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Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures was a revival of the classic Mighty Mouse cartoon, made by Bakshi-Hyde Ventures (a joint venture of animator Ralph Bakshi and producer John W. Hyde), it aired on CBS from 1987 to 1988 and was briefly rerun on Fox Kids in November of 1992. It gave Mighty Mouse a true identity (Mike Mouse, a worker at Pearl Pureheart's factory), a sidekick in the form of the orphan Scrappy Mouse, friends in the forms of Bruce Vein the Bat-Bat (a parody of Bruce Wayne/Batman), Bat-Bat's sidekick Bugmite/Tick the Bug Wonder, and the League of Super-Rodents, and new bad guys including Bald Pate, the Glove and the Cow.

The show was a huge springboard for many cartoonists and animators who would later become extremly famous, including John Kricfalusi (creator of The Ren and Stimpy Show), Bruce W. Timm (producer of Batman: The Animated Series), Jim Reardon (writer for Tiny Toon Adventures and director of many Simpsons episodes), Tom Minton (writer and producer for many Warner Bros. television cartoons, including Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Baby Looney Tunes and Duck Dodgers), Lynne Naylor (co-founder of Spümcø, character designer for Batman and storyboard artist for The Powerpuff Girls and Cow and Chicken among other work) and others.

The show faced controversy, as the jokes were aimed more at adults than at children. A viewer notified media watchdog Reverend Donald Wildmon that, in the episode "The Littlest Tramp", it looks like Mighty Mouse reaches into a pocket and snorts cocaine from his hand to regain his strength. Wildmon was disbelieving at first, but after investigating the episode and learning of producer Ralph Bakshi's background (e.g., directing the adult cartoon Fritz The Cat
), alerted the media that this may have been intentional. Given the numerous other instances of risque humor and adult jokes in this series, a drug reference wouldn't be out of the question. Bakshi denies it to this day, maintaining that Mighty Mouse was merely smelling some crushed flowers and that the white jet leading from his hand to his nose was merely a cartoon "smell line" moving super-fast from the mighty inhale. The episode was immediately pulled from the rotation so that no one would see it.

The show only lasted 2 seasons, but it inspired a 10-issue Mighty Mouse comic book series published by Marvel Comics in 1990 and 1991. No plans have materialized to release the show on DVD.

Episode list

Season 1 (1987-1988)

Season 2 (1988-1989)

Cast

Patrick Pinney
– "Mighty Mouse/Mike Mouse"
Maggie Roswell
– Pearl Pureheart/additional voices
Dana Hill
– Orphan Scrappy
Charles Adler
– Bat-Bat (Bruce Vein)/additional voices
Joe Alaskey
– Sourpuss/additional voices
Michael Pataki
– The Cow/additional voices
Beau Weaver – Fractured Narrator/additional voices
Rodger Bumpass
– additional voices
Candy Candido – additional voices
Joe Colligan – additional voices
Jeannie Elias
– additional voices
Bill Farmer
– additional voices
Ellen Gerstell – additional voices
Tami Holbrook – additional voices
Mona Marshall
– additional voices
Janet May – additional voices
Terry McGovern
– additional voices
Lisa Raggio – additional voices
Clive Revill
– additional voices
Neil Ross
– additional voices
Pamela Rowan – additional voices
Jim Ward – additional voices
Wendell Washer – additional voices
Alan Oppenheimer
– additional voices (uncredited)

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