Referenced By / Mighty Mouse

Advertising

• A 2001 "Ahh, the Power of Cheese" commercial has Mighty Mouse being too distracted eating cheese to save the city from being attacked by alien invaders. One of the citizens who is under attack asks Mighty, "Isn't it time for 'Here I come to save the day!'?"

Films - Live-Action

• Hook: After seeing Tinker Bell take on an army of pirates singlehanded, Peter asks her is she's related to Mighty Mouse.

Live-Action TV

• Lois & Clark: In "It's a Small World After All", a shrunken Superman says that he looks like Mighty Mouse.
• Saturday Night Live: The very first episode had guest Andy Kaufman performing a routine in which he stands around awkwardly before playing an old record of the Mighty Mouse theme song, only moving to triumphantly mouth the phrase "Here I come to save the day!". This moment was recreated for the Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon.

Web Original

• CollegeHumor: The animated sketch "Too Many Avengers" has Mighty Mouse among the many superheroes that showed up uninvited to The Avengers' latest gathering.

Western Animation

• Animaniacs: In "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock", a parody named Rocket Rat is a resident of the cartoon retirement home.
• Family Guy: In "Meg Stinks!", Meg reminds Peter that he voted for Mighty Mouse in the last presidential election.
  "Time to put a might-mouse in the White House."
• MAD: One sketch featuring Mickey Mouse working in Pest Control has Mighty Mouse among the mice and rats that Mickey catches.
• Robot Chicken: A sketch from "We Are a Humble Factory" has Mighty Mouse tricking a normal mouse into getting caught in a mousetrap by saying they don't really hurt. When called out on it, Mighty responds that "He fucked my sister."