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Bakshi and Mighty Mouse circa 1988
 February 24, 2009 10:30 am
Ralph Bakshi and his Mighty Mouse crew in a TV news piece circa 1988. John K., Jim Reardon, Eddie Fitzgerald, Tom Minton and Kent Butterworth can be spotted. I don’t know what show this is from or who posted it, but it’s priceless. (Thanks, Jeff Pidgeon) |
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that’s soooo awesome!!!!!! i would love to see more videos of these guys… geez that’s so awesome… did john use a curling iron to get that style???
I remember seeing this clip probably around the early part of the decade as a RealVideo clip on a site (perhaps TV Party).
Cool clip!
This is a hoax. If these people were really cartoonists, they’d all be wearing Hawaiian shirts, just like in the Disney DVD bonus features.
Very awesome! Love John’s mullet!
Nice bit of history here. I can’t tell if I should be inspired or warned, as I am a blind devotee of Ralph Bakshi.
Yeah, WHERE ARE THE HAWAIIAN SHIRTS? Where’s Lasseter? These are all fakes.
I’d have loved to see the story session for the Mighty Mouse episode “Don’t Touch That Dial.” That episode was probably CBS’s finest moment.
Wow, this is fantastic!
And the reason Bakshi’s innovative MM has NEVER been released to home video in ANY format is… ?
(There’s a rumor going around that the time is coming. Does anyone in the know care to comment on that?)
Mike – It is coming. I’m in the midst of it. I can’t speak about it publicly at the moment, so no more questions. But you’ll hear more about it on Cartoon Brew in the near future.
John K. had the gall to razz Eddie for wearing a pink shirt all while he was sporting a mullet like that.
Oh man, that’s great! Termite Terrace’s second-coming.
That rail-thin, blue-jacketed kid at the very start of the clip with the beard is a youthful Jeff Pidgeon. This PBS footage was shot in January, 1988 in the Bakshi-Hyde Ventures studio where the first season of “Mighty Mouse:The New Adventures” was done.
I’m the one who put the clip up. It was in .rm format, the WORST video format in existence, so I converted it to .wmv and put that on youtube. The quality really took a dive as a result.
I’m gonna fix those crappy mistimed annotations. Jeff Pidgeon, Jenny Lerew and Tom Minton all identified people in the clip. This was from a PBS documentary.
Also Jerry just made my day.
Apparently they filmed for a few hours but only used this footage. I bet all the unused footage is lying in storage somewhere at PBS.
Second the motion on “Don’t Touch That Dial.” Along with first viewing of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the two occasions where I fell to the floor laughing, and gasping for air long after.
Get a bowl of Bilkos, ’cause “now it’s time for The Jetstoooones!”
The other person, with the big curly hair, is layout artist J.C. Wegman.
So then John K. took the “gum” idea and ran with it in The Ripping Friends episode, The Indigestible Wad. =)
Thanks Jorge or clearing up on the details. It does feel a lot like a PBS documentary the way it’s presented. I thought I saw one such report on this show way back in the 80’s that showed a few clips of the show in workprint order while showing off Ralph and the guys in the studio. Wished I had a copy of that to throw up on YT for posterity.
Being reminded of the way Reardon dresses here, as I think they called attention to it when they stuck a caricature of him on The Simpsons in some of the early seasons, waiting for the train!
Jim Reardon has the most amazing hat. The Disney gang should wear hats as well as their Hawaiian shirts. Perhaps.
I’d love to see Coonskin on DVD some day…
It’s not a documentary. It’s from the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour on PBS.
The full clip of Bakshi shows him meeting Judy Price at CBS about Mighty Mouse.
saturnome- i own coonskin on dvd. you can find t online and in most “edgy” video stores.
any how. that’s one hell on an office they had. all brown with that tiny couch….
If you want to sign a petition for a special edition coonskin dvd with proper extras etc, here’s the link:
http://www.petitiononline.com/DVDcnskn/petition.html
There’s one thing about Bakshi’s Mighty Mouse the puzzled me. Why, from the episode “This Island Mouseville” on, did they stop drawing Mighty Mouse without a tail?
kelly, thanks for clearing that up, I’ll add it to the video.
Tom Minton, thanks for indentifying JC Wegman.
I have Coonskin on DVD too, and it’s got a trailer and those fan-made Batman films that were out a few years ago. You know, Grayson and the one where he’s fighting the Predator. I’ll sign the petition anyway.
ahhh the hip styles of the 80’s …..
Brings back memories… thin leather ties etc… lol.
I think the only one who doesn’t look dated, is Ralph. :-)
This came out on the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour.
Wonderful! The clip and the good news in the comments made my week! :)
Coonskin was never officially released on DVD. Bootlegged, but never officially released.