Minnie's Bow-Toons

There is no redeeming value here. After watching incredible and smart shows for children with our toddler (Bluey, for example), this horror of a show is cringe-worthy. Too frantic. The characters are all seemingly imbeciles. Nothing educational or heartwarming. Painful.

My daughter is two and absolutely loves this show. Some people complain that the episodes are too short (3min) but the show is not targeting adults. So I honestly think that's the short run time is a benefit of the show. We don't like having a lot of screen time so this show is great to have a fun little show with Minnie and Daisy as the main characters for 3 minutes and then we can do something else. It's great to use as a transition show without waiting forever for the show to end. I like that each episode they generally have some little lesson or mostly they problem solve through different situations. They are light hearted, not to serious, and easy to follow.

I probably would've ignored this show if my niece didn't watch it daily. But of course I gave it a chance since I'm a life long Daisy Duck fan (30+ years of collecting). And here I am astounded.. The creators really have no other way of making Minnie look good unless everyone else looks terrible. This is honestly not new, at conception Daisy has always been the counterpart and the "bad girlfriend" as a mirror to little miss perfect Minnie Mouse. Daisy's outspoken, brave, smart, demands what she wants, and is even a bit of a feminist, but now that girl power is back on trend you have to strip her of all that, basically switching their roles. Look at the Ducktales reboot in contrast, or Steamboat Silly, or even further back: Daisy in QuackPack, or The Three Musketeers, with Minnie being a naive-romantic, and Daisy being a level-headed, no-nonsense, smart friend who steers her.

The Daisy in this show is a hollow shell, a doppleganger. I hope none of this show is ever referenced for future iterations of my beloved Daisy Duck.

My daughter turns one in a couple weeks, and these are good sized videos for her. We have Emby and got 10 bow-toons from the Wizard of Dizz DVD (all of season 1), plus two from another Clubhouse DVD (Pop Star Minnie?). They are great to shuffle with episodes of other shows geared to young kids. My daughter basically loves songs and bright colors at this stage, and the Mickey Mouse stuff works well for her in general. It did take a couple plays for her to recognize the song and get excited, but she claps and runs over and bounces when she hears it start. I will also have her kid shows on in the background while we play so we can sing along and dance or whatever.

The episodes don't include credits when you get them from the DVDs, and I wish they would release more. I have watched the show on Disney+, too, and the experience is a little better without the credits, but they are easy enough to skip.

Edit: The 10 episodes of Season 2 can be found on the DVD release Minnie-rella.

Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck are wonderful female role models for young children to look up to