fan. Were they Mormon? I don't know. Back to the Housewives. I know that what's his name? The oldest one. Can't think of his name. Kevin? Is that Kevin Jonas? Anyway, the oldest one appears on The Real Housewives of New Jersey at one point. He's designing a house. Back to Mickey Mouse Club. Next, we get a totally serious caveman's rebuttal from Chase as Yag, our resident caveman. He is hitting himself in the face and then complaining in a Neanderthal language. The cavemen are not stupid, but are very smart. He even went to Harvard Business School and he has the sheepskin diploma to prove it. Now I'm not entirely sure what he is rebutting, as there was nothing earlier in this episode about stupid cavemen, but the only thing I can take from this is that truly he was a predecessor to those Geico cavemen, you know, the ones who wanted the Mangal salsa and they didn't like being interpreted as stupid. I'm just thinking that Chase is ahead of his time. Donald Squawkbox goes to Boston, and the complaints include a friend not keeping secrets, spending all your time studying and not doing well on tests, dogs that can't make up their mind, which I feel like we've heard before, family vacations when it's too crowded in the car for everybody, too much time devoted to school and homework, and with no time left to talk on the phone. The world would be a better place if there were no nuclear missiles, hmm. And a kid that wishes to be the overall supreme dictator of everything. Between that and the nuclear missiles, where these kids ahead of their time. Spike comes on to plug the Mousketeer for a day contest and to remind the audience that the winner will be announced on Friday. And of course, Spike does this in the very spike manner of screaming. Next is the PE Hustle, which is a game led by Fred and Dee Dee. This is an obstacle course game where you have to get dressed, do jumping jacks, go through tires, land towels in a bin in a basketball manner, go back through the tires and change again. Chaotic as always, the girl wins. For some reason, I just want to say girl power here because it seems like the girl generally wins. Next, we get the video jam, and this is I Feel the Earth Move from Jennifer with Lindsay, Fred, Kevin, and Tiffany. Fred starts the whole thing off as a DJ, like think Delilah from the early 2000s, late night DJ, and he gets up to take a little break, and Jen comes in while he's out of the studio and locks him out and plays her song. The video is basically everybody skiing is the best way I can describe it, through the streets with that aggressively animated, cheesy green screen behind them. And there's a lot of wind because they're getting blown all over the place. Now I'm not sure what they're standing on while shooting this skiing portion, but there's several times where Lindsay looks like she's about to fall over. But it's just an aggressively early MMC video. For the closing, the C is delivered by Jennifer and the Y is delivered by the Wise Guys. Just a little side note for the ending when they do a little close-up on Chase's shoes. I swear he is wearing clown shoes because they look entirely too large for the young man's feet. Now, this particular episode, the next one, the Wednesday. I this is gonna be a really short entry because this episode was not available to me on YouTube, nor was it available to me through my friends that also have episodes recorded. This is a very piecemealed episode together. I looked everywhere, but this was just not gonna work for me. So this was very short. And we're gonna call it Gold Rush Fest and the Return of Professor WoW. Which I guess I should really call the introduction of Professor WoW because this is the first time we meet him. After an opening from Rocky, Tiffany, and Brandy, we go into a performance of It's No Crime. And this is Albert as he takes the lead with the rest of the guys Damon, Chase, Josh, Kevin. That's the rest of the guys. I think it's escaping me right now. It's in a courtroom setting. Josh, as always, is tiny and adorable, just looking like a cutie patootie. And eventually, yes, he will get older. And I have to stop referring to him as adorable. For the secret of Lost Creek, this episode is called Gold Rush Fest. Jeannie and Travis are climbing up a bare face of the mountain, which she's gotta be loving, to crawl into Stoneface's face because she swears she saw a light in there the other night, and she must find this out. But they don't see anything when they climb in his eyes, nose, nostrils, mouth, whatever it is. She says there's got to be another entrance that they can climb into. But Travis refuses to help her. She says she'll do it without him. So they rest at the top of the mountain and they can see a lake that Jeannie never knew was there. How do you live somewhere? I mean, granted, she hasn't lived there that long, but how do you not know there's a lake there? It's kind of a big thing to miss. But she comments that the lake looks like a boomerang. I'm sure we'll have to revisit that comment later on. Gold rush days are happening back in town, and this is as exciting as it sounds. It's just, you know, like a renaissance fair, but it's gold rush days. All the town's men must wear flannel and fake black beards. Stupid ass Hardy shouts out to Jeannie as he's in the back of a truck and she's walking down the street, and I think he's asking her to go to the picnic, but she turns him down again. German. And Jeannie is dressed like she just walked out of Anna Green Gables, because apparently that's how you dress back in those days. And this is a dress that her grandma was wearing on the very day that she met grandpa during Gold Rush days. Cammy Cam is dressed like a Wild West showgirl. Would be nice. What's called Showgirl? Apparently, all the guys have to wear their really bad fake beards or they will end up being thrown in jail. Cammy is expecting Travis to win the wood chopping contest so that she can give him a kiss as a prize. Okay. They all head to the picnic, and there's lots of mix of activities happening, including a pie eating contest that I can never view the same after watching Stand By Me. And then the wood chopping contest begins. As it's beginning, Jeannie looks over her shoulder and sees Creepy Amish Dude behind her. And then she abandons the wood chopping contest because Creepy Amish Dude, who I now refer to in my notes as Cad, walks away. So she goes to follow him. Next, we get to meet one of Chase's reoccurring characters. This is Professor WoW, Master of the Obvious. At least I think this is the episode that this happens in. Again, I piece this episode together. Professor. Not the spot, sharpest tool in the shed. Uh, he's looking for a volunteer, and there's only two people in the audience. It's Jennifer and Kevin. Jennifer runs off, so it is up to Kevin, who is all too eager to help. Kevin comes up and introduces himself as Doogie Boogie, the bugle boy from Company B, and he is dressed like a Boy Scout. The lesson that Professor WoW is doing today is on the importance of air. And he points to a candle and asks Doogie what will happen if he puts a glass over it. Doogie says it'll go out. And Professor is shocked and told Doogie to remember to breathe, because Doogie's like, yeah, no kidding, dude. Doogie asks, rather than referring to air, he's referring to oxygen. And then he labels off all the things that are included in air. And of course, you know, Professor WoW's just like, yeah, whatever, buddy. The professor notices Doogie's bugle, which is obviously hanging off his shoulder because he's the bugle boy from Company B, and asks him, What happens when you force air through it? You mean when you blow it? No, I will not blow it. No time for mistakes. This is science! Professor WoW may not blow it, but I sure did. And this is not science. I forgot to plug in my mic after I took a sound bite off my thumb drive. My bad. So you got to hear that last little portion, including a car driving by through my microphone on my computer rather than my plug-in mic. Anyway, back to Professor WoW, because hopefully he'll make me look a little bit smarter here. He notices again, as I said, Doogie's bugle and he makes him blow through it and almost forces Doogie to break his teeth. And this, of course, creates music. Next, Professor moves on to a glass of milk with a straw in it, or what he calls a wind implement in a bovine lactation. Shh, I think I'm gonna refer to milk as that always from here on out. He blows into the straw in the glass of milk, but he is surprised to find that instead of providing music, it provides bubbles. Why is that? And he's having a lot of fun blowing into this straw. Doogie attempts to explain why one happened over the other after all, because he does have a merit badge in biochemical engineering. Next, the professor questions what will happen with a balloon. And we get the first time he says observe, which is his his nice little tagline. And then Doogie just says, I think you're full of hot air. And we get this fabulous noise out of Chase's mouth.

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What an airhead.

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Sorry if that was a bit loud. I just love Chase's little scream there. Anything can happen day for this episode was Warren Eckstein, the creature keeper, but I cannot say what kind of creatures he was keeping in this episode because again, I could not find the full thing. That is what I have for the Wednesday episode. Haha, this time I plugged my microphone back in. I don't see that happening very many more times, seeing as my thumb drive is full and now everything is saved on my computer. Okay, episode 39. This we're gonna call Pupils Court: The People versus Jack and the Beanstalk. This episode opens with Tiffany, Chase, and Dee Dee. It's courtroom day at the Mickey Mouse Club featuring Jack, Kevin, versus Willie the Giant, Fred. Maweva is Judge Waffler and she's presiding over the case. Jack has many fans in the courtroom due to his beloved status, and he says that he is a hero. Willie, on the other hand, is met with booze and is claiming that Jack broke into his home and stole his singing harp, his most prized possession. This is Jennifer. Willie starts off with his typical phi fi-fo-fum poem, and Jack responds in an equally silly manner with his own little poem. Willie says that Jack climbed up a giant weed to steal his prized possession, and he just wants it back. Willie also mentions that he wants to be called the remarkably tall person rather than giant, because that makes him sound stupid. Jack objects because he says the name is stupid. Jack is innocent because Time magazine called him a hero, and he has brought so much joy to Happy Valley. He didn't steal the harp, he simply freed it. Jack then calls the harp to the stand, and of course she sings all of her responses because she is a singing harp. But Josh thinks that her singing is just a manner of performing and she's gonna take requests. The harp says when she first saw Jack at the house, she said, or she sang, set me free, why don't you babe? And then she gets the help from the gallery or whatever you call the audience in the courtroom. Jack says he does not intend on keeping her because the singing is absolutely driving him crazy, and Willie can have her back. The harp just keeps singing despite the orders from the judge. Take me back in the name of the But Willie doesn't want her back now either, and they argue over who gets her. The judge finally says the last one out of the courtroom gets to keep her, and then we get a mass exodus out of said courtroom. We then go into the wonders of science, and this time the topic is Chase's hair. This is a fake documentary breaking down how they invented his hairstyle. It began in a lab where Chase showed up one day looking like Alfalfa. Dr. Werner von Earhart was responsible to make this immense challenge work because his hair had to be sturdy and dotable. They went through many options, like a mohawk, long, luscious, wavy locks, an electrocution look, uh, something that looked kind of like a kid and play high top, among others. It was like trying to dig the Panama Canal with only a bent spoon, the doctor said. Sometimes it would fall out just by touching it, and other times it would spontaneously combust. Results? A Wolverine meets vanilla ice hybrid that apparently required a product from the Sea of Tranquility on the moon. And then the rest of the cast wanted to try out the hairstyle too. This hair truly is iconic if this segment doesn't tell you otherwise. I apologize, my cat is knocking stuff off of my desk. What I want to be is a dance teacher. We meet a young man named Jason Reese, and he gets to go to New York and go to New York City's school number two to meet the famous choreographer Jacques D'Ambroy. I think that's how we're gonna say his name. He joined the New York City ballet in 1949 before becoming a choreographer. The visit starts off with a private lesson between Jason and Jacques, and Jacques tells him that it is actually harder for guys to get dancing roles because there are less roles to try out for. Jason gets to join the class that Jacques is leading at the school, and Jason says that he loves to dance because it teaches him discipline and strength. I did a quick Google search on Jason, and I see where there was a professional dancer named Jason Reese, but I am not sure if it is truly the same person. And then we hop into Dopey P. Which is a new TV show that's going to be coming on in the Mauska verse. Mr. Pennymoor has discovered that the diamonds are gone, and his assistant, Lindsay, suggests that they call the police, but Mr. Pennymoor wants someone more clever than the police. He wants Dopey P., who immediately slams a window shut on Mr. Pennymoor's hands, and of course he laughs. He tosses powder everywhere after Mr. Pennymoor says that Dopy is dusting for fingerprints. He chases after the culprit, or he will chase after the culprits, just as soon as he can figure out how to stop the windshield wipers and put the top down on the convertible as the culprits get away. The whole thing ends up with Dopy blowing up the building, which sounds morbid. Another entry into the Be a Mousketeer for a Day contest, and a horn is presented every time Chase goes to speak. And he gets truly annoyed because every time he opens his mouth, he is presented with horns instead. Party Day goes full surrealist fever dream with a baby party. This whole thing starts off with Fred dressed as a baby, but it's a very creepy baby and it's very much nightmare fuel. The sounds he's making are spot on, and this is just an ad for the baby channel. Next, to you know get even weirder, Damon is also dressed as a giant baby and sitting in a high chair, and he is being spoon-fed. In order to speed things up to get himself fed, he starts to cry. First, he gets the appetizer of apple puree, which he likes. And then the main course is strained beets, which he says are tangy and chewy. I don't know how baby food could be chewy. Then he gets strained asparagus, which he is not a fan of, and he meets the spoon with lockjaw. Every time he talks, he is also met with another spoonful of food, much in the manner Chase was met with a horn sound. We then go into Tales from the Crib. In the next lineup of questionable baby material, Aunt Irma forces a rattle on the baby, and while Uncle, whomever Fred is playing, blows cigar smoke into the baby's face. And this is shot from the baby's POV. And then they, of course, shove the camera in the baby's face. But Aunt Irma ends this whole thing off with giving the baby a toy, which I can only describe as a stuffed chipacabra. Yeah, no toquise, por favor. They top the whole baby thing off with a dance number called Three of a Kind. This is Dee Dee, Brandy, and Tiffany all dancing on their knees with giant baby shoes on their knees. And they're just crawling around in bonnets and baby doll dresses. Yeah. The closing is the C by the babies still on their knees, where they remain throughout the entire ending. And the Y is Damon still sitting in a high chair. Fred is still on stilts from the earlier skit as the giant, and Damon stays in the high chair for the entire ending. Somebody take Damon Pampolina's man card away. And now for Friday. This one is called Right Back Where We Started From in Weirdville. Friday starts off with some very impressive pie jump splits from the boys before going into an opening from Lindsay, Damon, and Maweva. Brandy opens up the episode with a performance of Right Back Where We Started From with Tiffany, Dee Dee, and Rocky dancing in front of what were supposed to be dressing rooms while wearing jazzer size gear. Except for Brandy's not. She's wearing a dress in like this little uh red cowboy hat kind of thing. At one point, Brandy is playing a saxophone in front of a giant green screen of clouds, which turns into a moon at the end, so color me confused. If you could bottle the scent of 1989 Spandex and Aquanet, this would be it. Lindsay and Kevin go to a commercial where they offer Chase some bubblegum, but he turns it down. When he's asked why he doesn't like bubblegum, Chase confesses that he can't blow bubbles. And Kevin even goes so far as to call him a dweeb. But Mouse Co's bubble pump to the rescue. First, you take the pump and you hide it behind your back. It has a hook that will attach conveniently to your pocket, and then you loop the tube from the device behind your ear and insert the end of it into your mouth. Then you take the gum. As you chew, you apply pressure to the pump and wow, you're friends. And you'll never blow it again. Back to Lost Creek. This episode is called Behind Bars. And we are back in action at the wood chopping race, and Jeannie has again spotted Creepy Amish Dude. She goes after him, but not in a very discreet manner. She's basically following him like five feet behind him. He goes behind a truck, but she can't see him, so she looks into the truck, which is full of TNT. And then Creepy Amish Dude surprises her. She plays it off like she's just wanting to know if he found his ass. I mean his donkey, which he has not, and then she excuses herself. Back at the contest, Travis wins, and Jeannie is back just in time to watch Cammie deliver her prize-winning kiss on him. She insists that she must speak to him at that very moment. And of course, Cammy gets her knickers on a twist. Jeannie tells Travis what just happened, and he is not pleased that she quote, let him escape, unquote, so easily. They walk away, but stupid ass Hardy and his buddies come to arrest Travis for not wearing a Merkin on his face, I mean a fake beard on his face, but he insists that he has a real beard, so he doesn't have to wear the fake beard. Cammy is hellbent on having a picnic with Travis, so she takes some food to him in jail, which is a literal cage where Travis has been set so that they can enjoy a carefree meal together. Jeannie talks to the sisters about whether or not the lake was named after their father, which it was, because it's called Lake Augusta. The lake used to be part of the river to which she says she needs to leave and do some research on. And they are so shocked that she has left without eating. Robert and Russie say they found the truck that almost ran them over and want to show it to Jeannie. And what do you know? It's the TNT truck. Jeannie sneaks closer to the truck only to see that stupid ass Hardy and his buddies are loading more boxes into the truck. I guess the creepy Amish dude found his ass after all. Then they all jump in or hold on to it, as it is the case for stupid ass Hardy. Russy says that they must be going to Stoneface. I guess we'll find out next week. Then Rocky comes on and announces the winner of the Mouse Kateer for a Day contest. Her name is Courtney Treppish, and she was chosen from over 10,000 entries. She gets surprised at school with a camera crew. Imagine thinking you're in trouble in algebra class, and it's actually the principal coming in with a camera crew to announce that she's going to be on the Mickey Mouse Club. She will be on the Thursday episode for next week, which is the last week of season two. Finally, Hall of Fame introduces Kristen Johnson from Washington. She is a forest and animal conservationist, and she introduces a Kinkatchew, which is originally from the rainforests, and she's really interested in saving the rainforest and spreading the news about it. She has been saving birds and other animals since she was four, and she speaks to classes about conservation and what they can do to help preserve the rainforest. Mark and Robert Litton are the next recipients, and they are yo-yo experts, and they show various tricks such as the sleeper, walk the dog, rocking the baby, brain twister, fairious wheel, and Eiffel Tower. They can do it two-handed, which looks just entirely too confusing for my brain. And they learned the basics from their dad. They said that the best way to do yo-yos is to not fling it with your hand down, but to hold the yo-yo in your palm face up and fling it over your finger. I guess that's the best way to describe it. The closing has the C by the Yo-Yo brothers and the Y by Brandy, still wearing her hat, but she does not have the saxophone this time. And that wraps up Thanksgiving week from 1989 with babies, beards, worms, wisdom from the Jets, just another week at the Mickey Mouse Club. So that's season two, episodes 36 through 40, where the lessons are heartfelt, the wigs are teased to heaven, and the moral is always maybe don't feed worms to your friends. Next time we'll jump into the first week of December to see if Lost Creek finally solves the mystery or just continues dumbing itself in German. Either way, I'll be here to watch it no matter what language it's in. And now it's time to say goodbye. Thank you guys for joining me on another episode of Mouska Cast with Mandy. I want to apologize again for the issue at the beginning of the Wednesday episode. I'm hoping that when I run it through my special software before posting it, that it won't sound as bad. I will not do it again, or I'll do my best not to do it again. Although I did forget to mention one other thing that happened in this particular episode before we went into the performance of Three of a Kind on the Thursday episode, there was a short little talk show segment, which was led by Lindsay in a Dr. Ruth kind of character whose name I do not have at my fingertips at the moment. I am going to be starting to include what I'm gonna call show notes on my social media pages, though not TikTok. This will be on Instagram and Facebook to give a couple visuals of small things that I talk about on this episode. For this particular one, I'm gonna post a picture of Lindsay looking like Boo. I'm going to post a picture of Creepy Amish Dude and the uh stuffed chipacabra that was presented to the baby on Thursday. I am also drumming up different things that I can include in addition to my Manic Monday, and my anything it happened day posts. I'm thinking about doing something that involves specifically the crew members. So yeah, having lots of fun with my social media. Didn't know it was gonna be as much fun as it currently is. You can join that at Facebook, and the name on Facebook is Mouska Cast with Mandy, and at Instagram and TikTok, it is at MouskaCast. So now I will end this episode like I end every other one by saying Miska Mouska Mousketeer Mouska Mandy's out of here. See you real soon.

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