House of Mouse - Season 2 - Episode 3 - "Clarabelle's Big Secret"

    Release Date - October 6, 2001

Synopsis

Clarabelle Cow's "Main Street Gossip" are boring old news, so she promises to reveal a really BIG secret -- which makes everyone in the club worried that the BIG secret might be about them.

Credits

Directors

Robert Gannaway

Tony Craig

Shorts Shown

How to Be a Spy

Double Date Donald

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From Lee Suggs : I've decided I'm not fond of the Clarabelle Cow character. She was originally just an extra (in the early shorts) and she had no real personality. This episode features her as the HOM's Gossip Queen. Her gossip is a bit outdated, (Mickey and Minnie are dating, news when Herbert Hoover was President) so she promises to reveal a "big secret" that will prevent a popular "Toon" from ever working again. All of the HOM characters are very upset about this and begin telling Clarabelle their secrets, in order to beg here not to share them. (The best one is Chernobog admitting he is afraid of the dark.) I like the idea of this frame, but I guess I just don't like Clarabelle's voice or something. This episode featured a cartoon with (a non-speaking) Clarabelle.

The episode ends with Clarabelle deciding not to hurt anyone with all her "new" secrets, and instead she quits being a Gossip Queen. Of course this is just a way to save all her juicy gossip for her new book "Tales of the Toons", which is amusingly advertised at the end of the show. I have to say this episode had some great gags, and the new cartoon was fun. I just wish I could get used to the Cow's voice. Still....