Now, see, what “Drawn Together” did was just keep Mickey Mouse in shadow, and sometimes when they said his name they bleeped out the “Mickey,” but sometimes when they said his name they bleeped out “Mouse.”
Also before you track down this episode, the entire plot revolves around racist cartoon caricatures and a lot of the jokes age poorly or weren’t great to begin with, a strong atmosphere of “these things aren’t that offensive anymore, we’ve moved on from that!” however the primary thrust of the plot is that Mickey Mouse has been kidnapping and murdering racial stereotype characters so he can deny they existed in the first place; a dig at how Disney deals with its past racism by trying to bury it and pretending it never happened.
Meanwhile you have the Warner Brothers disclaimer:
There are people who hide behind this kind of argument because they really still just wanna laugh at the racist jokes, but yeah I’d say the Disney strategy of basically “who was racist!? Omg who could it be, not us” for years on end was pretty pathetic. (Have they stopped doing that? I don’t pay enough attention to them)
Anyway the point is nothing people do with Public Domain Steamboat Willie is going to be as funny as the Schrodinger’s Plagiarism that is the Original Character Who Is Named Either Mickey **** or **** Mouse. They beat you to it.
