12 Oz. Mouse/Rooster

Rooster
Season 1, Episode 3
Airdate	October 30, 2005
Production Number	2503
Written by	Matt Maiellaro
Directed by	—
← 1x02 Signals	1x04 → Spider
12 Oz. Mouse — Season One

Rooster is the third episode of the first season of 12 Oz. Mouse, and the third episode overall.

Voices: Liz Maiellaro, Adam Reed, Kurt Soccolich, Scott Luallen, Bonnie Rosmarin, Nick Weidenfeld, Nick Ingkatanuwat, Matt Maiellaro

Plot Overview

It's nighttime. Mouse finds himself having flashbacks to what appears to be his family (a female mouse and a child mouse), and to a time when he got a letter from a mysterious silhouette figure who shot him with an arrow. He wakes up to see Skillet at the door.

Meanwhile, the shark receives a call from someone whom he thought was dead, who wants to have an important business meeting. The shark wants to sleep, but the person comes over anyway. It's the blind pink cube, asking if the shark had gotten the signals (cut to woman airhorn), to which the shark confirms this. Back at Mouse's place, Skillet reveals the package he has is actually a corndog. The corndog begins glowing, and leads Mouse to a field of corndogs. There Mouse finds Roostre. The corndog flies away, but Roostre blows it up with a missle. That night, Mouse and Roostre get drunk, and Roostre talks about the pink square.

That night, the shark "signals" the eye. He and the transforming woman come see the shark and square. After the shark shows a brief slideshow about aspirin, we return to Mouse and Roostre, where Skillet is visited by the new guy. The woman and pink cube head to Rhoda's bar, where they're visited by the peanut cop. The eye stays around with the shark.

Back in the corndog fields, Mouse looks for Skillet, to find out that he's disappeared and all that's left is papers. The new guy has kidnapped and ball-gagged Skillet, taking him to his hangar filled with pictures of Skillet. The new guy hoola-hoops to music for Skillet. Mouse returns to the shark to get another job, and finds out the shark hates corndogs.

Notes

• Mouse's letter reads "Dear Mouse, [picture of arrow]. Goodbye." on it. The letter also appears to have a clock for a stamp.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Clock - Appears in Mouse's home in addition to shark's office. When Mouse leaves his house, the clock vanishes from his wall. It also gasses the eye when he begins talking too fast to slow him back down.

Characters

• This is our first peak into Mouse's past. He appears to have a wife and child.
• Rooster is introduced in this episode.