Nearly 70 years after the first Mickey Mouse cartoon, a new short arrived in theaters teaching this valuable lesson: If a mad scientist ever wants to transplant your brain into something else, don’t just walk… run away! Runaway Brain was released on this day in 1995 with the feature film A Kid in King Arthur’s Court, starring Thomas Ian Nicholas. In Runaway Brain, Mickey is a bit obsessed playing a video game of Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which leads to a misunderstanding with his sweetheart, causing our main mouse to try to raise money to bring Minnie to Hawaii. Answering an ad for “a mindless day’s work,” he is hired by Dr. Frankenollie, who alters him mindless when he transplants his brain into a monster’s body and vice versa. The evil and psychotic Frankenollie doesn’t seem quite as sinister if you take a moment to decipher his name, which is comprised of two of Disney’s most revered animators, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, who were not only co-workers, but best pals, too. And incidentally, neither was sinister nor evil.
