Eek! A Mouse!: Difference between revisions

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[[File:347242146 6838.png|frame|[[Furry Confusion|Something's wrong here.]]]]

 

{{quote|''"Mice to me mean the little white furry things with the cheese fixation and women standing screaming on tables in early Sixties sitcoms..."''|'''Arthur Dent''', ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''}}

A staple of early domestic comedies in both film and television. The mere sight of a mouse (or sometimes another animal who is the subject of [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|a common phobia]]) will drive a housewife up onto a chair or a table, where she stands shrieking, stomping her feet, and clutching the hem of her skirt until the rodent is captured or driven away. This is largely a [[Dead Horse Trope]] today, rooted in a very specific and [[Double Standard|sexist image]] of women [[Values Dissonance|dating back to the early part of the 20th Century]], but it is still visible in old [[Looney Tunes]] cartoons and in the odd [[Screams Like a Little Girl|ironic reference]].

 

 

See also [[Cower Power]] and [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]].

 

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