Movie that's itchin' me
March 18, 2006 3:51 PM   Subscribe

There is a movie where someone is petting a sewer rat and they think its a cat. And someone tells the person they're mistaken and petting a rat. Does anyone know what movie? It went something like this: What a nice cat. Excuse me mam, thats a sewer rat!
posted by Gabe014 to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (12 answers total)
 
Best answer: Adventures in Babysitting.
posted by philscience at 4:00 PM on March 18, 2006


philscience nails it.
posted by Eamon at 4:01 PM on March 18, 2006


maybe derived from the Mexican Pet urban legend.
posted by MonkeySaltedNuts at 4:13 PM on March 18, 2006


In an episode of Friends, Monica is at her parent's and thinks she's found an old stuffed animal. But it's a dead rat/mouse.
posted by disillusioned at 4:24 PM on March 18, 2006


That is one truly entertaining movie that stands up after nearly 20 years.
posted by Neiltupper at 4:31 PM on March 18, 2006


Vincent D'Onofrio as Thor - love it!
posted by meerkatty at 4:35 PM on March 18, 2006


What happened to Hughes? Ferris Bueller's day off and Adventures in Babysitting and Vacation were absolute classics.....I really wish he would do something for the 21st century.....
posted by skepticallypleased at 5:36 PM on March 18, 2006


What happened to Hughes?

He wrote 'Beethoven' and 'Dennis The Menace'. Then, to put the final nail in his coffin, he murdered 'Miracle on 34th Street'.

For these sins, the Gods of Good Taste sentenced him to wander the earth as a zombie scriptwriter, eating his own brains then regurgitating them as scripts. Forever...
posted by Pinback at 10:07 PM on March 18, 2006


Of course for some real relative humour (note the addition of the letter 'U' there) The Siberian Hamster episode of Fawlty Towers really needs to be seen. "It's a RAT." "No No No iz a Siberian Hamster Mr Fawlty!")
posted by DrtyBlvd at 2:24 AM on March 19, 2006


Best answer: To be more specific, Chris (the babysitter, played by Elisabeth Shue), has a friend named Brenda who's stuck at the nasty bus station and needs to be picked up (thus triggering the aforementioned Adventure). Throughout the movie we cut back to Brenda's plight at the bus station. At some point her glasses are either broken or stolen (I think the latter), and in her half-delirious state she spots a fuzzy black creature in the distance. The "Excuse me, ma'am, but that's a sewer rat!" guy is a janitor in the bus station.

I thought I was the only person who still likes that movie. And yeah, Thor is totally awesome.
posted by chrominance at 2:51 AM on March 19, 2006


I think Brenda fell asleep and when she woke up, the homeless lady had stolen her glasses.
posted by misterbrandt at 9:14 AM on March 19, 2006


Response by poster: Sweet, thank god, finally found it thanks!
posted by Gabe014 at 12:06 PM on March 19, 2006


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