Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers

When Disney was trying to develop a Mickey Mouse feature film in the early 1940s, one of the ideas considered was "The Three Musketeers," but it was abandoned because the original novel requires four main characters (the titular musketeers and D'Artagnan), and the filmmakers found it difficult to come up with a good combination of established characters to fill the parts. Sixty-plus years later, the problem was solved by having Mickey, Donald and Goofy not play the original Three Musketeers and thus tell a story that parallels the original, but is not strictly an adaptation of it. The original Musketeers, incidentally, are the ones who saved the gang in the beginning of the film, and their autographs are in the hat they give Mickey.

When Pete sings his "Bad Guy Song", he drops through the cellar on a rope attached to a basket of bricks, and hands Clarabelle his hat, telling her to watch out for the bricks, but the bricks were on the other side of the rope from her, though they hit her anyway.

The closing credits are shown in a comic book style, in reference to the comic the Turtle/Troubadour was reading.

Featured in Troldspejlet: Episode #31.4 (2004)