In 1987, Reverend Donald Wildmon accused Ralph Bakshi's new Mighty Mouse cartoon of showing the superhero snorting cocaine in a flower-sniffing scene. What followed was a media firestorm, boycotts, Congressional testimony, and CBS executives forced to defend a cartoon mouse on national television. The full story is more insane than you remember.
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