History YMMV / MightyMouse

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!!''Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures''
* {{Anvilicious}}: "Don't Touch That Dial" comes off as irritatingly preachy due to its message that this show is the only cartoon worth watching and everything else airing at the time was dreck.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_cappella A cappella]]/[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbershop_music barbershop]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKG7GcBfWVI theme song]].
* GenreTurningPoint: Creator/JohnKricfalusi explained the series' massive influence on and importance to all American animation that would come after it to the Website/AVClub [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/john-kricfalusi,13702/ in 2001]]:
-->It was the first series that was completely created by cartoonists: It was written by cartoonists, all the creative decisions were made by cartoonists, and we created all the characters. It was totally different from anything anybody had done. We broke every rule you could think of, everything they told you that you couldn't do. [...] A whole bunch of things we did once or twice on Mighty Mouse became whole trends in other people's cartoons. [[FollowTheLeader Everybody copied it instantly]].
* HarsherInHindsight: Like much of his own work (especially ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''), there are a lot of scenes in this show that become increasingly uncomfortable once Creator/JohnKricfalusi's history of mental illness and pedophilia came to light:
** Petey Pate's mental breakdown over Pearl Pureheart [[YoureInsane calling him mad]] in "Night on Bald Pate" becomes a lot less funny after Kricfalusi was discovered to have had at least two undiagnosed mental illnesses for most of his life, both of which he [[TheAlcoholic medicated with alcohol]].
** "Mighty's Benefit Plan" has Elwee and the Tree Weasels show signs of being uncomfortable whenever their adoptive father attempts to show them affection. Kricfalusi himself ended up grooming two teenage animators, Robyn Bird and Katie Rice, for several years in the late 90s and early 2000s under the guise of mentorship.
** "The Littlest Tramp" ends with the implied-teenaged Polly Pineblossom marrying a Creator/KirkDouglas-lookalike named Big Murray. Kricfalusi's fanatical worship of manly-man types like Douglas and his own father are said to have contributed to his own sexually abusive habits.
** The entire premise of "The Ice Goose Cometh" is centered on Gandy Goose being unfrozen and finding out no one remembers him in 1987. Come the following decades, and hardly anyone remembers ''any'' of the Terrytoons stars outside of its small but loyal fanbase due to the complete absence of mainstream exposure of the cartoons since the 90's.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** "Snow White and the Motor City Dwarfs" has a witch transporting a fairy tale princess into the big city. [[{{Film/Enchanted}} Sound familiar?]]
** The back-up story in the fifth issue of the Marvel comic has Bat-Bat trying to find out who threatens to pan his movie ''Bat-Bat 2''. This story was published a year before ''Film/BatmanReturns'' was released.
* HoYay: Gandy Goose and Sourpuss have interactions between them and statements about each other that could make people wonder whether they're truly just friends. Gandy acts as a housemaid to Mighty Mouse in "The Ice Goose Cometh" and responds to Mighty disliking the birdseed sandwich he made him by saying that Sourpuss always liked birdseed, while "Mighty's Wedlock Whimsy" shows Gandy and Sourpuss showering together.
* NeverLiveItDown: If the show is remembered for anything, it's for that notorious scene in "The Littlest Tramp" in which Might Mouse sniffs a flower given to him by Polly Pineblossom earlier in the episode, by which point it's been crushed into a fine powder, making it [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything look as though he's snorting cocaine]]. MoralGuardians were outraged immediately, even though the crew members themselves said that it wasn't meant to be a cocaine joke and that the moral guardians (like many before and after them) blew things out of proportion. Even Creator/JohnKricfalusi thought so, but only because there were two other scenes that were more dubious: The Creator/KirkDouglas-esque man force-kissing Polly Pineblossom (and the fact that she's forced to marry him to save herself from being homeless) and the end when the two drive off into the sunset and [[EndOfEpisodeSilliness the car explodes into a mushroom cloud for no reason]].
* ProtectionFromEditors: Up until the "crushed flower controversy", Creator/{{CBS}} didn't care what Creator/RalphBakshi and co. produced each week so long as they delivered it on time and under budget (which they did). This is not to say Bakshi ''wasn't'' fighting off censors left and right, rather he was simply very good at negotiation and was such a force of personality that nobody challenged him.
* RetroactiveRecognition: The whole staff of the show is a who's-who of future animation names, including Creator/JohnKricfalusi, [[Creator/PixarRegulars Andrew Stanton]], Creator/BruceTimm and [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Tom]] [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain Minton]].
* TheScrappy: Parodied by Mighty Mouse's occasional sidekick, Scrappy the mouse.
* ShallowParody: "Don't Touch That Dial" centers around [[TakeThat disdainful spoofs]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'', ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' that only superficially resemble what is being spoofed. ''The Flintstones'' and ''The Jetsons'' are amalgamated into The Jetstones with the bulk of the satire being that the show has an annoying theme song rather than valid criticisms on any of either cartoon's actual content, the ''Scooby-Doo'' spoof shows the characters as being different ethnicities and the Fred Jones analogue having a British accent and an afro when the characters were all white Americans in the source material, and the spoof of ''The Real Ghostbusters'' consists of an {{Animesque}} quartet of men with [[AnimeHair wild]], multicolored hair who all talk like Creator/BillMurray and wear identical jumpsuits, when the cartoon actually made an effort to make Egon Spengler, Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, and Peter Venkman more diverse and easier to distinguish than how they were depicted in ''Film/Ghostbusters1984''. The only exception is the ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' parody, and even then that's only because the Bullwinkle parody is a diminutive super-intelligent moose while the Rocky parody is [[Film/{{Rocky}} Rocky Balboa]].
** The Ghostbusters parody is particularly annoying because it was meant by Creator/JMichaelStraczynski to be better than most merchandise-driven cartoons. The Mighty Mouse parody makes it look completely humorous when it certainly was quite the opposite.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: It's near impossible to appreciate just how much of a breath of fresh air ''The New Adventures'' was to TV animation circa 1987. At a time when factory-assembled shows and glorified toy commercials reigned supreme, it was unheard of for a show to be written, storyboarded and animated entirely by a key team of artists given almost complete creative control like a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation Golden Age]]-era cartoon studio, complete with [[AnimationBump theatrical short-style cartoon animation]], the likes of which had ''never'' been created for TV (even if the creators frequently agree that there are [[OffModel a]] ''[[OffModel lot]]'' [[OffModel of errors]]). [[FollowTheLeader Everyone copied it immediately]], none the least of which was series director Creator/JohnKricfalusi with ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', and creator-driven cartoons became the norm within five years, remaining so to this day. Much of the show's jokes about the then-current state of TV animation also quickly became preachy and annoyingly cynical once everything it was criticizing disappeared almost entirely.
* UncannyValley: The giant robotic duplicates of Mighty Mouse created by Petey Pate in "Mouse and Supermouse" can be seen as this, since they're much more humanoid in appearance and they speak in a stilted monotone.
* TheWoobie: Gandy Goose becomes this in "The Ice Goose Cometh". He was frozen in 1944 and didn't thaw out until 1987, [[FishOutOfTemporalWater finding out that nobody remembers him or his cartoons anymore]]. On top of that, he suffers from separation anxiety due to missing his old partner, Sourpuss. Thankfully, he gets a happy ending when Mighty Mouse finds Sourpuss and reunites the duo.

* ShallowParody: "Don't Touch That Dial" centers around [[TakeThat disdainful spoofs]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'', ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' that only superficially resemble what is being spoofed. ''The Flintstones'' and ''The Jetsons'' are amalgamated into The Jetstones with the bulk of the satire being that the show has an annoying theme song rather than valid criticisms on any of either cartoon's actual content, the ''Scooby-Doo'' spoof shows the characters as being different ethnicities and the Fred Jones analogue having a British accent and an afro when the characters were all white Americans in the source material, and the spoof of ''The Real Ghostbusters'' consists of an {{Animesque}} quartet of men with [[AnimeHair wild]], [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair multicolored]] hair who all talk like Creator/BillMurray and wear identical jumpsuits, when the cartoon actually made an effort to make Egon Spengler, Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, and Peter Venkman more diverse and easier to distinguish than how they were depicted in ''Film/Ghostbusters1984''. The only exception is the ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' parody, and even then that's only because the Bullwinkle parody is a diminutive super-intelligent moose while the Rocky parody is [[Film/{{Rocky}} Rocky Balboa]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Like much of his own work (especially ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''), there are a lot of scenes in this show that become increasingly uncomfortable once Creator/JohnKricfalusi's history of mental illness and pedophilia came to light:
** Petey Pate's mental breakdown over Pearl Pureheart [[YoureInsane calling him mad]] in "Night on Bald Pate" becomes a lot less funny after Kricfalusi was discovered to have had at least two undiagnosed mental illnesses for most of his life, both of which he [[TheAlcoholic medicated with alcohol]].
** "Mighty's Benefit Plan" has Elwee and the Tree Weasels show signs of being uncomfortable whenever their adoptive father attempts to show them affection. Kricfalusi himself ended up grooming two teenage animators, Robyn Bird and Katie Rice, for several years in the late 90s and early 2000s under the guise of mentorship.
** "The Littlest Tramp" ends with the implied-teenaged Polly Pineblossom marrying a Creator/KirkDouglas-lookalike named Big Murray. Kricfalusi's fanatical worship of manly-man types like Douglas and his own father are said to have contributed to his own sexually abusive habits.

* HarsherInHindsight: The entire premise of "The Ice Goose Cometh" is centered on Gandy Goose being unfrozen and finding out no one remembers him in 1987. Come the following decades, and hardly anyone remembers ''any'' of the Terrytoons stars outside of its small but loyal fanbase due to the complete abscence of mainstream exposure of the cartoons since the 90's.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Like much of his own work (especially ''Ren and Stimpy''), there are a lot of scenes in this show that become increasingly uncomfortable once Creator/JohnKricfalusi's history of mental illness and pedophilia came to light:

* NeverLiveItDown: If the show is remembered for anything, it's for that notorious scene in "The Littlest Tramp" in which Might Mouse sniffs a flower given to him by Polly Pineblossom earlier in the episode, by which point it's been crushed into a fine powder, making it [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything look as though he's snorting cocaine]]. MoralGuardians were outraged immediately, even though the crew members themselves said that it wasn't meant to be a cocaine joke and that the moral guardians (like many before and after them) blew things out of proportion. [[EveryoneHasStandards Even John Kricfalusi thought so]], but only because there were two other scenes that were more dubious: The Creator/KirkDouglas-esque man force-kissing Polly Pineblossom (and the fact that she's forced to marry him to save herself from being homeless) and the end when the two drive off into the sunset and [[EndOfEpisodeSilliness the car explodes into a mushroom cloud for no reason]].
* ProtectionFromEditors: Up until the "crushed flower controversy", Creator/{{CBS}} didn't care what Bakshi and co. produced each week so long as they delivered it on time and under budget (which they did). This is not to say Bakshi ''wasn't'' fighting off censors left and right, rather he was simply very good at negotiation and was such a force of personality that nobody challenged him.

** The ghostbusters parody is particularly annoying because it was meant by Creator/JMichaelStracinzky to be better than most merchandise-driven cartoons. The Mighty Mouse parody makes it look completely humorous when it certainly was quite the opposite.

* GenreTurningPoint: John Kricfalusi explained the series' massive influence on and importance to all American animation that would come after it to the Website/AVClub [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/john-kricfalusi,13702/ in 2001]]:

* NeverLiveItDown: If the show is remembered for anything, it's for that notorious scene in "The Littlest Tramp" in which Might Mouse sniffs a flower given to him by Polly Pineblossom earlier in the episode, by which point it's been crushed into a fine powder, making it [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything look as though he's snorting cocaine]]. MoralGuardians were outraged immediately, even though the crew members themselves said that it wasn't meant to be a cocaine joke and that the moral guardians (like many before and after them) blew things out of proportion. [[EveryoneHasStandards Even John Kricfalusi thought so]], but only because there were two other scenes that were more dubious: The Kirk Douglas-esque man force-kissing Polly Pineblossom (and the fact that she's forced to marry him to save herself from being homeless) and the end when the two drive off into the sunset and [[EndOfEpisodeSilliness the car explodes into a mushroom cloud for no reason]].

** "The Littlest Tramp" ends with the implied-teenaged Polly Pineblossom marrying a Kirk Douglas-lookalike named Big Murray. Kricfalusi's fanatical worship of manly-man types like Douglas and his own father are said to have contributed to his own sexually abusive habits.

* {{Anvilicious}}: "Don't Touch That Dial" comes off as irritatingly preachy due to its message that this show is the only cartoon worth watching and everything else airing at the time is dreck (though, to be fair, that was what the crew believed and it was true to some extent, as seen in [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpj73i this documentary]]).

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Like much of his own work (particularly ''Ren and Stimpy''; ''Ripping Friends'', not so much), there are a lot of scenes in this show that become increasingly uncomfortable once Creator/JohnKricfalusi's history of mental illness and pedophilia came to light: