Mike's Super Short Show was a long running promotional mini series that promoted Disney's upcoming VHS

VHS

The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....

/DVD

DVD

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 releases.

About

The show is literally a "super short show" in which a boy named Mike (Mike Johnson) and his sister Sally (Alyson Stoner

Alyson Stoner

Alyson Rae Stoner is an American actress, dancer and singer. Stoner is known for her roles in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody , Cheaper By The Dozen and Cheaper By The Dozen 2 , Step Up and Step Up 3 , and Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2...

) discuss and explain different recent Disney DVDs. It was started in 2002 by Art Spigel, produced by Jason Wolk and continued on until its cancellation in 2007.

Promotional duties

Most movies that were produced by The Walt Disney Company and Pixar Animation Studios, such as The Incredibles

The Incredibles

The Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated action-comedy superhero film about a family of superheroes who are forced to hide their powers. It was written and directed by Brad Bird, a former director and executive consultant of The Simpsons, and was produced by Pixar and distributed by...

, The Haunted Mansion, and The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid

"The Little Mermaid" is a popular fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince...

, were featured on MSSS during "commercial breaks" just prior to the DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 launch of the respective film. From time to time, the show also provided a sneak-peek at events taking place at Walt Disney World in Orlando

Orlando, Florida

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 and Disneyland in California

California

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, such as the opening of a new ride or attraction.

Disney stars such as Amy Bruckner

Amy Bruckner

Amelia Ellen "Amy" Bruckner is an American actress and singer noted for her roles in the Disney Channel shows Phil of the Future and American Dragon: Jake Long...

, Aly and AJ, Kyla Pratt

Kyla Pratt

Kyla Alissa Pratt is an American actress and singer.-Early life:Pratt was born in Los Angeles, the oldest of five children of Kecia Pratt-McCullar, a schoolteacher, and Johnny McCullar, a semi-professional basketball player....

, Ashley Tisdale

Ashley Tisdale

Ashley Michelle Tisdale is an American actress and singer who rose to prominence portraying the candy-counter girl Maddie Fitzpatrick in Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and the female antagonist Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical film series...

, Raven-Symone

Raven-Symoné

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, Brenda Song

Brenda Song

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, Christy Carlson Romano

Christy Carlson Romano

Christy Carlson Romano is an American stage and film actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the sitcom Even Stevens and the animated series Kim Possible, in which she is the voice of the title character, as well as the voice of Yuffie Kisaragi in Kingdom Hearts and Final...

, The Cheetah Girls, Ricky Ullman, and Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus

Miley Ray Cyrus is an American actress and pop singer-songwriter. She achieved wide fame for her role as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana....

 appeared on the show during its run.

Follow-up shows

When Mike's Super Short Show ended its run in 2007, it was replaced by the newscast-themed Disney's Really Short Report

Disney's Really Short Report

Disney's Really Short Report was a mini-show that ran on the Disney Channel and promoted upcoming Disney DVD releases. The show was launched in 2007 to replace the long running Mike's Super Short Show which was hosted by Michael Alan Johnson and Alyson Stoner, which had ended its run in December...

, which ran until January 2009, being replaced by Leo Little's Big Show

Leo Little's Big Show

Leo Little's Big Show is a Disney Channel short television series featuring a boy named Leo Little and his sister, Amy Little , who host a show from their family room about Disney stars, movies and programs, in a manner very similar to its predecessor, Mike's Super Short Show...

, which is similar in format to Mike's and formerly aired on Disney Channel

Disney Channel

Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...

.