diff --git a/pandas/core/arrays/_mixins.py b/pandas/core/arrays/_mixins.py
index 284dd31ffcb59..a947ab64f7380 100644
--- a/pandas/core/arrays/_mixins.py
+++ b/pandas/core/arrays/_mixins.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import numpy as np
 
+from pandas._libs import lib
 from pandas.compat.numpy import function as nv
 from pandas.errors import AbstractMethodError
 from pandas.util._decorators import cache_readonly, doc
@@ -30,6 +31,12 @@ def _from_backing_data(self: _T, arr: np.ndarray) -> _T:
         """
         raise AbstractMethodError(self)
 
+    def _box_func(self, x):
+        """
+        Wrap numpy type in our dtype.type if necessary.
+        """
+        return x
+
     # ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     def take(
@@ -168,3 +175,22 @@ def _validate_setitem_key(self, key):
 
     def _validate_setitem_value(self, value):
         return value
+
+    def __getitem__(self, key):
+        if lib.is_integer(key):
+            # fast-path
+            result = self._ndarray[key]
+            if self.ndim == 1:
+                return self._box_func(result)
+            return self._from_backing_data(result)
+
+        key = self._validate_getitem_key(key)
+        result = self._ndarray[key]
+        if lib.is_scalar(result):
+            return self._box_func(result)
+
+        result = self._from_backing_data(result)
+        return result
+
+    def _validate_getitem_key(self, key):
+        return check_array_indexer(self, key)
diff --git a/pandas/core/arrays/categorical.py b/pandas/core/arrays/categorical.py
index 25073282ec0f6..347232d30bda8 100644
--- a/pandas/core/arrays/categorical.py
+++ b/pandas/core/arrays/categorical.py
@@ -1882,17 +1882,11 @@ def __getitem__(self, key):
         """
         Return an item.
         """
-        if isinstance(key, (int, np.integer)):
-            i = self._codes[key]
-            return self._box_func(i)
-
-        key = check_array_indexer(self, key)
-
-        result = self._codes[key]
-        if result.ndim > 1:
+        result = super().__getitem__(key)
+        if getattr(result, "ndim", 0) > 1:
+            result = result._ndarray
             deprecate_ndim_indexing(result)
-            return result
-        return self._from_backing_data(result)
+        return result
 
     def _validate_setitem_value(self, value):
         value = extract_array(value, extract_numpy=True)
diff --git a/pandas/core/arrays/datetimelike.py b/pandas/core/arrays/datetimelike.py
index e8b1c12687584..f42d3bee6bbea 100644
--- a/pandas/core/arrays/datetimelike.py
+++ b/pandas/core/arrays/datetimelike.py
@@ -539,23 +539,11 @@ def __getitem__(self, key):
         This getitem defers to the underlying array, which by-definition can
         only handle list-likes, slices, and integer scalars
         """
-
-        if lib.is_integer(key):
-            # fast-path
-            result = self._ndarray[key]
-            if self.ndim == 1:
-                return self._box_func(result)
-            return self._from_backing_data(result)
-
-        key = self._validate_getitem_key(key)
-        result = self._ndarray[key]
+        result = super().__getitem__(key)
         if lib.is_scalar(result):
-            return self._box_func(result)
-
-        result = self._from_backing_data(result)
+            return result
 
-        freq = self._get_getitem_freq(key)
-        result._freq = freq
+        result._freq = self._get_getitem_freq(key)
         return result
 
     def _validate_getitem_key(self, key):
@@ -572,7 +560,7 @@ def _validate_getitem_key(self, key):
             # this for now (would otherwise raise in check_array_indexer)
             pass
         else:
-            key = check_array_indexer(self, key)
+            key = super()._validate_getitem_key(key)
         return key
 
     def _get_getitem_freq(self, key):
@@ -582,7 +570,10 @@ def _get_getitem_freq(self, key):
         is_period = is_period_dtype(self.dtype)
         if is_period:
             freq = self.freq
+        elif self.ndim != 1:
+            freq = None
         else:
+            key = self._validate_getitem_key(key)  # maybe ndarray[bool] -> slice
             freq = None
             if isinstance(key, slice):
                 if self.freq is not None and key.step is not None:
diff --git a/pandas/core/arrays/numpy_.py b/pandas/core/arrays/numpy_.py
index 61ffa28d31ba0..afcae2c5c8b43 100644
--- a/pandas/core/arrays/numpy_.py
+++ b/pandas/core/arrays/numpy_.py
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 from pandas.core.arrays._mixins import NDArrayBackedExtensionArray
 from pandas.core.arrays.base import ExtensionOpsMixin
 from pandas.core.construction import extract_array
-from pandas.core.indexers import check_array_indexer
 from pandas.core.missing import backfill_1d, pad_1d
 
 
@@ -248,16 +247,11 @@ def __array_ufunc__(self, ufunc, method: str, *inputs, **kwargs):
     # ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Pandas ExtensionArray Interface
 
-    def __getitem__(self, item):
-        if isinstance(item, type(self)):
-            item = item._ndarray
+    def _validate_getitem_key(self, key):
+        if isinstance(key, type(self)):
+            key = key._ndarray
 
-        item = check_array_indexer(self, item)
-
-        result = self._ndarray[item]
-        if not lib.is_scalar(item):
-            result = type(self)(result)
-        return result
+        return super()._validate_getitem_key(key)
 
     def _validate_setitem_value(self, value):
         value = extract_array(value, extract_numpy=True)