What is the appeal of Mickey Mouse?

I can't say for sure that they were Acme explosives, but Bugs was a frequent user of dynamite. And who else ever manufactured anything in the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies verse?

 

Mortimer Mouse sleeps with the fishes.

And Bubs, great rant. And I think Donald would beat the living shit out of Daffy if they ever got into a fight.

 

I know where you're going with that . . .

But we'll take it in a different direction.

Mickey was what we had, in terms of animated animals, by and large . . . until the Warners'
animators showed how to be REALLY funny.

In terms of pure laughs? Walt Dizzy had nothin'.


Somewhere, Yosemite Sam and Foghorn Leghorn laugh, hysterically.

 

Oh, no doubt. One look at a pissed-off Donald and Daffy would be running for his life.

 

I don't know. All I know is that one day, Mickey Mouse came on TV on a commercial an my 2-year-old went wild. He must have learned about him at daycare.

"Mickey Mouse! Mickey Mouse!"

For the next hour, we watched old Mickey cartoon shorts on the Disney Web site and he was slack-jawed the whole time.

 

That may be the part we're missing. We're just too old to be part of Mickey Mouse's target audience, but Bugs Bunny's humor has always had appeal for children and adults.

 

No, no.

Mickey Mouse is evil. Bart Simpson would totally kick his ass in some mythical cartoon street fight.

People are forced to go to Walt Disney World and spend a lot of money. There is absolutely no joy to be had there. Every single thing there is all based solely on Mickey Mouse, and he just isn't as cool as Ren or Stimpy.

 

This is no defense for Mickey, but if anything, for better or for worse, he was the Neil Armstrong of cartoon character merchandising and licensing and doing something besides a cartoon or a cartoon strip.

Eat a bag of dicks, Mickey Mouse.

 

I lived in Orlando for the better part of a decade, and very rarely ventured south of downtown. As such, I rarely encountered a tourist, unless said tourist was hopelessly lost.

 

You're right. It's interesting, though, that Mickey's appeal as far as parks, etc., are concerned came after the Warner cartoons were in circulation. And after the dawn of television.

Credit to Disney for marketing circles around everyone else back in the day, Bugs Bunny, et al, weren't heavily marketed until the 70s at the earliest (I remember going to Great America in Gurnee and getting the shit scared out of me by the Tasmanian Devil when I was 5 or so), but not on Disney's level until the 90s.

But given how vapid Mickey Mouse is, in reality, people are coming to worship at the altar of commercialism and marketing. The mouse is the just the emperor with his clothes on. It goes to show that an inoffensive mascot can be loved without any reason to love it because there's a great percentage of people that are too stupid to know the difference.

 

They do have cows ... the people who patronize the parks. There's herds of them.

 

Is this a Seinfeld bit?

Now what is the DEAL with Mickey Mouse?