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The cartoon mouse's refuge: a neat arch-shaped hole cut into a wall at the floor, sometimes with a door.
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== [[Film]] ==
* A rare live-action example, though more realistic looking, can be found in the movie ''[[Mousehunt (
* It also appears in ''[[Willard]]'', created by the giant rat Ben chewing through the wall.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* While they're not mice, the Minish in ''[[The Legend of Zelda Minish Cap]]'' have several small holes that look like this. They do, indeed, lead to the Minish's Mouse World.
* In ''[[
* One of the first puzzles of ''[[Sam and Max Hit The Road]]'' requires you to grab a stash of cash from one of these.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[
* Early ''[[Mickey Mouse]]'' cartoons didn't show his house, but early comic strips and children's books did. It had a round, obviously mousehole-like front entrance despite Mickey's large, non-mouselike size.
** In 1931, Mickey's house began to be shown in the cartoons and had a normal front door there, after which the ancillary material was retconned to match.
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* Likewise the [[Looney Tunes]] cartoons featuring Speedy Gonzales and, before that, Babbit and Ratstello.
** Sniffles lived in a mouse hole in some shorts as well, even earlier.
* Mostly averted in [[Walt Disney]]'s ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'', but there is one.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* Invoked in [[Tex Avery]]'s ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOH7ZCyonBg King-Size Canary]'', when the [[Attack of the 50
* You might notice the classic arch-shaped mouse holes in the floor boards in the background on ''[[The Simpsons]]''.
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Latest revision as of 06:10, 11 February 2017
![](http://static.miraheze.org/allthetropeswiki/a/a3/Mousehole2.png)
The cartoon mouse's refuge: a neat arch-shaped hole cut into a wall at the floor, sometimes with a door.
If you have one of these in your house, expect your perfectly triangular cheese wedges to go missing soon.
Often the gate to Mouse World.
Examples of Mouse Hole include:
Film
- A rare live-action example, though more realistic looking, can be found in the movie Mouse Hunt.
- It also appears in Willard, created by the giant rat Ben chewing through the wall.
Literature
- Again, not mice, but The Littles use this trope.
Live-Action TV
- Episode 20 of Monty Python's Flying Circus has a ratcatcher looking for rat holes in a house. The first one he finds is a Mouse Hole, complete with fake mice on a string.
- There is a mouse hole in Mr. Bean's apartment. In the Christmas Episode, he puts a mousetrap in front with a present on it.
Newspaper Comics
- A trademark schtick of Garfield strips. Sometimes this even extends to windows with pots of flowers under them, mailboxes, welcome mats, etc.
- Ziggy
Video Games
- While they're not mice, the Minish in The Legend of Zelda Minish Cap have several small holes that look like this. They do, indeed, lead to the Minish's Mouse World.
- In Luigis Mansion, these are all over the place. Some release golden mice, worth major dollars. Luigi can enter most or all with a special device, usually yielding more treasure. Or ghosts. Often both.
- One of the first puzzles of Sam and Max Hit The Road requires you to grab a stash of cash from one of these.
Western Animation
- Tom and Jerry, as in the picture above.
- Early Mickey Mouse cartoons didn't show his house, but early comic strips and children's books did. It had a round, obviously mousehole-like front entrance despite Mickey's large, non-mouselike size.
- In 1931, Mickey's house began to be shown in the cartoons and had a normal front door there, after which the ancillary material was retconned to match.
- The "Pixie & Dixie and Mr. Jinks" shorts on The Huckleberry Hound Show
- Likewise the Looney Tunes cartoons featuring Speedy Gonzales and, before that, Babbit and Ratstello.
- Sniffles lived in a mouse hole in some shorts as well, even earlier.
- Mostly averted in Walt Disney's Cinderella, but there is one.
- My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic: Fluttershy may have purposefully installed a mouse hole in her house to shelter mice.
- Invoked in Tex Avery's King-Size Canary, when the jumbo-sized cat and mouse do this with a train tunnel (@ 7:02).
- You might notice the classic arch-shaped mouse holes in the floor boards in the background on The Simpsons.