Episode 21- Season 3, Episodes 6-10

This week on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club podcast, we're covering one of the biggest milestone weeks in the series as the show reaches its 100th episode—although you'd never know it from the cast, who treat it like just another day at the studio!

Season 3's newest Mouseketeers—Ilana, Marc, and Jason—finally begin stepping into the spotlight, and it's immediately clear they're becoming part of the show's identity. Marc makes an unforgettable first impression as the world's most overzealous hall monitor, Jason joins the fun during an ant-sized comedy club, and the younger cast members continue proving they're impossible not to love.

Along the way, we revisit some wonderfully bizarre sketches, including a candy house renovation on This Old House, Wendy Wallow's disastrous grocery store job, a Scottish hopscotch training camp, and an entire comedy club performed by ants. It's exactly the kind of wonderfully random humor that made MMC unlike anything else on television.

There's plenty of music this week as well, with performances from Exposé, DeeDee's energetic "Go For Yours," Albert's "I Live By the Groove," a lively "Dancing in the Street," and Chase's heartfelt performance of "When I See You Smile."

We also check in with recurring favorites like Just Perfect, watch Barney continue his obedience school adventures, learn some questionable "facts" during Yeah, Right, spend time with the Indiana Jones stunt team, and even witness Marc passionately defending video games decades before gamers had to defend themselves online.

As always, we're pointing out behind-the-scenes oddities, continuity quirks, hidden background moments, and those nostalgic little details that longtime fans love to notice—from recycled closing numbers to hilariously dated fashion, giant Hammer pants, and the unmistakable energy that made early-'90s MMC so much fun.

By the end of the week, Season 3 finally feels like it has found its footing. The new cast members are settling in, the sketches are firing on all cylinders, and despite the show's 100th episode quietly slipping by without much fanfare, this becomes one of the strongest weeks of the season so far.

Join me as we revisit another unforgettable week of The All-New Mickey Mouse Club—where candy houses violate every building code imaginable, hall monitors rule with an iron fist, ants perform stand-up comedy, and somehow... it all makes perfect MMC sense.

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:00

Happy hi everybody. My name is Mickey and this is about the castle. A deep dive into the amazing show that was the only Mickey Bats club for the M. Don't be breaking down all of the episodes. What's up guys? This is Jason and you've been listening to Mouse Ca Cast with Mandy.

SPEAKER_05 0:26

Happy Heidi Ho everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Mouse Kick Cast with Mandy. For this episode, we're gonna be diving into the second week of season three of the All New Mickey Mouse Club, episodes six through ten, which aired from April the 16th through April the 20th of 1990. I hope you like that new little surprise that I input right before I started recording. I was able to run into a few of the mouse guetears over the past couple of weeks, and they were gracious enough to record some messages for me. So I will be inputting at least two of those per episode. So as I said, welcome back to the second week of season three. This week marks a pretty big moment in Mickey Mouse Club history. It was something that I touched on for my Anything Can Happen Day post on my social media for this week. And if you've been waiting patiently for season three's newest editions to actually show up and do something, your wait is finally over. Alana, Mark, and Jason have officially been released into the wild. And trust me, by the end of the week, you'll definitely know that they are here. Before I even started watching this week's worth of episodes, there was a blast from the past on the first one I watched. Prior to watching the Monday episode, Disney advertised the best at the Mickey Mouse Club on Saturday mornings, which is presumably the best of what they aired that week. Somehow I have absolutely zero memory of this existing, but that's probably because I was busy dedicating valuable childhood viewing hours on Saturday morning to the guys next door. As I previously mentioned, this aired on April the 16th of 1990 and opens with the continued edition of jump splits from the older guys that ends in a strangely interlocking manner. This leads Albert, Chase, and Damon into a fit of laughter, which leads also into the opener of Chase, Albert, and Alana. Finally getting some airtime. Way to go, Alana. Then they toss us over to our first sketch, which is called This Old House with Bob Bilalala, which actually sounds better coming from Fred's mouth. Hello, I'm Bob Bilalala. I get tongue twisted every time I try to say his name. Imagine HGTV, except the house is made entirely of candy and would immediately fail every building code known to mankind. The house is beautiful but very questionable. This is a gingerbread house found deep in the woods, and the gingerbread walls peel apart. The insulation is cotton candy, which would attract every ant in North America, and the candy cane framing would collapse if somebody sneezed too hard, and the shingles are made of chocolate that would immediately melt. Who built this house? Mr. Goodbar? Bazooka Joe? Bob assures us improvements have already begun as he encounters what he refers to as the homeowners, Hansel and Gretel, as they continue eating the property they're supposed to be trying to preserve. Hansel and Gretel are played by Jennifer and Kevin, and Jennifer's accent goes on an adventure of its own here. And there's one line that may require multiple re-rinds just to confirm that she actually did not cuss in this part, because it does sound a bit questionable. What Gretel says is the old vich, but it very, very much sounds like she says the old bitch. The best part is Bob proudly showing off the newly rebricked chimney because the old chocolate one kept melting every time they lit it on fire. They bite into what was once chocolate only to discover the unfortunate change.

SPEAKER_02 4:20

Oh my greek!

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They also find that the weather stripping is equally as disgusting as the bubblegum has been replaced with actual weather stripping.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

I think I'm going to be sick. Oh, me too, glad don't pay for me.

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And with that, the two of them obviously run off camera. You know, a minor design flaw. Next week, they will visit an old lady who lives in a shoe. And somehow this segment has been sponsored by MMs. Next, Mark comes on to introduce an open dance audition montage from a park, not sure which one, featuring Grace and fancy footwork. But we see kids doing tap dancing, waltzing with a mop, doing what I think is supposed to be ballet, the twist, the tango with a kid that looks like Matt Damon, a mamba with a dude in an unfortunate shirt, and not quite sure what the last dance was actually supposed to be. Mouse Male is up next. This segment opens with a repeated question that they get asked a lot and just leads into one big revelation of everyone's favorite color. Most of the answers are normal. Then it is announced that Chase's favorite color is polka dots. Not a pattern. They asked you about a color, Chase. Which combination? But never change, Chase. The next question is about where the show gets their great funny ideas for skits from. This segment transitions into Kevin sneaking into one of the writers' rooms and summoning a genie from a magic lamp to create a replacement skit for Skunk Diner. Honestly, the show actually had amazing comedic writers that came from all over the industry. And I'm working on a weekly segment to start celebrating the crew members, so hopefully that will be coming soon. Honestly, I'd watched an entire series of the cast breaking into restricted areas of the studio, as, based on several interviews I've heard, that is something that was not uncommon for them. Our first episode of Just Perfect for this week is called The Teacher's Pest. Trent picks Crystal up for a date, and he doesn't immediately realize that she's wearing a new outfit, which she gets all bent out of shape about, and she says that a new silver bracelet would complement it so well. So subtle. They get to the car where Barney is riding shotgun, and Crystal is absolutely disgusted. Barney is not budging. Then she storms back into the house. The next day, Trent decides bringing Barney to school is somehow a responsible solution to his problems of Barney wrecking the house. Spoiler, it's not. He ties Barney up to a tree. I've got problems with that. So he can keep an eye on him from his classes for the first half of the day. I thought you were smarter than that, Trent. Dane, not Dan, as I keep referring to him, informs Trent that Coach was not pleased that Trent missed practice, but was very impressed with Dane's performance. In class, as Trent's gazing out the window, he sees a landscaper let Barney loose from the tree. Trent sees it and then goes to chase after Barney as he is loose in the building, even including some actual gymnast as he runs to the gym, right into the girls' locker room. Trent finally catches him and the attention of the administration. By the episode's end, Trent reaches the obvious conclusion maybe obedience school isn't such a bad idea after all. We then get a recruitment ad for Hall Monitor. This is our first real experience with Mark, and he absolutely nails the segment. He is a formidable force. This took me back to the fifth grade where I once experienced the power of the bright orange belt and sash combo. He declares that he wants to get into a good college as a fetus. He is using this experience as a way to gain skills for the real world. As a power-hungry hall monitor, he treats a bathroom pass like it's a classified document from the government. But it is the crustiest hall pass that I've ever seen. And this is presented by Alana. And poor Alana just wants to use the bathroom. Mark wants law and order, so he shoves her into the principal's office as if it were a utility closet. The whole thing feels like a tiny school version of a police procedural brought to you by SWAT, students who act tough. Music Day is Expose, and they are back to perform Tell Me Why. And the band is very into the song dancing and jumping along with the girls. A question was asked where they were when they started singing. The answer was basically Girl Scouts, and they sing the brownie song, which I cannot remember the words to right now, but it's the one that ends with a great big brownie smile. And they met through Girl Scouts and Baseball. Smithers and I once were we were in Girl Scouts together, and we were actually even bunkmates one summer. Fun little fact there. How are the songs given out? Some are specifically written for each person, and others are shared. They give an explanation as to what harmony is to people who sing all of the time, Dee Dee and Albert. But I'm sure that that was more for the audience's benefit. One weird detail I noticed is that the closing appearance for this segment appears to be recycled because I had mentioned the last time that Expose was on that the lead singer, curly-haired girl, was wearing some aggressive jorts and she's still wearing them. And it also appears as though none of the new cast members are in this closing, and Rocky is conveniently left out. So classic MMC continuity. The C and the Y are both delivered by the singers of the group. Because same episode. Probably because it's a couple days later. We're going on to episode 22, which we will call Ant Comedy Clubs and Dance Moves Gone Wrong. But before I jump into this, I forgot to share a very important clip from this old house. I don't know how I forgot. Actually, I do know how I forgot. I blame it on AI. I had this clip reserved to share. It's something that Smithers and I used to say, and for some reason AI left this whole line out, so I'll share it now.

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Accidentally. Oh gosh, I thought it's an accident. Nobody pulled her.

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I realized that came across a little bit fast, and that was the clip that I thought I had previously snatched, but apparently had not. That is the clip where Jennifer sounds like she's saying which, but starting with the B and ends with where Hansel says, Nobody pushed her. Back to Tuesday, April the 17th. This episode asks one very important question. What if ants had stand-up comedy? Alana, Tiffany, and Fred open, which leads into Tiffany sharing this cool new ant farm that she just got over the weekend. And they're wondering what's going on in the different little segments of the ant farm. And there's one that seems to have a lot of ants in it at the moment. They wonder what's happening there. And it turns out that it's the ant cabaret. Damon is hosting an insect comedy club filled with ant versions of famous comedians. My guess is he's supposed to be Vic Slick. Vic, right? Not me. Mike. Yeah. The jokes are intentionally terrible. Lame jokes about wanting to be an army ant, but couldn't because of his flat feet. All six of them, bum bum. And that he once wanted a job as a worker ant carrying crumbs 50 times his own body weight, but it was a crummy job. That last joke brings out a heckler comment from Chase about him being a crummy comic. And he just proceeds to get more relentless from there. Chase, not Damon. Before introducing the next comic, Damon announces that dinner will be served soon and is currently being regurgitated for your dining pleasure. Next up is Bob Ant Goldthwaite, and I'm sure you can see where this one's going, but he is not getting a good reception and is also heckled by the ant version of Chase.

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Oh, she's your anti dog. Yay! Oh, that joke a lot of banana.

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So it's safe to say that Bob does not get a very good reception at the Aunt Cabaret. Dinner is delivered to a table where Jason, yay, Jason, and Dee Dee are sitting, and apparently they're on their first date. And poor Jason's date night is not going very well and is ruined because they receive a bread crumb instead of a donut crumb that they ordered, and Dee Dee is starving and not very pleased. Weba is the Grumpy waitress, and she's like, Yeah, yeah, I'll I'll get to you. Didi says that this is the worst date that she has ever been on. Damon then introduces the next comic, who is Rosant Barr, Lindsay, and she pulls off the voice quite nicely, but her jokes are about wanting to look like Alyssa Milanto and taking care of her 5,000 kids, who are a bunch of juvenile delinquents. The show ends with a warning about an army of red ants being on the loose, so everybody needs to drive home safely. Honestly, that's very fair. And I will insert a picture of the concerned ants in my show notes. Professor Lobotomy is next, and this is Fred, as he follows up with an educational ant lesson. He comes on to point out the parts of the ant anatomy that were referenced in the previous skit, such as the metazoma, which is the backside, and the mandible, the mouth. He ensures the watchers that the skit was purely fictional, as we all know that ants can't get licenses. Everything is going smoothly until a giant prop ant behind him starts moving. The educational segment quickly becomes a survival segment, and it just kind of makes me want to input this little segment right here.

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Such as in South Africa and Iraq, everywhere like such as.

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Basically, every time I catch myself saying such as, that clip is getting inserted. I'm not entirely sure why that got so fast there at the uh end of that last clip. I sounded like the micro machine man. Next up, Jennifer launches into a PSA campaign against chalkboard squeaks, which I personally never had an issue with. But she makes it 10 times worse than it needs to be by scraping the chalk really hard against the board. But the class is not having the same reaction she is. The problem is she spends most of the segment creating the chalkboard squeaks and acting bothered by it. Up next is Albert giving a dance lesson to two members of the audience named Gloria and Paul. They look to be promising. The lesson starts off simple with finding the beat. Before the rest of the lesson can continue, he brings out Tiffany for a little moral support. And the dance that he's going to teach is pretty easy, not that difficult, but it does take some concentration. The footwork starts off strong. You're just kind of moving your feet from one side with the beat in the middle and then the other side. And then the arms arrive, and everything falls apart because your feet have to go one direction while you're swinging your arms over your head in the opposite direction. It's just chaos from that point. A true dance class experience. But I will have to say that I give Gloria props for her incredibly 1990s outfit with a sleeveless turtleneck type tank top thing, some plaid pants and those patent leather shoes. If you were around back then, you know exactly what I'm talking about. I did take a screenshot of these sad moves for my show notes that I will share. Next up is Guest Day, and a young aspiring actress named Suzette Something or Other gets to spend the day with Chris Young on a movie set. And they're calling the movie Jack in the Box, which must have been the working title because the movie when it came out was actually called The Book of Love.

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Hi Gina, this is Jack. Hi Gina, this is Jack. Oh hi Jack, this is Gina.

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It's a really cute coming-of-age kind of story about a group of high school kids, the early 60s, and the main character's name is Jack, and that's who Chris Young plays, as we can divulge from the clip I just played. He greets her at his trailer and gives her some flowers, all. And she hangs out with him while he is in hair and makeup and just talk about the industry, and then she gets to watch him do some scenes. They have lunch and then go for a bike ride around the studio lot. Chris even creates a scene with her on the set, which is actually kind of terrible. But the most shocking revelation? Filming days can last up to 14 hours. I've had some last 18. And this poor kid looks like she's reconsidering a career path altogether. Before we go into the game for the episode, Chase comes on with his own rebuttal to the chalk noise segment. He says that he's going to give examples of noises that are much worse than chalk noises, though this kind of turns into also sensations, not just noises. His examples are nails on a chalkboard, rubbing on a balloon, knuckle cracking, hitting your teeth with a fork, paper cuts while licking envelopes, and chewing on tinfoil. Though chewing on tinfoil is not something that I do very often. I'm not sure about you. But this whole thing left me a little confused because I thought it was about noises, and he turns it into something different altogether. Before we go to the video for the episode, we play a game called The Talking Bullseye. Moeva and Tiffany introduce the game where contestants throw oddly concentrated splat balls at a bullseye with Fred's face in the middle. Unfortunately, nobody actually hits him, although the girl does win, and this is a complete missed opportunity because Fred is taunting them and mouthing off. It's it's kind of like a dunk tank, but weirdly concentrated splatballs thrown at Fred's face. The music video is Go For Yours, which for some reason I always remember the way Alana introduces it because it's almost as if she screams it and she says, Go for yours! But that's just me. Didi takes center stage in one of her personal favorite MMC performances with the help of Chase, Damon, and Albert. I previously shared this not that long ago because I kept waking up with the song in my head for like a week straight. The song was originally performed by Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam, and it was suggested that they do it on the show by Dee Dee's brother. I'm not completely sure what the exact theme of the video was supposed to be because part of it she's cleaning, and then the rest of it she's dancing on the street with the guys, and then in a concert setting. It's kind of a head scratcher, but the song's really good and they do a great job. For the closing, Dee Dee delivers the C and Albert gives the Y. And for the first time all season, we finally get a closing featuring the complete cast. Most importantly, about this particular ending is that Mark is dancing on the diner counter and is ridiculously adorable.

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Anything can happen. Anything can happen on anything happening.

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And now it is Wednesday, anything can happen day, which while I'm recording this, it actually is Wednesday, anything can happen day. This episode aired on April the 18th of 1990. We're gonna call this episode, episode 23, Hopscotch Training Camps in Indiana Jones. The show opens with I Live by the Groove, which is, in my opinion, one of the best performances from season three. This is Albert with the newbies, including Josh, Kevin, Ricky, Mark, and Jason. The song was originally performed by Paul Carrick. The scene is set up around a classic car in a gas station setting, although the guys are the gas station workers, and Albert is the singer doing most of it from just standing inside of the car. I know I keep saying this, but the younger Guys are so damn cute, and they're little like gas station coveralls, and oh my gosh, they're just too adorable. Season three's younger editions continue their mission on being impossibly cute. Sadly, this next part is gonna pain me a little bit to talk about because as I said, it is Wednesday. I'm recording this on June the 24th, and as you can guess from the name of this next segment, McDweeb's Hop Scotch Training Camp. This is based around a Scottish hopscotch coach. And I'm sad to say that a mere hour ago, the Tartan Army lost their game against Brazil and they are now out of the World Cup. Because I have had so much joy brought into my life over the last couple weeks watching the Scottish team and fans just loving being in the US. And I firmly believe they never should have left Boston. Anyway, back to this. Fred plays a Scottish hopscotch coach, determined to create professional athletes out of Jennifer, my line, and Alana. Apparently, the method of teaching this game, if you want to call it that, is in the style of Highland dancing, which kind of makes sense if you've ever seen Highland dancing and playing hopscotch. They have their very own sketch artist who makes their quote boards and mine for their own chalk. If you need cheering up, Fred will even offer you a lovely tune on the bagpipes. Just very, very poorly. Nobody asked for this sketch. I'm glad it exists anyway because I love all things Scottish, even Fred's fake accent. I'm not sure if I talked about this or not, but I did a semester in Scotland in between my freshman and sophomore years in college. Best two months I've ever spent in my life. It was during the uh Atlanta Olympics, which I conveniently missed by going over there. And one of our last days there, my friend was playing some bagpipes out the window. Very poorly, pretty much the same as Fred. Oh, the memories. Just perfect is up next. And this episode we were gonna call the class clown. Barney heads to obedience school and immediately wants to meet another dog named Sheba, a sheepdog. So Trent gets to meet Sheba's owner, Shelly, who knows Trent's name as he is a quarterback, though she goes to a different school. The first command they learn is to sit, basic, to which all the other dogs will do except for Barney. And even Trent attempts to make him sit by sitting on his backside. Next is heel to which Barney sits. And then he sees a squirrel and goes after it, leading all the other dogs to go after the squirrel as well. Trent is telling a sad Barney that he is ruining his life until Shelly walks up and Trent immediately perks up. She tells him that he should start playing with Barney and having fun with him rather than just reprimanding him all the time. Barney still will not chase after a stick until he sees Sheba do it as well. Barney just needs a friend. They go to pick out a toy for Barney and they settle on a squeaky football because Barney has already proven that he likes footballs. Shelly tells Trent that he needs to loosen up a bit, which he does and it seems to work, but he's having fun with other dogs and Shelly before he's interrupted by Crystal, literally blocking out his son while he's laying on the ground. A surprisingly wholesome lesson. Yeah, Ride is up next with Mylyn, Kevin, and Tiffany, and they tackle more bizarre facts. This again is their version of Two Lies and a Truth. Kevin says that ketchup was originally introduced as a soft drink, but it didn't sell very well in that form. Mylin says that eating too many carrots will turn your skin and eyes orange due to the beta carotene. Tiffany says that donuts have holes because they were invented by the Vikings, and the women would put them on the horns of the helmets to represent every person they killed during battle once the Vikings got home from said battle. That's a little morbid for this show. The audience believes that the one about the donuts is right, but they're wrong. And this is a fact that has always stuck with me. The way my Lynn says beta carotene is so southern. And the audience actors that they pull out to act out these scenes really get into it. Next up is an ad for a movie called Kickboxer. Ricky spends the commercial as a Jean-Claude Van Dyme kicking boxes out of the way. Essentially just kicking all the boxes that are thrown at him. But he does get his foot stuck in one troublesome box. But the tagline for this movie is one that I will actively repeat to this day.

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Coming eventually to a theater somewhere.

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Love it. That's the joke. And honestly, it works. Coming eventually to a theater somewhere. Anything can happen day is next. And this is the Indiana Jones stunt team. From I don't remember if it was MGM. It probably was, though I feel like it was more universal because that's a little bit more of a Steven Spielberg speed. This starts with videos of the actual show, then lead into part of the show on the MMC stage with fake fighting while Brandy and Fred literally hide behind bags. Larry Lee is the character of Indiana Jones, and he gets to talk to them about how long it takes to train. Brandy wants to learn how to throw a punch with advice such as you never want to connect with the partner and throw it over their shoulder. Brandy volunteers Fred to act out a fight, but Fred does a great job of acting as if he is actually being hit. When they are gifting Fred with the indie gear, the bad guys sneak up and then attack again. And Fred and Brandy get in on the action this time as well. Brandy looks pleased at herself after she quote punches a bad guy, but oddly enough, she does it with her forearm. And I have a show note photo I will enter in for this one. Everyone has a great time pretending to beat each other up. For the closing, the C is delivered from Indy or Larry Lee as he punches a random bad guy who sneaks up behind him, and the Y is by Brandy and Fred. This episode feels like the peak of MMC randomness. Hopscotch training, dog obedience school, donut facts, and Indiana Jones stunt lessons all coexist peacefully. Somehow. That's the world of the Mickey Mouse Club. Next up is episode 24, Wendy Wallow's Return. I need to say that I was unable to find the entire episode for this particular party day, but I did find a general outline. So this is gonna be kind of a choppy little episode. This episode opens up with a rundown from Kevin, my Lynn, and Albert before taking us to another unfortunate job opportunity for Wendy Wallow, which is at Piggy Winkle's supermarket. I'm Wendy Wallow. I'm supposed to start work here today. Which is, of course, how Wendy starts off every Wendy Wallow skit. Actually, there's one later where she says it at the very end. If you'd like to actually see this skit, you can go back to the beginning of December. And I think I posted this one for Lindsay's birthday. Wendy is back for her seasonal appearance, and unfortunately, she is met with a talking cash register. The last time we saw her, she was being chased by a giant squid, to which she is still showing signs of PTSD. This time, Brandy is her snarky off-the-bat supervisor, who shows her how simple her job is due to said talking cash register, voiced by Didi. Damon is her first customer, looking very cute, I must add. Show note, who is grumpy and very much in a smartassy mood as she rings up his order. The register spends the entire skit insulting customers while Wendy desperately tries to maintain order. Damon gets roasted about three items in. Mouthwash, it's about time, Moose Breath. So as Lindsay rings up his mouthwash, the register insults him. And it just continues and gets worse from there because we have to insert the one insult that the Mickey Mouse Club cannot let go of. Olive loaf. Oh gross. Just now realizing that I did not continue that recording to where Damon launches into a little bit of a tirade and says, What's wrong with olive loaf? You know it goes very well with head cheese. But I feel like olive loaf was only something they really hung on to for the first four seasons of the show. Something I don't completely understand is the head cheese and olive loaf thing. When he is asked if he wants paper or plastic to bag his groceries in, the register suggests paper, one for the food and one to put over his face. Of course, Wendy blames the register and then he storms off. Wendy yells at the register. Stop it! Why are you doing this to me? I kind of feel like I should record more of these little clips so I don't have to come in and reenact them, but then you should just go watch the clip yourself. Anyway, Wendy is yelling at the cash register as Brandy walks up, and Wendy blames the cash register for talking and insulting people, and Brandy tells her that she's ridiculous because it's a talking cash register, and she rings up the mouthwash and it just gives the price. Wendy says, Go ahead, aren't you gonna comment on her bad breath? Which gives Brandy a complex. Next up is Fred in a knockoff Lurlene getup. They are having issues walking up to the register. The register immediately calls them tubby. So Fred also immediately gets roasted. Didn't even have to ring anything up to get roasted. They put all kinds of junk food on the belt, and the register points out this fact and then asks if their nutritionist is Roseanne Barr. This causes them to call Wendy a smart mouth little brat.

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Knock it off!

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I will not knock it off! After this lovely encounter, for some unknown reason, Wendy picks up the cake in an odd manner, and the register asks the Lurlene knockoff if they are hiding a turkey under their dress, picks up the uncovered cake, as I mentioned before. Then she turns her back to the register, and at this point the register pops the drawer open as Wendy calls it stupid, and the cake goes into Fred's face, who then falls forward into a shopping cart and rolls away. I don't really think that this stunt went necessarily as planned. I think they were expecting more of a splat, but you'd have to go to the pie skit from season seven to get a good splat. Retail is hard, and I can say this because I've worked most of my life in retail. Over the course of the episode, we then get Singing in the Streets, which is Twist and Shout, Punchline, I have no jokes to report, the Shelly Duke show, which I can only imagine comes from the Turtle Channel, and then the Stock Market Roller Coaster, I'm sure is more stock footage, none of which I could find on YouTube. The party day theme is a block party, and this whole segment is also not available. But I do know that at one point Jennifer comes dressed as a block. Come into play later in this season. This may be one of the most terrifying, bizarre but delicious segments we ever get. Didi and Maweva are showing different foods that can be found at a block party. I'm thinking more like a street fair rather than a block party. This these things sound more like a food truck kind of thing. Anyway, they walk to a table where Chase is concocting a chili cheese dog with peanut butter mustard dressing, which is exactly as it sounds, and he absolutely globs the dressing on top of it. I mean, maybe if it were like honey mustard peanut butter dressing, I don't know. I'm just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. Dee Dee gives it the teeniest little bite that she could possibly give and deems it's bizarre, but not very delicious. Chase then gives her a fruity creamy shake to wash it down, comprised of strawberry ice cream, soda, not necessarily saying which kind, I'm sure it's like a Coke, as we say here in the South. Vanilla extract and grape jelly. She does like, but still she takes the teeniest little sip. He then tempts them with a banana marshmallow medley for dessert. Again, exactly what it sounds like. And Dee Dee acts like she likes it, but I'm not really buying her face. Chili cheese dogs with peanut butter mustard dressing. This creator needs to be questioned. Fruit shakes with grape jelly, still questioning that. Banana marshmallow dessert. Sounds like something my kid would have thrown together. For the party day performance, they do dancing in the street. And this will be what I do for homework, strictly because I've posted every other musical performance from the club members this week on my channel already. Dancing in the Street is Dee Dee, Tiffany, Jennifer, Brandy, Chase, Damon, and Albert with hammer pants galore. And the guys doing some super goofy moves in the background, but it is a lively version of Dancing in the Street. Really doesn't sound anything like you're expecting Dancing in the Street to sound like. I can't give any information on the closing as it was also missing from YouTube, but I'm sure that it was just as lively as the party day performance. Before I continue on to the Friday episode, I just feel the need to come in and say, I do know what a good block party is like, which is why I can comment on the food. See, I come from a small college town in central Illinois called Champaign Urbana, and we had the loveliest neighborhood. And every, I think it was July, could have been the end of June, we would block off two ends of quite a long street. Police officers would get involved in everything, and we would just have the biggest, greatest party. And there was one house where a father cooked the most amazing ribs you've ever had in your life. And that was also the house where the driveway turned into a dance floor at some point. Now I spent the last couple of minutes trying to look for a particular MMC slash my previous best friend clip, which there is one out there because my previous best friend played in a challenge for the children. Well, in a challenge for the children, I think it was like 2001. And there was this really cute clip of him and JC just playing with each other, talking about how this particular person threw bows. Well, this person, my previous best friend, his name was Christopher. At least that's what we called him in our house. And in the neighborhood, he was known as Big Chris, but now he is known as Ludacris. So, you know, if we're on a history lesson with Mandy today, I just thought I'd input that part too.

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The Mickey Mouse Club Hall of Fame.

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Really, for this one, we should be calling the show its own hall of fame because here it is. The milestone I spoke about earlier. This is the 100th episode of the all-new Mickey Mouse Club. The milestone passes undetected with a normal opening from Mark, Jennifer, and Brandy. And then we pop into When I See You Smile. This is Chase, who takes center stage with a performance that feels appropriately celebratory for me personally because I absolutely love this song. This is such a good, hard, slow hair jam song from the era. And Chase has helped out with some ballet-esque dancing from Didi, providing some shadow dancing as well. Alana, my Lynn and Tiffany. To see a version of this, go back to January 15th when I posted, I think it was 15th, it might have been the 12th. Sometime in January when I posted this for Chase's birthday. Mark's video game rebuttal is next. Mark is here to tell you with a thousand-yard stare that video games will not make you dull, listless, or anti-social. Mark is here to tell you while he actively plays a video game that video games are good for you. They increased hand-eye coordination, computer knowledge, and something else that he can't recall at the moment. And they do not trap kids in a false reality. Or do they?

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Oh no! Another 50,000 points.

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So as Mark was just saying, they don't trap kids in a false reality. Video games are fun and educational. Thank you, he says flatly. 30 plus years later, some of us may still be evaluating that claim. Next up is Wacky Weekends with Winnie and Winky. And this time they tackle airplane travel with some massive legroom, I have to say. I that can't be economy. They encourage making your seat your home away from home by hanging pictures. Get to know the other passengers with a rousing sing-along as they toss books at other passengers, which I feel like my older brother can truly feel in his bones going on car rides with my sisters, my mother, and I. Of course, with us, the singing was Annie, Girl Scout Songs, Grease 2, the Pirate Movie. You know, give me a little like if you can get where I'm coming from. Food gets tossed at them because their singing is horrible. If there isn't a movie playing, then use the convenient bags that the airline supplies to put on a puppet show. I also forgot that they had pull-down shades to look like a fireplace. Winky wanted to do a weenie roast, but unfortunately, the captain put on the no roasting sign. The FAA would like a word with you two kids. Next up is our last episode of Just Perfect called Jinxed. Crystal finds Trent rolling around in the grass and doesn't approve. And he says that Shelly is nobody, which ticks her off, obviously. And both of the girls walk off in different directions. So, Trent, you really hit a high note with that one, buddy. Barney does not want to play with Trent alone and is missing Shelly and Sheba. When the phone rings, Barney picks it up but won't touch the stick. Crystal wants to meet up and talk, but he doesn't know what to do with Barney. So he goes with Jinx as a babysitter. Don't let him out of your sight, he says. Sure, give him to the most irresponsible person you can think of. Trent picks up Crystal, who immediately sits on Barney's toy and gets a little squeaky butt noise. Jinx is dancing in an attempt to entertain the dog and then puts on Lassie for him because, sure, why not? Meanwhile, Crystal likes where Trent takes her for lunch because everybody can see him there. Shelly walks in with some guy and ignores them, them being Trent and Crystal. Trent runs into the waiter while trying to spy on Shelly while he conveniently goes to the bathroom, but he does apologize to her before pulling Crystal out of the restaurant because he doesn't like being seen by everybody. Shelly is eating lunch with her brother, who is a good sport and plays along as her date. Crystal is rambling on about gossip and a new cheer that she made up, but is not happy that Trent is distracted and he just wants to go home. When he goes to pick up Barney, he discovers that Jinx let Barney get loose. How is he or anybody watching the show surprised about that? Hall of Fame starts off strong with a future tennis star named Jennifer Capriati, who appears before becoming one of the biggest names in the sport for her age. She won the 1989 US Open Junior Championship. Her dad is her coach, which she likes because it allows them to become closer. Her idol and friend is Chris Everett. Later in life, she did go on to win 14 WTA tour level singles titles, including three majors at the 2001 Australian Open, the 2001 French Open, the 2002 Australian Open, and the Olympic Gold Medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, several youngest ever records. Our next person that we get to meet is a young jazz musician named Amani A. W. Murray. He has played with Dizzy Gillespie, which impresses the heck out of me. Although he hasn't been playing all that very long. He wants to put out an album in Winni Grammy, and he loves to play improvisational music. From what I can see, he has contributed to albums, but I have not seen anything about a Grammy, sadly. The closing has Amani giving the C and Chase giving the Y. Final thoughts for this week? Here we have it. This week gave us finally our new cast members in completion. And honestly, it's a pretty fun ride. And trust me, it only gets better from this point. The 90s have a lot of good stuff in store for us. 2026 kind of status, hopefully coming up in the near future. So we'll see. Anyway, I will leave you now, as I always do, by saying Miska Mouska, Mousketeer, Mouska Mandy's out of here. See you real soon.

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Hey everybody, this is Roma Bennett. Thank you for listening to Mouska Panels with Mandy.