Feliz Cumpleanos (Mickey Mouse 1001 Animations)

Writers: Darrick Bachman, Derek Dressler, Alonso Ramirez Ramos, Paul Rudish, Dave Wasson

Date: November 18, 2015

Synopsis: "Mickey celebrates his birthday."

There are a lot of ways to honor the anniversary of an iconic character, and it's the case right here. This short is to honor Mickey's 87th birthday, and it's actually pretty good. In this short, Mickey is celebrating his birthday in Mexico with his friends. All goes well until a group of piñata banditos comes in to crash the party, prompting him to save the day. This is probably one of the weirdest premises for these shorts that I've seen, but it works. It's so strange that it comes across as funny as the piñatas take everyone down, but there's also a cleverness. It has lots of fun humor and plenty of clever ways Mickey takes down the piñatas. It even has some emotional moments and a funny death scene. I call this a pretty good episode.