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

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 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

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

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

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

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 😳

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 😂😂😂

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

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

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

Umm... where art thou Michael Microphone??

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.

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. ✨

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

Michael come back 🫠 we miss you

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

"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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Mike and rodents never go out of style

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

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

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

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

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

wholeHEARTEDLY agree with your ratings of each and every one, you are so valid for this, also I now NEED to see someone edit the chipmunks with the actual actors faces or like the three actors with the colored sweatshirts on because HOLY SHIT how did I never know that was the voice cast?!?!?

This is the vital commentary I've been waiting for

Flushed away deserves better!!! It was literally hilarious and that little rat city was just so cute! The only reason I can take points away from it is cuz the line "🎶That's not rice, that's maggots you're eatinggg🎶" horrified me when I was a kid and I swear I refused to eat rice for like two years after that

Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara play married couples ALL the time actually! They’re married in Best in Show too, which is a movie that NEEDS to be covered in a mikes mic episode one day. It would be of epic proportions

the quality of your content is outstanding and so pleasing, i love all your videos aaaaahhh

I am in love w this channel

watching this video is making me realise that over the hedge and flushed away were not, in fact, a personal childhood fever dream, and I'm not sure how to feel about that