History WesternAnimation / MightyMouse

The series was remade again in the late 1980's for Creator/{{CBS}}' Saturday morning cartoon block by famed animator RalphBakshi. His ''Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures'' was a highly innovative, [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs insane]], TooGoodToLast series that pioneered the anarchic pop-culture obsessed, [[PeripheryDemographic young adult-attracting]] style of television cartoons which flourished in the 1990's. Many of those who worked, created or had major impact on those later shows originally found writing and animation jobs for ''Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures'' including Bakshi's long time friend and prostege JohnKricfalusi, [[{{DCAU}} Bruce Timm]], [[TinyToonAdventures Jim Reardon]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Tom Minton]]. Sadly, if remembered at all, it's usually for the controversy surrounding a scene in which Mighty Mouse sniffed some crushed flowers that looked a heck of a lot like cocaine. The creators contend to this day that it was unintentional, but considering how every episode seemed ever more dedicated to GettingCrapPastTheRadar, there really isn't a whole lot of plausible deniability.

* FlatCharacter: Mighty Mouse literally has no personality in the original cartoons. '''NONE.''' In fact, the only time he appears is more than midway through each cartoon, acting on a established threat. RalphBakshi deliberately inverted this in the newer show to give the mouse some character to work with.

* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: The cartoon "Goons From The Moon" has alien cats abducting all the mice in Terrytown. The radio reporter (a mouse caricature of Walter Winchell) comments "there's only one mouse who can save this situation!" Cut to an animator's table where the animator's hand drawns Mighty Mouse in flight atop a missile. (The artist stops drawing briefly, causing Mighty Mouse to chime in "Hurry up! I've got a job to do!")

* UnwillingSuspension: Happened to Pearl in "Love's Labor Won" (hanging from a clothesline by her toes) "The Perils Of Pearl Pureheart" (hung by one foot), "Sunny Italy" (ditto), "A Swiss Miss" (hung by her waist), and "Happy Holland" (used as Harry's marionette)

** "The Ice Goose Cometh"--Gandy Goose, Sourpuss, Deputy Dawg

* BluntMetaphorsTrauma / DisregardThatStatement: in ''Mighty's Wedlock Whimsy,'' a cautionary tale where Mighty Mouse proposes to Pearl, Deputy Dawg is conducting the wedding and starts it with "You have the right to remain silent...anything you say can be used against you..."

* KlaatuBaradaNikto: Bat-Bat fractures the phrase in "Bat With A Golden Tongue.

* PantyShot: Seen [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/puffuncle/port.jpg here]] in 1945's ''The Port Of Missing Mice'' and [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/puffuncle/wolf.jpg here]] in the same year's ''Mighty Mouse and the Wolf''. Pearl had a couple, albeit she was wearing ankle-length pantaloons.

* OffModel: Despite vibrant colors and energetic poses, the animation had choppy animation problems (few frames per second) and instances when Mighty Mouse is bigger than the size he's supposed to be. This is probably since it was animated in Taiwan instead of the United States.

* *The cartoon "The Cat's Tale" has a mouse-traumatized cat telling the hero's origin and his subsequent battle against a giant cat. The cowardly cat then tells us how he'd show Mighty Mouse a thing or two, only for the animator to draw Mighty Mouse floating right behind him. The cat runs off in fright.

-->'''Mighty Mouse:''' Hey! How come ''my'' conscience is James Hound? Don't I rate a [[{{Pinocchio}} cute cricket?]]

Remade by Filmation for television in the 1970's in a show starring Mighty Mouse and fellow Terrytoon characters Heckle and Jeckle in a show called The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle. This version lasted until the early 1980's and even spawned the movie Mighty Mouse and the Great Space Chase in 1982 (which was originally shown on the TV series in sixteen serialized chapters).

The series was remade again in the late 1980's for {{CBS}}' Saturday morning cartoon block by famed animator RalphBakshi. His ''Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures'' was a highly innovative, [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs insane]], TooGoodToLast series that pioneered the anarchic pop-culture obsessed, [[PeripheryDemographic young adult-attracting]] style of television cartoons which flourished in the 1990's. Many of those who worked, created or had major impact on those later shows originally found writing and animation jobs for ''Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures'' including Bakshi's long time friend and prostege JohnKricfalusi, [[{{DCAU}} Bruce Timm]], [[TinyToonAdventures Jim Reardon]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Tom Minton]]. Sadly, if remembered at all, it's usually for the controversy surrounding a scene in which Mighty Mouse sniffed some crushed flowers that looked a heck of a lot like cocaine. The creators contend to this day that it was unintentional, but considering how every episode seemed ever more dedicated to GettingCrapPastTheRadar, there really isn't a whole lot of plausible deniability.

* {{Romani}}: In the short "Gypsy Life".

** In issue #10 of the Marvel comic, Pat Sajak, Johnny Carson, Ed [=McMahon=], David Letterman, Andrew "Dice" Clay and Arsenio Hall are caricatured as funny animals.

* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Mighty Mouse's eyelashes caused some [[YourMileageMayVary uncomfortable]] ViewerGenderConfusion for some young viewers...

The series was remade again in the late 1980's for {{CBS}}' Saturday morning cartoon block by famed animator RalphBakshi. His ''Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures'' was a highly innovative, [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs completely batshit insane]], TooGoodToLast series that pioneered the anarchic pop-culture obsessed, [[PeripheryDemographic young adult-attracting]] style of television cartoons which flourished in the 1990's. Many of those who worked, created or had major impact on those later shows originally found writing and animation jobs for ''Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures'' including Bakshi's long time friend and prostege JohnKricfalusi, [[{{DCAU}} Bruce Timm]], [[TinyToonAdventures Jim Reardon]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Tom Minton]]. Sadly, if remembered at all, it's usually for the controversy surrounding a scene in which Mighty Mouse sniffed some crushed flowers that looked a heck of a lot like cocaine. The creators contend to this day that it was unintentional, but considering how every episode seemed ever more dedicated to GettingCrapPastTheRadar, there really isn't a whole lot of plausible deniability.

* ShallowParody: Let's be honest--the only "parody" aspect of his character is that he's a {{Superman}} type character--as a mouse.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Instant Fat" was intended to be a 1964 cartoon. It was storyboarded but it never went beyond that.