Simply Mad About the Mouse: A Musical Celebration of Imagination

Simply Mad About the Mouse: A Musical Celebration of Imagination (commonly shortened to Simply Mad About the Mouse) () is a 1991 direct-to-video release featuring top contemporary singers performing "classic Disney songs". Released 27 September 1991, the 35-minute-long series of music videos was released on VHS and LaserDisc. The music videos were exclusive to the video and the Disney Channel.

On the disc are these performances:

As evidenced in the descriptions of the music videos, while Simply Mad included new animation, it made great use of existing animated footage. Most new animation in Simply Mad is rotoscoped, a technique highly disregarded by Disney's animators, who while refer to video footage for reference, prefer to create their character's motion from scratch.

The video begins in a set created of "the Disney Vault", where the camera pans around various objects and pictures, including "props" from the animated movies, such as Cinderella's glass slipper, or the submerged skull from The Rescuers. An animator's pencil drawing of Sorcerer Mickey slowly comes alive, and enchants five musical notes out of a baton; the notes proceed to whip around the room at varying speeds. The vault is entered through a dark and slightly industrial side; at the end it exits onto an English garden.

Created by Garen Entertainment and Stellar X Productions, it was distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, the Walt Disney Company's distribution company.

An album of the music was created by Columbia Records, and released on LP, cassette and compact disc. Also on the record was En Vogue with "Someday My Prince Will Come" and Kirk Whalum with "Mad About The Wolf".

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