12 oz. Mouse

12 oz. Mouse

12 oz. Mouse is an American surreal humour and psychological thriller animated television series created by Matt Maiellaro for Adult Swim. The series revolves around Mouse Fitzgerald, nicknamed "Fitz" (voiced by Maiellaro), an alcoholic mouse who performs odd jobs so he can buy more beer. Together with his chinchilla companion Skillet, Fitz begins to recover suppressed memories that he once had a wife and a child who have now vanished. This leads him to seek answers about his past and the shadowy forces that seem to be manipulating his world. In producing the series, Maiellaro crudely designed the characters as a cost-cutting measure; the series is animated by Radical Axis. He intended for the series to lack continuity starting from the pilot, but established a serial format after starting the second episode. He had constructed an ending for the series as well as a detailed map of characters; however, the series finale concluded differently from planned. Maiellaro cast people around his office for the characters, starring himself as the protagonist and Nine Pound Hammer vocalist Scott Luallen as the voice of Roostre; the band also performs the opening theme. The pilot episode for 12 oz. Mouse, "Hired", premiered on June 19, 2005. The series became a regular staple of Adult Swim's lineup on October 23, 2005 and ended on December 17, 2006. Critical reception was mixed; some praised the series' experimental nature, while others felt confounded by it. On September 18, 2018, it was announced that the series would return for a half-hour special that would air on October 14, 2018. On October 14, 2018, it was announced that the series will return for a 10-episode third season which will air in 2020.

Director(s): Matt Maiellaro
Year:
2005
4,657 Views

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
I have these... [sees the Clock ticking backwards] crazy dreams.

Shark:
What are the dreams about?

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
They're about...the end... [sees the Clock moving] with fragments of the beginning...and there's meat.

Shark:
Am...am I in them?

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
They're crazy.

Shark:
Hmm, are they episodic, or is it just one long--

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
[serious] What's that supposed to mean, "Episodic"?

Shark:
Uh, are they segmented or--

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
[serious] Why the hell would you think they're segmented?

Shark:
I'm not saying they are. They're...they're your dreams.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
Yes. They are my dreams. They're mine...for my head.

Shark:
Well, then only you would know how to describe them.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
Well, that's what I'm trying to do, but it seems like you keep trying to do it for me.

Shark:
Do what?

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
Describe the dreams.

Shark:
Well... [moves close to Fitz] then describe them.

[Fitz sees the clock moving again after a long period of time]

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
Describe what?

Shark:
The dreams.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
What dreams?

Shark:
[sighs] The ones you're having or you're not having them now...suddenly.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
You trying to make me have them...for me?

Shark:
I'm just here to help you. If you don't want my help, I'll seek other advice.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
I think you should stop helping me.

Shark:
I'm never finished helping everybody. [moves closer to Fitz] I can't be finished.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
Seem like we walked for years right out of that city that was suddenly not on fire anymore from being on fire earlier. With flames.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
Few hours in, Joe got taken by a bird. Claws digging into his giant green head. Screamed the whole way up until they both disappeared.

Golden Joe:
[distant] Hey put my ass down you damn feathered bastard--

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
It was nuts.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
That night when we were bedding down, there was a sudden flash of light.

[Peanut Cop vanishes out of existence]

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
Peanut was gone. Turned around and he was just gone. Not even a burn mark. This is new angel. The hell is new angel anyhow.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
Skillet and I kept going. Maybe to get somewhere for some reason. My tongue was cotton, my teeth hadn't been anything but in my head the whole time.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
Then there was this desert. We came upon and I looked at Skillet and said, "Here is this desert".

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
In the desert, things can be tricky. Especially this desert.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
The nights are randomly short here. Kinda messes up your sleeping. But not so much your drinking.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
They built this house with their own spit. Spit in the sand, day and night. Till they had enough mud to make a house. That looks like this. It ain't much on the outside. But it's even more on the inside.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
That's why I've been drinking this medicine. To get drunk and hopefully stay that way for as long as I can.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald:
I'm into setting records. At least for now.

[Fitz starts to understand his purposes]

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald (normal version):
A part of me thinks I'm somewhere else, but the other knows better. I worked for Intel investigating a rogue foreign scientist who developed alter dimensionation in case of bit war. It enabled man to move into the future and withstand devastation, but my wife told me to quit. But it was too late. I-I think.

Buzby:
Yeah, it was, and that's way more than I know. And your wife, all a memory plant. Wife-es no existo. Fake-o in al brain-o.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald (normal version):
Alter dimensionation was destroyed, and the people left inside that world were stuck. It was privately funded.

Buzby:
Hmm. Dr. Sharkington, perhaps?

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald (normal version):
There was a rich guy who funded the project, a total square. And a total a-hole.

Buzby:
So, who got stuck there?

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald (normal version):
Everyone in my division.

Buzby:
Okay, now we're getting on to something.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald (normal version):
How do you know anything about this?

Buzby:
That's not important right now. What is important is that alter world is imploding and your friends need your help to get out. The world needs your help.

[dramatic music plays]

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald (normal version):
I-I don't want to go back.

Buzby:
Look, Mo, I got there through Sharks' pepperoni wave exchange. It's powerful, you have no idea. Shark wants to tap into your mind in order to gouge a path of freedom for his own freedom.

Buzby:
If Shark arrives here in the now, he will overtake what you know as Earth.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald (normal version):
Well, if that's true, then we don't even know how to get back there.

Buzby:
I got something. I have a -- I got a map somewhere, or a button, or a switch. Maybe like a key.

Mouse 'Fitz' Fitzgerald (normal version):
What about Clock?

[Buzby tackles Fitz]

Buzby:
NEVER MENTION HIM!

[suddenly the pepperoni starts to make a vibrating signal]

Shark:
And goodnight Mr. Mouse and your little Bee buddy. Shitty dreams.

Kiki:
[rapping] Are you ready, spaghetti? Fettuccine Alfredi. I don't think so.

Golden Joe:
[appears out of the smoke] Hold me back. Hold me back.

Kiki:
Golden Joe, y'all!

Golden Joe:
Here we go! Here we go! I'm gettin' ready to blow!

Kiki:
[rapping] Wicked bet [indistinct], beat. Ooohhhh, beat, b-beat, beat.

Golden Joe:
Yo, these hoochies, man, they wanna hear me sing!

Kiki:
[rapping] G is for Golden, J is for Joe.

Golden Joe:
Let me just touch the mic, man. Let me just touch it.

Kiki:
[singing] Touch the mic.

Golden Joe:
Let me just touch it like this.

Kiki:
[singing] Like this.

Golden Joe:
Let me just touch it like that.

Kiki:
[singing] Like that.

Golden Joe:
I just wanna breathe. [exhales rhythmically]

Kiki:
[rapping] Don't forget to breathe, breathe on it!

Golden Joe:
Watch out! Watch out! Here I come! Here I come!

Kiki:
GET READY!

Golden Joe:
I'm gettin' ready to blow this joint with this beat, man! [exhales rhythmically]

Kiki:
[singing] So cool!

Golden Joe:
[rapping] Beat monkey three horse, tearin' up the golf course, beat monkey tree horse...

Golden Joe & Kiki:
[unison] ...tearin' up the golf course!

Golden Joe:
Come on, Kiki.

Kiki:
What?

Golden Joe:
You know you ain't never been with a guy without a bachelor's degree.

Golden Joe:
[rapping] I'm the kinda man you dream about...

Kiki:
[singing] Okay.

Golden Joe:
[rapping] I'm to scared to call it shorty, you scream and shout, GIMME 40, YEAH!

[suddenly the police arrived]

Golden Joe:
Yo! Bring my beat back, man! I ain't going out like that!

[one of the police officers shoots the mic off of Golden Joe's hand, Golden raised his hands up immediately]

[while Golden Joe and Peanut Cop still trying to start their jet skis]

Golden Joe:
Yo, this ain't happenin', bruh!

Peanut Cop:
[sighs] Hang on.

Golden Joe:
This ain't happenin' 'cause it was never gonna happen! This ain't happenin' no matter what, man!

Peanut Cop:
Wait, wait, wait, wait. [laughing] Oh. Oh. Try the other foot. [laughs]

Golden Joe:
Man. Bruh!

Peanut Cop:
Can I try your foot?

Golden Joe:
I tried 5,000 times, Blue Blood! This sh* is certifiably busted! This sh*t is tore up, boy!

Peanut Cop:
[sighs] You're right. I knew it wouldn't work. [laughs]

Golden Joe:
You knew it wouldn't work? YOU KNEW IT WOULDN'T WORK?!

Peanut Cop:
[laughing] Stupid, stupid, stupid!

Golden Joe:
That's right, you're stupid.

Peanut Cop:
Shh, shh.

Golden Joe:
I told you, man! I should pop you in your dumb peanut-ass head.

Peanut Cop:
Calm down, man.

Golden Joe:
Bruh, what's wrong with you?

Peanut Cop:
Check it out. I sent them umbrella drinks.

[cuts to the next scene where the pineapples are still watching them as always]

Pineapple 1:
Look at these freaks. Heh. So dumb and stupid and more dumb. They're still trying to start those jet skis.

Pineapple 2:
Impossible. Jet skis are not permitted to be started in the building, yo. I know the rules.

[suddenly the pineapples got free drinks coming out of the floor[

Pineapple 1:
Hey! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Oh, whoa! Check this out! Drinks all around! It's happy day for us!

Pineapple 2:
Ah! Yes! Here's to happy for us! These are drinks that we so especially deserve in these days of so much to do! Cheers! Here's to happy day for us! I wonder why it's sizzling.

[the pineapples got exploded from the umbrella drinks]

Golden Joe:
BYE-YAH! That's what I'm talkin' about right there! B*tch!

[Roostre finally got out of the caves]

Roostre:
Hell yeah. Prime-time nursery rhyme, y'all.

[Kid shows up with bug kabob]

Roostre:
Whoa, now, partner! Let's not have thanksgiving all at once.

Kid:
Who are you?

Roostre:
Well, I'm the, uh-- Well, hang on. You can't be more than 10 years old. What are you doing out here all by your lonesome?

Kid:
I ask the questions. What are you doing in my camp?

Roostre:
Uh, come on, uh, dude -- Kid -- Uh, Kid dude...listen man. Uh, I've been through a lot of crap -- Giant spiders, tentacles, underwater fightin' and -- And all kinds of nonsense.

Kid:
Did you find an exit? Where did you come from?

Roostre:
Man, I came from, uh -- Hey, uh, you want to put down that weenie roaster? Listen. I ain't no threat.

Kid:
Weren't you with that squirrel?

Roostre:
You mean that chinchilla clip-art thing?

Kid:
You, uh, you might want to duck. [holds a monstrous gun blaster]

[as Roostre ducks, Kid shoots a swamp monster]

Roostre:
Okay. Uh, there we go. That was -- That was interesting. Um, are there any more of them things around, man? You just tell me to duck at any time and I'll do it, okay?

Roostre:
Hey. Look, Kid. Um, you look like you could use some candy. Uh, can I get you some candy or soda or somethin' to lick on?

Kid:
Shut...up. Sit down over there -- Away from me. Thank you.

Roostre:
Yeah, man. I-I'm sittin' down, bro. Listen. I-I'm cool. I'm cool. You can put that thing away now, man.

Kid:
Don't tell me what to do. I know what I'm doin'.

Roostre:
I'm just trying to help you here, man. I'm just throwing out some options. I love flexibility. You know, I knew a gymnast once that could ben into a pretzel. She was so flexible. Man, that was some kind of flexible fun.

Kid:
Here's on important question right now. Where did you get ze hook?

Roostre:
From the store?

Kid:
Uh, right. What store we talkin' about?

Roostre:
Um, you know, the Hook Store. is that -- Is that -- Is that a good answer?

Kid:
You're part of them, aren't you?

Roostre:
You know, the only thing I'm part of right now is I could use 20 hours' sleep.

Kid:
Then sleep. I'll keep us safe. But sleep lightly.

Roostre:
Now, by "us". you mean me and you or what?

Kid:
Shut up. You'll wake up ze tie bots.

Roostre:
Uh, okay, man. That's cool. I'm not talkin' no more.

Kid:
I love the nights. It never ends here.


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