
Your Friend the Rat
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- 2007
- 11 min
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(0.00 / 0 votes)Hello, I'm Remy,
and this is my brother, Emile.
-Hi.
-We're here to speak out on behalf
-of oppressed rats everywhere.
-Oh, man.
Rats who don't have the access
to media that our movie affords us.
-We're speaking out?
-Yes, we have to.
We rats need to take a stand.
You said we'd sing something.
You know, joke around.
You did not say
we were gonna take a stand.
This is important. Humans need
to know. Humans need to...
Feed us. That's what you need to do.
Leave some garbage out
and we won't bother you.
Just leave the lid
on top of the can loose...
REMY:
All right, all right, moving on.This is a man.
Hello.
A dog, man's best friend,
looks up to man.
A cat looks down on man.
We rats see ourselves as equal to man,
but you humans don't seem
to see it that way.
So it's been war, a war without end!
(SCREAMS)
REMY:
But this hasnot always been true.
EMILE:
When has it not?REMY:
In India, the ratis the chosen mode of conveyance
for the Hindu god, Ganesh,
and thus, sacred.
During the Roman Empire,
it was said to be good luck
to have a white rat cross your path.
Not so good if a black rat crossed it.
Rattus rattus, the black rat,
arrived in the West first,
hitching a ride
with the returning Crusaders.
In Europe, finding plenty of filth, grain,
filth, and...
EMILE:
Don't forget filth.REMY:
And more filth to eat,the black rat quickly prospered.
Wait, wait, this is all wrong.
This isn't how we rehearsed it.
DIRECTOR:
What, what's the problem?REMY:
It doesn't go from ratsand darkness to rats and death skulls.
DIRECTOR:
Well, my script says ratsand death skulls.
REMY:
You forgot the flea!Rats didn't cause the plague,
the flea caused the plague.
-The flea is the whole point!
-DIRECTOR:
Just give him the flea.-I'm in need of your assis...
-REMY:
No, not that one.REMY:
There it is.EMILE:
Oh, that's disgus...REMY:
Xenopsylla cheopis, the rat flea.See, this guy here gave the plague
to this guy here, a rat,
killing the rat.
Once the flea senses the cold,
dead rat,
it prefers to find a warm, live rat.
But, if a human happens
to come along, well...
From 1347 to 1352, the plague,
or Black Death, killed a third
of the population
of 14th century Europe,
and just as many, if not more, rats.
EMILE:
So, so whatstopped the plague?
REMY:
No one really knows.Maybe soap, closed sewers,
a change in temperature.
Or some believe, this guy,
rattus norvegicus,
the brown rat,
better known as the Norway rat.
(SPEAKING IN NORWEGIAN)
EMILE:
That's us, right?REMY:
Right.The Norway rat came from China,
and according to mythology,
brought the gift of rice to man.
EMILE:
Wait, wait.The Norway rat came from China?
REMY:
Yes, the rat evenholds the place of honor
as the first year of the Chinese zodiac,
a symbol of good luck, wealth,
intelligence, charm, charisma,
ambition, adaptability, versatility...
Shall I go on?
EMILE:
You're not making any sense.We came from China,
-but we're called Norway rats?
-REMY:
I'm getting to that.British naturalist, John Berkenhour,
named us Norway rats,
believing we had come to England
on a Norwegian boat.
The silly thing is, the brown rat
didn't live in Norway at the time,
more than likely, we came from
Denmark, but the name just stuck.
EMILE:
Wait,now we're from Denmark?
REMY:
Let it go.Kicked out of Europe
by his brawnier cousin,
the black rat joined explorers
and colonists seeking opportunity,
and some elbow room,
across the globe.
It wasn't until 1775 that the first
Norway rats arrived in America,
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