Whimsical Rodents

So we have this movie idea—

Rats

Talking rats

And singing—

Well, they could sing

They don’t have to sing

I’m thinking whimsical

Whimsical Rodents

You know—with top hats?

Little canes?

Some tap shoes?

They could tap!

People will love that

Kids love rats

You should see my son

When you put a rat near him

He goes crazy

Screaming
Crying
Begging me to take it--

He loves them!

Now imagine all those kids

And all those rats

It’ll be dynamite

And the rats can get in all kinds of trouble

You have no idea

How much trouble
Rats can get into

By the time my son’s third rat got pregnant

My life was—

Wow, it was bad

It was pretty bad

And trying to get them in the tap shoes—

Well, I wasn’t just going to suggest

That rats could wear tap shoes
Unless I made sure it was feasible

Some guys, you know

They come in here
They pitch a cartoon
They don’t even bother
Trying to figure out if it’s feasible

But I’m all about feasible

If it’s not feasible—

Especially rats

You can’t have unrealistic rats

Nobody will buy it

My son will walk right out of a movie theater

If he sees a rat being portrayed in a way that’s not—

Well, he'd probably walk out anyway
Because now he has this thing with rats

The doctors say we can't call it a phobia exactly
Because there's a physical component that's really--

So anyway

I try putting these rats

In tap shoes

And let me tell you something

They love it

They--love--it

They can’t get enough

So now we know that’s doable

It’s feasible

And you know what else it is?

It’s whimsical

That’s where I got all this from--

Whimsical Rodents

It’s a knockout, right?

I mean, come on--

Dynamite, right?

Absolute dynamite