The Characters: A Celebration of the Imagination

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The Characters: A Celebration of the Imagination is a 210-minute TV-special aired in various channels around the world on December 31, 2017.

Plot
Various characters from various films, TV shows, video games, toys, brands and even real-life people host a banquet to celebrate the characters' party by presenting a retrospective of their film, television and video game appearances.

After a montage of various clips from 1923 to 2017 viewers find an elegant penthouse (which it would soon be a world capital) -- jam-packed with (as Mike the Microphone tells us) "all of the characters from all times-except for those who couldn't make it".

Hosted by Sonic the Hedgehog and featuring guest of honor Mickey Mouse, the program provides an overview of the characters' history and musical highlights. Mickey doesn't feel he deserves the cheesy words Sonic uses to describe, but Sonic insists, reminding Mickey that he was the one who began their career. A clip is shown. A montage early appearances in the 20th century and early 21th century is then shown. These include clips from early silent films, Saturday Night Live and various commercials. Mickey then mentions that Felix the Cat was "the first popular cartoon character to have a regular spot on movies". A clip featuring first appearences from certain characters. Sonic then introduces some of old stars from early silent films.

Then, Sonic introduces a selection of clips of various funny moments from Disney movies, before Steven Universe introduces a montage of clips to honor Minnie Mouse. After accidentally falling down a flight of stairs, Minnie arrives alongside Mickey to wish him a happy character party. Mickey tries to convince Minnie that it is not just his party, but "ours". Minnie convinces Mickey otherwise. The two then introduce a montage of clips from movies from 1950 to 2016, all overlaid by "Hey, a Movie!" from The Great Muppet Caper. After the montage, Connie Maheswaran pops up between Mickey and Minnie to bring up "the date scene" from Lady and the Tramp. A clip is shown.

Deadpool introduces a sequence featuring still images of various book covers, record covers, magazine covers and video game covers. Sonic mentions that the characters are seen on television in over 150+ countries. Before the hedgehog can continue, however, Dr. Eggman and other villains, complaining that their favorite clips were never shown. A montage featuring villains, characters eating other characters and explosions is shown, with a karaoke "It's Our House Now' being played. After the montage, Crazy Harry pops up for one more explosion. Captain Jake then introduce Star Butterfly and Marco Diaz. A montage of animated shows and movies are shown. GLaDOS then grumpily introduces the Barney and Friends character, Barney who introduces clips of various clips of preschool shows.

Luke Skywalker then introduces the LEGO minifigures, who introduce a clip of "Get a Horse!". The Doctor introduces twenty-one clips involving imagination, overlaid by Ben Vereen singing "Pure Imagination". Snoop Dogg and Shakira then introduce music clips. Afterwards, Tails introduces clips with video game trailers. When Sofia asks Mickey what his favorite thing about the characters are, Mickey says that his favorite scenes are the times when they don't try to be funny, leading to a montage of some of the characters' more serious moments. Indiana Jones, Spider-Man and Nathan Drake then introduces some of the characters' more cultural moments.

Afterwards, Sonic and everyone else decide to pay tribute to Mickey, overlaid by "The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71A, Waltz Of The Flowers" from Fantasia, reedited to feature a number of clips with the mouse. At the conclusion, a clip from The Muppets is shown with the Muppets singing "The Rainbow Connection". After the clip, the entire characters reprises the song.

A giant amount of actors and celebrities all appear briefly at the near conclusion of the program being given a bill for their food by Grover.

Before the closing chapter, Mickey says, "It's been a great birthday party. Our next celebration start tomorrow, so there will be a rehearsal at 9 AM sharp."

After, Mike the Microphone said that they forgot something, and told everyone to stay on their seats, because the celebration is just getting started, and he knew that the United Federation of Earth has commissioned them to listen to the speeches of various heads of states and governments of respective broadcasting countries to congratulate the characters, so he present various heads of states and governments of respective broadcasting countries in a soft-spoken voice. After, a presidential hymn or a royal anthem was played for his/her speech.

Also, Mike the Microphone leads an interfaith prayer of peace, starting with Christianity, then end with Italo-Roman neopaganism (except Satanism, due to the Devil going to ruin the special, according to Pope Francis in the behind the scenes).

The following were being prayed for a prayer of peace:
 * Christianity
 * Judaism
 * Islam
 * Bahá'í Faith
 * Hinduism
 * Taoism
 * Buddhism
 * Sikhism
 * Slavic neopaganism
 * Celtic polytheism
 * Heathenism (German paganism)
 * Semitic neopaganism
 * Wicca
 * Kemetism (Egyptian paganism)
 * Hellenism
 * Italo-Roman neopaganism

After, he leads the singing of a farewell song.

After, the characters sing Heal the World by Michael Jackson, and shows clips of giving world peace.

The Titans Spirit, a soundtrack from a movie, Remember the Titans , plays during the end credits (sequence with memorable scenes of various cartoons seen).

List of Characters
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Vehicles in the Parking Lot
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Rating

 * United States - TV-PG
 * United Kingdom - 12A
 * Australia - PG
 * Australia - PG

Food & Drink
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Transcript
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Legacy
However, despite overflowing images and videos showing humankind and God thanking cartoon characters for The Characters: A Celebration of Imagination, debates and investigating began following the special event has become widespread and viral online.

Also, due to its all-time high popularity, memes relating to them were made on the Internet, and spreaded across the globe.

On February 2018, using a universal travel machine, they recruited everyone who were in The Grand Themistocles to join the construction crew to build The Grand Themistocles called "The Grand Themistocles Project"

Voice Cast

 * Bret Iwan - Mickey Mouse
 * Russi Taylor - Minnie Mouse
 * Yuri Lowenthal - Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Zach Callison - Steven Universe
 * Eden Sher - Star Butterfly
 * Adam McArthur - Marco Diaz
 * Ellen McLain - GLaDOS
 * Ariel Winter - Princess Sofia
 * Steve Whitmore - Statler
 * Dave Goelz - Waldorf
 * TBA - Connie Maheswaran
 * Jess Harnell - Dr. Eggman
 * Dean Wendt - Barney
 * Eric Bauza - Luke Skywalker
 * Peter Capaldi - The Doctor
 * Snoop Dogg - Himself
 * Shakira - Herself
 * Colleen Villard - Miles "Tails" Prower, Captain Jake
 * Nolan North - Indiana Jones, Deadpool, Nathan Drake
 * Drake Bell - Spiderman
 * Various Actors and Actresses - other characters
 * Various Actors and Actresses - other characters

Trivia

 * The special is similar to The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years.
 * The main setting of this special will be The Grand Themistocles, a then capital of the United Federation of Earth.
 * This will be an intercompany crossover special, marking the end of all tensions between those companies, and creating a new UN-like organization called the Intercompany League of Mass Media & Entertainment (ILMME), a new agency of the United Nations based in Hollywood.
 * The special is hosted by Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Sonic the Hedgehog, Steven Universe, Star Butterfly, Marco Diaz, GLaDOS, Captain Jake, Deadpool, Miles "Tails" Prower, Princess Sofia, Mike the Microphone, Pope Francis and Antonio Guterres.
 * The special will combines traditional animation (characters and vehicles) and CGI (locations, props and everything). However, Antonio Guterres, Pope Francis, newly-elected heads of Mass Media & Entertainment Committees (MMEC) and politicians, including locations of the politicians' speeches were live action.
 * Deceased characters will be resurrected.
 * Mortal Kombat, South Park, Sausage Party, Family Guy, Ren and Stimpy, Diara, Drawn Together, various Adult Swim shows, erotic movies and other adult TV shows and movies were omitted due to violence, sex, strong language and other adult themes. However, they were mention as "those who didn't make it", described by Mike the Microphone. However, he sent a message of apology to them in the conclusion.
 * Real world actors, singers, popular bands, news anchors and reporters and sport personalities, including politicians will appear in the special.
 * Heads of states and governments gave speeches to thank the cartoon characters for a banquet, how they have done it, and what would they do in the future, and hoping that unity and friendship between humans and characters will always develop forever.
 * The live action, CGI and stop motion characters will appear in 2D in order to match the special's design.
 * The special will have the laugh track from Mr. Bean.
 * All characters will wearing their formal attires.