Gary the Rat

Gary the Rat
Format	Animated
Starring	Kelsey Grammer Billy Gardell Spencer Garrett Rob Paulsen Rick Gomez Vance DeGeneres Susan Savage Robb Cullen
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producer(s)	Mark Cullen Robb Cullen Kelsey Grammer Arnold Rifkin
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Spike
Original run	02012-06-26 June 26 – December 11, 2003 (2003-12-11)

Gary the Rat is an American television program adult-oriented animated series animated by Spike Animation Studios, produced by Grammnet Productions and distributed by Cheyenne Enterprises 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) is a defense attorney who awakens one morning to find that he has somehow transformed into a giant bipedal rat. 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

Episode #	Title
1	"Manratten"
Gary Andrews, a successful Wall Street attorney, wakes up one morning to discover that he has turned into a 6 ft. rat. He must now learn to live his life as a giant rat in a modern world.
2	"Inherit the Cheese"
Gary is given the biggest case of his career defending the Southern Tobacco Company against the State of New York. He wins by using the argument that the tobacco company shouldn't be persecuted just because it is different.
3	"Spring of Love"
Gary has to find a date for the Spring Ball. He tries various methods without any luck, until he finally finds the right woman - who dumps him at the ball for not being Jewish.
4	"Rat Day Afternoon"
Gary is forced to mentor Mr. Harrison's son, Scott, a tattooed and pierced slacker who works in the company mailroom. Scott decides to holdup a bank in order to get his father's approval over being gay and drags Gary along with him.
5	"Mergers and Acquisitions"
Terry McMillian, a con artist and suck up, joins the firm as their newest mergers and acquisitions lawyer and promptly gets Gary fired. Gary gets his revenge by taking advantage of Terry's past as a sexual deviant and sets him up for a big fall.
6	"Old Flame"
Gary's ex-girlfriend returns as the opposing counsel on a big case and tries to seduce him in order to get Gary to settle. Gary eventually realizes what she is up to and proceeds to win the case.
7	"The Reunion"
Gary is forced to attend his high school reunion and must deal with seeing his arch rival again.
8	"Sleeps with the Fishes"
Mr. Harrison coerces Gary to represent Anthony "the Heel" Stilletto, the head of one of the major NY crime families. Mr. Stilletto later forces Gary to marry Angel, the hideously ugly daughter of his godfather, but luckily for Gary Mr. Stilletto's Godfather kills Angel during the ceremony with a statue of Poseidon, the Greek God of the Sea.
9	"Strange Bedfellows"
Gary decides to run against Truman Pinksdale in the presidential election for their building association. Gary pulls out all the stops - bribery, sexual favors, digging up dirt on his opponent, etc. - but ultimately loses the election due to the fact that he is a 6 ft. rat.
10	"This is Not a Pipe"
In a sendup of Philadelphia, Gary defends a lawyer who's fired for having a disease. In this case it's leprosy, and Gary must balance his inherent lack of compassion for the weak with the desire to win his client's case.
11	"Catch Me if You Can"
Gary's long-lost cousin Jerry Andrews pays him a visit and turns out to be the ultimate con artist. Gary must deal with the wake of Jerry's crimes, including two bumbling FBI agents hot on his trail.
12	"Divorce"
When Harrison's wife decides to leave him, Gary agrees to represent her in court, much to his boss' chagrin.
13	"A Good Execution is..."
Johnny Bugz botches another murder attempt on Gary, killing innocent people instead. Oblivious to the fact that he was the target, Gary reluctantly agrees to take Johnny's case pro bono and defend him on the murder charges.

External links

• Gary the Rat at the Internet Movie Database
• Gary the Rat at TV.com