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I might be a rat but I’m not one of the dirty guys.  Romanzo Criminale s2e9 starring Francesco Montanari & Vinicio Marchioni & Alessandro Roja & Marco Bocci & Daniela Virgilio & Andrea Sartoretti et al, Rat’s confession, Sky Cinema 1 2012

 

 

No wonder the papers are calling this the Year of the Rat.  The Sopranos s6e1: Members Only, Tony, HBO 2006

 

 

If you’re a rat then I’m the biggest fucking mutt in the history of the Mafia.  Donnie Brasco 1997 starring Al Pacino & Johnny Depp & Michael Madsen & Bruno Kirby & Anne Heche & James Russo & Zeliko Ivanek & Gerry Becker & Andrew Parks & Robert Miano et al, director Mike Newell, Lefty

 

 

This dirty fucking rat is still lurking somewhere among us.  RocknRolla 2008 starring Gerard Butler & Tom Wilkinson & Mark Strong & Toby Kebbell & Tom Hardy & Idris Elba & Karel Roden & Thankdie Newton & Dragan Micanovic & David Bark-Jones et al, director Guy Ritchie, commentary

 

 

[rozzer slugs gangsta] Come on, you rat.  Scarface 1932 aka The Shame of the Nation starring Paul Muni & George Raft & Ann Dvorak & Karen Morley & Osgood Perkins & C Henry Gordon & Vince Barnett & Boris Karloff & Purnell Pratt & Tully Marshall et al, director Howard Hughes

 

 

Those rats.  I Died a Thousand Times 1955 starring Jack Palance & Shelley Winters & Lori Nelson & Lee Marvin & Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez & Lon Chaney junior & Earl Holliman & Perry Lopez & Dennis Hopper et al, director Stuart Heisler, Palance

 

 

Naked mole rats: the colony is perpetually tunnelling.  David Attenborough, The Trials of Life IX: Friends and Rivals, BBC 1990

 

 

The elephant and the mole rat are curious creatures: they are both extremely wrinkled.  Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities: Young Wrinklies, Eden 2013

 

The naked mole rat … amazingly long-lived.  ibid.

 

The colony would not survive if all its members didn’t work together.  ibid.

 

Naked mole rats never see the light of day.  ibid.

 

 

One of the most widespread and adaptable mammals on the planet, the brown rat.  David Attenborough, The Life of Mammals VI: Opportunists, BBC 2002

 

 

Georgetown: We’ve got rats in the attic.  The Exorcist 1973 starring Ellen Burstyn & Max von Sydow & Jason Miller & Linda Blair & Lee J Cobb & Mercedes McCambridge & Kitty Winn & Jack MacGowran & Father William O'Malley & Robert Symonds & Barton Heyman & Arthur Storch & Titos Vandis & Eileen Dietz et al, director William Friedkin   

 

 

Even if you win the rat race you are still a rat.  Lilly Tomlin

 

 

Rats!

They fought the dogs and killed the cats,

And bit the babies in the cradles,

And ate the cheeses out of the vats,

And licked the soup from the cooks’ own ladles,

Split open the kegs of salted sprats,

Made nests inside men’s Sunday hats,

And even spoiled the women’s chats

By drowning their speaking

With shrieking and squeaking

In fifty different sharps and flats.  Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin st2

 

 

How now! a rat?  Dead, for a ducat, dead!  William Shakespeare, Hamlet III i

 

 

That dirty, double-crossing rat.  James Cagney, Blonde Crazy 1931 starring James Cagney & Joan Blondell & Louis Calhern & Noel Francis & Ray Milland & Guy Kibbee & Polly Walters & William Burress & Maude Eburne & Nat Pendleton et al, director Roy Del Ruth

 

 

Despite all my rage

I am still just a rat in the cage.  Smashing Pumpkins, Bullet With Butterfly Wings

 

 

But there was more to it than that.  As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats.  And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.  Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents  

 

 

Caleb: What was the real test?

 

Nathan: You.  Ava was a rat a maze.  And I gave her one way out.  Ex Machina 2015 starring Domhnall Gleeson & Oscar Isaac & Alicia Vikander & Sonoya Mizuno & Symara A Templeman & Elina Alminas & Gana Bayarsaikhan & Tiffany Pisani & Clarie Selby & Corey Johnson et al, director Alex Garland

 

 

He’s [Mickey] a fucking rat.  Always has been.  Ray Donovan s5e12: Time Takes a Cigarette, Ray to Daryl, Showtime 2017  

 

 

As recently as 2019 exterminators were called in because rats were seen tearing through the royal kitchens [Buckingham Palace].  Kate Williams, Secrets of the Royal Palaces s1e1, Channel 5 2021

    

 

It’s my hamster.  Fawlty Towers: Basil the Rat s2e6, Manuel to Basil, BBC 1979

 

Oh I see he’s a homing rat, is he?  ibid.  Basil  

 

He put Basil in the ratatouille?  ibid.  Manuel to Polly, with Sybil & Health Inspector

 

Would you care for a rat?  Just the biscuits then please, Polly.  ibid.  Basil      

 

 

An estimated two million rodents call the Big Apple home.  New York: World’s Richest City s1e2, Channel 5 2022

 

 

Before we start I want you to know something: I’m not a rat.  You understand?  I want that on record before we start.  Black Mass 2015 starring Johnny Depp & Joel Edgerton & Benedict Cumberbatch & Rory Cochran & Kevin Bacon & Jesse Plemons & Peter Sarsgaard & Dakota Johnson & Corey Stoll et al, director Scott Cooper, opening scene

 

 

1941: British special ops come with something we can only call unusual: they procure rats … as weapons of mass destruction.  The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd s1e4: Weird Weapons, History 2024