I remember thinking G-Force was the greatest movie of all time because I had guinea pigs and my tiny brain thought “finally…. representation” 💀

The cursed knowledge that the rat from flushed away is allegedly based on Matty Healy haunts me every day

"the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodentphobic profession" I am moved by the poetry

🚨 IMPORTANT ADDITION: 🚨 the film Barnyard, released August 2006, gave us the appearance of Biggie Cheese, a.k.a. Mr. Bombastic, arguably one of the most iconic animated rats of all time 💅🐀

mike and rodent content just go together, like i'm sorry

I'm telling you, that g-force plot twist villain reveal had me so flabbergasted and impressed at 8 years old that I've been having random flashbacks to it throughout my entire adolescence. truly changed the course of cinematic history.

when he said 3/10 for chipmunks my face DROPPED lmao 😭 I love that movie a girl i was friends with would lie about shit and said she voiced brittany and we went to see the squeakuel in theaters so she said christina applegate was her stage name

“A decidedly rodent-phobic profession” is a quote that will haunt me for the rest of my life I think

The fact he didn’t include ratatoing just proves that the rodent cinamatic universe from 2006-2007 just extends further that minds can imagine

I will never be able to un-know that Matty Healy is inextricably tied to Flushed Away 😳

In 2005 there was also the guinea pig Magenta in the film Sky High. Truly it was an era of rodent shenanigans

Eugene Levi and Catherine O’Hara have actually acted together as an on screen couple for multiple occasions, and are often casted together because of their admiration for each other and wonderful hilarious chemistry! So their pairing isn’t as crazy or as much as a coincidence, more so they just love to work together :D

Mike so soon after lost? What did we do to deserve all this

As someone who works in animation, yes, studios will copy each other in content to hit a trend so its no coincidence when theres 5 studios making a similarly themed movie. Shoutout to the yeti trend of 2018

Over the hedge was banned in our house because it taught my sister the word fart and my parents were fuming because we were meant to call it passing wind 😭 Flushed away ignited my love for Bob Marley though

even though its not rodent-centric per se, i feel like Open Season (2006) deserved at least an honourable mention here

My passionate Ratatouille accent defense: 1) The rats speak rat, not French. Yes, within the canon of the world they understand French, but they themselves are not speaking French. Their accents do not need to be French, and in fact could be anything. No more needs to be said. 2) Linguini's mother is canonically American, so yes he's speaking French and so should probably have a French accent, but at least the story gave a *reason* for him to be American, which is more than a lot of stories can offer. 3) This movie is perfect, give it back it's 0.4

The GRIP the urge to rewatch any mike video over and over again until he posts a new one has on me is truly diabolical and I’m not mad about it. I may remain in this cycle forever.

I woke up at 4 am and watched this video in a half-conscious state before immediately passing out again. Surreal experience

I haven’t seen g-force in like 10 years but it never occurred to me that the mole was the mole. That, to me, is story writing genius bc I still never saw it coming.

My mom offhandedly mentioned recently that ratatouille is in her top 10 movies of all time and honestly she’s so real for that

mike is literally that girl like every video he drops is a banger and every opinion he holds is objectively true like i’m sorry

We need to talk about the cultural impact of flushed away in contributing to the popularity of the phrase "hes sexy in kind of a rat way" when referring to thimothee chalamet

The "drawing of squidward" that you mentioned at 12:18 is actually a reference to Kilroy! Around WWII people would draw a picture of Kilroy on walls and write "Kilroy was here." It could probably be known as one of the first memes of the modern era

If we are going to speak on the Animated Rodent Agenda, we must talk about how (in 2006 when Ice Age: The Meltdown came out) you could not escape Scrat from Ice Age. That squirrel was everywhere.

every time mike mentioned Bill Nighy i kept thinking Bill Nye and kept getting whiplash by the thought of Bill Nye in every single Bill Nighy role featured in this video

Comparing the G-Force CGI to Marvel is even funnier when you learn that Jon Favreau voices Hurley in the movie

i watched flushed away more than once as a kid and yet that whole synopsis was just one surprise after another for me. 100/10 video.

as someone with a non- animated rodent, this video means everything to me

The “squidward” drawing you saw in Flushed Away is actually a reference to a drawing that was popular during WWII where Americans would draw this little guy peeking over a wall with the phrase “Kilroy Was Here”. It became a very popular graffiti drawing and kind of became a meme in a sense during the 40’s lol but the more you know!

I also think its worth mentioning that Enchanted (released November 2007) also has an animated rodent in it! Although he is not the main focus this is highly notable!

The “squidward” drawing is actually a WWII era meme from Britain! The character is called Chad, normally painted alongside the phrase “Kilroy Was Here” which is believed to have come across from America. Nobody knows who came up with it but it was ubiquitous, and according to urban legend even showed up on captured american equipment and convinced the Nazis that Killroy was a code name for a high level spy.

I'm so obsessed with mikes mannerisms and the way he presents. honestly could watch him for hours

All my life my family has referred to me as a rat. So I am appreciative of this representation. This is my culture 🐀💪

This made me realise that Over the Hedge has basically the same scene as the absolute masterpiece that is Hoodwinked: in both movies a squirrel drinks something that makes them go super fast. How many squirrels on caffeine are there in the cinematic canon? It sure makes me wonder...

i was so terrified of flush away and it made me cry so hard that i had to leave the theatre only 20 minutes in. i’ve never watched it again.

Its breaking my brain that all of these movies came out around the same time. In my mind each of these live solidly in their own era.

this was prime time to be a weird little child. i enjoyed it. i would like to give an honorable rat mention to coraline even though it came out in 2009 it is very ratty at times

How you gonna leave out the masterpiece Ratatoing?? It came out in 2007!!

I'm so obsessed with the bit of looking back & forth in your room after asking a question

ive been falling asleep to the lost video all week and now i get fed again. thank you father

fun story: shortly after acquiring the ratatouille dvd, my sister had to go to hospital and i figured out from where to play the movies on the lil hospital tvs and made the entire paediatric ward watch ratatouille on repeat for 3 days before someone stopped me

G-Force scarred me as a child. I was so heartbroken by the mole's story that for at least a decade I became a radical ecology activist and it's a miracle I'm still out of prison

WHERE DID U GO HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LIVE IF MICHAELS NOT MICROPHONING

Bill Nighy was not the name I expected to hear most in a video about Hollywood's rodent obsession of the 2000s. His career from 2006 to 2010 was essentially Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter and some rodent based animated films, legend

Sorry but flushed away is so iconic, the rolling down the river scene alone kinda owned my childhood. They had toys of the toads and Le Frog at McDonalds and I did in fact own them.

in no world did i ever imagine over the hedge being rated higher than flushed away

Umm... where art thou Michael Microphone??

I was absolutely obsessed with Over the Hedge as a kid, so glad you're talking about this animated slayage

Honestly the tale of Despereaux deserves at least a shoutout, I remember watching it when I was younger and it's insane. Also giving g force such a low rating is criminal

I always wondered what RJ’s full name was. 😂 On the Over the Hedge DvD, there’s a special features vid where the squirrel is talking to his voice actor. So I think it’s like it was all a set. There was like an animated gag reel too.

I am obsessed with your reaction to 2006/2007 not being the year of the rat and the suspicious lack of animated rodent movies in 2008 😂😂😂

Mike is out here feeding us so often i feel like I'm at my grandmas house...

i feel like this video was indirectly triggered by the ratatouille costume losing the halloween competition. obsessed with the pipeline

Wasn’t the animal sidekick in Enchanted a chipmunk?! That would be another one! It goes all the way to the top!!

This one really hit I was straight up giggling, "would it have been that bad if it had been real?" About a guinea pig fake dying was a highlight

This is so crazy because I’ve been confounded by the animated rodent agenda circa 1990 (Fievel, Secret of NIMH, The Rescuers Down Under, The Great Mouse Detective…) Edit: this is also around the time that MAUS was the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer, which is even more rodent protagonists

"how many humans fit in there?" "usually, one" had a permanent impact on my psyche it literally goes through my head every single time i drive

Over the Hedge just brought back visceral memories of my high school health class in which my teacher only showed a random assortment of movies only vaguely related to topics we were supposed to study (over the hedge was nutrition) while the other health teacher showed her students how to put condoms on bananas and taught them about STIs.

I really like that the snooty rich rat that wants to get back to its family is the boy, while the streetwise thief rat helping them and in trouble with the sewer mafia is the girl.

Ratatouille was one of the first movies I ever watched in theaters, and the chase scene around the kitchen at the beginning of the movie scared me so much that I burst into tears and had to be escorted out (I was like 5), so my trauma surrounding rat-related, mid-2000s animated films obviously runs deep. This video is like exposure therapy to me.

Michael come back 🫠 we miss you

I’m just always blown away by how I can understand all the obscure references that he makes. It’s like we are the same person fr fr

I thought Mike WAS an adorable animated rat for at least my first six months as a loyal viewer. Was amazed by the continuity and attention to detail. Production values off the charts.

Honored and blessed to have a second video out so soon after the last banger. Just wanted to share that that's not Squidward on the cast - it's a "Kilroy Was Here", which was popular to draw on stuff during World War 2! Fun fact

The way my entire calendar hinges on the next GG episode...

About to put up missing persons posters for our boy michael, are you okay? I hope everything's alright and you're just too busy slaying

When he defined “phenomenon” was the best comedic use of reading the definition of a word I have ever seen. I choked laughing

Flushed Away is lowkey a cinematic masterpiece. I can't be the only person who thinks so right? RIGHT? sb: Mike you wear your beanie SO fcking perfectly, I'm actually gagging. ✨

I’m blown away. I talk about this all THE. TIME. Every time someone mentions childhood movies I go… do y’all even realize the amount of rat movies there have been. The Rats of NYHM was the best.

The way you talk just clicks in my brain it’s so nice

he knew… he knew we were deprived of mikes mic content… and gave us hours of content this week

12:21 i don’t think the drawing is squidward, i think it’s meant to be Kilroy was here. Kilroy/Chad was a british/american meme that was popular during wwii. rita’s dad is a veteran and we should thank him for his service

I only discovered your channel yesterday and am now convinced you provide the highest calibre comedy on this website

I got a pet rat because of this era. And I still have rat as pet to this day. So I love this era 🥺

Two Mike’s Mic videos back to back? We are truly being blessed 🙏🏻

anytime I say “they don’t make them like this anymore” I of course am referring to the great rodent boom of 2006-2007

flushed away is a british masterpiece it's actually mandatory to watch in all public schools

you are legit one of the few youtubers who make me genuinely laugh, thank you for the content babes x

Fantastic video but you forgot one VERY important factor in considering a movie’s ranking: how fun the movie’s video game was. I personally played the hell out of the Over the Hedge video game. Ratatouille’s game was great too

7:16 "Bruce Willis is a raccoon" Mike blessed us 2 uploads in 7 days and its also educational, pure art

Mike I appreciate you and you’re getting me through a tough time. Thanks buddy.

i love this video so so much, like i could not possibly tell you how many times i've watched it

I was literally just talking to my friend about how people our age are into rodents/marsupials. We all love to just look at a picture of a rat and be like “that’s me hehe”. Mike thank you for this, I feel like it could explain this phenomenon

the mole in gforce being their techno boytoy is such a funny and simultaneously unhinged implication

If the accent thing is the only thing holding back Ratatouille, you could have always watched it in the French dub

My favorite movie/show commentary channel. You are HILARIOUS and I LIVE for it

The fact that chipmunks have more impact on the music industry than the whole Billboard with just KZfaq covers !!! 🚔

Everything I’ve ever learned about Matty healey has been against my will

I think I was consistently laughing from start to finish. I grew up watching The Chipmunk Adventure and I fully agree the Chipettes are forever those girls. Absolutely lost my whole mind at their chussies out

had to watch and share this one again. you are so fun!

took me simply too long to realize it was Bill Nighy in these films and not Bill Nye, I'll see myself out

11 year old me was obsessed with g force i had all the toys. I also vividly remember my mom telling me after we saw it that she saw the mole plot twist the whole time, and that's when I knew my mom was a genius

How in the world are you this fun and entertaining? I am addicted.

mike your videos are so good and your ratings were definitely fault-proof and 100% correct. may I please suggest doing a video on the Australian show Dance Academy? it's so silly but for some reason it still holds up (at least for me!)

Your “im going through an animated rat phase” video was the first video I ever watch of yours so seeing this… ah memories 🥹♥️

You’re going to love Best in Show, another movie with Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy. Their comedic coupling is a tale for the AGES… they’ve been paired in lots of things together. Enjoy the rabbit hole bestie

Mike I FELT the dopamine hit when i saw you had uploaded this. Thank you once again for being more effective than modern medicine 🙏👢 💅✨

I didn’t realise how much I needed this video in my life. Thank you for making my day

Mike and rodents never go out of style