Gary the Rat
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Gary the Rat is an American
United States
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 television program
Television program
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 adult-oriented animated series animated by Spike Animation Studios, produced by Grammnet Productions
Grammnet Productions
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 and distributed by Cheyenne Enterprises
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 that was originally broadcast on Spike in 2003. The program lasted one season before cancellation. It started out as a series of online flash cartoons.

The series was created by now re-structured studio BLITZ, formerly known as eStudio.

The complete series has not come to DVD. However, all episodes are available on the iTunes Music Store and the Zune Marketplace.

Premise

Gary "The Rat" Andrews (voiced by Kelsey Grammer
Kelsey Grammer
Allen Kelsey Grammer is an American actor and comedian. He is most widely known for his two-decade portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the sitcoms Cheers and Frasier...

) is a defense attorney who awakens one morning to find that he has somehow transformed
The Metamorphosis
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 into a giant bipedal rat
Rat
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of which to humans are the black rat, Rattus rattus, and the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus...

. Gary struggles to deal with his transformation and hold on to his high status.

List of Main Characters

  • Gary Andrews: A successful attorney who wakes up one day to discover that he has transformed into an anthropomorphic rat. He develops a love for cheese, playing with pet toys, and rolling around in garbage as a result, but he maintains his human lack of patience for the people around him. Running gags involve him dreaming about dying in violent ways and frank phone calls with his mother. He lives in the high-rise apartment building "The Montana" and practices law at Harrison, Camille, Beckett, & Weiss.
  • Johnny Bugz: An ineffective exterminator who will stop at nothing to kill Gary. He frequently either falls victim to his own traps or ends up harming/killing someone else.
  • Boots: Johnny's cat and best friend. He only ever meows, but he is frequently seen standing on his hind legs like a human.
  • Mr. Harrison: Gary's boss at Harrison, Camille, Beckett, & Weiss. He threatens to fire Gary several times, but never actually does so.
  • Truman Pinksdale: The head of the "The Montana"'s building association who despises having to live with Gary as a neighbor; he has Johnny under his employ.
  • Bud: A delivery boy who brings Gary cheeses from Ye Olde Cheese Shoppe; Gary often offers him money (usually $5) to basically kill himself.

List of episodes


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