History WesternAnimation / DangerMouse

* BizarreAndImprobableBallistics: In "The Duel", Greenback claims to have hit all targets in a shooting gallery. He hands DM a shotgun with the muzzle bent almost entirely back on itself. DM then one-ups him by aiming the bent shotgun just right that the shot {{PinballProjectile}}s off the edges of the gallery, hitting every target, including one last ricochet that takes a long pause to arrive.

* BraggingThemeTune

* ComicBookAdaptation: Danger Mouse regularly appeared in ITV-Thames' "Look-In" series of books and was generally very faithful (adding a new character--Greenback's "white sheep" nephew Hopalong Casually). Displaced in Marvel Comics' editions (seen in issues of the Count Duckula book)--no pillar box, off-model art (an eyebrow over DM's eyepatch), and continuity issues (Miss Boathook seen as a sexpot who in one story flirts with DM).

* [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat Baron Greenback Stops To Cheat]]: In "The Duel," most notably in the car race.

* EditedForSyndication: The following footage and dialogue from ''Mechanised Mayhem'' was restored on the DVD set, which was unseen on Nickelodeon and syndication. It's where DM and Penfold see the Frog's Head Flyer trying to kick down the door of Greenback's hideout—Stiletto issues an S.O.S., and Danger Mouse responds:
-->'''Stiletto:''' Oh, signor Danger Mouse! We are under a-screw!
-->'''DM:''' "Under a-screw?" Oh, you mean under '''''attack.'''''
** Plus the full ending, which was not used since it was the first episode of a two-episode screening on Nick:
-->'''Narrator:''' And with that, we say farewell to any hope of getting on Radio 3. (''Sigh.'') Oh, by the way, the management requests that you park next to a Danger Mouse transmission at your own risk. Claims for carpets, elbows and mass hysteria cannot be entertained. (Hmph. Why should they? ''You'' weren't.)
** Edited for Nickelodeon: during the show's first run (1984-87), scenes from "Lord of the Bungle" and "The Bad Luck Eye of the Little Yellow God" were cut due to scenes of African jungle natives, and "Bandits, Beans And Ballyhoo!" (first appearance of El Loco) was left out altogether. All were added in during the second run (1991-94).

* HeterosexualLifePartners, DM and Penfold. Which, of course, means RuleThirtyFour is in full force. Any BigNo reaction to this fact would be understandable.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: "Play It Again, Wufgang" centres on the destruction of the world's music, which cripples our heroes since they're physically incapable of doing anything without accompanying {{BGM}}. They finish the episode via blatantly-[[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] DiegeticMusic provided by a cassette player (which has been kept in safe storage for just such an occasion). Difficulties with cueing the right music leads to a hilarious climactic series of SoundtrackDissonance, which actually causes the scene to go wrong until the right music is played.

--> '''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse:''' Oh.

--> ''(Car abruptly vanishes in a PuffOfLogic--they sit in midair for a second like [[LooneyTunes Wile E. Coyote]], then fall with a yelp)''

** Also, "The Good, the Bad and the Motionless" is a shout-out parody of ''TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''.
** "The Intergalactic 147" is most likely taken from the ending of TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy (primary phase), where Ford Prefect relates a tale of a planet in the seventh dimension getting potted into a black hole in a game of intergalactic billiards (only worth 30 points). The Danger Mouse episode has Earth in line to be potted into the black hole Alpha Omega in a game of intergalactic snooker, which would give the player (whatever it is) the maximum score of 147.
** The scene from "Pillow Fright" of DM giving the pillow army their marching orders not only apes "The Sorceror's Apprentice" (from ''Fantasia'') but also uses the music from it.

* TeamRocketWins: Greenback actually gets the best of DM at the conclusion of "The Wild, Wild Goose Chase", when DM realises that Greenback has just sent him on a... [[WildGooseChase well, you know]].
-->'''Penfold:''' Go ahead, Chief...have a good shout.
-->'''DM:''' '''''[[ThisIsSPARTA I...HATE...THAT...TOAD!!!]]'''''

* TeamRocketWins: Greenback actually gets the best of DM at the conclusion of "The Wild, Wild Goose Chase."

** The narratorn in "Once Upon A Timeslip."

-->'''DM:''' [[ThisIsSPARTA '''''I...HATE...THAT...TOAD!!!''''']]

* [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat Baron Greenback Stops To Cheat]]: In "The Duel," most notably in the car race.

* MythologyGag: "The Intergalactic 147" is most likely taken from the ending of TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy (primary phase), where Ford Prefect relates a tale of a planet in the seventh dimension getting potted into a black hole in a game of intergalactic billiards (only worth 30 points). The Danger Mouse episode has Earth in line to be potted into the black hole Alpha Omega in a game of intergalactic snooker, which would give the player (whatever it is) the maximum score of 147.
** The scene from "Pillow Fright" of DM giving the pillow army their marching orders not only apes "The Sorceror's Apprentice" (from ''Fantasia'') but also uses the music from it.

* The scene from "Pillow Fright" of DM giving the pillow army their marching orders not only apes "The Sorceror's Apprentice" (from ''Fantasia'') but also uses the music from it.

* MythologyGag: "The Intergalactic 147" is most likely taken from the ending of TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy (primary phase), where Ford Prefect relates a tale of a planet in the seventh dimension getting potted into a black hole in a game if intergalactic billiards (only worth 30 points). The Danger Mouse episode has Earth in line to be potted into the black hole Alpha Omega in a game of intergalactic snooker, which would give the player (whatever it is) the maximum score of 147.

* BizarroUniverse: The Tower of Terror. Also, "Rhyme And Punishment."

--> '''DangerMouse:''' Oh.

* BizarroUniverse: The Tower of Terror.

British animated series by CosgroveHall, running on {{ITV}} from 1981 to 1992, starring (now [[KnightFever Sir]]) DavidJason as the voice of Danger Mouse, a mouse who is the world's greatest secret agent. Accompanied by his somewhat more timid (and bumbling) partner, Penfold, Danger Mouse saves the world each week from a variety of menaces ranging from fiends and monsters to their own narrator. Although an entertaining and original series in its own right, ''Danger Mouse'' actually began as a parody of ''DangerMan'' (which is better known in the United States as ''Secret Agent'', and as the forerunner of ''Series/ThePrisoner'').

Not to be confused with the [[Music/DangerMouse music producer of the same name]] (aka Music/BrianBurton). David Morgan-Mar of ''IrregularWebcomic'' has also taken Danger Mouse as a nickname.

British animated series by CosgroveHall, running on {{ITV}} from 1981 to 1992, starring (now [[KnightFever Sir]]) DavidJason as the voice of Danger Mouse, a mouse who is the world's greatest secret agent. Accompanied by his somewhat more timid (and bumbling) partner, Penfold, Danger Mouse saves the world each week from a variety of menaces ranging from fiends and monsters to their own narrator. Although an entertaining and original series in its own right, ''Danger Mouse'' actually began as a parody of ''DangerMan'' (which is better known in the United States as ''Secret Agent'', and the forerunner of ''ThePrisoner'').

Not to be confused with the [[Music/DangerMouse music producer of the same name]]. David Morgan-Mar of ''IrregularWebcomic'' has taken Danger Mouse as a nickname.

!!''DangerMouse'' provides examples of: