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[[File:FoamyOnBlack.jpg|link=Neurotically Yours|frame| "Behold your lord and master... me!"]]
 
One mild but demonstrative beating for the terrible pun later, we must admit that squirrels are indeed creatures that, for some reason or another, tend to easily elicit wild reactions from people.
 
Some people find them amusing -- maybeamusing—maybe because they appear to be such little [[The Ditz|ditzes]] when they're in motion, or because "squirrel" is an [[Inherently Funny Words|Inherently Funny Word]]. For other folks, squirrels are evil pests that are the bane of human existence, with [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20130725135325/http://anti-squirrel.com/proof.html an entire webpage] dedicated to explaining why.
 
Because of their often amusing or annoying nature, squirrels are often included (mostly in Western works) to either lighten up the mood or drive people crazy, though more of their appearances are for humor than annoyance.
 
Whatever you do, [[Caffeine Bullet Time|don't let them get their paws on caffeine]]. See also [[Squirrels in My Pants]]. Not quite the same thing as [[Screwy Squirrel]].
 
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== Anime and Manga ==▼
 
* ''[[Kodomo no Omocha|Kodocha]]''{{'}}s Maro-chan, though he's irregularly referred to as a chipmunk in some English versions. Slightly inverted because he himself is pretty tame; the zany aspect is that he lives in the ever-stranger headdresses Sana's mother comes up with. While she's wearing them.▼
▲== Anime ==
▲* ''[[Kodomo no Omocha|Kodocha]]'''s Maro-chan, though he's irregularly referred to as a chipmunk in some English versions. Slightly inverted because he himself is pretty tame; the zany aspect is that he lives in the ever-stranger headdresses Sana's mother comes up with. While she's wearing them.
** In the manga, the writer discusses her pet squirrel and how he's the exact opposite of Maro-chan.
* In ''Mobile Police [[Patlabor]]'', Episode 4 'Journey to Demon Mountain' pits the Patlabour Team and their [[Humongous Mecha]] against a [[Kaiju]] created by a shady medical lab hidden in the forest. The huge creature is tremendously agile, and in the very best ''[[Alien]]''-style, never fully seen. At the end, the team is eagerly arguing about whether it was a giant bear, rat, black panda, cat, mole or grendel (whatever that is)... but from the viewer's perspective, it was almost certainly a giant mutant squirrel. And true to type, it did indeed manage to drive both the team's pilots crazy (not a very long drive, granted.)
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The Marvel Universe features [[Squirrel Girl]], a hero who has many powers borrowed from squirrels, as well as the ability to command them to do her bidding. This may seem useless, but [[Lethal Joke Character|she's also one of the few heroes who has racked up wins against some of Marvel's biggest villains]]... including [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Doctor Doom]]. Yes, '''THAT''' [[Big Bad|Doctor Doom]]. No lie.
* One of the [[Green Lantern Corps]] Members was Ch'p, a squirrel-like alien.
 
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* A squirrel is the catalyst for the gag in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCrrnC8P1lk this Bridgestone tire commercial].
* Commercials for the now-discontinued "Clusters" cereal had a mischievous squirrel trying to steal the cereal from the person trying to eat it.
* "Who am I? What am I? Why'd I cut my hair, I look like a squirrel." Johnson's Baby Powder commercial from the 70's.
* EDS had an ad about [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z2_kKAe9y0&feature=related Running of the Squirrels]
* Sprite did a commercial as part of their "Image is everything" slogan in [[The Nineties]], pointing out that Squirrels are loved and rats are hated, solely because squirrels have cute tails.
* The animated squirrels in the original ads for the PSP, though in this case, it's probably their creators who are nuts:
{{quote| '''Squirrel 1''': Hey! Come on outside!<br />
'''Squirrel 2''': I can't! I'm playing NUT!<br />
'''Squirrel 1''': But there's ''portable'' nut!<br />
'''Squirrel 2''': WHAAAAT?!?<br />
'''Squirrel 1''': Yeah! It's like a nut, you can play with outside!<br />
'''Announcer''' ''(deadpan)'': The PSP. It's like a nut you can play with outside. }}
 
== Fan FicWorks ==
* The heroes of ''[[Attack of Giygas (Fanfic)|Attack of Giygas]]'' is constantly tailed by a group of squirrels. The known squirrels is the leader Not Sheldon, [[The Smart Guy]] Jefferson, the [[Portal 2|space-obsessed]] Andrew, and Joey.
 
 
== Film ==
* Hammy from ''[[Over the Hedge (Filmanimation)|Over the Hedge]]''.
* Scrat from ''[[Ice Age]]'' is a sabretoothed squirrel.
* Twitchy from ''[[Hoodwinked]]''.
* Pip (technically a chipmunk) from ''[[Enchanted]]''.
* Though not a direct example, the dogs from ''[[Up]]'' are-- SQUIRRELare—SQUIRREL!-- very easily distracted.
* In [[National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]], Clark accidentally brings a squirrel into the house with the new Christmas tree, causing a wild chase scene when it is discovered.
** ''SQUIRREL!!!''
* In one scene in ''[[Night Atat the Museum]] 2'', the action-figure-sized Octavius must battle a fearsomely large creature... which, of course, turns out to be a normal-sized squirrel. {{spoiler|He wins, and rides the squirrel into the museum.}}
* Squirrels appear as recurring animals in various animated [[Disney]] movies such as ''[[Snow White and Thethe Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'', ''[[Bambi (Disney)|Bambi]]'', and ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]''. And Especially ''[[Sword in The Stone]]''
 
 
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* The book ''[[The Fire Within]]'', supposedly about dragons, has more to do with squirrels.
* The [[Redwall]] series features several squirrel characters.
* Subverted in the second ''[[Wild Cards]]'' book, ''Aces High''. A homeless woman who has the power to communicate with woodland creatures orders hundreds of squirrels to run under the wheels of a car on a mountain road, causing the car to skid out of control on their carcasses and crash -- allcrash—all so that she could get revenge on the car's driver.
* In ''[[Charlie and Thethe Chocolate Factory]]'', the factory has a room full of trained squirrels shelling walnuts, because Mr. Wonka trusts only squirrels to extract the walnuts in one piece. Veruca Salt decides she wants one of these squirrels. The squirrels decide Veruca is a bad nut and toss her down the garbage chute where bad nuts go. (Her parents go next.)
* Averted with Cheeter, the squirrel familiar of Owen the druid from ''[[Roger Zelazny|A Night In The Lonesome October]]''. Probably the grumpiest and most blunt-spoken of the familiars, mostly because he was drafted into the job.
 
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* Hammy from ''[[Over the Hedge (Comiccomic Stripstrip)|Over the Hedge]]'', again.
* Squirrels in ''[[Mutts]]'' get a kick out of bopping other characters on the head with acorns.
 
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'' features squirrels on quite a few of their cards. See [http://magiccards.info/query/cards/3409574.html here]{{Dead link}} for examples. You can even make a whole deck revolve around squirrels. A winning movie that's banned in certain tournaments{{Context|What is the move? Which tournaments?}} is where you kill your opponent by having an infinite number of squirrels magically appear out of a tree continuously.
* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' got Ratatosk (flying squirrel people living on [[World Tree|Yggdrasil]] in ''[[Planescape]]''), Kercpa (normal-sized sentient wild squirells, from [[Dragon Magazine(magazine)]]) in AD&D era. In 3.5, Monster Manual features carnivorous flying squirrels and "Skiurids"--evil—evil squirrel demons that harvest <s>nuts</s> soul acorns from people.
* ''[[GURPS]]'' had a supplement, 'Illuminati University'. The campus featured squirrels. And vampire squirrels. And mugger squirrels.
* [[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG|Mr Welch]] apparently tried to play as a squirrel, which tells a lot in itself.
{{quote| 442. When told to be subtle, playing a foul mouthed chain smoking squirrel is not a good choice.<br />
719. A fluffy tail does not add to my comliness if I'm already 1' tall, furry and a squirrel.<br />
999. I can't train squirrel mobs to abuse the grapple rules. }}
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]] features squirrels who appear to know more than they let on, and [[Insufferable Genius|are really smug about it]]; if you use clairvoyance on one, you'll see the squirrels view Razputin as a drooling idiot. You can [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|light them on fire and eat their corpses]].
* An entry in the ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' bestiary on the Lady of Pain describers one of the many, ''many'' rumours about her true nature as her being [[Totem Pole Trench|"...six giant squirrels with a headdress, robe, and ring of levitation and illusions..."]]
* Pachirisu, the Pikachu wannabe of [[Pokémon]]'s [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (Video Game)|fourth generation]]. In the anime, Dawn catches one that is adorably hyper.
** In the [[Pokémon Black and White (Video Game)|fifth gen]], we have Emolga the flying squirrel (also a Pika-clone). Like with Pachi above, Iris gets one in the anime that loves to play cute (via Attract) and [[Big Eater|feed its face]].
** Sentret is also based on a flying squirrel.
* What game could be nuttier than ''[[Conkers Bad Fur Day (Video Game)|ConkersConker's Bad Fur Day]]''? Antigravity chocolate, robot haystacks, cavemen gladiators, and a giant singing pile of doo-doo?
* ''Allods'' has huge carnivourus fire-breathing squirrels.
* In the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' games, one of Sonic's animal friends (the animals that he saved in the 16 & 8 bit games) is [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100327051548/sonic/images/f/f6/Ricky_3.png Ricky], a Squirrel. Due to him originally being a female named "Sally Acorn", [[She's a Man In Japan|outside of Japan]], he was the inspiration for a straightforward incarnation of him in ''[[Sonic the Comic]]'' and Princess Sally Acorn from the Archie continuity. However she is a Chipmunk-Squirrel crossbreed.
** Ray the Flying Squirrel who appeared a Grand Total of ONCE in the Arcade game.
* The recurring "[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Mu Mu]" enemies in the ''[[Final Fantasy (Franchise)|Final Fantasy]]'' series. Generally weak early game enemies.
** [[Mega Manning|Raging]] Mu/Rhodox in ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]'' allows Gau to use [[One-Hit Kill|Snare]], though.
** Mu (and an [[Underground Monkey]] variant) in ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'' have the "L4 Suicide" move, which does [[Fixed Damage Attack|31/32]] of the enemy's hp as well as causing [[Baleful Polymorph|mini]]... only if the enemy's level is a multiple of four. You can learn it via Enemy Skill, which can prove to be useful in certain encounters.
* [[Ms. Fanservice|Makoto Nanaya]] from ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]''.
* The squirrel with the balloon on its tail in ''[[Fancy Pants Adventures|Fancy Pants Adventure 3]]'', who wants you to collect balloons from bats so that it can fly.
* In the NES title ''[[Nightshade (Video Game)|Nightshade]]'', the squirrels are secretly (and scarily) well-organized. You can sneak up a squirrel and listen to its anarchist rantings.
 
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' got a [[Half-Human Hybrid|squirrel-human]]-{{spoiler|alien-alien}} hybrid girl. Naturally, things got even crazier than they were in short order:
* ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'':
{{quote| '''Grace''': [http://www.egscomics.com/?date{{=}}2002-07-13 Well, when in doubt, go squirrel]... When bored and half-squirrel, only one solution exists: bounce around the house mindlessly!!! <''{{smallcapssmall-caps|boing!}}''>}}
* Scarlet and her sisters from ''[[Sequential Art (Webcomicwebcomic)|Sequential Art]]''. [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=41 Pip the Penguin encounters Scarlet]... [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=42 firsthand]. [[Hilarity Ensues]] from there and doesn't stop for long.
** Then again, the works of Jolly Jack is comedy gold.
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' has the North American Grammar Squirrel, who pops up occasionally to correct the characters' grammar.
* Gertrude & Brunhilda in ''[[The KA MicsKAMics]]'' were [[Involuntary Transformation|turned into squirrel girls]] by [[Norse Mythology|Ratatosk]] during the [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover|Squirrel Wars]] & in the [[Crossover Wars|Final Battle]] [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/4935582/ rode giant squirrels into battle]
* Rachel from [[Troper Works/Stubble Trouble|Stubble Trouble]], a squirrel whose body is completely shaved except for her bushy tail.
* [[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff|"And there he goes...The squirrel......has his game.]]
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* Squirrels are the main playthings/prey of the rabbits in [http://thebunnysystem.com/ The Bunny System].
* In [[Joss Whedon]]'s ''[http://myspace.com/darkhorsepresents?issuenum=1&storynum=1 Sugarshock]'', squirrels prove themselves to be the ''only species in the universe'' immune to [[The Power of Rock]]. This is because
{{quote| Squirrels have NO SOULS!}}
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Aquerna from the [[Whateley Universe]]. An [[Captain Ersatz]] of the above-mentioned Squirrel Girl (who ironically also exists in the universe ''as a comic book character'' owned by the setting's incarnation of Marvel). She gets her powers from the ''spirit'' of the Squirrel, which makes her superhumanly acrobatic (though not particularly strong or tough compared to some of the other students) and, yes, lets her talk to squirrels as well; her combat final against one of the tougher, but not brighter school bullies was a defining [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
* Nutty the squirrel, from [[Happy Tree Friends]]. His nutty nature comes from a very high sugar consumption.
* Let us never forget Frazzles, the [[Channel 101]] squirrel from the Lonely Island's [https://web.archive.org/web/20100824011900/http://old.thelonelyisland.com/thebu1.html The 'Bu]
* Sciurus is a squirrel-powered superhero from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]''. He's superhumanly agile, can leap long distances, can scale walls with his claws, and has a reaction time that is nothing short of phenomenal.
* Squirrel vs Motorcycle, or [http://lifeisaroad.com/stories/2004/10/29/neighborhoodHazardorWhyTheCopsWontPatrolBriceStreet.html Why the Cops Won't Patrol Brice Street]. Yes, Squirrel wins.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* There's an episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]'' wherein their elder sister gets [[Squirrels in My Pants|squirrels in her pants]], which leads to a hip-hop music video about it. She even screams "There are squirrels in my pants!" at the appropriate time in the video.
* An episode of ''[[Daria]]'' where Jake Morgendorffer reading the newspaper and cursing the fact that a new law was just passed disallowing the citizens' right to shoot squirrels. As he reads on, he also find that "You can't drown'em either!?".
* Rocky the Flying Squirrel from ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' is a subversion of this trope, as he is actually the most level-headed and sensible character in the show.
* [[Screwy Squirrel]], who is a [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|..You Know]].
* ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'': The Flying Squirrel ([[Catch Phrase|"I like squirrels!"]])is one of the heroes that [[The Tick (animation)]] puts through training.
** {{spoiler|And she turns out to be an [[Expy]] of [[Squirrel Girl]]. Seriously.}}
* Tammy, Bink, and their mother from ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animationanimation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]''.
** Chip and Dale themselves are members of the squirrel family (Sciuridae), so technically could fall under this, at least until chipmunks get a trope of their own.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': Sandy Cheeks. Like Rocky, she's often the [[Only Sane Woman]] among the main cast.
* Merlin and Wart become squirrels in the Disney version of ''[[The Sword in The Stone (Disney)|The Sword in Thethe Stone]]'', and break the heart of a poor little girl squirrel.
* The "Happy Squirrel" card from ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]''.
** Homer is shown in at least two episodes, "Homer Goes to College" and "Maximum Homerdrive", to be easily distracted by squirrels.
* Skippy Squirrel from ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' is a cheerful little fellow. His [[Cool Old Lady|aunt Slappy]]? Fine with wackiness, as long as it's measured in tons of TNT. Or anvils. She is a very bitter MEAN squirrel.
* [[Squirrel Boy]].
* Bubbles of [[The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)|The Powerpuff Girls]] can speak to squirrels. In one episode, the girls are even rescued by a squirrel.
* ''[[The Emperor's New Groove (Disney)|The Emperors New Groove]]'' - Kronk is fluent in Squirrel. Squeek sqweeker, squeeken.
** When the movie first came out, ''[[Disney Adventures]]'' magazine had a squirrel translation guide. So many years later, the only thing that really sticks in the mind is "Squeak da da boom" - which means ''there's a wall there''.
* [[Secret Squirrel]].
* The flying squirrel in ''[[Big Buck Bunny]]'' is terribly nasty.
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', squirrels are [[Call a Smeerp Aa Rabbit|depicted as three eyes, three legged little creatures]]. Though this classification comes from the [[Disney XD]] website and not from the show itself, it does fit in with the shows tendency of having it's animals look weird.
* In the ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]'' episode "The Duke", the B-plot features an angry red squirrel that ''hates'' Jake because Jake never prints the squirrel's letters in his advice column.
* Averted with the title character of ''[[Scaredy Squirrel (Animation)|Scaredy Squirrel]]'', who's more of a [[Super OCD]] [[Badass Bookworm]].
* ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' has both kinds: Fred is a funny, [[Literal -Minded|not very smart]] but nice fellow, and the Red Squirrel is an evil schemer.
* The dexterity, intelligence and resourcefulness of Mr. Nut-Nut, Sparky and the rest of the squirrel helpers on [[The Hub|The Hub's]] ''[[Pound Puppies]]'' makes them valued and important members of the team.
 
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