Of Mice and Mad Men

This is why we can't have nice things. Saturday mornings in 1987 were a homogenized waste land as uniform as vanilla ice cream, and then Bakshi struck broke up the room.

Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, violent shook off the restrains of animation realism that had come down from the Disney tradition ( and to a lesser extent Warmer Bros.). Instead the style Bakshi chose was a return to the work of Max Fleischer, a form of expressionism. And it changed modern animation.

 Ralph Bakshi gave birth to the modern animation style, with this series. Sponge Bob, Ren & Stimpy, almost all of the output of Warner Brothers, it all comes from here.





Here is the premier episode: