Mighty Mouse: Difference between revisions

* [[Power-Up Food]]: In Mighty Mouse's first apperance (when he was called [[Superman|Super Mouse]]) he gained his powers after going into a [[Stealth Pun|"Supermarket"]] and eating various Super-named foods. While he was shown eating super products to do this at least twice (in "The Mouse of Tomorrow" and "Frankenstein's Cat") it seemed to become permanent after that.

* [[Stealth Pun]]: Delivered by, of all characters, Pearl Pureheart:

'''Pearl:''' I will never give up hope. He's my favorite [[Bob Hope|radio comedian!]] }}

* [[Recycled in Space]]: The 1970's version and movie.

* [[The Voiceless]]: Prior to Mighty Mouse Playhouse and everything else after, he was this--that is, unless he was singing.

** He ''did'' talk after Playhouse. In the three TV-budget shorts from 1959 and 1961, he was voiced by Tom Morrison, who also voiced him in the titles and bumpers for the TV show. The only other time he talked as opposed to sing was in 1942's ''Frankenstein's Cat,' where he interrogates the title monster who has swallowed a helpless bird:

* [[What Could Have Been]]: A CGI movie of Mighty Mouse, produced jointly by Paramount and Nickelodeon (which would have produced a subsequent TV series) has been in limbo for a few years now.

** "Instant Fat," a 1964 cartoon, was storyboarded but never made.

** 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.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: In ''Mighty's Wedlock Whimsy,'' Mighty Mouse is being goaded into proposing marriage to Pearl, when James Hound (an obscure Terrytoons character from the mid 60s) appears as his conscience:

** In the episode "Witch Tricks," Scrappy sings the ''Mighty Mouse Playhouse'' theme.

** In issue #10 of the Marvel comic, Pearl Pureheart boycotts the rest of the issue because of Andrew "Mice" Clay's appearance. This refers to Nora Dunne refusing to appear on [[Saturday Night Live]] at the time due to Andrew "Dice" Clay's appearance.

* [[Off-Model]]: 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.

* [[Stock Footage]]: The high-quality animation came at a cost. To keep down costs, some episodes are comprised entirely of old footage of 1950s Mighty Mouse cartoons with a new soundtrack. You can pretty much skip these on the DVD, unless you're a big fan of the poor covers of 1960s songs they play in the background.

* [[Take That]]: "Don't Touch That Dial" is a particularly biting satire of [[Hanna-Barbera]], [[Anime]], and the [[The Dark Age of Animation]] of the 1980's.

** Season 2 episode "Day of The Mice" has Mighty Mouse knocking a ginormous Pee-wee Herman on his back.

** "Anatomy of a Milquetoast" bites the hand that feeds it: using footage from season 1 with the dialogue altered, most notably from "It's Scrappy's Birthday," the hobo chums of Scrappy's hobo companion appear in their train boxcar. The hobo's new line is "Hey, look...the network boards are here!"

** "The Bride of Mighty Mouse" features a villainous parody of [[The Fountainhead|Howard Roark.]]