Fake Mickey

Let’s see...round ears, wears pants and shoes, speaks with a falsetto. Can it be?



Nah, it’s just one of all kinds of Mickey knock-offs that Harman-Ising used as early as Hold Everything (1930), their third Looney Tune. This one is a supporting character in part of Bosko’s Soda Fountain (1931). He’s a knock-off of Eddie Cantor, too, as he claps just like the Kid Millions star. Here, the mouse enjoys an ice cream soda.



A mouse getting fat is apparently the joke here. Later, the standard fat hippo (in fact, some of the animation is from Smile, Darn Ya, Smile) gets sprayed in the face with the whipping topping from the soda.

Friz Freleng and Ham Hamilton are the credited animators.