Eek! A Mouse!: Difference between revisions

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== [[Advertising]] ==

* There was a commercial that had a woman do "EEK a Mouse!" bit and her husband hunts the mouse down but before he can dispatch it the wife see the mouse cornered and now it's a cute little mousey and she stops him. End of commercial has couple cuddling on the couch and mouse in a cage running on a wheel.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKLyHTcZqOs This] Samsung Infuse commercial, only with the image of a large spider.

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Freya from ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]'' is, among other things, a [[Badass]] [[Lady of War]] [[Action Girl]] [[Hot Amazon]] with [[Boobs of Steel]] and has apparently eschewed femininity. However, she still freaks out when she sees [[Sexy Mentor|Shigure's]] pet mouse.

* Used for a second in the last episode of ''[[Gakuen Alice]]'', where Hotaru uses a gang of robot mice to keep two [[Girly Girl]] classmates at bay.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* ''[[Tintin]]''. The Thomson twins are startled by mice used for experiments in "[[Tintin/Recap/Destination Moon|Destination Moon]]".

* This once happened in ''[[Archie]]'' when Ms. Grundy jumped on her desk and Jughead took a picture of it for the school newspaper. She actually was worried that the picture would be about how scared she was of a little mouse but instead it turned out to be proof the school needed an exterminator.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* There is a great scene in ''Conan the Destroyer'' where Grace Jones' character, who up until now has been afraid of nothing, taking on whole villages and men much larger than her in combat fearlessly, jumps and screams at the sight of a mouse. When all of her party look back she looks sheepish.

* The 1959 movie ''[[The Mouse That Roared]]'' opens with the Columbia Studios girl-with-torch logo suddenly hiking up her gown and fleeing from a mouse at her feet. (The title is a metaphor for a tiny, innocuous nation that ends up holding the fate of the world in its hands.)

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In one of the ''Clue'' mystery books, Mr. Boddy reveals that several white mice have escaped. The first one to actually do this trope is the duel-crazy Colonel Mustard, but the other guests don't laugh because they're doing the same thing.

* The non-fiction book that inspired ''[[Homicide: Life on the Street]]'' mentions that one of the detectives had been called home by his wife to deal with a rampaging mouse. "I disposed of the body, but considered leaving it as an example to others."

* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', Arthur Dent associates mice with cheese and women standing screaming on tables in early Sixties [[Sitcom|Sit Coms]].

 

* The ''[[Three's Company]]'' episode "The Best Laid Plans" revolved a mouse being loose in the trio's apartment, with Janet being the mouseophobic one.

** Spinoff the [[The Ropers]] featured a gender-flipped version of this trope: it was ''Mr.'' Brooks, not his wife, who leaped up onto the couch screaming at the sight of a white mouse—safely in a cage, no less.

* Averted in the premiere episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. The heroine doesn't even twitch when a sewer rat runs over her foot.

 

* ''A Challenge of Arms'' had a ''mastodon'' that was afraid of mice.

 

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Referenced in ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Eek, A Penis!" where a mouse frightened women with a genetically engineered human penis growing on its back.

** Actually they were frightened by the penis. But the trope still stands.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* While elephants don't typically leap onto small objects at the sight of a mouse, research has provided a possible reason for the elephant's fear of mice: an elephant's eyes are located on its head in approximately the same position as a human's ears—add this to the elephant's large body, (relatively) poor eyesight, and sensitive hearing, and what the elephant sees turns from a small, furry rodent into a small, barely-visible, blurry and mostly-unidentifiable squeaking blob somewhere near its feet.

** This was actually tested by the ''[[MythBusters]]''. Myth Plausible.