Bring Back Dangermouse
Created | Updated Jun 21, 2003
He's The Best
He's The Greatest
He's The Greatest Secret Agent In The World!
He's The Ace - He's Amazing...
He's the Strongest... He's The Quickest.... He's The Best!
Dangermouse! Dangermouse!! Dangermouse!!!
It all started innocently with the call for entries on Superheroes. Several researchers had posted before a one-eyed mouse and his able sidekick 'Penfold' captured the imagination and, before you could say shush Penfold, a campaign had started here at h2g2 to 'Bring Back Dangermouse'. Mike A even went so far as to set up a campaign page to bring back DM. By late on Friday evening, 19 researchers, from both sides of the Atlantic, had signed up for the crusade for further info, if not episodes of 'Cosgrove Hall's' greatest production.
For any one still in the dark, 'Dangermouse' is a British all action hero who lives and operates from a red pillar box in Mayfair London, jumping quickly into his really cool car whenever 'Colonel K' (a Walrus) calls for action. Penfold is a somewhat blind Mole who assists DM on his missions to save the world from the villainous Baron Greenback... who is constantly stroking his pet caterpillar Nero. (Comparisons have been drawn with a certain Baron Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his pet cat, but Cosgrove Hall were not available for comment). Greenback's somewhat calamitous assistants include Stilletto, his right hand crow, and a certain Duck who wants his own series (a dream finally fulfilled) called Count Duckula.
So why has this got our researchers so excited? Well Fairly Strange has the following recommendation for parents everywhere:
'Oh, crickey, DM!!! Wot are we to do now!? LOVE DM! Haven't seen it in *years* here in the US. Raised my son on that cartoon!'.
Mike A says:
'Methinks I'll be pouring over the TV guides now, in paranoid fear of possibly missing a repeat!'
I feel sorry for Dinsdale Piranha:
'I did have it on tape but my son's too cool for DM these days, so it got wiped... I wasn't happy'.
Even Dr. E. Vibenstein is in on it:
'I once entered a school fancy dress competition as Dangermouse... and lost'.
Maybe he forgot the eyepatch!
All this activity, however, is a good indication of the community getting together for these 'Call for Entries', focusing so many researchers onto one subject is certainly starting to pay off, as from small acorn grow mighty oaks. So everybody keep up the good work, and, when you see a call for entries you know something about, pop on over... you never know where it may lead.
