"Sock Burglar" is the fifteenth Mickey Mouse (2013) short of season 3, and the 52nd short overall.
Someone's been stealing exactly one sock from everyone in town. After the mysterious thief takes Minnie's hand-knitted replacements, she decides to investigate.
Tropes:
- Animate Inanimate Object: When Pete releases all the socks they return to their owners on their own.
- Barrier-Busting Blow: It's very easy for Pete to bust through walls.
- The Cameo: The suspects Minnie interrogates include The Beagle Boys, the Phantom Blot, the Evil Queen, and the Big Bad Wolf.
- Hijacked by Ganon: The Sock Burglar turns out to be... Pete. What are the odds?
- If I Can't Have You…: A truly bizarre variant. Since Pete could never find a suitable sock for his peg-leg, he decided that if he couldn't have two socks, no one else could, either.
- Inelegant Blubbering: Goofy wails loudly as he confesses to having drunk the milk from Mickey's carton and backwashed.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Once the Sock Burglar manages to steal Goofy's sock while Minnie's in the room with him, the last straw breaks, and Minnie stops him once and for all—after instantly knitting herself a ninja suit.
- McNinja: Wool ninja Minnie with shuriken doilies.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: After Minnie knits Pete a special peg-leg sock, he proclaims that now that he has two socks, he can do what he always wanted to do...Rob banks!
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: How Minnie managed to detain the Phantom Blot, Evil Queen and Big Bad Wolf for interrogation is a mystery.