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''This article is about the animal.'' ''For the the [[Heavy Metal|heavy metal]] band, see [[Ratt]].''

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''"The boy gets financial advice from the rat king."''

Whether alive or dead, rats are disgusting, unsanitary creatures who spread plague and give financial advice.

== Appearances ==

* Email [[anything]] (DVD Commentary) — Strong Bad claims his keyboard is so disgusting, one time a rat fell out of it.
* Email [[video games]] — The box art for [[Thy Dungeonman]] has a rat featured on it.
* [[Thy Dungeonman II]] — [[Thy Dungeonman (character)|Thy Dungeonman]] meets a plague rat named Percy.
* [[That Time of Year|That Time Of Year]] — [[Strong Bad]] [[Books Defaced By Strong Bad|defaces]] a book so that the boy gets financial advice from the Rat King.
* [[A Folky Tale]] — [[Saddy Dumpington]] tries to spread cheer by telling the mayor that gross [[Bugs|bugs]] and rats sleep in their beds.
* [[Fall Float Parade]] — While buried in a pile of sweatshirts, [[Homestar Runner]] complains that a rat has bit his knee.
* [[Decemberween Short Shorts]] — [[The Homestar Runner]] builds a rat [[Pile|pile]] because [[Decemberween]] is the most sanitary time of year.
* Email [[your edge]] — One of the things mentioned on the cover of "Have Edge [[Times]] Magazine" is "A Dead Rat".
* [[Homestar Ruiner]] —
** Strong Bad refuses to eat [[Organic|organic]] [[Chocolate|chocolate]]-covered packing peanuts. He believes he can find a better use for them poisoning rats.
** After viewing Homestar's "comic", Strong Bad describes it as something a blind cat might've [[Puking|thrown up]] after eating a blind rat.
** [[Homestar Ruiner Teen Girl Squad]] — If Strong Bad uses the [[Brainkrieg]] ringtone on any girl, a rat will follow her. If he follows the ringtone with a text message, the girl will be savaged by rats, who apparently like metal.
* [[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]] — One of [[The Informant|the informants]] [[Dangeresque (character)|Dangeresque]] encounters during the game is named Stoolie Rat Weasel.
* [[8-Bit is Enough]] — After being rescued by [[Rather Dashing]], [[Strong Sad]] says they can join forces and kill orcs and rats.
* [[Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold]] — Confused at the inclusion of [[The Sneak]] in the story, Strong Bad remarks that he doesn't know how that [[Old-Timey]] rat thing will cripple anybody.
* [[Final Hours Playthrough]] — After mentioning that Peasants Go West is his favorite [[Don Bluth]] joke, Strong Bad also mentions [[The Rats of NIMH]].
* [[Halloween Hide and Seek]] — [[Bubs]] admits to have been operating a rat casino under the [[King of Town]]'s [[The King of Town's Castle|castle]] for years.
* [[Disk 4 of 12 - Vampire's Castle]] — Strong Bad encounters a rat in the torture chamber while playing the text adventure Vampire's Castle. He jokes that the band [[Ratt]] is in the torture chamber instead. Attempts to kill the rat fail, leading him to believe that the rat is [[Axes|axe]]-proof.
* [[2022 Costume Pack Now Available]] — Referencing Vampire's Castle, the torture chamber set reappears with both the rat and Stephen Pearcy of Ratt.

=== General rodent references ===

* Email [[website]] — One of the GIFs used on [[Strong Bad's Website]] is a rodent with an envelope in its mouth.
* [[That Time of Year|That Time Of Year]] — One of the pages shows a girl named Greta and a large mouse. Strong Bad defaces the page so that Greta is feeding the mouse bug spray.
* [[Ballad of The Sneak]] — The Sneak is described as having a "rodent-like physique".
* Email [[isp]] — Strong Bad gets outraged that his download of a GIF featuring a break dancing rodent is taking too long.

== See Also ==

* [[Squirrels]]
[[Category:Animals]]

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