The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse
CBS (ended 1992)
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Season 2
- Ep 6A Star is Milked / Mighty's Tone Poem10/22/88
A) MM goes to Hollywood to film his life story but Earnest Bovine (The aforementioned Cow) interferes. MM replaces a hair brush with a hanger in a billboard and battles a giant wig. Pearl is MM's agent.
B) MM rounds up all the criminals''and forces them to watch his home movies which are made up of''last seasons highlights re-dubbed. A strand of hair gets on the''lens and MM spends a few minutes trying to grab it. As we''watch the "home films" we see the animators hands trying to''grab the hair.moreless - Ep 5Mouse and Supermouse / The Bride of Mighty Mouse10/15/88
A) Petey Pate goes to a marketing research firm to help him build a better Mouse (Mighty Mouse that is) with which he can take over Mouseville. Soon, everyone, including MM himself, are playing with the new toy which is a giant robot MM clone. Except for the marketing consultants, this one's pretty dull.
B) Mighty marries Pearl and have a child. They build a hotel with the Cow as handy man out in the Nevada wastes. A competing entrepreneur builds a hotel next to them and steals all their customers.moreless - Ep 4Snow White & the Motor City Dwarfs / Don't Touch that Dial10/8/88
A) MM goes to a T.V. executive with a new concept for a TV show, a retelling of Snow White. As MM describes it, we see it take place. Very weird and surrealistic. B) A toddler channel surfs on Saturday morning and sends Mighty Mouse into each of the cartoon shows to which he's changing channels.moreless - Ep 3Bat with a Golden Tongue / Mundane Voyage10/1/88
A) MM helps Bat-bat come to terms with his crack addiction (wise cracking that is, but the word crack is used in the show).''''B) MM and Pearl are miniaturized by the Adam smasher (a fat guy named Adam sits on them) and enter the president's body to save the day. - Ep 2Mighty's Wedlock Whimsy / Anatomy of a Milquetoast9/24/88
A) In what is billed as a "cautionary tale," Sourpuss and Gandy Goose get Mighty Mouse and his girlfriend Pearl to the altar. But a la "Moonlighting", Mighty Mouse dreams a Honeymooners nightmare (with him asusming a Ralph Kramden persona). All of Pearls off-spring look like the bovine bandit, The Cow who supposedly is now a reformed sewer worker who just happens to be their downstairs neighbor (he assumes the Ed Norton role).
B) Mighty Mouse in on trial for the disappearance of Scrappy. His defense is persistently refuted by footage from season one with the dialogue altered, making it appear that Mighty Mouse is repsonsible for Scrappy's whereabouts.moreless - Ep 1Day of the Mice / Still Oily After All These Years9/17/88
A) Mighty Mouse is forced into retirement by a fascist regime which restores order to Mouseville thereby eliminating the need of a "superhero". MM becomes a fat slob who spends his days eating kid's cereal while watching television. However, MM discovers the regime is actually run by Petey Pate, the bald nebbish villain. MM unmasks Petey and gives a speech in a Jimmy Stewart imitation on freedom of choice.
B) The Cow impersonates a prison psychiatrist and gets Oil Can Harry (Mighty Mouse's arch-foe from the theatrical shorts days) paroled so he can get Harry's prison cell for his own personal enjoyment. Harry gets a job at the Mouseville canning plant where his fixation on Pearl Pureheart remains.moreless
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Season 1
- Ep 13Heroes and Zeroes / Stress for Success12/12/87
A) Big Murray and Polly Pineblossom steal all the numbers in Mouseville. But Mouseville can't pay the ransom because with no numbers, money is worthless. The numbers multiply and escape. Only "The Mighty Heroes" (Ropeman, Diaperman, Tornadoman, Strongman, and Cuckooman, now all chartered accountants) can save the day, so Mighty Mouse recruits their help.
B) Mighty Mouse stays up all night working on his W-4 form. He falls asleep and dreams about his old Terrytoon adventures.moreless - Ep 12Mighty's Benefit Plan / See You in the Funny Papers12/5/87
A) A parody of Alvin and the Chipmunks. A lonely bachelor dresses up rodents in cute outfits and forces them to sing in high squeaky voices.
B) Scrappy gets a ring which unleashes comic book villains who enter earth in a galactic farm show. - Ep 11The Ice Goose Cometh / Pirates with Dirty Faces11/28/87
A) Gandy Goose is defrosted ala the movie with Timothy Hutton "Iceman". Gandy Goose must face being a has been 1940's cartoon character in the 80's. Gandy Goose can not come to terms with the loss of his film partner, Sourpuss. Once MM solves the problem, Deputy Dawg gets defrosted.
B) Mice play at being pirates. A Marlon Brando as Captain Blide Pirate captain kidnaps them and forces the boys to become real pirates.moreless - Ep 10Aqua-Guppy / Animation Concerto11/21/87
A) Captain A-Crab and Lucky, the sea squid. Captain A-crab kidnaps Pearl, MM's girlfriend. MM forces the kidnapper to confess by showing him vacation slides until the crab cracks.''''B) Old MM Terrytoon clips are strung together to the back beat of a great Boogie-woogie version of the theme song. - Ep 9All You Need is Glove / It's Scrappy's Birthday11/14/87
A) The Glove and his henchmen, the Bad Mittens, imprison Pearl, Mike and Scrappy in gloves. The only person who can free them is the Glove's twin brother.
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''B) Mouseville Cheese-day outshines Scrappy's birthday, so he takes to the rail where he meets Slappy Rimshot and his pals. - Ep 8The League of Super-Rodents / Scrappy's Playhouse11/7/87
A) Battle of the Super-heroes against the Cow. Each Super-rodent is a parody of a well known comic book hero.
B) Scrappy disrupts a theater screening of old Mighty Mouse cartoons with his persistent commentary. - Ep 7The Littlest Tramp / Puffy Goes Berserk10/31/87
A) Polly Pineblossom sells flowers on snowy street corners. She makes these flowers out of boiled tomatoes which she fishes out of her begger's soup provided by the rescue mission. When ever MM offers to help her, she answers, "There are others less fortunate than me." A rich man named Big Murry, keeps tormenting her. In one instance, Murry grinds her flowers into the snow. Mighty Mouse, lifts up the ground petals and deeply inhales their fragrance. (If this all seems rather strange, consider that in "real life", a minister saw this scene and believed it to be a reference to cocaine. He forced CBS to cut out this scene). At the end, Big Murry admits that he torments the waif because he's crazy about her. They marry, and as woodland creatures look on, they go off into the sunset and blow up. There's no reason why they blow up, they just do.''''B) A Rod Serling type announcer explains that on this day, "The day the hand of fate broke a nail, a planetary harmonic convergence creates a force which just happens to land in Puffy the cat's dish of cream. Puffy puffs up to the size of a skyscraper and terrorizes Mouseville. After MM subdues the cat, he realizes that Fluffy is an innocent victim of fate. Luckily, an alien race of relish arrives and accepts the cat as their pet. This inspires MM to say, "If only we could all be more like''relish. Different condiments getting together to form one spread."moreless - Ep 6This Island Mouseville / Mighty's Musical Classics10/24/87
A) The Grand Ruler, an alien cat, and his dimwitted muscle Derling, land in Mouseville for the purpose of taking over. First they knock Mighty Mouse into the moon.
B) The song, "The Locomotion" by Little Eva, and the song by Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" are dubbed over out takes of old TerryToon Mighty Mouse cartoons.moreless - Ep 5The Bagmouse / The First Deadly Cheese10/17/87
A) Maxi burger turns Scrappy into burgers.
B)The Cow is a bovine bandit. His minions are flies that buzz about him. The Cow finds that limbergerite (limberger cheese gone bad) zaps MM of his powers. MM must move Scrappy's orphanage out of the way of developers. However, the Limbergerite has left him weak. The day is saved when he visits the Super hero doctor and finds the limbergerite which had been sown into his cape by the flies.moreless - Ep 4Catastrophe Cat / Scrappy's Field Day10/10/87
Catastrophe Cat: World peace through positive thinking. Whereever this cat walks trouble follows. Mighty Mouse must teach the cat to think positively or the world will end.
Scrappy's Field Day: Scrappy misses the school bus for a field trip to the museum, so Mighty Mouse takes him on a special field trip to prehistoric days.moreless - Ep 3Night of the Bat-Bat / Scrap-Happy10/3/87
Night of the Bat-Bat: Batman parody with Bat-Bat, and his ward Tick, the Bug Wonder.
Scrap-Happy: The cartoon opens with Scrappy crying as he sits on a dirty city street curb. MM, while flying over head, sees him and investigates. MM pledges to be his friend and tells the boy that he can call on him whenever he needs help. No one believes a lowly orphan like Scrappy could know MM. He keeps getting into danger but refuse to call MM because he doesn't consider himself worthy of his help. He also doesn't really believe MM would come to his rescue. Scrappy meets some shady characters, and joins a carnival. Finally, just as Scrappy and his friends are about to be smashed to bits by a runaway roller-coaster, Scrappy yells for MM who appears out of the blue.moreless - Ep 2Me-Yowww! / Witch Tricks9/26/87
Me-Yowww!: Mighty Mouse, the savior of Mouseville, is scandalized by the media for befriending a cat. People shun him, and MM is reduced to a scraggly bum sleeping on a park bench because of whom he calls friend.''''Witch Tricks: Scrappy takes a tooth from a witch. She turns his life into an acid trip.moreless - Ep 1Night on Bald Pate / Mouse from Another House9/19/87
Night on Bald Pate: Petey Pate, a nebbish with a bald spot on his head, is rankled when conversation makes unintended references to his baldness. In order to be taken seriously as a supervillain, he kidnaps Pearl Pureheart and lures Mighty Mouse to his hideout for the prupose of defeating him.
Mouse from Another House: A parody of "Superman-The Motion Picture". It counts the Mouse's Tale of his origin. An abandoned tenement falls prey to urban renewal.moreless
