Review: Mickey Mouse – “The Boiler Room”

Disney is celebrating October with creepy Monstober shows. Mickey Mouse is able to join in the fun thanks to a very scary basement in “The Boiler Room.”

Our pal, Mickey, is back at Minnie’s apartment building. This time, instead of a fire, the building’s water heater is broken. Minnie convinces the brave little mouse to head into the basement, where the monster lives, to fix it.

At first, Mickey is scared by the usual basement things like a trenchcoat hanging on a coatstand. He even gets scared by the sound of his own heart thumping away in his chest. Hysterically, he asks his heart to stop it and it complies, almost killing Mickey.

Eventually, he reaches the super scary boiler only to find out the real reason there is no hot water. Someone clamped a wrench onto a pipe, causing a pressure build-up in the boiler. Of course, this makes the boiler very angry. As the boiler is about to fry him, Mickey uses a fishing rod and some fake teeth to pull the wrench off of the pipe, relieving the pressure. Hot water floods through the pipes, making the apartment dwellers (and the boiler) very happy.

While I did enjoy this episode, I am a little torn on it. There was absolutely nothing original in it. Almost every cartoon has done some sort of scary mechanical beast episode. And almost every episode has the boiler as the scary culprit. I could pretty much predict every step the plot took. Despite the unoriginality, there were some very funny pieces. (I literally LOL’d at the conversation Mickey had with his heart.) So, I’m going to give it a solid 8. If it wasn’t so predictable, I would have rated it higher.