Your Friend the Rat Page #2

Synopsis: A forthright Remy and his reluctant brother Emile speak out for oppressed rats everywhere. Remy rolls film explaining that rats see themselves as on a par with men, who, instead, make war on rats. Remy gives a history lesson: heroism in India, black rat migration from the Middle East to Europe during the Crusades, the Black Death of 1347 to 1352, and Remy's contention that the flea was the villain. Enter the brown or Norway rat - from China. Both travel on ships around the world, with the larger brown pushing out the smaller black, and both live symbiotically with man. Then, Emile explains what's cool about rats. Trade phobia, Remy tells humans, for utopia. Any chance of that?
Director(s): Jim Capobianco
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IMDB:
7.1
G
Year:
2007
11 min
1,540 Views


-Why are they called fancy rats?

-REMY:
Keep going.

Okay. Jack Black, royal rat catcher

to Queen Victoria,

liked to keep

some of the rats he caught as pets.

These he would give

to the fancy people of the day.

Oh, yeah, that's right. I remember now.

Many, many rats

have dedicated their lives

investigating humanity's

most dreaded diseases.

How is this possible?

Well, we share a similar biology.

We grow old the same way.

Treatments can be tested

in a rat's lifespan of a year or two

that would take 70 years in a human.

Rats have even been to space,

teaching people about how

the body adapts to weightlessness.

So, as you can see,

we've been together

since the dawn of time,

and we'll be together far into the future.

Key of G, fellas, and swing it.

(MUSIC PLAYING)

We'll follow you to Mars

Or wherever you people go

We rats are right there down below

We've traveled near and far

With swamis, geishas, thugs and czars

In planes, and boats, and submarines

We've sailed from Liverpool to Queens

We're even in Qatar

Or wherever you people go

We all adore Franois Truffaut

Abandon musophobia

And embrace a new utopia

Butterflies and puppy dogs

Summer evenings, crispy frogs

Imagine if you will a world

Where women, rats

And men, and children

Live in peace and harmony

We're even holding hands

We're dancing through the streets

and singing cabaret songs

Oh-la-la-la, join with us

We'll make a human ratty wonderland

We'll help you tie your shoes

When you don't feel like bending over

And perhaps you'll take that trap

From out behind the pantry door

We'll say "Bonjour,"

and "How's the family?"

When we pass each other on the street

And just like that

We won't be strangers anymore

So here we go to Mars

With our stories intertwined

And although once you tried to kill us

Now we know that you won't mind

We'll journey through the stars

And whatever else may be

-We all hate that lousy flea

-That lousy flea

So, what do you say?

Can we make peace, and...

MAN:
The views expressed

are not necessarily the views

of Pixar Animation Studios

or the Walt Disney Company.

REMY:
Oh, no. Oh, this isn't over yet.

Oh, no, no.

Emile, how many times did I say they

were gonna slap something on the end.

What, and now they're doing it.

Now, look at this.

-Uh-huh. Yeah.

-It's like it's in their DNA to...

(MAN CONTINUES READING)

(GRUNTING)

-Whoa.

-I, I, I'm a...

I'm surprised, I'm surprised.

Guys, you know, it's typical.

Business as usual. You know what,

our voice will not be denied.

You've had your say.

Can we please get something to eat?

...be caused by your silly insistence

on rat interaction.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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