The Best Cartoons About Mice, Rats, and Other Rodents
Mickey Mouse might be one of the most recognized cartoon characters. It's easy sometimes to forget that The Mouse is well, a mouse. It says so it right in the title, but it's also difficult to remember Alvin is a chipmunk. And they're not the only rodents lucky enough to land their own animated series. Since the beginning of animation, the best cartoons have been filled with animals rather than humans and there's no shortage of colorful and unique animated rats, mice, and other rodents, that have been providing us with entertainment for decades. Whether they're funny, violent, cute, crude, sarcastic, or smart, the animated animals of our favorite childhood and adulthood TV shows will always hold a special place in our hearts.
The series on this list, all of which feature a rodent of one kind or another as the star - from cute mice to weird squirrels - were with us during our Saturday mornings in front of the TV and our after-school homework procrastination sessions. So let's rank the top rodent cartoons that kept us all company from best to worst.
- The Warner siblings wreak havoc in the lives of everyone they meet.
- Wakko, Yakko and Dot perform classic cartoon humor.
- The cat and mouse pull pranks, gags and get into escapades all around the globe.
- Tom and Jerry is an American animated series of short films created in 1940, by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. It centers on a rivalry between its two main characters, Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse, and ...more
- The two chipmunks fight crime around the world.
- The odd buddies have many strange adventures.
- African adventures of two friends.
- Mickey Mouse takes on new adventures finding himself in silly situations in different settings.
- Fievel's American Tails is an American/Canadian animated television series, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, Nelvana, and Universal Cartoon Studios. It aired for one ...more
- Disney characters meet at a cartoon club.
- The adventures of Daggett and Norbert, two fun-loving beavers.
- The duo unleashes mayhem across the Big Apple, inciting chaos uptown, downtown and everywhere.
- Funny takes Mickey, Minnie, and their friends to the Kingdom of Majestica.
- Mickey Mouse and his best friends embark on adventures, navigating a wild and crazy world.
- Alvin, Simon and Theodore drive their manager crazy.
- The adventures Bullwinkle and Rocky in Frostbite Falls, Minn.
- Mighty Mouse is an American animated anthropomorphic superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox. The character made its first appearance in 1942, and subsequently ...more
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Amazon Video, 2017) is an American children's animated television series based on the book by Laura Numeroff. When Mouse and his friends get together, one thing always ...more
- Secret Squirrel is a cartoon character created by Hanna-Barbera, and also the name of his segment in the The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show, which debuted in 1965. He was given his own show in 1966, ...more
- Danger Mouse (CBBC, 2015) is a British animated television series, and a reboot of the 1981 series. Danger Mouse, the "world's greatest secret agent", and his hamster sidekick Penfold, protect the ...more
- Scaredy tackles life's daily challenges with safety always first.
- Hamtaro is a Japanese children's manga and storybook series created and illustrated by Ritsuko Kawai. The manga is serialized in Shogakukan's all girl's magazine Ciao in 1997, focusing on a hamster ...more
- PB&J Otter is an American animated children's television series which premiered on Playhouse Disney on March 15, 1998. A total of 65 episodes were produced during the course of its three season run, ...more
- Woodland creatures have graphic and violent adventures.
- The flying squirrel and moose find themselves thrust into harrowing situations.