In about 1962, I was in 2nd grade. I was with some older kids. They were discussing their favorite superheroes. Superman, Batman, The Flash, etc. I piped up and said "Mighty Mouse" All at once they started to say, " NO, a real superhero." I look back and think, weren't they all real to young kids back then?
I suppose 🤔 those older kids that you knew had forgotten that they were once toddlers and children too, sitting in front of a television watching cartoons, eating their first 🥣 bowls of cereal 🥣 while crapping their diapers and crying for mama to change and powder their little butts like most people do as they age! But once we reach our late 50's or early 60's, like me, if they're still among the living, begin to remember much of what we thought 💭 had been just a faded memory until we see something like this! As a child, I loved Mighty Mouse too! When I was in my late 20's to almost 50, I collected Tarantulas and REAL mice aren't Mighty at all! 😂😂
Mighty Mouse was my favorite cartoon growing up in the 50s and 60s. As a girl, I remember running into the living room with my arm held high singing "Here I come to save the day" when it was my turn to help with chores. I watched cartoons in black and white until 1968, when my father built our first color TV from a Heathkit. The colors sometimes went wonky, and were quickly corrected with a fist thump to the top of the set!
Hahaa. That's awesome! - We had one of those giant floor-sitting TV's the size of a dresser. It no longer worked, so it became the TV stand for our new 13" B&W TV.
We had a B&W TV until I went off to college. Those old tube color TVs were flaky. For years, an ancient Emerson, until around 6th grade and my parents got a new Zenith. Still B&W. I actually got my own TV by fixing one a relative had. Maybe I should have run in saying "Here I am to fix the TV!'
I was 5 in 1956, and I loved watching Mighty Mouse every Saturday morning. My mom bought Post Toasties for us, so I sent in a box top with 25 cents, and received a Mighty Mouse shirt with his picture on it-it had long sleeves like Mighty Mouse’s shirt, and a CAPE attached! Needless to say, I wore it to death!
As a child during the 1950's I was thrilled with Mighty Mouse. He was special to me at a child I was enamored with the Mouse flying aroung like George Reeves SUPERMAN. Life was so much simpler then.
At least in the Paul Terry (original) and Filmation (1979) versions. The latter version was voiced by the same actor behind "Ming the Merciless" and later "Skeletor"
I loved Mighty Mouse as a kid. One day at work-retail, fabric store, during Christmas rush. We got super busy and the cutting table called for help. I went skipping up to the table and joyously rang out " Here I come to save the day!: Everybody got a good laugh and it relieved some of the tension in the line for the customer waiting to get their fabric cut. He will always be a Hero for me.
I was born in 1957 and Mighty Mouse was my hero. When i was 4 years old i got in trouble for dialing the telephone and getting the operator (old rotary dial and had operators on hand) to speak to Mighty Mouse. She was nice but ask to speak to my mom! Thank you for the memories
I remember watching Mighty Mouse religiously in the late 1950's as a kid, on Saturday mornings before I entered Kindergarten.. I'm 69 years old now. "Here he comes to save the daaaayyy."
I am 68 years old. I remember watching Mighty Mouse Saturday mornings, with my siblings, back in the early 60s . I looked forward to it. It was a time of innocence and a memory I will always cherish.
I remember watching Mighty Mouse cartoons. I believe that Mighty Mouse was not only a Superman parody, but an allegory of the little guy triumphing over the big guy. David versus Goliath. I remember Mighty Mouse fighting the villainous Oilcan Harry. The antagonists were either cats or wolves and the victims were mice. The theme song was upbeat and catchy. So much so that the late great Andy Kaufman used the full version of the song in his comedy routine. The music of the older cartoons were thrilling and well orchestrated. The use of saxophones was inspired. I didn’t watch the later incarnations of Mighty Mouse,especially the Ralph Bakshi adaptation. I felt that Bakshi was more for adults than children. Superman had , “UP! UP! AND AWAY!” Mighty Mouse had , “Here I come to save the day!”
I was always impressed with Mighty Mouse (and Popeye the Sailor Man) when I was child back in the 1950's. They were my heroes. Sometimes, these days, when I'm asked go the extra mile on my job, I'll point my right index finger up in the air and say, "Fear not! This is a job for 'Super Donna'!"; or else, "Fear not! Super Donna is on the way!" I say this for the amused reactions I get from people. I really like it when I receive a strange look and hear my "victim" say, "Ohhh keh." before I walk away to get busy!
Every time I here Mighty Mouse's main lyrics I think of Andy Kaufman's skit__it's forever burned into my brain! 😱😛😹😹😹 I loved watching Mighty Mouse, so did my kids! 💖🙌😺
Watching cartoon everyday as a kid in the 60's, everytime Mighty Mouse came on, my little world lit up. He was my favorite! Id' see that red and yellow costume and take a happy deep breath. As I became an older child, I learned to appreciate Fog Horn Leg Horn's humor and Pepe LePew
The theme song was written by Marshall Barer, who wrote lyrics and book for Once Upon a Mattress. He was hung over and hadn't written anything when he was on his way to the meeting to present his work. So in the cab, he scribbled the lyric (which he thought was terrible) on the back of an envelope. He presented it - and everyone loved it as is. He got a lot of royalties from it!
I remember the one with the kids stuck on the railroad tracks and the one with the female mouse playing a dance hall girls out west and she swings back and forth singing ding ding love mighty mouse
Born in 1966, I was raised on Mighty Mouse, etc. My favorite episode to this day is Krakatoa Katy! That song was so catchy I remember it to this day. ❤ And I still run around saying "Here I come to save the day" when someone needs my help 😅
Mighty Mouse cartoons were still on TV in Los Angeles in the mid 1970s. I remember the Mighty Mouse cartoon" Krakatoa Katy, she ain't no lady"! ,because in high school there was a girl named Katy, who had a reputation for " going all the way "with guys. Every time she walked by all the guys used to say it to her. I wonder what happened to Katy after 45 years? She's probably a mom and grandmother by now and her granddaughters are doing vulgar dances on Tik Tok.
Since I'm an 80s baby, I grew up on Bakshi's style. I saw the 80s version and enjoyed it. Rather amazed that after all this, they could've so very easily base a game off Mighty Mouse. I mean there were a couple for Felix the Cat so Mighty Mouse should've gotten the same treatment. I grew up on a lot of the older style of cartoons and comics where it was about mostly about good vs. evil. I actually miss that cause there are some things that need to be simple, practical and mindless and nothing's ever wrong with that formula.
Same over here! I already noticed there was something strange going on beneath - something a little more sneaky and freaky than in many other cartoons, but was way too small to put my finger on it. Just recently I learned that Bakshi was involved in the reboot and now I understand everything.
The thing about Mighty Mouse was that sometimes the animators made MM into a spoof of opera. I was getting into Classical Music at the time and the villain would sing in bass, the heroine in soprano and Mighty Mouse would appear as a glorious tenor. Although it was used sparingly, my father and I loved the concept. I always wished they had parodied Wagner or the French opera style completely in a cartoon.
I remember waking up on Saturday morning, wolfing down my breakfast cereal and planting myself in front of the TV to watch cartoon shows and "Mighty Mouse" was one of them.🙂
In the end of the '60s in 1970 we had super 8 film camera and projector and one of the films dad bought for us. Kids was a mighty mouse real, it was the first time I saw a cartoon at home on the big screen at our leisure.
I watched Mighty Mouse in the mid 50's on snd when I was 4 I had a dream that he saved me and we got married... I really loved what he represented!! He always fought against the wrong doings in the world and made everyone feel safe!! Still love ya Mighty Mouse..Now my granddaughter loves him too!
How about Bullwinkle and Rocky J. Squirrel!? 😹💖🙌😺 Anybody remember "Crusader Rabbit"? Guess I'm really showing my age, now! 😛 How about Mr. Magoo?! 😱😛😺
@@debracisneroshhp2827 - I remember all of those too ! Yogi Bear was my favorite. Another one which was short-lived was Frankenstein Jr. When I was in grade 5 I drew a Franky Jr. cartoon strip for art. The teacher came around to look at each students projects. I thought she'd be mad that I was drawing comics in class but she loved it - thought it was funny. Nicest teacher I had in grade school !
I grew up in New Rochelle NY and passed by the Terrytoons studio every day on my way to junior high school in the late 60's. I didn't realize that it was where 'Mighty Mouse' and 'Heckle and Jeckle' were produced until long after I became an adult.
I was a fan of the original mighty mouse.. And then having discovered underground comics and Fritz the cat, I was a big fan of Ralph Bakshi's revival as well. Thanks for the genesis rehash.
@@kenlieck7756 Hash refers to a cheap meal consisting of chopped meat, onions and potatoes. From the French "hasher" to chop. Rehash essential means to chop over or in modern slang go over.
I remember loving Migthy Mouse cartoons every Saturday morning. I never realized it, but Bakshi's work appears to have influenced Jon K when he created Ren and Stimpy. Very similar styles.
4:22 Mighty Mouse and Elvis in the same shot. A tribute to Andy Kaufman, or just a coincidence? This particular cartoon was made a few years after his death.
Good Afternoon Sir and my name is Christopher Williams and I’m a Childhood Fan of Mighty Mouse from the 1960s Tv 📺 series and growing up in the early 1970s I’ve always loved Mighty Mouse because he was definitely the most popular superhero character on television 📺 and I always knew that he would become the ultimate iconic superhero in the television 📺 history and Thank Goodness that Mighty Mouse’s Popularity is still awesome and amazing to this generation and the next generation to come as well!! Thank You Sir and Please keep up the good work and Long Live Mighty Mouse: Honorable Superhero and Spectacular Action Figure for all of us to enjoy , watch, listen, learn, and love at the same time as well!! Thank you sir with honor, dedication,appreciation , gratitude, and great respect from your new BFF Christopher Williams. 🥰🙏🌎📺🤗💐🦋💕☮️😊📺🌟
I remember watching Mighty MOuse Cartoons in the seventies when it was in syndication. Of Course that was before I saw the Andy Kaufman' rendition of the Mighty Mouse Theme.
I was a Mighty mouse fan as a kid. I was also a Ralph Bakshi fan and when i saw he rebooted MM I checked it out. There were some really zany episodes, and one I specifically remember was MM talking to a chubby kid sitting in front of a tv who was complaining about being bored, and MM lays into him telling him to go outside and do things instead of sitting in front of the tube. I thought 'Oh he's going to get in trouble for that.'
I grew up watching Mighty Mouse in the early to mid 60's. Of course we didn't know his origin or his secret identity. I remember one cartoon where he disguised himself as a boy scout. The other mice were ridiculing and making fun of him until trouble came and needed to be saved by him. After a bit of sixty years I'm remembering that cartoon that's when I was in Elementary School in 1963 and 64. Today there's no such thing as Saturday morning cartoons or early morning cartoons before one went to school.
Grew up with Mighty Mouse since the mid 70s, but Ralph Bakshi's 80s version was the best! His chaotic take along with *A Pup Named Scooby Doo* was beyond hilarious.
Mighty Mouse started out as Supermouse, He Originally wore a Red and Blue Costume. He was basically a Copy of Superman. Terrytoons were able to get away with this for awhile, But then National Periodicals(DC) stepped in and Threatened a Lawsuit over Copyright Infringement. Eventually Terrytoons and DC worked out a Deal where they could continue the Character as long as he didn't resemble Superman so much, So they eventually called him Mighty Mouse and turned his Costume Red and Yellow.
I was a big fan of Bakshi's 1980s working class version of Mighty Mouse. It was hilarious, and something of a forerunner of more sophisticated fare like The Simpsons and The Tick. IMO, it was the best thing Bakshi ever did.
I used to wear a towel on my back and pretend to be Mighty Mouse. A friend of my dad saw me and said ‘Hello, Superman” I said ( in a huff) “I’m Mighty Mouse!” I liked the Mouse more than Superman because he always got to kiss the heroine at the end of the show.
I remember Mighty Mouse when I was about 4 years old. But Looney Tunes took over. About 5years ago l rediscovered the Star. I'm glad to find it 's available again.
Mighty Mouse and Tom And Jerry were my favorite cartoons when I was a kid. I liked Tom And Jerry when they did the Musketeers' cartoons best. They were on TV occasionally with these Muskerteer cartoons but mostly in comic books. Looney Tunes and the various other cartoons that aired back then were all good. Huckleberry Hound and the others were good. There were so many on at 4- 5 pm every day and then Looney Tunes on Saturday morning. Can't remember all names but I watched all of them until I outgrew them. Years later, I found lots of them on video during the VHS recorder era. My kids liked them too. They usually watched He Man and The Masters Of The Universe or Transformers but they liked the antics of the Road Runner/Coyote cartoons and Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Cartoons are created by people so if they occasionally are risque, that's no reason to censor all of them. I hate censorship.
OH, my favorites of Bugs and Daffy: - When Bugs became a 'caller' for squaredancing scene between 2 Hillbillies__HYSTERICAL!!! 😹😹😹😭😹😹😹💖 - When Bugs was being persued by Pete Puma, he would set up a table with tea and ask Pete how many lumps [of sugar] he wanted and would give him that many lumps on his head. After a few times Pete thought he was outsmarting Bugs when he replied, "Tea gives me a headache__I'll have coffee!", but he still got the lumps! 😹😭😹 - When Bugs was trying to outsmart the 'baby' vulture. I can immitate, perfectly, the part where the vulture does his little 'coy' response of "Oh, huh, no, no!" Anyone who knows that cartoon cracks up when they hear me do that! 😹😹😹😛💖🙌😺 - When Daffy was being chased by the big, burly chef at a night club, he dressed up as Carmen Mirand, complete with fruit-ladened turbin, bra, tulip skirt, and platform shoes, on stage as part of 'the show' dancing/singing "Boom, chica, boom, chica, boom, woo, hoo!" When MySpace was a thing I had that on my main page! 😱😹😹😹😛💖🙌😺 Enjoy the rest of your day with nostalgia for the great cartoons designed for grown ups! 😛😹😹😹💖 🙏😇✨💫🌱🌿🌻🐝🌳🌎💖🙌😺
I still remember watching these cartoons when they first came out I think I was around 5 years old. He struck fear in the hearts of cats everywhere. All of the neighborhood cats went into hiding everytime Mighty Mouse was on. Hahaha
I always thought the 'Mighty Mouse doing drugs' things was from a 'classic' episode and just over-blown 90s moral panic, no idea it was from a re-boot. Not to say it wasn't over-blown moral panic, but I wouldn't put it past Bakshi to try and sneak something in!
That was from the mid-1980's when Ralph Bakshi and John K. resurrected the show. Ralph was known for R-rated animated movies like "Fritz The Cat" and "Heavy Traffic" and John is no stranger to controversy, having caused it all of his career, the biggest one in 2018 with his grooming situations. It was Rev. Donald Wildmon of the right winged organization "Focus On The Family." who was offended by the scene of Mighty Mouse supposedly breathing powdery stuff (He thought it was acid or LSD) through his nostrils. John had denied over the years that it was LSD or acid, and stated that it was flower pollen. The censors at CBS later edited the scene out in later repeat showings.
@@angelinacamacho8575 Ralph and John were probably trying to be less than subtle to get away with a powdered drug joke, so I believe it was mistaken as such. John in particular loves to get into instant trouble with his adult humor in kid's cartoons, so no wonder. This is also why a lot of people hate him as well. He doesn't give a damn what other people think of him.
I don't get why some idiot always has to make something bad out of everything. They just want to ruin the innocence in everything. It's disgusting and uncalled for.
@@dm8553 You are correct. Rev. Wildmon was a typical right winged fanatic that placed his narrow fundamentalist views in everything on anything he deemed "sinful". As for John K., he just loved to cause trouble and mayhem in his work and on his former Spumco staff members. There will always be animators that will want to sneak adult humor in seemingly innocent kid's cartoons. Justin Roliand's recent domestic assault arrests is just a clue of the latest, since he was best known for being one half creator of "Rick & Morty." He's been fired from his position ever since. "The Loud House's" creator Chris Savino and "Clarence's" creator Skylar Page are also known sexual predators that were removed from their jobs as well. Some middle aged animators just don't want to grow up.
Mighty Mouse was featured in one (if not the first) of the first 3-D Comic Books😢! His “costume” changed from “Superman-like” (Super Mouse era) to “Captain Marvel-like”…He certainly benefited from the existing popularity of Mickey Mouse being transformed into a “Super Hero!”
Don't know much about Mighty Mouse. The one thing that comes to mind is when Vern and Teddy in Stand By Me having a conversation could Mighty Mouse beat up Superman, and Corey Feldman's Teddy tells him that Mighty Mouse is a cartoon and Superman is a real person
I loved Mighty Mouse as a kid, and was never as excited for a program as when a Mighty Mouse was on. Why, I can't say, but I can still vividly remember the sensation of how much I favored it. My MOST vivid memory of Mighty Mouse, however, goes 1000% to Andy Kaufman. Classic with a classic.
Ralph Bakshi was better known for Fritz the Cat and Wizards. Fritz of course was infamously known for being the first, feature length, X-Rated cartoon released to theaters in the USA.
I was watching Mighty Mouse on TV when it was interrupted by the announcement President Kennedy had been assassinated. I used to like Mighty Mouse, however cartoons were not on every minute of the day like today. I used to like Heckle and Jeckel very much. I used to get up on Saturday mornings, at 5 or 6am, and right after the farm report trying to stay awake, I would watch cartoons all Saturday morning.
You didn’t mention that in the late 1950’s to the early 1960’s, Mighty Mouse Theatrical cartoons (made in the 1940’s) ran on Bob Keeshan’s “Captain Kangaroo” show, weekday mornings on the CBS Television Network, before Terrytoons started making NEW cartoons specifically for that show. The new cartoons featured such characters as Deputy Dawg, Lariat Sam, and Hashimoto the Japanese mouse. Ralph Bakshi worked as an animator and later Director on the new cartoons. Bakshi also claimed to have invented the “Rotoscope” process for his “Fritz The Cat” movies in the 1970’s, but it was actually used as early as the 1930’s by the Max Fleischer Studio and Walt Disney Productions.
Bakshi was no stranger to narcotics, and his films were often controversial (he made the first X-rated cartoon film, "Fritz the Cat"). So his trying to play innocent regarding the cocaine reference never sat well with me.
In 1956 I was four and Mighty Mouse was apparently my favorite TV show. I would wave around a rubber toy replica of Mighty Mouse and sing the theme song. When I was three my favorite show was Howdy Doody.
Thanks for this. I grew up on reruns of George Reeves' SUPERMAN series in the early 1960's, and this probably predisposed me to also enjoy MIGHTY MOUSE (I even had a MIGHTY MOUSE watch) and UNDERDOG.
When I was a small child, there were two kinds of cartoon. There were ordinary cartoons, and there was Mighty Mouse! I actually forgot about that until a lady friend (who grew up in another city) reminded me of it. We both held MM in very high regard at one time.
Yes, I watched him in the '60's. BUT ... I noticed that the villain was always a cat. (Oil Can Harry). I wanted to have a cat as a pet. They are definitely more fun than dogs, and require less work. I finally got one, for Christmas, around age 13. And had them ever since, for more than 40 years.
@@proudcynophile1901 I like cats, but cartoons tend portray cats negatively. Ask anyone who are the most famous cartoon felines, they'll probably say Tom and Sylvester. A pair of stupid bag guys being thwarted by a mouse and a rodent. Then there are the Siamese in Lady and the Tramp. I know there are counter examples like Felix and Top Cat but good cats who come on top never seemed to have the same popularity as the former.
Who's Bright Idea was it to put Ralph Bakshi in Charge of a Mighty Mouse Cartoon? I'm Surprised Drug Use was the Only Thing he was able to Sneak onto the Show.
@Autistic Kitsch Mama Having seen the overrated "Ren and Stimpy" (that's supposed to be a dog and a cat?!), I find myself surprised to learn he was a storyboard artist for Filmation's "Flash Gordon" .
Great channel, really informative and can't wait to see more of your wonderful research and commentary. Would you do one on the evolution of Felix the Cat from it's silent beginning up to his return in the 1950s with a magic bag, Rock Bottom, Professor, Poindexter, Master Cylinder, Vavoom, Gen. Clang and Martin the Martian ? Like Gigantor it was also connected to Trans-Lux. Thanks again for re igniting those old cartoon memories.
The creators of Terrytoons obviously hated cats. The cats were always the villains and always gotten beaten. In real life, mice are vermin and people would get cats to rid them. Makes a kid wonder if cats or mice are pests.
The majority of cartoons of that period depicted cats as villains. Examples include: Tom (Tom and Jerry, MGM), Sylvester (Sylvester and Tweety, Warner Bros.) Katnip(Herman and Katnip, Harveytoons/Paramount/Famous Studios) and others too numerous to mention.
I loved Mighty Mouse when I was a kid! I even had a Mighty Mouse costume for Halloween one year. I seem to remember an origin cartoon where they explained that he got his power from taking a number of different vitamins, and showed him going from bottle to bottle, downing a bunch at a time. I never once entertained the idea that I could attain similar powers by doing the same thing. I knew it was just a cartoon.
When I was about 7, I believe, I told my mother that when I grew up I was going to marry Mighty Mouse. Having watched him on TV from (probably) Day 1 of the series in 1955, the theme song is branded into my memory. I even still remember most of the closing music from the "Krakatoa" cartoon: "Krakatoa Katy, she ain't no lady, when she starts a-(swingin'?) ____. (Missing next line), Mighty Mouse has saved the day for Katy, Katy, Krakatoa Kate!" The other thing I especially remember is one cartoon that began, "In our last episode ......" and I was constantly trying to figure out what the last episode was because I'd never seen it! How to frustrate a 6-year-old! Our Heroine was tied to railroad tracks in that one... and I think there was also a scene with Our Hero (or someone more vulnerable) tied to a log headed for a buzz-saw.
There was one where the blonde heroine was hypnotized and tied to a log, and those scenes were of her singing in a soft voice "Don't you remember sweet Alice...." while the log traveled down the waterways, all the while MM was hard at work to save her before she would be sawed in half, lengthwise. All the suspense! 😱😹😹😛💖🙌😺
Loved the Bakshi "Mighty Mouse". I still have several of them that I originally recorded on VHS, including "The littlest Tramp". There was also an episode where Mighty Mouse has to fight William Shatner's rug.
Mighty Mouse was a favorite for my sister and me. We saved cereal box-tops and my mom sent them in for Mighty Mouse t-shirts. The shirts even had small capes on the back! Our neighbor used to call my sister Mighty Mouse.
As a child growing up in the 60's Mighty Mouse was on my TV evey Saturday!!! Loved those stories and the theme song ❤️😁😋 Didn't know R. Bakshi did a series for the Might Mouse? Will need to track that down and buy it!!
The Controversial Episode starts at 03:31 and ends at 04:20.
The rest of the video is about the story of Mighty Mouse.
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In about 1962, I was in 2nd grade. I was with some older kids. They were discussing their favorite superheroes. Superman, Batman, The Flash, etc. I piped up and said "Mighty Mouse" All at once they started to say, " NO, a real superhero." I look back and think, weren't they all real to young kids back then?
And the only one who had any chance to be real would have been Batman since he was a regular human who used gadgets to do superhero like, stunts.
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I suppose 🤔 those older kids that you knew had forgotten that they were once toddlers and children too, sitting in front of a television watching cartoons, eating their first 🥣 bowls of cereal 🥣 while crapping their diapers and crying for mama to change and powder their little butts like most people do as they age! But once we reach our late 50's or early 60's, like me, if they're still among the living, begin to remember much of what we thought 💭 had been just a faded memory until we see something like this! As a child, I loved Mighty Mouse too! When I was in my late 20's to almost 50, I collected Tarantulas and REAL mice aren't Mighty at all! 😂😂
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Mighty Mouse was my favorite cartoon growing up in the 50s and 60s. As a girl, I remember running into the living room with my arm held high singing "Here I come to save the day" when it was my turn to help with chores. I watched cartoons in black and white until 1968, when my father built our first color TV from a Heathkit. The colors sometimes went wonky, and were quickly corrected with a fist thump to the top of the set!
Hahaa.
That's awesome!
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We had one of those giant floor-sitting TV's the size of a dresser.
It no longer worked, so it became the TV stand for our new 13" B&W TV.
A fist bump was all it took sometimes
We had a B&W TV until I went off to college. Those old tube color TVs were flaky.
For years, an ancient Emerson, until around 6th grade and my parents got a new Zenith. Still B&W. I actually got my own TV by fixing one a relative had. Maybe I should have run in saying "Here I am to fix the TV!'
Ahhh, the good ol' days🙄!!
It was one of my favorite cartoons and I was a child in the 80s.
I was 5 in 1956, and I loved watching Mighty Mouse every Saturday morning. My mom bought Post Toasties for us, so I sent in a box top with 25 cents, and received a Mighty Mouse shirt with his picture on it-it had long sleeves like Mighty Mouse’s shirt, and a CAPE attached! Needless to say, I wore it to death!
As a child during the 1950's I was thrilled with Mighty Mouse. He was special to me at a child I was enamored with the Mouse flying aroung like George Reeves SUPERMAN. Life was so much simpler then.
His arch-enemy was a moustachioed villain cat named Oil Can Harry.
At least in the Paul Terry (original) and Filmation (1979) versions. The latter version was voiced by the same actor behind "Ming the Merciless" and later "Skeletor"
I loved Mighty Mouse as a kid. One day at work-retail, fabric store, during Christmas rush. We got super busy and the cutting table called for help. I went skipping up to the table and joyously rang out " Here I come to save the day!: Everybody got a good laugh and it relieved some of the tension in the line for the customer waiting to get their fabric cut. He will always be a Hero for me.
I was born in 1957 and Mighty Mouse was my hero. When i was 4 years old i got in trouble for dialing the telephone and getting the operator (old rotary dial and had operators on hand) to speak to Mighty Mouse. She was nice but ask to speak to my mom! Thank you for the memories
It's hard to type this because I'm laughing so hard, AWESOME story! I can imagine your mom telling people about this for years to come! 🤣🤣🤣
I remember watching Mighty Mouse religiously in the late 1950's as a kid, on Saturday mornings before I entered Kindergarten.. I'm 69 years old now. "Here he comes to save the daaaayyy."
I am 68 years old. I remember watching Mighty Mouse Saturday mornings, with my siblings, back in the early 60s . I looked forward to it. It was a time of innocence and a memory I will always cherish.
I remember watching Mighty Mouse cartoons. I believe that Mighty Mouse was not only a Superman parody, but an allegory of the little guy triumphing over the big guy. David versus Goliath. I remember Mighty Mouse fighting the villainous Oilcan Harry. The antagonists were either cats or wolves and the victims were mice.
The theme song was upbeat and catchy. So much so that the late great Andy Kaufman used the full version of the song in his comedy routine.
The music of the older cartoons were thrilling and well orchestrated. The use of saxophones was inspired.
I didn’t watch the later incarnations of Mighty Mouse,especially the Ralph Bakshi adaptation. I felt that Bakshi was more for adults than children.
Superman had , “UP! UP! AND AWAY!”
Mighty Mouse had , “Here I come to save the day!”
I was always impressed with Mighty Mouse (and Popeye the Sailor Man) when I was child back in the 1950's. They were my heroes. Sometimes, these days, when I'm asked go the extra mile on my job, I'll point my right index finger up in the air and say, "Fear not! This is a job for 'Super Donna'!"; or else, "Fear not! Super Donna is on the way!" I say this for the amused reactions I get from people. I really like it when I receive a strange look and hear my "victim" say, "Ohhh keh." before I walk away to get busy!
@@donnajeffries7913 No one ever gets my spectacular references, either.
Every time I here Mighty Mouse's main lyrics I think of Andy Kaufman's skit__it's forever burned into my brain! 😱😛😹😹😹
I loved watching Mighty Mouse, so did my kids! 💖🙌😺
Watching cartoon everyday as a kid in the 60's, everytime Mighty Mouse came on, my little world lit up. He was my favorite! Id' see that red and yellow costume and take a happy deep breath. As I became an older child, I learned to appreciate Fog Horn Leg Horn's humor and Pepe LePew
The theme song was written by Marshall Barer, who wrote lyrics and book for Once Upon a Mattress. He was hung over and hadn't written anything when he was on his way to the meeting to present his work. So in the cab, he scribbled the lyric (which he thought was terrible) on the back of an envelope. He presented it - and everyone loved it as is. He got a lot of royalties from it!
Barer is an incredible lyricist! I'd put him up there with Sondheim and Tom Lehrer. _Mattress_ has wonderful, but terribly underappreciated, lyrics.
I remember the one with the kids stuck on the railroad tracks and the one with the female mouse playing a dance hall girls out west and she swings back and forth singing ding ding love mighty mouse
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She was, after all, the Belle of the Ball 😆 🤣
My girlfriend was the house cleaner for the man who actually sang "Her he comes to save the day!!" in Santa Rosa CA. His name was Jack Burroughs.
Great real life story.
Mighty mouse was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid ❤
and it was my introduction to opera
Born in 1966, I was raised on Mighty Mouse, etc. My favorite episode to this day is Krakatoa Katy! That song was so catchy I remember it to this day. ❤ And I still run around saying "Here I come to save the day" when someone needs my help 😅
Mighty Mouse cartoons were still on TV in Los Angeles in the mid 1970s. I remember the Mighty Mouse cartoon" Krakatoa Katy, she ain't no lady"! ,because in high school there was a girl named Katy, who had a reputation for " going all the way "with guys. Every time she walked by all the guys used to say it to her. I wonder what happened to Katy after 45 years? She's probably a mom and grandmother by now and her granddaughters are doing vulgar dances on Tik Tok.
Krakatoa Katy she ain"t no lady.
Hey, Edie, your cartoon is on RUclips." Mighty Mouse in Krakatoa" is here, but you probably found it a while ago.
Since I'm an 80s baby, I grew up on Bakshi's style. I saw the 80s version and enjoyed it. Rather amazed that after all this, they could've so very easily base a game off Mighty Mouse. I mean there were a couple for Felix the Cat so Mighty Mouse should've gotten the same treatment. I grew up on a lot of the older style of cartoons and comics where it was about mostly about good vs. evil. I actually miss that cause there are some things that need to be simple, practical and mindless and nothing's ever wrong with that formula.
DEFINITELY❤
I'm a baby boomer, and I loved mighty mouse! I still remember running around and yelling "Here i Come To Save The Day!"
ABSOLUTELY 💯
Same over here! I already noticed there was something strange going on beneath - something a little more sneaky and freaky than in many other cartoons, but was way too small to put my finger on it. Just recently I learned that Bakshi was involved in the reboot and now I understand everything.
I don't remember Super Mouse but Mighty Mouse was definitely a favorite growing up. Thanks for the memories
super mouse is mighty mouse
The thing about Mighty Mouse was that sometimes the animators made MM into a spoof of opera. I was getting into Classical Music at the time and the villain would sing in bass, the heroine in soprano and Mighty Mouse would appear as a glorious tenor. Although it was used sparingly, my father and I loved the concept. I always wished they had parodied Wagner or the French opera style completely in a cartoon.
Could you imagine?!? 😱😛😹😹😹💖🙌😺
You did not mention the dialogue was done in operatic form. I didn't realize this early on.
I saw mighty mouse once completely hammered at a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert.
I saw him at a Zeppelin concert.
I remember waking up on Saturday morning, wolfing down my breakfast cereal and planting myself in front of the TV to watch cartoon shows and "Mighty Mouse" was one of them.🙂
We were allowed to watch Sat. morning cartoons while eating cereal before doing chores! 💖🙌😺
In the end of the '60s in 1970 we had super 8 film camera and projector and one of the films dad bought for us. Kids was a mighty mouse real, it was the first time I saw a cartoon at home on the big screen at our leisure.
The New Mighty Mouse series is where Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi got his start.
Actually, it was the Filmation Reboot of Droopy (part of the Tom and Jerry Comedy Show) where John K got his start
@@NeurospicyBitch88 Not his directing/creating start.
I watched Mighty Mouse in the mid 50's on snd when I was 4 I had a dream that he saved me and we got married... I really loved what he represented!! He always fought against the wrong doings in the world and made everyone feel safe!! Still love ya Mighty Mouse..Now my granddaughter loves him too!
He was also my introduction to Opera and of course, The Lone Ranger
I have vague memories of watching Mighty Mouse, Underdog, & Danger Mouse reruns around the same time.
Righting wrongs with lightning speed comes Underdog...
Up and at 'em Atom Ant ! 😀
How about Bullwinkle and Rocky J. Squirrel!? 😹💖🙌😺
Anybody remember "Crusader Rabbit"? Guess I'm really showing my age, now! 😛
How about Mr. Magoo?! 😱😛😺
@@debracisneroshhp2827 - I remember all of those too ! Yogi Bear was my favorite. Another one which was short-lived was Frankenstein Jr. When I was in grade 5 I drew a Franky Jr. cartoon strip for art. The teacher came around to look at each students projects. I thought she'd be mad that I was drawing comics in class but she loved it - thought it was funny. Nicest teacher I had in grade school !
Early 60s I watched him on black and white TV. I didn't know his suit was red and yellow.
Mighty Mouse was one of my favorites as a kid. This channel brings back so many memories. Thank you for this.
As a little boy in the 60s I remember loving the show! Cool!
Earth to Mighty Mouse, come in Mighty Mouse... Here I come to save the day!
"Dick Tracy, calling Jiu Jitzu!" 😛😹😹😹💖🙌😺
Mighty Mouse could save the day,
but he couldn't save my marriage.
I grew up in New Rochelle NY and passed by the Terrytoons studio every day on my way to junior high school in the late 60's. I didn't realize that it was where 'Mighty Mouse' and 'Heckle and Jeckle' were produced until long after I became an adult.
I was a fan of the original mighty mouse.. And then having discovered underground comics and Fritz the cat, I was a big fan of Ralph Bakshi's revival as well. Thanks for the genesis rehash.
Don't say "hash"! It's a drug reference!!!
@@kenlieck7756 Hash refers to a cheap meal consisting of chopped meat, onions and potatoes. From the French "hasher" to chop. Rehash essential means to chop over or in modern slang go over.
@@donpietruk1517 I know that! I'm not stoned!
@@kenlieck7756 oh please. Get over yourself.
@@kenlieck7756 then why bring it up?
I can recall one episode in which MM and Oil Can Harry engaged in a shoot out on a passenger train. That was the only time I saw MM use a gun.
Hanna Barbera's Forgotten Primetime Gems Where's Huddles !? and Wait Til' Your Father Gets Home
Thanks, Jamal. Great idea!
Tom Bosley did the Voice of the Lead Character in Wait Till You Father Gets Home.
@@tigermask3831 Yep, I remember it also.
I remember him in black and white. He was one of my favorites. I'm 69 years old.
I only heard of Mighty Mouse form that 1 “too many avengers” parody animation
Seems like your videos haven’t been coming up in my feed. I gotta put notifications on cuz I love your trips down memory lane! Thanks for this one!
I remember loving Migthy Mouse cartoons every Saturday morning. I never realized it, but Bakshi's work appears to have influenced Jon K when he created Ren and Stimpy. Very similar styles.
John Kricfalusi and Bob Camp worked on Mighty Mouse for producer Bakshi before going on to do Ren and Stimpy.
@@vitus.verdegast Ah! Makes perfect sense. Thanks!
Andy Kaufman. 'Nuff said.
Thankyouverymuch
4:22 Mighty Mouse and Elvis in the same shot. A tribute to Andy Kaufman, or just a coincidence? This particular cartoon was made a few years after his death.
I watched Mighty Mouse every single Saturday.
I used to watch Mighty Mouse every Saturday morning. Loved every minute of it. Things were so different then.
After all, we were kids. 💖🙌😺
@@debracisneroshhp2827 And got to be kids 🧒👦👧🤪
Good Afternoon Sir and my name is Christopher Williams and I’m a Childhood Fan of Mighty Mouse from the 1960s Tv 📺 series and growing up in the early 1970s I’ve always loved Mighty Mouse because he was definitely the most popular superhero character on television 📺 and I always knew that he would become the ultimate iconic superhero in the television 📺 history and Thank Goodness that Mighty Mouse’s Popularity is still awesome and amazing to this generation and the next generation to come as well!! Thank You Sir and Please keep up the good work and Long Live Mighty Mouse: Honorable Superhero and Spectacular Action Figure for all of us to enjoy , watch, listen, learn, and love at the same time as well!! Thank you sir with honor, dedication,appreciation , gratitude, and great respect from your new BFF Christopher Williams. 🥰🙏🌎📺🤗💐🦋💕☮️😊📺🌟
Wish they would bring him back. Loved the cartoon.❤❤❤❤❤
You'll probably will find classics like this in the boomerang channel. A paid subscription network
I remember watching Mighty MOuse Cartoons in the seventies when it was in syndication. Of Course that was before I saw the Andy Kaufman' rendition of the Mighty Mouse Theme.
Thanks for posting
The coolest thing about Might Mouse was he would casually sing in opera to the villains while he is tightening them up. 😉
Ralph Bakshi's 'Fritz The Cat' was chock-full of "joy and innocence" and NOT drug use.
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I was a Mighty mouse fan as a kid. I was also a Ralph Bakshi fan and when i saw he rebooted MM I checked it out. There were some really zany episodes, and one I specifically remember was MM talking to a chubby kid sitting in front of a tv who was complaining about being bored, and MM lays into him telling him to go outside and do things instead of sitting in front of the tube. I thought 'Oh he's going to get in trouble for that.'
I grew up watching Mighty Mouse in the early to mid 60's. Of course we didn't know his origin or his secret identity. I remember one cartoon where he disguised himself as a boy scout. The other mice were ridiculing and making fun of him until trouble came and needed to be saved by him. After a bit of sixty years I'm remembering that cartoon that's when I was in Elementary School in 1963 and 64. Today there's no such thing as Saturday morning cartoons or early morning cartoons before one went to school.
My first memory IN LIFE is that of me watching a Mighty Mouse episode. I was ONE years old.
Grew up with Mighty Mouse since the mid 70s, but Ralph Bakshi's 80s version was the best! His chaotic take along with *A Pup Named Scooby Doo* was beyond hilarious.
Mighty Mouse started out as Supermouse, He Originally wore a Red and Blue Costume. He was basically a Copy of Superman. Terrytoons were able to get away with this for awhile, But then National Periodicals(DC) stepped in and Threatened a Lawsuit over Copyright Infringement. Eventually Terrytoons and DC worked out a Deal where they could continue the Character as long as he didn't resemble Superman so much, So they eventually called him Mighty Mouse and turned his Costume Red and Yellow.
I was a big fan of Bakshi's 1980s working class version of Mighty Mouse. It was hilarious, and something of a forerunner of more sophisticated fare like The Simpsons and The Tick. IMO, it was the best thing Bakshi ever did.
I love cartoons
So what
Keep on loving them till your last day on earth. They're one of the items that keep you young.
Me too
I used to wear a towel on my back and pretend to be Mighty Mouse. A friend of my dad saw me and said ‘Hello, Superman” I said ( in a huff) “I’m Mighty Mouse!” I liked the Mouse more than Superman because he always got to kiss the heroine at the end of the show.
I remember Mighty Mouse when I was about 4 years old. But Looney Tunes took over. About 5years ago l rediscovered the Star. I'm glad to find it 's available again.
Mighty Mouse is still great today and he should come back one day for a new generation. 😀👍🐭
As a kid I really loved Mighty Mouse. . .still do.
Mighty Mouse and Tom And Jerry were my favorite cartoons when I was a kid. I liked Tom And Jerry when they did the Musketeers' cartoons best. They were on TV occasionally with these Muskerteer cartoons but mostly in comic books. Looney Tunes and the various other cartoons that aired back then were all good. Huckleberry Hound and the others were good. There were so many on at 4- 5 pm every day and then Looney Tunes on Saturday morning. Can't remember all names but I watched all of them until I outgrew them. Years later, I found lots of them on video during the VHS recorder era. My kids liked them too. They usually watched He Man and The Masters Of The Universe or Transformers but they liked the antics of the Road Runner/Coyote cartoons and Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Cartoons are created by people so if they occasionally are risque, that's no reason to censor all of them. I hate censorship.
OH, my favorites of Bugs and Daffy:
- When Bugs became a 'caller' for squaredancing scene between 2 Hillbillies__HYSTERICAL!!! 😹😹😹😭😹😹😹💖
- When Bugs was being persued by Pete Puma, he would set up a table with tea and ask Pete how many lumps [of sugar] he wanted and would give him that many lumps on his head. After a few times Pete thought he was outsmarting Bugs when he replied, "Tea gives me a headache__I'll have coffee!", but he still got the lumps! 😹😭😹
- When Bugs was trying to outsmart the 'baby' vulture. I can immitate, perfectly, the part where the vulture does his little 'coy' response of "Oh, huh, no, no!" Anyone who knows that cartoon cracks up when they hear me do that! 😹😹😹😛💖🙌😺
- When Daffy was being chased by the big, burly chef at a night club, he dressed up as Carmen Mirand, complete with fruit-ladened turbin, bra, tulip skirt, and platform shoes, on stage as part of 'the show' dancing/singing "Boom, chica, boom, chica, boom, woo, hoo!" When MySpace was a thing I had that on my main page! 😱😹😹😹😛💖🙌😺
Enjoy the rest of your day with nostalgia for the great cartoons designed for grown ups! 😛😹😹😹💖
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I still remember watching these cartoons when they first came out I think I was around 5 years old. He struck fear in the hearts of cats everywhere. All of the neighborhood cats went into hiding everytime Mighty Mouse was on. Hahaha
I always thought the 'Mighty Mouse doing drugs' things was from a 'classic' episode and just over-blown 90s moral panic, no idea it was from a re-boot. Not to say it wasn't over-blown moral panic, but I wouldn't put it past Bakshi to try and sneak something in!
That was from the mid-1980's when Ralph Bakshi and John K. resurrected the show. Ralph was known for R-rated animated movies like "Fritz The Cat" and "Heavy Traffic" and John is no stranger to controversy, having caused it all of his career, the biggest one in 2018 with his grooming situations. It was Rev. Donald Wildmon of the right winged organization "Focus On The Family." who was offended by the scene of Mighty Mouse supposedly breathing powdery stuff (He thought it was acid or LSD) through his nostrils. John had denied over the years that it was LSD or acid, and stated that it was flower pollen. The censors at CBS later edited the scene out in later repeat showings.
I mean cocaine does also come in the color pink so who knows
@@angelinacamacho8575 Ralph and John were probably trying to be less than subtle to get away with a powdered drug joke, so I believe it was mistaken as such. John in particular loves to get into instant trouble with his adult humor in kid's cartoons, so no wonder. This is also why a lot of people hate him as well. He doesn't give a damn what other people think of him.
I don't get why some idiot always has to make something bad out of everything. They just want to ruin the innocence in everything. It's disgusting and uncalled for.
@@dm8553 You are correct. Rev. Wildmon was a typical right winged fanatic that placed his narrow fundamentalist views in everything on anything he deemed "sinful". As for John K., he just loved to cause trouble and mayhem in his work and on his former Spumco staff members. There will always be animators that will want to sneak adult humor in seemingly innocent kid's cartoons. Justin Roliand's recent domestic assault arrests is just a clue of the latest, since he was best known for being one half creator of "Rick & Morty." He's been fired from his position ever since. "The Loud House's" creator Chris Savino and "Clarence's" creator Skylar Page are also known sexual predators that were removed from their jobs as well. Some middle aged animators just don't want to grow up.
I Loved watching Mighty Mouse
Mighty Mouse was featured in one (if not the first) of the first 3-D Comic Books😢! His “costume” changed from “Superman-like” (Super Mouse era) to “Captain Marvel-like”…He certainly benefited from the existing popularity of Mickey Mouse being transformed into a “Super Hero!”
How come there hasn't been a movie for this awesome character? One of my favorite cartoons.
Don't know much about Mighty Mouse. The one thing that comes to mind is when Vern and Teddy in Stand By Me having a conversation could Mighty Mouse beat up Superman, and Corey Feldman's Teddy tells him that Mighty Mouse is a cartoon and Superman is a real person
Mighty Mouse was mighty !!💪
I loved Mighty Mouse as a kid, and was never as excited for a program as when a Mighty Mouse was on. Why, I can't say, but I can still vividly remember the sensation of how much I favored it.
My MOST vivid memory of Mighty Mouse, however, goes 1000% to Andy Kaufman. Classic with a classic.
FOREVER BURNED INTO MY BRAIN!!! 😱😛😹😹😹💖🙌😺
I'm 74 and this was part of my Saturday mornings! 😂 Heckle and Jeckle were 2 magpies and their very clever humor 😂 was hilarious!😂
Ralph Bakshi was better known for Fritz the Cat and Wizards. Fritz of course was infamously known for being the first, feature length, X-Rated cartoon released to theaters in the USA.
I am a fan of The Mighty Mouse.
I was watching Mighty Mouse on TV when it was interrupted by the announcement President Kennedy had been assassinated.
I used to like Mighty Mouse, however cartoons were not on every minute of the day like today. I used to like Heckle and Jeckel very much. I used to get up on Saturday mornings, at 5 or 6am, and right after the farm report trying to stay awake, I would watch cartoons all Saturday morning.
You didn’t mention that in the late 1950’s to the early 1960’s, Mighty Mouse Theatrical cartoons (made in the 1940’s) ran on Bob Keeshan’s “Captain Kangaroo” show, weekday mornings on the CBS Television Network, before Terrytoons started making NEW cartoons specifically for that show. The new cartoons featured such characters as Deputy Dawg, Lariat Sam, and Hashimoto the Japanese mouse. Ralph Bakshi worked as an animator and later Director on the new cartoons. Bakshi also claimed to have invented the “Rotoscope” process for his “Fritz The Cat” movies in the 1970’s, but it was actually used as early as the 1930’s by the Max Fleischer Studio and Walt Disney Productions.
Bakshi was no stranger to narcotics, and his films were often controversial (he made the first X-rated cartoon film, "Fritz the Cat"). So his trying to play innocent regarding the cocaine reference never sat well with me.
3:57 is when the controversial episode is talked about
I enjoyed this cartoon in the 70s.
But even a year or two before enjoying this one, when I was really young I loved Under Dog.
I definitely remember MIGHTY MOUSE but not enough to remember a specific episodes
Oh Andy Kaufman, where are you??
In 1956 I was four and Mighty Mouse was apparently my favorite TV show. I would wave around a rubber toy replica of Mighty Mouse and sing the theme song. When I was three my favorite show was Howdy Doody.
Thanks for this. I grew up on reruns of George Reeves' SUPERMAN series in the early 1960's, and this probably predisposed me to also enjoy MIGHTY MOUSE (I even had a MIGHTY MOUSE watch) and UNDERDOG.
i remember mighty mouse when i was growing up and always loved mighty mouse thanks for the posting🙂
As a GenX, I loved 79 cartoon. Especially The Great Space Chase.
Thanks Rich. I did like this show when I was a kid.
Thank you for the back round on one of my favorite childhood cartoons.
When I was a small child, there were two kinds of cartoon. There were ordinary cartoons, and there was Mighty Mouse! I actually forgot about that until a lady friend (who grew up in another city) reminded me of it. We both held MM in very high regard at one time.
Yes, I watched him in the '60's. BUT ... I noticed that the villain was always a cat. (Oil Can Harry). I wanted to have a cat as a pet. They are definitely more fun than dogs, and require less work. I finally got one, for Christmas, around age 13. And had them ever since, for more than 40 years.
Cartoons have always defamed felines.
@@williamjarrell8475 unfair!
@@proudcynophile1901 I like cats, but cartoons tend portray cats negatively. Ask anyone who are the most famous cartoon felines, they'll probably say Tom and Sylvester. A pair of stupid bag guys being thwarted by a mouse and a rodent. Then there are the Siamese in Lady and the Tramp. I know there are counter examples like Felix and Top Cat but good cats who come on top never seemed to have the same popularity as the former.
Who's Bright Idea was it to put Ralph Bakshi in Charge of a Mighty Mouse Cartoon?
I'm Surprised Drug Use was the Only Thing he was able to Sneak onto the Show.
Talk to John Kricfalusi about that one. He's the one responsible for all the risqué humour that reboot had
@Autistic Kitsch Mama Having seen the overrated "Ren and Stimpy" (that's supposed to be a dog and a cat?!), I find myself surprised to learn he was a storyboard artist for Filmation's "Flash Gordon" .
How come the really old animation (1940s) looks so much better than the newer Mighty Mouse animation?🤔
Luv that mouse!!
Did not know there was a 1987 version.
I loved Mighty Mouse when I was a kid!
Originally a fly? Reminds me of the slightly more recent Fearless Fly (a segment on the Milton Monster Show by Hal Seeger Productions).
Great channel, really informative and can't wait to see more of your wonderful research and commentary. Would you do one on the evolution of Felix the Cat from it's silent beginning up to his return in the 1950s with a magic bag, Rock Bottom, Professor, Poindexter, Master Cylinder, Vavoom, Gen. Clang and Martin the Martian ? Like Gigantor it was also connected to Trans-Lux. Thanks again for re igniting those old cartoon memories.
The creators of Terrytoons obviously hated cats. The cats were always the villains and always gotten beaten. In real life, mice are vermin and people would get cats to rid them. Makes a kid wonder if cats or mice are pests.
The majority of cartoons of that period depicted cats as villains. Examples include: Tom (Tom and Jerry, MGM), Sylvester (Sylvester and Tweety, Warner Bros.) Katnip(Herman and Katnip, Harveytoons/Paramount/Famous Studios) and others too numerous to mention.
There was an episode with his origin. An ordinary mouse went into a supermarket (a fairly new idea) and ate a lot of vitamins.
I loved Mighty Mouse when I was a kid! I even had a Mighty Mouse costume for Halloween one year. I seem to remember an origin cartoon where they explained that he got his power from taking a number of different vitamins, and showed him going from bottle to bottle, downing a bunch at a time. I never once entertained the idea that I could attain similar powers by doing the same thing. I knew it was just a cartoon.
When I was about 7, I believe, I told my mother that when I grew up I was going to marry Mighty Mouse. Having watched him on TV from (probably) Day 1 of the series in 1955, the theme song is branded into my memory. I even still remember most of the closing music from the "Krakatoa" cartoon: "Krakatoa Katy, she ain't no lady, when she starts a-(swingin'?) ____. (Missing next line), Mighty Mouse has saved the day for Katy, Katy, Krakatoa Kate!"
The other thing I especially remember is one cartoon that began, "In our last episode ......" and I was constantly trying to figure out what the last episode was because I'd never seen it! How to frustrate a 6-year-old! Our Heroine was tied to railroad tracks in that one... and I think there was also a scene with Our Hero (or someone more vulnerable) tied to a log headed for a buzz-saw.
There was one where the blonde heroine was hypnotized and tied to a log, and those scenes were of her singing in a soft voice "Don't you remember sweet Alice...." while the log traveled down the waterways, all the while MM was hard at work to save her before she would be sawed in half, lengthwise. All the suspense! 😱😹😹😛💖🙌😺
@@debracisneroshhp2827 Yes!! That's the one!! Oh, thank you!!
They had problems with MM maybe getting high from flowers, but no one seemed to mind Underdog taking amphetamines (super energy pill).
Loved the Bakshi "Mighty Mouse". I still have several of them that I originally recorded on VHS, including "The littlest Tramp".
There was also an episode where Mighty Mouse has to fight William Shatner's rug.
I had the Mighty Mouse theme song on 45 4:15 rpm.
Mighty Mouse was a favorite for my sister and me. We saved cereal box-tops and my mom sent them in for Mighty Mouse t-shirts. The shirts even had small capes on the back! Our neighbor used to call my sister Mighty Mouse.
As a child growing up in the 60's Mighty Mouse was on my TV evey Saturday!!! Loved those stories and the theme song ❤️😁😋 Didn't know R. Bakshi did a series for the Might Mouse? Will need to track that down and buy it!!