MIGHTY MOUSE: Wolf! Wolf! [CARTOON]

MIGHTY MOUSE is an animated superhero mouse created by Terrytoons. In this episode Mighty Mouse has to save Little Bo Peep and her sheep. They are the victims in this story that tips the hat to the Pied Piper of Hamelin as Mighty Mouse goes up against the wolves with a jazz soundtrack.

► Summary of this "Mighty Mouse" Cartoon

A pack of hungry wolves, with one of them disguised as Little Bo Peep, raids a flock of sheep and captures a little lamb. The wolves' attempt to make lambchops out of the lamb are thwarted when Mighty Mouse arrives to save the day. The superhero mouse singlehandedly thwarts the wolves' dinner plans.

► Review about this "Mighty Mouse" cartoon

This is called a "Mighty Mouse" cartoon but he really doesn't enter until just past the halfway point. Actually, the cartoon is a lot better (funnier and clever) BEFORE Mighty Mouse enters the picture.

The wolves in here are a hoot, right from the start. The tricks they employ and they lengths they go to, to snare a lamb, are very funny. Some of this stuff was even a little risqué. One wolf is designated to go out and lure a little lamb into their wolves' den. He dresses up as a woman, with exaggerated big breasts which draws whistles from his peers.

The wolf then prances out playing "Mary Had A Little Lamb" on a flute. When the sheep lifts his skirt and sees he's no she, the wolf tries another plan: he plays jazz on a trumpet. The sheep follows him into the den. (This is a weird cartoon.) Anyway, all the wolves then try to kill the more little animal, whose bleats are heard by Mighty Mouse, who just happened to flying around the neighbor.

Mighty Mouse then saves the day. I have to say this mouse didn't look like the Mighty Mouse I used to watch as a little kid.

► Some Facts about "Mighty Mouse"

The character was originally conceived by story man Izzy Klein as a super-powered housefly named Super Fly. Created as a parody of Superman, he first appeared in 1942 in a theatrical animated short titled The Mouse of Tomorrow.

The original name of the character was Super Mouse, but after 7 films produced during 1942 to 1943, it was changed to Mighty Mouse in the 1944 cartoon The Wreck of the Hesperus when Paul Terry learned that another character named Super Mouse was being published in comic books. Super Mouse appeared briefly in the Marvel Comics interpretation of the character and was nicknamed Terry the First, as he was the first version of the character.

Mighty Mouse was first drawn wearing a blue costume with red trunks and a red cape, similar to Superman, but over time this outfit changed to a yellow costume with red trunks and a red cape, his most popular colors.

Roy Halee, Sr., was the first actor to provide the voice of Mighty Mouse. The role was later taken by Tom Morrison. In The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle Alan Oppenheimer provided the voice, and during the run of Mighty Mouse, the New Adventures Mighty Mouse was voiced by Patrick Pinney.

As with other imitations of Superman, Mighty Mouse's super powers include flight, super strength, and invulnerability. In various films he has demonstrated the use of X-ray vision, and has used a form of telekinesis that allowed him to command inanimate objects and turn back time (The Johnstown Flood and Krakatoa). Other cartoons show him leaving a red contrail during flight which he can manipulate at will like a band of solid flexible matter.

First appearance: Mouse of Tomorrow (1942)
Last appearance: Cat Alarm (1961)
Created by Paul Terry
Portrayed by Roy Halee, Tom Morrison
Species: Mouse
Gender: Male
Significant other: Pearl Pureheart

► Qoutes of this Episode

Narrator: What brutes! What cowards! What fiends!
Wolf: What lamp chops!

[first lines]
Narrator: Little Bo Peep had lost her sheep. / While out in the meadow green. / They wandered close by / Some wolves who were sly. / And soon by these wolves they were seen.

[last lines]
Narrator: And Mighty Mouse proves again that he's the champion of sheep and men.

► External Links for Mighty Mouse

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Mouse
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0153889/

...enjoy this cartoon, enjoy Mighty Mouse!