Mouse Burglar Media

Background: Mouse Burglar Media was a company that was founded in 1980 by Misaki Sugiyama and is famous for making educational TV shows for little kids. Mouse Burglar Media was recently made for purpose, but later bought out by Miyuu Studios on April 1987.

1st Logo

(1985-)

Nicknames: "Little Mouser", "Now I'm Tryin' Hard to Look Super-Duper!"

Logo: On the dark blue background, a blue mouse wearing a black mask ran to the yellow "MBM" text and accidentally crashes onto it, making it split in three. "M" became "MOUSE", "B" became "BUGLAR" and "M" became "MEDIA" with the mousehole suddenly appearing on the top. The mouse then says "Bye!" and goes into the hole.

Variants:

On Kirby: The Starlight Adventures, There are Dragons in My Living Room! and All Knocked Out!, a baseball was thrown to block the hole. The mouse then becomes shocked and shouts "OH MY!!!".

On Miyuu, the mouse dances before going into the hole.

A rare variant with a green background and a red text exists.

There was a B&W variant. Also, the mouse says "Now I'm Tryin' Hard to Look Super-Duper!" (a reference to the uncensored music video for "Puttin' on the Ritz" by Taco).

On Noozles, Adventures of the Little Koala, Maya the Bee and The Littl' Bits, the same baseball hits the mouse's head and goes "Ow!".

On the rental DVDs, the mouse says "If you buy find rental DVDs, you can enjoy rental movies and shows! You can also gather money for the same benefit!" before going into the hole.

Trivia:

The "OH MY!!!" quote was later used by Kamek in the 1995 SNES video game Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

The Bandit with the same shocking expression as the mouse as the baseball hits his head was seen in the graphic ROM data viewing of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

The mouse used in the logo was called Little Mouser, who later appeared in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

This logo was accidentally used on the 2013 DVD of Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice. This was fixed on the 2014 re-release.

FX/SFX: Nice Japanese animation.

Music/Sounds: The dialogue of the mouse. Starting 1987, a remix of the Miyuu Studios logo's theme was added. Starting 2006, it's the sounds of the Yoshi's laughing (mostly after the IHI Productions logo) besides the dialogue of the mouse.

Availability: Properly uncommon. It was spotted on some Mouse Buglar shows at the time. The B&W variant was seen on the 2012 film Keep Moving!. The green background variant was spotted on the 2005 TV series I Lost My Mind!.

Scare Factor: None.