Basil the Great Mouse Fidget Funny Moments

"Smile, anybody!"

• In Basil's beginning appearance, he hands Dawson a pistol. Dawson takes it, then realises what it is, and hurriedly turns it around so information technology'south not aimed at him.
• The style Basil's housekeeper reacts to him shooting the pillows

  Mrs. Judson: [helplessly] My skilful pillows! Mr. Basil! [spits up a feather]

  Basil: [peers over back of chair with a slightly broad-eyed look on his confront]

  • And so he ushers her out before she actually lets him take it.
• When Basil is moping afterwards the bullet test was a dead end, Olivia tries to become him to assistance her, which leads to an exchange that'due south function funny, part Tear Jerker.

  Olivia: Now volition you please listen to me? My Daddy's gone, and I'grand all alone!
  Basil: …Young lady… this is a most inopportune fourth dimension. (continues playing his violin so briefly glances at her) …Surely your mother knows where he is.
  Olivia: I… I don't accept a female parent…
  Basil: (Gets a fantastic Oh, Crap! wait on his face as his violin playing literally screeches to a halt) Well...um... and so perhaps... Come across here, I take no time looking for lost fathers!

• "I beloved it when I'm nasty!"
• The bit where Bartholomew presses Ratigan'south Berserk Button.

  Bartholomew: To Ratigan, the globe's greatest rat!

  [Ratigan does a Spit Take, while his cronies expect on in horror]

  Ratigan: What was THAT?! [Bartholomew hiccups] WHAT did you call me?

  Thug one: He didn't mean information technology, professor!

  Ratigan: I AM NOT A RAT!

  Thug two: 'Course you're not! You're a mouse!

  Thug 1: Yes, that's right, right, a mouse!

  Neb the Lizard: Yeah, a...a big mouse!

  Ratigan: SILENCE!

• "It will exist quite dangerous." [Accidentally sits on violin, followed by a stream of Angrish]
• When Basil is gearing Toby up for searching out Fidget. The whole time Toby is growling and looking angry. And so THIS happens:

  Basil: Low brow, close set eyes, cleaved wing- (Toby suddenly stops growling and stares at him, dislocated at that terminal part) Oh, he'due south a peg-legged bat with a broken wing.

  • In an instant, he'southward back to growling angrily.
• Twice in a short time span Basil gets an admittedly ridiculous dazed look on his face—the first is when Toby, in his hurry to rush off on Fidget's trail, steps on his master; the second in the toy shop when he gets his head smashed betwixt a pair of mechanical cymbals.
  • Toby's reaction after the former happens is also pretty funny. Instead of being enlightened that he stepped on Basil (the one who got him riled up in the showtime place), he happily runs for the door as Basil hollers behind him. You can but see him thinking "I'one thousand going on a walk! I'one thousand going on a walk!"
• Basil trying and failing to get Toby to sit, until...

  Olivia: Sit, Toby!

  • Toby immediately sits.
• While they're in the toy shop, Olivia sets off a toy band, and frightens Dawson and then badly he leaps into Basil'south arms.
• When Fidget returns to Ratigan, after the toy shop sequence, he forgets the list, and while attempting to explain what happened, he mentions Basil. Ratigan is about to explode in his face, but then decides to sic Felicia on him. Only the way it plays out is funny: He calms downward, and holds Fidget in his arms, sweetness talking him. Cue bell. Cue Fidget's scream of bloody murder.
  • In fact, Ratigan got and so angry, he near suffered a heart attack.
• Fifty-fifty Felicia gets one, when Ratigan orders her to spit Fidget out - after going on iii minutes of fighting (and declining) to swallow him. The grumpy "You're no fun at all." expression right earlier she does so is pretty priceless, every bit is the rather moth-eaten state that Fidget comes out in.
  • She gets a prime fleck of Blackness Humor correct after she eats the extremely drunk Bartholomew. Ratigan asks her if she enjoyed her meal, and she burps in his face. The satisfied look sliding off his face once he gets a whiff of alcohol-infused cat breath is hilarious.
• In the bar, an overweight frog and his unlucky partner are the next to perform on stage; they are immediately booed and then mercilessly pelted with vegetables, knives, and other blunt objects after having been on stage for all of simply 10 seconds.
  • Fifty-fifty funnier is that the frog nonetheless has the same clueless grin plastered on his face through the entire thing!
  • And this line virtually the deed before that, a juggling octopus:

    Bar Patron: Go off the stage, you viii-legged bum!

  • At least the poor octopus got some applause from Dawson earlier he got booed off the stage.
• During the Allow Me Exist Good to Y'all segment, Basil'due south look of utter exasperation later Dawson gets upwardly and dances with the girl mice.
• Also when he realizes that his and Dawson'due south drinks take been drugged and turns to warn him, only to see Dawson downing the whole affair in one gulp.
• Ratigan'southward very festive reception of Basil "getting the drop on him": balloons, streamers, confetti and a wall-spanning "Welcome Basil" canvass. All of this capped off with a loud group "SURPRISE!" to really hammer the point in.
• Basil'south dig at Ratigan, and Ratigan'due south response.

  Basil: No i could have a higher opinion of you than I accept...and I think yous're a slimy, contemptible SEWER RAT!

• The fact that Ratigan went to the trouble of writing a song, hiring a band to record it, finding a ways to record it and become information technology pressed onto a record, in addition to his elaborate Rube Goldberg Device trap, but so that he can rub Basil's olfactory organ in his success.
  • And the reason said Rube Goldberg Device is and so circuitous?

  Ratigan: I had then many ingenious ideas, I didn't know which to choose! And so, I decided... to apply them all.

• "It was my fond hope to stay and witness your final scene, simply you were fifteen minutes late..."
  • The fashion Dawson simply pouts afterwards yelling at Basil for giving upwards while they're stuck in the death trap.
  • "Heheh... hahaHA, yep! We'll SET THE TRAP OFF NOW!"
  • "Grin, everyone!"
• Ratigan's Long List of changes he volition brand every bit the Queen'southward royal consort. Information technology's so long that information technology literally unrolls downwardly the entire length of the aisle and out into the main hall.

  Ratigan: (dons a pair of reading glasses) Item 1...

  • "Item 96: A heavy tax shall be levied against all parasites and spongers. Such equally the elderly. The infirm! And especially (hee, hee) little children."
  • There's a storybook adaptation where this is the only line from the picture that is used in the book.
• When Basil obtains command of the fake Queen robot.

  Basil: You, Professor...

  Robot Queen: ...are none other than a foul, stenchus rodentus, normally known as a—!

  Ratigan: DON'T SAY IT!!!

  Basil: (reveals himself) SEWER RAT!

• Felicia gets peradventure the funniest Disney Villain Decease e'er. Later climbing a wall just alee of Toby, she smugly turns her back on him, hikes her tail, and gracefully leaps down to the other side. A Beat, and and then all hell breaks loose. Felicia was then overconfident, she didn't realize she was jumping straight into the royal guard dogs' pen...and Laser-Guided Karma finds her at last.
  • Even beforehand, when she starting time sees Toby making a beeline for her. Her reaction is pricelessly over the top.
• Ratigan is then drastic to go away from Basil's makeshift airship that he throws Fidget over lath and starts pedaling the stuffed furiously, only fails to realize that no ane's steering... until he sees that he'south headed direct towards the Westminster Clock Belfry.

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