The short was released on Decemon Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White.
The video game Kingdom Hearts III includes a mini game based on the short, with the Mad Doctor appearing as an enemy. He also appears as a major character in Epic Mickey and its sequel. The Mad Doctor was also the basis for, and title of, the second level in the video game, Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse released for the Super NES, Genesis, Sega CD and PlayStation (as Mickey's Wild Adventure) a depiction of the Mad Doctor level is used as the cover art for the game. The short's title character had a cameo in the Roger Rabbit short, "Tummy Trouble", in which he was seen on a picture. On February 10, 1933, The Film Daily said: "One of the liveliest animated cartoons to come along, and plenty comical." Legacy At one time, for this reason, it was banned entirely in the United Kingdom, as well as Nazi Germany. Some theaters refused to show it, believing it to be too scary for kids. The short's horror genre overtones made it unusual for a Mickey Mouse cartoon. The short uses several gags that appeared in The Haunted House, such as the door locking itself after Mickey enters the Mad Doctor's lair. Not yet realizing the events were only a nightmare, Mickey shouts for Pluto, who eagerly jumps onto Mickey's bed with his doghouse and chain still attached to his collar. The scene then fades to Mickey asleep in bed and suddenly woken up by a fly, whose buzzing resembles the whirring of the saw.
Mickey battles his way through booby traps and animated skeletons before eventually getting caught and strapped onto a table to get cut open by a buzzsaw, forcing Mickey to suck in his belly, trembling. Mickey tries to rescue him before the doctor can perform his experiment: putting Pluto's head to the body of a chicken in order to see if a puppy will hatch from an egg (that is if the end result will "bark or crow or cackle"). The plot centers on the title character, a mad scientist who has kidnapped Mickey's dog, Pluto.
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