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New Adventures of Mighty Mouse episode guide (twis
Ralph Bakshi (creator of Fritz the Cat and no stranger
to controversy) produced Mighty Mouse which ran on CBS during
the 1988-1989 Saturday Morning Lineup. The 30 minute show
ran right before "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" which also had a
large adult following.
Each show consisted of two 10 minute segments. The
first half was all new animation. The second was usually
recycled material of old TerryToon Mighty Mouse.
1) "Mighty's Benefit Plan" - A parody of Alvin and the
Chipmunks. A lonely bachelor dresses up rodents in cute
outfits and forces them to sing in high squeaky voices.
"See You in the Funny Papers" - Scrappy get's a ring which
unleashes comic book characters.
2) "The Littlest Tramp" - Polly Pineblossom sells flowers on
snowy street corners. She makes these flowers out of boiled
tomatoes which she fishes out of her begger's soup provided
by the rescue mission. When ever MM offers to help her, she
answers, "There are others less fortunate than me." A rich
man named Big Murry,keeps tormenting her. In one instance,
Murry grinds her flowers into the snow. Mighty Mouse, lifts
up the ground petals and deeply inhales their fragrance. (If
this all seems rather strange, consider that in "real life",
a minister saw this scene and believed it to be a reference
to cocaine. He forced CBS to cut out this scene). At the
end, Big Murry admits that he torments the waif because he's
crazy about her. They marry, and as woodland creatures look
on, they go off into the sunset and blow up. There's no
reason why they blow up, they just do.
"Puffy Goes Berserk" - A Rod Serling type announcer explains
that on this day, "The day the hand of fate broke a nail.",
a planetary harmonic convergence creates a force which just
happens to land in Puffy the cat's dish of cream. Puffy
puffs up to the size of a skyscraper and terrorizes
Mouseville. After MM subdues the cat, he realizes that
Fluffy is an innocent victim of fate. Luckily, an alien race
of relish arrives and accepts the cat as their pet. This
inspires MM to say, "If only we could all be more like
relish. Different condiments getting together to form one
spread."
3) "This Island Mouseville" - An alien lands who looks like Tom
(Jerry's partner). Upon landing he announces to the
Mouseville citizens, "I've come to take over the world!"
They reply in a blase tone, "Oh I don't think Mighty Mouse
will like that."
"Mighty Mouse Musical Classics" - The song, "Do the
Locomotion" by Little Eva, and the song by The Supremes "Why
do fools fall in love" are dubbed over out takes of old
TerryToon Mighty Mouse cartoons. This gimmick was used
several times. I'm guessing that because of the high
production values of the series, short cuts had to be made
in other ways. Bakshi's Mighty Mouse never resorted to the
stilted trash so common in modern day cartoons. All motions
were fluid, all backgrounds original.
4) "Catastrophe Cat" - World peace through positive thinking.
Where ever this cat walks trouble follows. Mighty Mouse must
teach the cat to think positively or the world will end. The
animators are shown in live action when they become involved
with a quick gag.
"The First Deadly Cheese" - The Cow is a bovine bandit, a
arch-criminal in the Batman t.v. series tradition. His
minions are flies that buzz about him. The Cow finds that
limbergeritte (limberger cheese gone bad) zaps MM of his
powers. MM must move Scrappy's orphanage out of the way of
developers. However, the Limbergerite has left him weak. The
day is saved when he visits the Super hero doctor and
finds the limbergerite which had been sown into his cape by
the flies.
5) "The League of Super-rodents" - Battle of the Super-heroes
against the Cow. Each Super-rodent is a parody of a well
known comic book hero.
"Scrappy's Playhouse" - Another example of cost cutting
while still producing quality entertainment. This segment is
90% old TerryToon MM with new voice overs of Scrappy. The
orphan does a continual commentary on what he's seeing. It's
very funny. Kinda like being at a MM film festival at the
Saint Francis Theatre in Downtown San Francisco.
6) "Heroes and Zeroes" - Big Murry and Polly Pineblossom steal
all the numbers in Mouseville. Only "The Mighty Heroes"
Ropeman, Diaperman, Tornadoman, Strongman, and Koo-Koo man)
can save the day. Time has not been kind to these heroes
from the sixties Saturday morning line up. For example
Diaperman is now middle aged but still wears the same
costume.
"Stress For Success" - Another cost cutter. Mighty Mouse
stays up all night working on his W-4 form. He falls asleep
and dreams about his old Terrytoon adventures. Of all the
episodes, this one was the worst.
7) "Me-Yowww!" - Mighty Mouse befriends a cat whose down on his
luck. This episode is fantastic in terms of its message.
Mighty Mouse, the savior of Mouseville, is scandalized by
the media for befriending a cat. People shun him, and MM is
reduced to a scraggly bum sleeping on a park bench because
of whom he calls friend. The announcer comments, "How the
mighty have fallen. Is this to be the end. All because of
societies harsh and petty rules?"
"Witch Tricks" - Scrappy takes a tooth from a witch. She
turns his life into an acid trip. The best part is when
Scrappy's pants and cap come to life and start hassling him.
Scrappy looks down and sees a big face on his crotch. He
screams, "Wha-"
The pants responds with, "Wa? What's a wa?" Later, the pants
give the sagely advice to the young Scrappy. "Disorganized
thinking. You'll never find your egg pit that way."
8) *tittle unknown* - Captain A-Crab and Lucky, the sea squid.
A stupid one. Captain A-crab kidnaps Pearl, MM's girlfriend.
MM forces the kidnapper to confess by showing him vacation
slides until the crab cracks.
"Animation Concerto" - Old MM Terrytoon clips are strung
together to the back beat of a great Boogie-woogie version
of the theme song. The second song is "Slip'n' and a'slidn'".
9) "Night of the Bat-bat" - Batman parody with Bat-mite, the
bug wonder.
"Scrap-happy" - First Scrappy cartoon. This one is kinda sad
and touching. The cartoon opens with Scrappy crying as he
sits on a dirty city street curb. MM, while flying over head,
sees him and investigates. MM pledges to be his friend and
tells the boy that he can call on him whenever he needs help.
No one believes a lowly orphan like Scrappy could know MM. He
keeps getting into danger but refuse to call MM because he
doesn't consider himself worthy of his help. He also doesn't
really believe MM would come to his rescue. Scrappy meets
some shady characters, and joins a carnival which is somewhat
of a parody of Pinocchio. Finally, just as Scrappy and his
friends are about to be smashed to bits by a runaway roller-
coaster, Scrappy yells for MM who appears out of the blue.
10) "Bald Pate Pete" - He wants to own all the left hand shoes
in the world!
"All You Need is Glove" - Scrappy discovers MM's secret
identity while fighting "The Glove" in the snow. I find it
impossible to describe why Scrappy's line, "You know
anything about that?" is so hysterical.
11) "It's Scrappy's Birthday" - Mouseville Cheese-day outshines
Scrappy's birthday, so he takes to the rail.
"The Ice Goose Cometh" - Gandy Goose is defrosted ala
the movie with Timothy Hutton "Iceman". Gandy Goose must
face being a has been 1940's cartoon character in the 80's.
Gandy Goose can not come to terms with the loss of his film
partner, Snagle Puss. Through out the cartoon, Gandy Goose
keeps lamenting, "Snagle Puss, oh Snagle Puss, where are
you?!"
Once MM solves the problem, Deputy Dawg gets defrosted and
promptly says, "Muskie, where's Muskie?" followed by one of
the few times canned laughter is used.
12) "Scrappy's Field Day" - Scrappy misses his school bus which
was off on a simple field trip to The Prehistoric Exhibit.
MM takes him on his own school bus to journey to the time
before time. At the "Dawn of Mice" (Scrappy and MM know
it's the Dawn of Mice because they trip over a subtitle
which says, Dawn of Mice") they encounter a monolith. As
they contemplate it's meaning, one cave mouse postulates,
"Perhaps it's left by a alien race, far beyond our own who
wishes to preserve our species."
The mice look awe struck for a moment then they all go,
"Naw."
"Pirates With Dirty Faces" - Mice play at being pirates.
A Marlon Brando as Captain Blide Pirate captain kidnaps
them and forces the boys to become real pirates. The
Captain says he wants to hear a sea chanty. A mouse starts
playing the bongos and talks about, "One-nes"
13) *title unknown* - A parody of "Superman-The Motion Picture"
It counts the Mouse's Tale of his origin. An abandoned
tenement falls prey to urban renewal.
*title unknown* - Maxi burger turns Scrappy into burgers. Has
a brief "An American Tale" in joke as one of the mice cries
out, "Papa!" before he's turned into a Maxi burger.
SECOND SEASON
1) "Day of the Mice" - Mighty Mouse is forced into retirement
by a fascist regime which restores order to Mouseville thereby
eliminating the need of a "superhero". MM becomes a fat slob
who spends his days eating kid's cereal while watching
television. However, MM discovers the regime is actually run by
a villain. MM unmasks the villain and gives a speech in a Jimmy
Stewart imitation on freedom of choice.
"Still Oily After All These Years" - Oil Can Harry is released
from Folsom Prison by The Cow. Talk about your Symbiotic
Relationships! This guy has to read some books on
"Co-dependency"! (shown Sept. 17th, 1989).
2) "Mighty's Wedlock Wimsy" - Snaggle Puss and Gandy Goose get
Mighty Mouse and his girlfriend Peal to the alter. But ala
"Moonlighting", Mighty Mouse dreams a Honeymooners nightmare.
Humana-humana. All of Pearls off-spring look like the bovine
bandit, The Cow who supposedly is now a reformed sewer worker
who just happens to be their downstairs neighbor.
"Anatomy of a Milquetoast" - MM is tried in the disappearance
of, (as Parry Lard - the Prosecuting attorney puts it, "That
lovable, perhaps marketable") orphan, Scrappy. Footage from
last season is used as evidence ala Star Trek's "The Menagerie".
The Prosecuting attorney sets up a case against MM by showing
the unhealthy relationship between a grown man and a fatherless
child. The prosecutor claims MM used his role as a superhero to
wow the kid and gain his confidence. Scrappy turns up alive but
for some reason he's horribly mutated. (shown Sept. 24th)
3) "Bat With A Golden Tongue" - MM helps Bat-bat come to terms
with his crack addiction (wise cracking that is, but the word
crack is used in the show). Contains a Roger Rabbit joke.
"Mundane Voyage" - MM and Pearl are miniaturized by the Adam
smasher (a fat guy named Adam sits on them) and enter the
president's body to save the day. Pearl slips into a tight
form fitting wet suit for no reason at all. MM makes some wise
crack about the obligatory heroine stripping to get into suit
scene. (shown Oct. 1st).
4) "Snow White and the Seven Motorcity Dwarfs" - MM goes to a
T.V. executive with a new concept for a t.v. show. As MM
describes it, we see it take place. Very weird and surrealistic.
Kinda reminiscent of Bob Clampett type stuff.
"Don't Touch That Dial" - A boy on Saturday morning checks to
see what's on the tube. Of all the MM cartoons, this one is far
the best. This one is easily the best animation to be produced
in recent history. As the child switches channels, MM finds
himself in different programs ranging from Scooby-dooby doo to
Ghost Busters. Finally, MM gives a warning of the evils of t.v.
He encourages all kids to shut off the tube and go out and play.
(shown Oct. 8th)
5) "Mouse and Super Mouse" - Petey Pate goes to a marketing
research firm to help him build a better Mouse (Mighty Mouse
that is) with which he can take over Mouseville. Soon, everyone,
including MM himself, are playing with the new toy which is a
giant robot MM clone. Except for the marketing consultants,
this one's pretty dull.
"The Bride Of Mighty Mouse" - Mighty marries Polly and have a
child. They build a hotel with the Cow as handy man out in the
Nevada wastes. Mutant ants are the only funny thing (shown Oct.
15th).
6) "A Star is Milked" - MM goes to Hollywood to film his life
story but Earnest Bovine (The aforementioned Cow) interferes.
MM replaces a hair brush with a hanger in a billboard and
battles a giant wig. Polly is MM agent.
"Mighty Mouse's Tone Poem" - MM rounds up all the criminals
and forces them to watch his home movies which are made up of
last seasons highlights re-dubbed. A strand of hair gets on the
lens and MM spends a few minutes trying to grab it. As we
watch the "home films" we see the animators hands trying to
grab the hair. This bit actually lasts a few minutes which is
a very long time on film.
The hands are actual human hands silhouetted over the
animation. While grappling for the hair, I think he flashes
the bird. I've watched this segment over and over, frame by
frame on the V.C.R.. I can't tell for sure if he gives the
finger or not.
The fact is, that this MM episode, shown on Oct. 22nd,
was the last to be screened. The next 3 episodes where re-runs
of last season. MM was then moved to the 11 o'clock time slot
which was always pre-empted by sports. When not pre-empted, it
was a re-run. MM was not included in the 1990 Saturday Morning
line up.
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