Mickey Mouse Club: "Alma Mater"

[prettypuertorican561]

aww i remember watching this with my daddy

[oddaree]

LIKE?!

LIKE IT ON FACEBOOK!

[StormsongK]

I kid you not...I had this on a record as a kid and it would skip, and go, "Now it's time to say goodbye...goodbye...goodbye...­goodbye...goodbye..."

[amenic1894]

Love you Annette!!

[Monkeystarmonster]

does cheryl look familiar to anybody?

[TwoHearts4ever]

Bobby reminds me of Taylor Lautner in a way

[Cryo837]

Darlene and Cheryl are really cute.

But who is that old HULK in the window?

Oh yea, it's Roy, the 50 something year old "kid". YIKES!!!!

[markess48]

@Cryo837 Jimmy Dodd was not that young himself. He was 45 years old when they started filming the show in 1955.

[Not2commonofcaurse]

Coming back here brings me back to days when I thought the whole world was my friend.. n happy belated, Annette, keep smiling yer beautiful smile x(:dc

[Winslany000]

When jimmy went, " why? Because we like you." that made me feel really happy because pretty much nobody wants to be friends with me at my middle school because i like old disney, ALOT. Im gonna go around school and say Jimmys my friend! Along with the other mousekaters :)

[lilbeatlesfangirl4]

Happy Birthday, Annette Funicello!

[colindominy]

Ah, this brings back such warm memories. While Walt's history & background may well have been less than "as pure as the white-driven snow" .. nonetheless, the over-riding theme & image that I remember about this TV series was its wholesomeness & the warm, fuzzy, feel-good feeling it generated.

[whitemal2010]

they seem so depressed

[spareaxe]

They're all dead aren't they?



[redfordforpresident]

@spareaxe Darlene is married to the philandering, mustang-killing John Ensign -- the only politician ever forced out of office by the FBI for disobeying the 6th commandment "Thou shalt not commit adultery". Ensign, from the great state of Nevada, where the human bodies keep piling up in response to the Despicable Spic Governor Brian Sandoval's pleasure in torturing and killing bears and mustangs and all creatures great and small -- Ensign is too stupid to know that he is sleeping with the enemy.

[XxXuhlsportking23xX]

FULL METAL JACKET

[don417]

damn, annette must've been born with boobs.

[23ezmister11]

@don417 why do you say that?

[39aeb]

Just reading some of the comments and while most of them are nice some have something to be desired. My conclusion: Read a book about them before making assumptions, MS doesn't kill you (I have it, I would know), Walt Disney didn't have to fight to get Annette on the show. I am sure the negative comments come from those who are about 12 and sit faceless behind a computer screen and know nothing about television or life back then.

[GGE47]

justin,britney,and aguilarra had nothing on these kids.I can't watch todays Disney Channel cause ther is nothing there.

[MallieCrescent]

@GGE47  I agree completely with ya there

[SchoolforBrian]

does it really say mouseclubouse?

[EmilyInBoston]

Is it bad that I cried watching this

[buckinghamalice]

@EmilyInBoston Makes me feel teary, too! =P  And also, I don't remember Bobby being that cute... hm... =)

[beachX3baby2500]

nope...just a whole lotta white kids :P

[GGE47]

@beachX3baby2500 That's the way it was back then.What's wrong with a whle lotta white kids?I bet you don't have a problem with a whole lotta black kids or a whole lotta oriental kids,or a whole lotta indian kids.A whole lot of any kind a kids except white kids.

[don417]

@beachX3baby2500 racist much?

[Computerbugs]

I'm going to miss ratfist...

[TheView8768]

Creepy much? lol

"Why? Cuz we like you."

[forthelostboys]

aww my heart melts when they film cheryl shes so cute

[MichiganTreasure]

There's no doubt about it, this was a class act program. Too bad they don't make them like this anymore.

[redfordforpresident]

Through the years, we'll all be friends -- George Bernad Shaw's most famous quote is "Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends". Exactly what J.C., Jesus Christ Jiminy Cricket taught all us loyal Mousketeers.

[MartinTaylorOlson]

tha's some real blues man.

[loveofincense]

Hello Mickey!

[Bruce1949919]

When I was a boy I wrote a letter to Annette and invited her to my house. She never came.

[jb20092009]

@Bruce1949919 Hey, I hate to tell you this, but Annette got fan mail up the wahzoo in those days.

[cafe20011]

Memories. When I was young I had a crush on Cheryl.

[Shiv83]

this is garbage compared to the one i grew up on...... M-I-C ...see you later! ....K-E-Y...why? because we love you! #classic

[thuperthamy101]

i always thought that the modern crap on disney channel was the most irresponsible, glee-like, phony, stupid, glittery, trendy, un-funny and un-disneylike stuff they ever came up with...now I realize this stuffs been around for quite a while

[thuperthamy101]

i always thought that the modern crap on disney channel was the most irresponsible, glee-like, phony, stupid, glittery, trendy, un-funny and un-disneylike stuff they ever came up with...no I realize this stuffs been around for quite a while

[duality1984]

Damn stepford children.

[FinallyunderstandU]

for all the mother's that have passed on, and the children, too....

Miss you !! Y ???? Because we love you !!!!

m.o.u.s.eeeee......

♫♥AnnA♥♫

[monkallonks]

i remember when he said "because we like you" i ran to my mom and said "mommy the griwn up in the mickey mouse club said that he liked me hes my first friend!" i saw this on the first day of kindergarden and i didnt have any friends so for like 3 months i went around telling everybody that he was my friend :D

[KelseyBeePink]

@monkallonks Awww! That's too cute! ^-^

[etbella3]

@monkallonks He is still my friend. Any friend of Walt Disney's will always be a friend of mine.

[etbella3]

@monkallonks And I was always waiting for Jimmie to say, "because we love you", instead of "like you". A girl thing, I guess.

[whoadude1959]

Thumbs up if your name is DOREEN!

Cindy (Doreen) Columbus, Ohio

[FinallyunderstandU]

14 people weren't allowed to watch Mickey Mouse Club when they were young ♥♫

[hurryupche]

Justin beiber looks like Bobby, shit idolatry at it's best. This is some freaky racist blonde crap. Eww

[NPC514]

Taylor Lautner looks like Bobby.

[DisneyMissieMouse]

@NPC514 LOL oh god

[NPC514]

@NPC514 Haha Someone had said that Bobby looks like Lautner and I was just explainging that becuase Bobby came first, Lautner looks like Bobby. lol

[Bamasweetierox]

This is a weird and slow song but i like the end WHY BECAUSE WE LIKE YOU and the facial reactions are priceless

[drdoowop]

Darlene turned 70 today. Yikes.

[musiccraze12]

bobby scares the shit out of me

[fieldhockeyislove93]

Aww Darlene is so pretty. The boys are pretty cute too.

[TheRickMartinGriebs]

pause at 0:18

[ChevyGirl813]

12 people never learned to spell M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E :(

[grahamyodude]

1:09 hes fucking creepy as hell i dont want him to like me...

[berryola]

...and ALL this time, I had NO IDEA why I liked Skippy Peanut Butter sooo much! I <3 Annette Funicello : )

[TehJamsiJK]

Jimmie, back then you weren't as much as a pedophile.

[DennisAOK]

I had a crush on Darlene!

[JoguTubed]

0:23 Facial paralysis much?

[rangotango196188]

@JoguTubed That made me laugh so hard I started choking. :)

[TeamToothless1]

thats youtube.com/user/ManOfAction09­

[TeamToothless1]

hey! to all you disney fans out there! theres some noobwad called ManOfAction09 who likes that cold-hearted new disney, and sais new disney sucks. so, if uwanna trash his channel, type in user/ManOfAction09

[TeamToothless1]

i just cry whenever i see this. I was there for the closing of Mickey's Toontown Fair, and they played this song as Mickey and the gang left on the WDW Toontown Train. it brought tears to my eyes to see them go. thanks for posting this. :'D

[bobwezy]

This is probably the best ending for two great movies/tv show.

Mickey Mouse Club and Full metal Jacket

[n3dls]

I used to watch this everyday in the early 50's, a lot of memories, thanks for posting it.

[ChevyGirl813]

I just went to the Cast Member farewell party for the closing of Mickey's Toontown Fair and they played this song as Mickey and the gang boarded the WDW railroad and left the station one last time. Totally cried my eyes out :-)

[snwbrderboi03]

wow darlene is beautiful

[FWalshingham]

We have nailed our names in the pages of history enough for today. We hump down to the Perfume River to set in for the night.

[kingboobs20]

Watching this growing up I developed quite a crush on Annette, she was adorable. But holy shit was Jimmie creepy.

"WHY? BECAUSE WE LIKE YOU"

He's like that creepy guy on Myspace you warn all your friends about.

[mary32724]

RIP Cheryl. You left us two years ago today.

[FeelingJoyful]

To be completely honest,

I think this clip is really drab.

(Not because it's black and white)

The song is just so slow and they don't really look genuinly excited. Not to mention,

The first thing I thought when I watched this clip was that they all seem so fake.

Like all of them have their sweet little innocent 1950's smile on camera

But as soon as they call "Cut!" they are are rude and nasty. I got that vibe from Annette the most.

[DataWaveTaGo]

@FeelingJoyful This is the daily sign-off song and as such they've made it melancholy. Likely to induce a remorseful trauma so the little TeeVee viewers will watch again to get their PerkingUp Fix. I watched this from around age 9 and thought it was hammy & cheesy. For the most part I disliked organized top-down moralizing shows like this. It''s pure tripe but it does offer some insight into "the end of a private childhood" as one Disney critic stated.

[AreYouWetYet]

@FeelingJoyful YES! Annette looks like the slut of the bunch, I would bend her ass over.

But I like the pretty one better, the Cheryl, I like way her mouth pronounces the letter 'C',

and the 'Y' is good too. Cheryl is Not a slut, she is a Nice girl.

[AlphaMistafiedOmega]

¥T

[ubermodo]

Nothing scarier!

[barnfresh60]

gee whiz we were lucky as kids, actually growing up was fun as kids and this played its part as well,where has the time flown, and what the hell has happened.

[XxBabygreeneyesxX]

Y, because we like you! lol strange..  Bobby looks like Taylor Lautner lol

[mayonnaise89]

@XxBabygreeneyesxX i was about to write this exact comment haha he does look like taylor lautner!

[GoGoFiasco]

Even though there were NO minorities in this series back then, I still loved it, and never stopped watching... Still wonderful memories in spite of it.. :)

[rbratcherjr]

How many of you (guy's) had a crush on Annette & watched the show because of her?

[fixedgearplanet]

i just threw up in my mouth

[KEENY552]

lol tommy sings side ways

:L <--

[catchersmitt0]

So much cynical comments here, try to pass as hip or smart.

[CODmaster6661]

three words... full...metal...jacket.

[chalklounge]

Where are the black kids?

[LenntBear]

@chalklounge lol

[onsuff7]

why is it only the females look normal

[Finallybenunderstood]

when it's time to go, it is time to go.. what a wonderful way to sau goodbye, my dearest of friends my fave takes me way back.. ahhhh...... forever I will old my banner high in my heart.... why ??? because I love you.. This is dedicated to all my friends and acquaintances on youtube. It has been a real dream, but the clock has long ago struck twelve, and my clothes are a tatter. That is what I get for sneaking back around... m.o.u.s.e.......mickey mouse. tweet tweet hugs... bye......~o~o~o~o~o~

[PotterYouRotter7]

BOBBY LOOKS LIKE TAYLOR LAUTNER O-O

[adfrog00]

@PotterYouRotter7 OMG you are right...I need to show that to my daughter that is in love with Taylor!!!!

[PotterYouRotter7]

@adfrog00 lol my mom showed it to me and was like "okay who does that look like?" and it took me forever but once i noticed i was like AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!!!!! D8

[JDHowling]

im 11 and i live in engand and i reed baums oz books and watch mickey mouse

club it is true that it brings tears to my eyes i would have loved to groneup in the 50s thanks for this clip.

[parraeels11]

Why? BECUASE WE LIKE YOU! creeeeepy! but cute :)

[bethiehwayy]

Bobby is cute!

[RoslynJoyJohnson]

Thank you Mickey Mouse Club for the joy you gave me in my childhood.

[mary32724]

Happy 68th birthday, Annette!

68??? Where have all the years gone?

[KingmanOldDude]

Yep...Memories....And it did not escape the boys notice that Annette filled out her t-shirt a little differently than the rest of the Mouseketeers!

[624jaydee]

wasnt annette one of the last ones to get the part of a mouseketeer?

[Juliaflo]

@624jaydee Yes, Miss Funicello was selected especially by Walter Elias Disney after he saw her dancing in a dance school recital.

[wacbates]

Annette was my first Love

[Floatingaxe]

Memories! I used to sing along as a child in the fifties, and in the car as a 5 year old, around 1957, I would sing, and end it with an,"M-O-U is me!" My mom would correct me, but I would have none of that! ROFL! Thanks for the memory!

[lolwhjb]

@Floatingaxe hi i really dont know all about this stuff (btw i'm 13) who is annette and why is every who talking about her. plz plz plz tell me.

[1952kid]

This is very nice,but ! watching this as a child of the 1950's , we kids knew these kids were ''goody two shoes ''

[HPFangirl71]

I wasnt born till the 70s but I remember growing up watching this show in reruns and it still hits that nostalgia spot inside!! Love this... thanks for posting!!

[jmdavis90]

OMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGG!! this thing cracks me UPPPPPP!!!! 1:04 is my favorite parttttt!!!! gets me everytime. bwaahahahahahhahahahahaha and they play that part on island98.5 on the mornin show and it hella be crackin me up!!!!!!!!!

[puntagordy]

Am i see kay he why am oh you as he!

[Migeezer808]

Dang this is the classics....... This new Disney crap is not the same as it used to be.. Walt Disney would cry if he was alive and he saw how it is today.........

[pokemonizkooolio]

God I'm happy I wasn't alive in the 50's. Crappy music, awful TV sound and actors, terrible technology, weird clothes, and no color- and I'm not talking about TV.

[Airea85]

My parents rave about this show. Seems a little too perfect. Almost creepy.

[mary32724]

35 of the 39 original mice are still alive. 3 men are dead (at least one self inflicted) and one girl (Cheryl) is gone. others are all alive.

[SnowflakeSparkles26]

@mary32724 Which one do think killed theirselves, cause from what I've read, none of the mousketeers who are dead now committed suicide.

[mary32724]

@SnowflakeSparkles26 Mike Smith is listed as having died from "unknown causes" - which is often a code for drugs or suicide. Charley Laney is said to have died "unexpectedly" - which is another codeword. I did read that "One male Mouseketeer, despondent over the loss of a child, committed suicide." To me, that indicates Charley since Tim Rooney died from illness and Mike apparently did not have children.

[SLABVetteMan]

holy balls i just shot myself

[russofamerica]

Creeeeepy!

[gigglepox9000]

@russofamerica Why? I don't think it's creepy.

[ikkinnikk]

"Why? Because we LIKE you" LMAO that always been my part.

[carl58x1]

My son's favorite song!!

[chuckeisenhardt]

'meeska-mooska', y'all.......come to think of it, what was up with 'Uncle Roy'? Would you sit on his lap?

[trayguy]

Not the theme song I wanted but, still very nice.

[ouidaja]

they're all dead

[CazK88]

@ouidaja

They are all not dead. The little ones are still living. Jimmie and the older crew are dead.

[1560438]

How about a threesome with Cheryl and Darlene!

[ballsy101]

WHAT?? No token black kid?

[Taharah007]

We were so innocent then, no? Not like today's "mouscateers" that look like street walkers and are in and out of rehabs and jails...How times have changed ...for the WORSE!!! Thanks for this trip down memory lane to recall the beautiful past.

[MahoganyLuvsJadenS]

i remembmer when i waz 2 in 1998 and i used to love the old mickey mouse, and i would ALWAYS sing this before i watched it.!

[SINGDJOY]

~~~Memories~

[SINGDJOY]

~~~Memory's~~~

[zeak62]

I was 10 years old then and Annette, gave me a Hard on , ever time I saw her.

[mary32724]

Cheryl went to visit Jimmie while on her honeymoon.  Jimmie was sick in his hospital bed & didnt wake up. The next day he died.

Doreen was Cheryl's best friend & at her side while she died. Timmy visited her that night & said Cheryl died 2 hours after he left. I dont know if any other Mouseketeers were there.

[omgwhatafag]

0:55 to end

I almsot cried...they plan that on the "magical express" at the airport that takes you to your hotel for free...but it also takes you back...and thats why i cried

[bkatayab]

Roy always gave me the creeps, but otherwise I liked the show so much..

[Alex98714]

Yes, children, succumb to the New Disney Order!

[CloudsofBliss]

scary because it's in the 50's but however, I still love it better than the 90's

[idkyily]

as a child with severe insomnia (less than 2 hours of sleep a night) 1am Disney channel in the 90s was the BEST. zorro, zorro, mickey mouse club, imagineers, and then some old disney movie. I watched that lineup for years before my insomia was treated. I'm so sad that these shows aren't still on. i would DVR them for sure!

[howdewyoudo]

@idkyily i LOVED it every friday + saturday when my mom would let me stay up to midnight to watch this and zorro!

and i would also definately watch itt now.

[kellythesinger]

Funny how back in those days they could have a show like this on TV for everyone to see, and no one would notice this was

Not for people of Color.

[welder541]

@kellythesinger I could'nt agree with you more!!! Political correctness has destroyed American society today as we know it. Some people just seem to thrive on this stuff, and stir the pot with their ultimately stupid remarks. Pissing those off who were around when this language had'nt even been thought up or spoken yet because we did'nt need it then, and we don't need it now. it only stir's people up. Thanx for your post:):):):)

[kingmanted]

em eye see kay ee why em oh you ess ee!

[SammiJx17]

This is the MMC I watched when I was younger, not the Britney Spears/Christina one..lol. And I just turned 18. Somethings wrong with that..

[MotionPictureMaster]

SCARY!

[MotionPictureMaster]

Scary.

[welder541]

Things sure have changed!!!!! Today's kid's show's the majority, you can flush em all down the toilet ,their CRAP!!!!. This is but 1 of the american kids shows i grew up with and loved, and will never forget, EVER:):):):):) got those ears on??? LOL

[Quaaludedude714]

I,m Old : (  QC

[Loganh24]

FMJ

[KINGVernonOMA]

Jimmie I'll see ya real soom

[Rileyxoxo7]

I showed some of the clips to my dad and he got all misty eyed as he told me about how he would run and get his mouse ears and plop in front of the TV to watch this. I love that he can share memories like that with me and my brother.

[JAQUANATV]

Come Along & Sing Our.

Come Join Our Family.

M I C KE Y M O U S E.

I Love This One.

[revaluator]

Disney is the EVIL EMPIRE!!! They saved Walt's brain and he still controls everything. Seriously, wasn't his head cryogenically frozen?

[CharlieBladeRemus]

I remember Disney showing late-night reruns of this show back in the late 90s into the new century...I always had the hots for Darlene. Karen always reminded me of Jan Brady, lol

Those were the days....

[wierdannie]

man i use to watch this every night with my sister ^^

[AlainaJune15]

sheryl was so cute and pretty.i wish i was her.R.I.P Sheryl

[ricktv2009]

As I wipe the tears from my eye so I can type this, I am reminded that time keeps ticking on.

Thanks for posting my memory of being a kid.

[Polandball]

They grow old and ugly...........I thought cheryl was beautiful, now shes and old freak with skin like plastic bag. I think Im going to get drunk.......

[bulldogtx]

@Polandball Cheryl died of cancer over a year ago..Old age happens to us all if we are lucky to get that far..

[seka1986]

Let's see how you ripen out.

[TheCadillac62]

i wish i lived in those days its so weird even like 8 years ago they used to show this on the Disney Channel now all these great shows are gone!

[SlashyLeaf]

Cheryl looks like hayden pannetiere... just saying.. O.O

[purpleicey12]

this part is sad

[faaron5291]

only hope you young folks have the same reaction from the next generation to things you are comfortable with.........in the meantime I guess you can just keep head banging

[1952kid]

It is magic,and wonderful , a warm and safe moment in our past.

[lovegsds]

1952 kid, but Annette was bullied when she tried ordinary school, she had to leave. my parents were at war, I was an ordinary kid, and this show meant everything to me, a chance of escape in a dreadful real world. God bless them

[1952kid]

extra note; it was a wonderful show to escape bad family problems for some kids. Alot of parents had drinking problems in those days .

yes, wonderful ,and wonderful memories of watching this in the late 1950's and the reruns that started in 1961 . Just keep in mind this is not how real kids acted in the 1950's and 1960's . We yelled back at our parents