Runaway Brain
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Runaway Brain is a 7-minute short-subject animated cartoon starring Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. It was released on August 11, 1995 attached to the feature A Kid in King Arthur's Court and was re-released on July 16, 1997 in front of Disney's live-action remake of George of the Jungle. In international theaters, it was shown in front of A Goofy Movie.
In the cartoon, Mickey is hooked on a Mortal Kombat-style video game based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when Minnie comes home to find that Mickey forgot their wedding anniversary. Mickey comes up with a last-minute idea to take her to a miniature golf course.
Showing her a newspaper, Minnie takes it the wrong way and thinks Mickey is taking her to Hawaii when he notices that going on the trip would cost $999.99, he soon worries about getting money so Pluto shows Mickey the want ads. He sees an ad for work with a Dr. Frankenollie (an inside joke at Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston) for a day of "mindless work" that would instantly give him $999.99. He goes to the home of this monkey-like creature whistling (if you had to guess) the theme to the cartoon Steamboat Willie getting sucked downward to his laboratory where we see Dr. Frankenollie for the first (and last) time played by Kelsey Grammer of Frasier fame.
Where he plans to make Mickey switch brains with his monster, Julius, and they turn into each other and Julius gets a crush on Minnie, chasing after her while she was looking for a bathing suit. During the battle between Julius and Mickey, electrical wires make their brains switch back for the final battle. In the end, they go to Hawaii with Julius as their boat looking at the photo. The credits play once again, the Steamboat Willie music.
In recent years, Disney tried to hide this short due to showing an "evil Mickey" (that's only in the cartoon for 2 minutes) and the widely-held allegation that Minnie in one scene sounded like she was saying "God damn it, Mickey!" when she's really saying "Go get him, Mickey!", but it has finally been released on DVD.