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{{Infobox television
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| genre                = Family<br>Musical
| director             = Scott Garen
| executive_producer   = 
| producer             = Scott Garen<br>Joie Albrecht
| writer               = Joie Albrecht
| narrated             = 
| starring             = [[Russi Taylor]]<br>[[Robert Carradine]]<br>[[Patricia Parris]]<br>[[Suzanne Somers]]<br>[[Elton John]]<br>[[Wayne Allwine]]
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| music                = 
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| company              = [[Walt Disney Television (production company)|Walt Disney Television]]<br>[[FilmFair|FilmFair Communications]]<br>Garen/Albrecht Productions
| network              = [[NBC]]
| released             = {{Start date|1988|02|25}}
| runtime              = 45 minutes
| country              = United States
| language             = English
| budget               = 
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'''''Totally Minnie''''' is a musical television special hosted by [[Suzanne Somers]] and starring [[Minnie Mouse]]. It first aired February 25, 1988 on [[NBC]]. It was the first film to feature [[Minnie Mouse]] in the lead role and up until the premiere of ''[[Mickey Mouse Works]]'' in 1999, this was the only time Minnie had any starring role.<ref>{{cite news|title= Television Reviews 'Disney's Totally Minnie': Live Action, Animation |work= [[The Los Angeles Times]]|date=1988-03-25|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-25-ca-249-story.html|access-date=2011-02-10|first=Charles|last=Solomon}}</ref> [[Russi Taylor]], the original voice of Minnie at the time, actually met her future husband, [[Wayne Allwine]], then voicing Mickey, while recording this special.

== Plot ==
The film centers on [[nerd]] Maxwell Dweeb ([[Robert Carradine]]), who is a loner with no friends. While watching television, he sees an advertisement for the ''Minnie Mouse Center for the Totally Unhip'', named after its owner, [[Minnie Mouse]]. Dweeb, in an effort to improve himself socially, decides to attend.

After being welcomed by the Director ([[Suzanne Somers]]), Dweeb is taken on a tour of the centre, where other [[Walt Disney|Disney]] characters run various courses: [[Goofy]] is a [[Personal trainer|fitness instructor]], [[Donald Duck]] is a wardrobe manager and [[Pluto (Disney)|Pluto]] is a messenger boy. After finally meeting [[Minnie Mouse]], Dweeb is taken on by the Director. After seeing Elton John sing a duet with Minnie in "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", Maxwell feels he has it figured out and displays his new hip personality with clothes akin to Elton's, but the Director stops him saying that it is just ''not'' him and that hipness doesn't equal emulation of another's style. Minnie decides to take Maxwell on a shopping spree. Then the Director, impressed by a newly made-over Maxwell Dweeb, decides to date him.

The film is intershot with various musical numbers including the duet "[[Don't Go Breaking My Heart]]" with [[Elton John]] (lip syncing to the original 1976 version) and Minnie (replacing [[Kiki Dee]]) and excerpts from early Disney shorts, including a [[D-TV]] [[The Pointer Sisters]]’ [[Neutron Dance]] & number of [[Janet Jackson]]'s "[[Nasty (Janet Jackson song)|Nasty]]" with a montage of male Disney villains such as Black Pete and Captain Hook shown.

== Main cast ==
===Voices===
* [[Russi Taylor]] - [[Minnie Mouse]] (voice)
* [[Wayne Allwine]] - [[Mickey Mouse]] (voice)
* [[Tony Anselmo]] - [[Donald Duck]] (voice)
* [[Will Ryan]] - [[Goofy]]/[[Pete (Disney)|Pete]] (voice)
* [[Don Pardo]] - Announcer (voice)

===Actors===
* [[Robert Carradine]] - Maxwell Dweeb
* [[Suzanne Somers]] - The Director
* [[Elton John]] - Himself
* [[Vanna White]] - Herself
* [[Philip Michael Thomas]] - Himself

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239147/ ''Totally Minnie'' at the Internet Movie Data Base]
* [https://archive.today/20130117220433/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/109764-Totally_Minnie.html ''Totally Minnie'' at the Big Cartoon Data Base]

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