Featuring Disney cartoon characters Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy and Pluto in contemporary settings such as Paris, Venice, Tokyo and New York, the series has the slapstick feel of the earliest Mickey Mouse shorts while providing a modern update, and "presents Mickey in a broad range of humorous situations that showcase his pluck and rascality, along with his long-beloved charm and good heartedness".

[6] Paul Rudish, Jenny Gase-Baker and Joseph Holt won three Emmy Awards for their work on the series in September 2013.

The pilot episode, "Croissant de Triomphe", was first released as a special preview on March 12, 2013, on Disney.com.

[9] As of March 2014, a total of 100 million viewers in the United States had seen the series, and it was airing in 160 countries.

[42] On July 21, 2023, Walt Disney Records released a soundtrack album of several songs from the series.