as a die-hard lifelong disney fan i've made it my mission to watch a lot of the contemporary disney
tv shows primarily because i feel like that's going to be the foreground for a lot of the
films and tv shows that will be produced in years to come where in 10 20 years time the
next generation will be looking back nostalgically at the disney characters that they grew up with
because obviously the ones that i grew up with will be vastly different i thought i'd
check out minnie's bull tunes primarily because i actually watched um minnie and mickey's wish upon
a christmas which featured the characters from mickey's gothomes including the character of
kuthuloka and i had no idea who this character was turns out it comes from minnie spatunes
so i thought i'd watch him find out to be honest i'm still non-the-wide reviser of the origin of
this character but i was quite pleasantly surprised at the the format of bolton's i
had assumed that this would be like a full 20-minute episode but it's actually
a lot more bite-sized which i think worked really well for the disney junior target audience
the first episode there are 57 episodes which on the one hand actually seems kind of insane
because that's a lot of episodes but at the same time when you kind of think that they are
very short bite-sized episodes maybe not so bad the first episode is under five
minutes this aired in 2011 and is called leaky pipes and basically the pipes are leaking and
they have to try and find a way to fix these leaky pipes suddenly it is panic galore now at the very
beginning of the episode minnie is teaching daisy how to tie a bow which i think is really sweet
because it means that the young child watching this is then going to be encouraged to attempt to
try a bow i feel like tying a bow like shoelaces is a milestone for a child once they learn to do
that you know they feel like a big grown-up child rather than a a toddler so it's kind of teaching
them how to do that kind of haphazardly if you kind of follow the instructions that minnie gives
daisy don't think you'll do a very good job but nevertheless it's teaching children to have a go
and then somehow and i won't say how but maybe you can work it out that lesson in bow tieing actually
helps them out of this leaky pipe situation and i thought it was nice you know practical thinking
thinking on your feet utilizing the skills you've just learned to fix a current problem
obviously the child watching this is not going to be thinking like that but i was genuinely
impressed with the education the practical aspect the way the viewer the young child can then
create an interactive element by tying a bow at the same time and following minnie's instructions
overcoming the leaky pipe situation and all the while the friends in this all grouped together
and worked together the friends primarily being minnie mouse voiced by rosie taylor
and uh daisy duck voiced by tres mcneil we also have clarabelle cowell cowell cow i don't know
what that says clarabelle cow voiced by april winchell clarabelle is a classic disney character
who has been around for a very long time but she's not used that much certainly for this nostalgia of
my generation she never really appeared in tv shows that much i never i don't have any fond
memories of her to be perfectly honest so it was quite interesting to see her
in here because apart from a few films and um classic shorts i'm not i don't have that much
of a relationship with clarabelle and she is such an interesting character because she's not
not everything with clarabelle is kind of sweet and innocent and um straightforward she seems
to have a bit more of an attitude about her and seems to be a bit more world weary
that is what i picked up from this under five minute short animation cuckoo loka is voiced
by nicka futterman i still don't really understand where this character came from
this is a little cuckoo bird like it's a yellow bird with a pink bow the design of it is
very sweet and she's appeared in quite a lot of disney junior tv shows
if anybody knows the actual origin of this character and um what it was created for
please let me know i'm sure i could find out if i actually bothered myself to to google it and have
a dig genuinely genuinely impressed with this um i wasn't expecting much i was expecting a juvenile
20-minute episode where not a lot happened but in the under five minutes this episode packed in
education interaction morals about friendship practical approaches to solving problems
encouragement to learn new skills you know and improve dexterity
all the while giving us minnie mouse and daisy duck and this weird bird
it was very sweet i'm not going to instantly go and watch the rest of it but maybe over time i
will watch some more episodes review them see if that quality kind of stays throughout it
obviously the more cgi approach is not my disney and a lot of people will feel
the same i prefer the 2d animation style that we get not this 3d effect cgi aside from that
mickey's buttons particularly the first episode leaky pipes excelled any expectations i had
for this i'm genuinely impressed if what it manages to do in such a short space of time