Talk:The Mickey Mouse Club

A Minor Point
I'm about to create a page for the 8-episode MMC serial Adventure in Dairyland and therein lies the minor point. Online searches are split evenly between Adventure... and Adventures... as the title. I've decided to go with the singular. IMDb and one of the websites for the MMC (The Original MMC) use the singular. The latter site also has pictures of a comic book issued by the American Dairy Association in conjunction with the serial and it uses the singular. Finally, a family archive site for Chuck Keehne, a Walt Disney costume designer for over 20 years, also lists the serial with the singular (Filmography of Chuck Keehne). I'll be correcting the title throughout WP. JimVC3 (talk) 02:59, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
 * A major in-print source for the name, like the cover of the ADA comic book, is the best source. --  Zanimum (talk) 16:43, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

"B-class" assessment?
Before I begin, I should say that this issue is not regarding the article as it is written, but rather, the apparent lack of reliable sources for 90+% of the page. From skimming through the article, I don't have any objections to the content, but, to my knowledge, "B-class" status is not something that should be conferred casually – particularly since, when the article was assessed as "B-class" (on November 12, 2007), the article boasted a grand total of one reference, which was cited as a source for the names of the 1990s cast. As it is, in my opinion, the few sources cited honestly don't appear to even meet a respectable "C-class" criteria (it should be noted that an article's Quality assessment should not be confused with its Importance assessment). I'm not familiar with the assessing editor's work, but I'm a firm believer that assessments should be undertaken by qualified editors, lest assessment ratings become essentially meaningless. As I said – I don't have any problems with the content of the article (it appears to be well-written), and I believe sources could most likely be found to substantiate most (if not all) of what's here, but, until such time that they are referenced as inline citations within the text passage(s) of the article, I believe the page needs to be reassessed by a qualified assesser affiliated with the WikiProjects concerned (given the lack of sources I'd say the page falls squarely within the "start-class" category, but I'm leaving the "B" for now). I realize talk pages don't traditionally get a lot of traffic, so I'll leave this here for a week or two to give other editors an opportunity to reply. If this post fails to generate a discussion, then I'll take the next steps to alert the WikiProjects associated with the article in order to get the page properly assessed. --- Crakkerjakk (talk) 12:57, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Death of Ginny Tyler once a head Mouseketeer
I didn't see her name mentioned in this article. CBS is reporting she recently died and that she once was a head Mouseketeer.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.218.154.31 (talk) 20:07, 23 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Info about her death is in Ginny Tyler. David  1217  What I've done 05:19, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Lede
I can't wrap my head around "regular but ever-changing." To me, it's contradictory, like using "similar but different." -- Gyrofrog (talk) 04:33, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

You need a bigger head. Consider that "Tuesday" is *regular* but *ever-changing*, since Tuesday occurs quite regularly every week, but since no two Tuesdays are alike, each is different. Thus Tuesday is both regular and different. Get a bigger head.99.2.69.38 (talk) 02:35, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Roy?
There was an old guy mouseketeer named Roy in the 1950's series, introduced after Jimmy. Why no mention of him?99.2.69.38 (talk) 02:28, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Title
The section on the 1989-1990s revival says without citation that it was called The All-New Mickey Mouse Club, but the infobox logo says only Mickey Mouse Club. We need to address this discrepancy.-- Tenebrae (talk) 20:58, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Addendum: Disney calls it simply Mickey Mouse Club: https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/blog/mickey-mouse-club-reaching-new-generations-57-years-later --Tenebrae (talk) 21:00, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

1972-73 New Mouseketeers
In 1972 Disney formed the New Mouseketeers and they performed on the Tomorrowland stage in the Disneyland park. 12 fortunate kids were hired on out of 2000 that auditioned. The summer of 1973 Disney decided to incorporate a mousekeband for the club. Disney’s Buena Vista Picture studios filmed the live show in the park on several occasions with plans on creating their own TV show. During their last Christmas season Bobby Burgess from the original Mickey Mouse Club with his partner Cissy King performed with the New Mouseketeers. In 1977 when Disney decided to start filming their first New Mickey Mouse Club TV show, Shawnte was the only member fortunate enough to continue on with her career as a Mouseketeer. Several of the others moved on to wonderful new show biz adventures too include TV, theater and movies. Please check out our page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/NewMouseketeers/about/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.239.218.36 (talk) 17:12, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Original MMC has significant value in TV history; article conflates three distinct shows
Interested in clarifying, expanding, improvind article. What do I do now? Do have cites for all facts

An internationally recognized piece of iconic American

The (original)Mickey Mouse Club aired 1955-59, then reran in syndication or cable in every decade through the early 2000s, provided two "firsts in television: 1) first children's TV show utilizing a regular cast of children "being themselves", talking, singing, dancing, etc. and 2) Disney's first non-animated presence featuring "normal" humans, mostly child and teenage performers, as representatives of the changing Disney brand.

From 1958-70,the translated or subtitled show was syndicated or sold in 18 foreign countries, expanding the Disney brand (and "Mouseketeer ears") internationally. As reported in early 2000 by a dual-citizen (Russia/USA) fan to original Mouse Lonnie Burr it also aired in the USSR, apparently without benefit of contract. Thus, while it is the genesis for two future shows, one nearly forgotten and the second producing a number of stars in music and acting, it is more than just the first in a series.

From late 70s-1990s+, Disney utilized various original Mouseketeers as Disney representatives: spokespeople, Disneyland/world performers, convention and special event appearances, etc.

Ten original Mouseketeers now deceased.Floomerfelt (talk) 23:46, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

error on "mickey mouse club" page regarding Mouseketeer Cheryl
Lonnie burr (talk) 23:31, 14 April 2018 (UTC)lonniemmc@aol.com MOUSEKETEER CHERYL Holdridge Reventlow was NOT ON THE FIRST SEASON, but on the last two seasons of shooting; MOUSEKETEER DENNIS, the only other performer on two seasons appeared on Seasons 1 & 2, Cheryl on 2 & 3; season 4 was reruns. There were 39 Mouseketeers hired, 4 fired the first year, most for one year, 9 for the entire filming as stated on your page. The original black and white children's series reran in the 1960s, 1970s, 5 years on the beginning of THE DISNEY CHANNEL in the 1980's and, finally, 1997-2001. We appeared in over 30 countries including France, Australia, sundry South American countries, Japan, Russia and all the Warsaw Pact [not translated] and were translated into five languages.

Mr. Lonnie Burr/ MOUSEKETEER LONNIE

THE OFFICIAL MICKEY MOUSE CLUB BOOK by Lorraine Santoli - Hyperion/New York 1995 THE ACCIDENTAL MOUSEKETEER by Lonnie Burr - Theme Park Press 2014

P.S. My website began in 2000 but has recently been vanished and I am working hard to get it back on; my email address is lonniemmc at aol dot com.

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first names please
Article says: “Cole and Day were originally Blue Team members, but were drafted to the Red Team later in the first season. Johann, Petersen, and the Rooney brothers were all let go early in the first season. Dallas's brother John Lee replaced him, while Dodd and Steiner were hired as replacements for the Rooney brothers. For the show's fourth season, only a small amount of new footage was filmed and was interspliced with material from previous seasons. It is believed[according to whom?] that only six of the Mouseketeers— Funicello, Gillespie, Tracey, Burgess, Pendleton, and O'Brien— were called back for the filming of new material, while Cole and Baird were merely used for some publicity material.”

Yes, if you’re talking about a group of performers, and you’ve already mentioned their full names, you may refer to them by their last names only. But this is a special case, where the performers are commonly known only by their first names. So to make any sense of this, the average reader must, apart from Funicello, go back and match up the first and last names. Where’s your common sense? 74.104.189.176 (talk) 23:48, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Daggers
What is the meaning of the daggers that appear next to some of the kids' names in the tables? 104.153.40.58 (talk) 00:38, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

In correct catagory
Why is this page in Category:Pages using infobox television with non-matching title. The infobox looks identical to the title so why is it there? I would remove it myself but I edit hidden catagories. OlifanofmrTennant (talk) 00:38, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Split up?
These were three fundamentally different shows. They are treated as such in Bill Cottter's book The Wonderful World of Disney Televsion DoctorHver (talk) 01:51, 8 August 2023 (UTC)