Despite being one of the world ’s most recognizable and beloved characters , it has n’t always been fluent sailing forMickey Mouse , who was " wear " on November 18 , 1928 . A routine of land — and even U.S. State Department — have banned the cartoon rodent at one meter or another for reasonableness both big and small .
1.The Shindigscandal
In 1930 , Ohiobanneda sketch calledThe Shindigbecause Clarabelle Cow was demonstrate readingThree Weeksby Elinor Glyn , the chancellor romance novelist of the time . Check it out ( at the 1:05 mark above ) and permit us know if you ’re appal .
2. Romania’s rodent nightmare
With movies on 10 - foot screen door being a relatively new thing in Romania in 1935 , the government decided tobanMickey Mouse , occupy that children would be terrified of a flagitious rodent .
3.The Barnyard Battlebattle of 1929
In 1929 , a German censorbanneda Mickey Mouse short call “ The Barnyard Battle . ” The ground ? An US Army of cats wearingpickelhauben , the pointed helmet wear out by German armed forces in the 19th and twentieth centuries : " The wearing of German military helmets by an United States Army of cats which defend a militia of mice is vile to national dignity . Permission to exhibit this output in Germany is refused . ”
4. The “miserable ideal” ordeal
The German disfavor for Mickey Mouse continued into the mid-1930s , with one German newsprint marvel why such a minuscule and dirty fauna would be idolise by children across the universe : " Mickey Mouse is the most misfortunate paragon ever discover … goodly emotion tell every autonomous young humanity and every honorable young that the dirty and foulness - covered vermin , the greatest bacterium carrier in the creature kingdom , can not be the ideal type of beast . ” Mickey was originallybannedfrom Nazi Germany , but eventually the mouse ’s popularity win out .
5. Disney’s “demoralizing” cast of characters
In 2014 , Iran ’s Organization for Supporting Manufacturers and Consumers announced a forbiddance onschool suppliesand stationery mathematical product featuring “ demoralizing figure of speech , ” including that of Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse , Winnie the Pooh , Sleeping Beauty , and characters fromToy Story .
6. Germany’s “Anti-Red” rodent ban
In 1954 , East Germanybanned Mickey Mousecomics , claiming that Mickey was an “ anti - Red maverick . ”
7. Disney vs. the Boy King of Yugoslavia
In 1937 , a Mickey Mouse risky venture was so like to real events in Yugoslavia thatthecomic stripwas cast out . commonwealth police say the risible strip picture a “ Puritan - like uprising ” that was a peril to the “ Boy King , ” Peter II of Yugoslavia , who was just 14 at the time . A journalist who publish about the ban was consequently escorted out of the rural area .
8. The miraculous Mussolini escape
Though Mussolini ban many cartoons and American influence from Italy in 1938 , Mickey Mouse fly under the radiolocation . It ’s been say that Mussolini ’s tike were such Mickey Mouse fans that they were able to convince him tokeep therodentaround .
9. Not going for “I’m going to Disneyland”
Mick and his friends were banned from the1988 Seoul Olympicsin a roundabout way . As they do with many major sporting events , including the Super Bowl , Disney had contacted American front-runner to deliver the goods in each event to ask them to say the notable “ I ’m going to Disneyland ! ” line of products if they advance . When American swimmer Matt Biondi won the 100 - meter freestyle , he dutifully complied with the request . After a complaint from the East Germans , the tape was pull up and contribute to the International Olympic Committee .
10. The great Seattle liquor store war
In 1993 , Mickey was ban from a place he should n’t have been in the first place : Seattle liquor stores . As a wonderful possibility condemnation from the Associated Pressexplained , " Mickey Mouse , the Easter Bunny and teddy bears have no commercial enterprise selling booze , the Washington State Liquor Control Board has decide . " A handful of stores had painted Mickey and other persona as part of a packaging . A Disney VP said Mickey was " a abstinent . "
11. An udder humiliation
permit ’s terminate with another strike againstThe Shindig(see # 1 ) and Clarabelle ’s bulging udder . Less than a twelvemonth afterThe Shindigban , the Motion Picture Producers and Directors of America foretell that they had receive a massive number ofcomplaintsabout the engorged cow bag in various Mickey Mouse cartoons .
From then on , according to a 1931 article inTimemagazine , “ Cows in Mickey Mouse … image in the hereafter will have small or invisible udders quite unlike the gargantuan electric organ whose prank of previous have shocked some and thresh others . In a late picture the bag , besides wing violently to left and veracious or stretching far out behind when the moo-cow was in motion , heaved with its panting with the cow stood still . ”
