#12 oz. mouse

[84hsk]

There was a kid who looked like a "The Kid" on the monitor at McDonald's.

* The FunkoPop figure of Dethklok that I drew, I thought it was an official product from a picture I saw a long time ago and drew it this, but it seems that it was a fan-made figure. I'm sorry for drawing this without permission! 🙇 It's so well done that I thought it was official.

#12 oz. mouse

[n0ize-draws]

might be planning something......

#12 oz. mouse #12 oz mouse #mouse fitzgerald #anthro

[mogai-headcanons]

Mouse Fitzgerald from 12 oz. Mouse, who also goes by Fitz and Butch, is a depressed unlabeled canon alcoholic with PTSD and ASPD who is attracted to women and uses he/him pronouns!

He works for Shark, a gay man who uses he/him pronouns and has a crush on Mouse!

Shark works alongside Rectangular Businessman, a gastraic MLM transneumasculine demitransfeminine gender apathetic trans woman demiboy who uses she/her pronouns, but doesn't mind he/him being used for her!

Rhoda is an AMAB nonbinary bigender being who canonically uses both he/him and she/her pronouns and also uses they/them!

Liquor is a neurodivergent man!

Roostre is a neurodivergent canonically disabled straight ally with PTSD who uses a prosthetic hook, uses he/him pronouns, and has interests in corndogs, farming, and music!

Golden Joe is a polyamorous closeted pansexual person who uses he/him pronouns and has a preference for women!

He's good friends with Peanut Cop, a straight ally who uses he/him pronouns!

Man-Woman is a neurodivergent polysexual AFAB bigenderfluid genderfluid pronounfluid person with speech problems who uses she/her pronouns when feminine-presenting and he/him pronouns when masculine-presenting and doesn't mind they/them pronouns regardless of presentation!

Lee is a canon trans woman who uses she/her pronouns!

Industry Man is a neurodivergent bisexual shapeshifthing clockgender agender man who uses he/him, they/them, and it/its pronouns!

Eye is an autistic eyegender eye with speech problems and a special interest in tap dance who uses he/him pronouns and both first- and third-person nameself pronouns!

New Guy is a canonically nonverbal kidcoric nonbinary being who uses they/them pronouns!

Francis is an ally who uses he/him pronouns!

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#long post #mogai headcanon #12 oz. mouse #mouse fitzgerald #shark #rectangular businessman #rhoda #liquor #roostre #golden joe #peanut cop #man-woman #lee #industry man #eye #new guy #francis #depression #unlabeled #alcoholism #ptsd #aspd #gay #gay man #gastraic #mlm #transneumasculine #demitransfeminine #gender apathetic #trans woman

[fuzzro]

liquor!!!

#12 oz mouse #12 oz. mouse

[adultswim2021]

12 oz. Mouse: “Prolegomenon” | December 18, 2006 – 12:45AM | S02E13

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! No post last night, and I’m sorry, but I had to give this one more thought. Really, I got high and thought I not only finished the write-up, but also scheduled it in my queue after I wrote a single paragraph and fell asleep. Whoops.

Okay, so it’s all been leading up to this, and this write-up will eventually cover what “this” is. But before I go into it, I wanna say that this episode led me to do some googling. I learned something that I possibly knew at one point, but had lost sight of: season 2 was supposed to have 20 episodes but was shortened to 13. With that, the series was also canceled, forcing Matt Maiellaro to plan some kind of conclusion where there might not have originally been one. I guess you can draw comparisons from things like Twin Peaks; David Lynch wanted to keep the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer unsolved indefinitely, but the network forced him to come up with a conclusion midway through season 2. Arrested Development had one of its seasons shortened, and I recall episodes from before that happening seeming to set things up that never got resolved. Could that be the explanation for the ending we got on 12 Oz. Mouse? Or could it be that it meant nothing the entire time? 

Okay, so it’s not really a hard ending. Mouse plays pinball for a lot of this episode, while a floating light speaks to him. We finally find out the true nature of Shark and Square Business man, and the Eyes, and Peanut Cop and the question woman. The finale confirms what I suspected (and half-remembered), and what most viewers paying close attention to the series should have also suspected: Cardboard City is a simulation. But when we cut out to the real world we see a big green mouse and we see his rodent friend skillet, real as this show is long. They don’t have human counterparts. They are still themselves in the real world.  It’s all the others that have human counterparts (or a different outfit in question woman’s case).

So what basically seems to happen is the people running this program decided that it was time to stop it and roughly reset everything, so the intense war our gang was in the middle of fighting  just sorta turns off, basically. Then, back in Cardboard City, mouse and his friends shake off the fact that moments ago they were fighting a war, and now they are not. The sky turns blue and cloudy. The team waltzes away, for a brand new day. The simulation is over, and a vague sense that maybe another will begin. It’s like a soft reboot, sorta symbolizing what episodic TV is supposed to be. They’re going to go do a different adventure now. Perhaps a… web adventure?

Yes, there was a webisode. Will I relegate the webisode to ephemera since it didn’t air on television? Or will I give it it’s own entry? Only time will tell (I will give it it’s own entry). The webisode was announced, and I think Matt Maiellaro was hopeful that the show would be allowed to continue in a new format. Not now, my child. Not now. So, I think he’s setting up some sort of meta contextual way to explain that the show can simply be rebooted into different configurations. Kinda like if Bugs Bunny was revealed to be in the Matrix, and it somehow explained how he could fight Yosemite Sam in medieval England, ancient Egypt, and the old west, and seem like they’re meeting for the first time every time. 

The whole DVD being cut together like a movie gives you the impression that 12 Oz. Mouse is a huge epic story that wraps up nicely, with purpose. No such luck. It really was sorta nonsense, I guess. I’m guessing Aspirin would have made another appearance in some other context in some other version of the show, and not be elaborated on. Eventually Aspirin is revealed to be a god particle, or something, just as some other weird concept is introduced to fixate on instead. It can go anywhere and everywhere man. It’s like Everyone Everywhere All Over The Place, At Once! or whatever that movie was called.

So the ending is a bit of a disappointment. I forgot that it was, honest. I only saw a few random episodes of this show before getting the DVD and watching the entire thing in one day when I was recovering from a hernia surgery and on Vicodin. I was recuperating at my parent’s house and brought a stack of DVDs from home to watch. I had just gotten Human Giant season one on DVD which had dozens of additional commentary tracks that were all hysterical. Vicodin notwithstanding, it became less-than-ideal viewing material while I was on the mend because laughing physically hurt. A LOT. This isn’t a compliment, and I’m sorry, but I switched to 12 Oz. Mouse specifically because I could capably watch it without hurting myself.

The ending feels sudden and the series feels cut-short. That’s because it was. There was a webisode coming, which was meant to kick-start a new short season. It didn’t. Years later there was a special and a third season, some of which I’ve seen. But, the show is enormously specific, and that’s a good thing. It’s obtuse and feels like a show you’re supposed to be watching at 1AM. You can get really into it, especially if you’re high. I get why people love this show. I get why this might be a show people enjoy watching over and over. I feel slightly compelled to start watching it again, even if it’s just for background noise. But the idea that it fulfilled some kind of narrative promise is a stretch. I guess I’m glad I gave it a sincere shot at trying to “get” it, and I’m slightly eager to check it out again, even, in it’s movie form.

Additionally, in its defense: many network shows with much bigger fan-bases are allowed to have overlapping serialized story-lines that sometimes go nowhere and are quietly replaced by different ones. I’ve tricked myself into thinking that 12 Oz. Mouse might be a meta-textual critique of storytelling on television; the ending can be seen as symbolic of a network stepping in and rebooting the status quo of a TV show that’s in danger of going too far up its own ass. Or, maybe 12 Oz. Mouse was only ever meant to be about the vibes, which it has in spades. Who knows. But you owe it to yourself to at the very least check out the pilot episode, “Hired’. Don’t feel too bad if you don’t feel like watching more. Don’t feel bad if you like the show but don’t feel like you “get” it. Just don’t feel bad about anything ever. Mouse would want it that way.

EPHEMERA CORNER:

#adult swim #adultswim2021 #12 oz. mouse

[decafbat]

this is me before,

and after

notice anything ? yep

two beers

#12 oz mouse #artworks

[blu3c4n4ry]

#adult swim #aqua teen hunger force #athf #the venture bros #metalocalypse #12 oz mouse

[pinigumu]

babe wakes up, new ringo special interest just dropped

also i drew mogeko and Rectangular Businessman becuese i love them

#ringo art #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #fanart #firealpaca #homestar runner #homestar #strong sad #coach z #marzipan #mogeko castle #mogeko #rectangular businessman #12 oz mouse

[m4r5c0r3]

#adult swim #ozmo #12 ounce mouse #12ozmo #12 oz mouse #12om #mouse fitzgerald #golden joe #aqua teen hunger force #athf #athf fanart #master shake #frylock #meatwad

[mice-rats-daily]

Today’s mouse is Mouse Fitzgerald from 12 oz. Mouse!

#mouse #mouse fitzgerald #12 oz mouse #adult swim

[wafflepriince]

12 oz Du Bois

#harry du bois #disco elysium #disco elysium fanart #12 oz mouse #digital drawing #fyp #artists on tumblr #harrier du bois

[84hsk]

Skillet went to chiropractic.

(I was referenced by this meme :

#12 oz. mouse

[n0ize-draws]

mice.

#12 oz mouse #12 oz. mouse #mouse fitzgerald #anthro

[sillygreenrat]

happy 4/20 fav character hyperfixation blunt rotation

#fitz posting #shipwrecked 64 #sw54 #12 oz mouse #ozmo #angel hare #ah #murder drones #md #bucky beaver #mouse fitzgerald #angel zaggy #sam murder drones #420

[puttinghomsarinplaces]

Do putting the homsar in 12 oz mouse plsss

#12 oz mouse #putting homsar in places #homsar #homestar runner #h*r #h☆r

[adultswim2021]

12 oz. Mouse #15: “Meaty Dreamy” | November 13, 2006 – 12:45AM | S02E08

On a mostly-empty city street, Pronto is trying to kill the Hand with arrows. The hand dodges all the arrows and then escapes into the brain of Producer Man. By that I mean he forces his way into Producer Man's cranium and starts controlling him. Remember earlier when we saw the Hand jumping up and down on top of Golden Joe's head? I guess that's what he was attempting to do to him. What does this say about Golden Joe? Anything? (I really don't know)

In Shark's study we see Shark and Square admiring a big gun. It's a one-gauge shotgun. Square is blasé about it, like usual. Shark says his grandfather gave it to him after the Meat Wars. Square calls him poor. They squabble about the virtues of being poor. This leads to Square calling the bible poor.

Then we cut to a speaker and we zoom inside of it. We see different colored light-up components that correspond to the voices we hear, which are that of Mouse and his wife. We've seen them in slightly contrasting flashbacks; some that seem “real” (or at least coming from Mouse's head) and some that seem created by a reality simulator. They are conversing about Mouse's job. She wants him to quit. It sounds like he's involved in some secret, dangerous organization (possibly headed up by the shadowy man). He remarks how they (the organization that employs him) have already sent “the tie” (which we saw him receive in one of said flashbacks), which he's already pressed to his flesh. She is trying to talk him into leaving. Whatever this is, this seems to be some audio recording from the past that the Mouse family were not aware of having been made. The machinery conks out and starts smoking right after Mouse says he needs to get his skates before they blow town.

Thinking about this; the whole “conflicting flashbacks” thing might be something I made up. I wonder if those flashbacks are actually just two different moments from the same night. Mouse simply receives two different gifts for his birthday? For whatever reason I read into it that they were alternate retellings of Mouse's birthday, in one he receives night-vision goggles and in one he receives the bow-tie. But he could have just gotten both of those things. Man, have I been wrong this whole time? It's still implied that these memories are false on some level or created by Shark or maybe they are genuine and Shark was actually reading Mouse's mind. I AM planning to revisit 12 Oz. Mouse when this run is over, and watching the big long movie in one sitting. Lord help me, I'm really gonna do it.

Shark and Square visit the gas station that was previously destroyed in another episode. Shark is wise to the fact that Mouse had something to do with it. Square belittles him, so Shark points his gun at Square. Square tells him to shoot by saying “do it. Be somebody. Be somebody for the great red one”. Just then a generic guy shows up. The city is populated with generic people who all seem completely disposable. Square remarks that they are all losing their minds, or “their program”, implying that they actually are imitation people and actually are completely disposable. Shark shoots the guy's head off. Square says “it wasn't supposed to be this way”, and Shark says “this is getting out of hand, hand being the operative word here”. You'll recall that in a previous episode Shark tasked Pronto to “stop him” and I think I thought he was talking about Mouse. He was talking about the hand. Maybe both. Square says he'll never find “him”, but Shark assures he has “the bug on it”.

Back to Mouse in the 750 story building. He and Liquor and Skillet and Question Woman Cyborg Terminator Lady are all lying on the floor trying to rest. The bug creeps into frame and is swiftly shot down. Mouse encourages everyone to sleep. “We need meat to sleep” says Liquor. Mouse outfits everyone with IV drips that are filled with meat. “Ah I knew you were smart” Liquor says, maybe my favorite line of the episode. Everyone passes out. Liquor asks if they get weird dreams from the meat. We briefly see Liquors dream, where he's talking to a shivering headstone in a cemetery. “You tried, little guy. You tried the hardest”.

Generic people are singing about firetrucks and the hand. One of them is on fire. Sharks car runs them all down.

Next, a dream? Or Flashback? Where Man-Woman is on an alien landscape of some kind and encounters a flower. Shark appears in a moon, and urges her to eat it. She protests that women don't eat flowers. “Eat it for him” shark says. She eats the flower and turns into a Man. This seems like an origin story for the character. A snake shows up. Shark tells the snake it's too late, that he “got this one”. The snake roars flames in response. Shark tells the Snake to “don't do fire”

Roostre and Spider have copped a squat by the Corndroid. Roostre says his hand is out there somewhere, and that he's his homing hand. We cut to the hand still inside Producer Man's brain. He's having Producer Man enter the 750 story building. He appears to be going up to Mouse's floor.

Peanut is in Liquors store, and Golden Joe appears. Golden Joe shows Peanut a picture of the Eyes. The menacing eye seems to have the bow tie thing going on with it? It spun really fast, right? I assume that's what we're seeing. Peanut said the clone is unstable and it's cloning itself in a bad way. Peanut tells Joe to “Never. Stop. Drinking.” and remarks that “it's almost over”. Peanut seems to be hyper aware that his reality is unraveling and he's coping by staying drunk, which is why he's so giggly, I guess.

Mouse wakes Liquor. They can hear that someone is arriving. This is indeed Producer Man on his way up in the elevator. He's babbling about how he's gonna “make the records”. On Mouse's floor, everyone gets ready with weapons trained at the elevator door.

Every so slowly we inch towards a conclusion. Everyone is slowly making their way towards some goal and each week we get to see another leg of their journey. The show feels repetitious in this sense. Like, I think this is owed more to the fact that the show got a certain-sized order than it had to do with Some broad master plan. If the show were only given 6 episodes this season I'd bet the show wouldn't suffer for it. But maybe I'm wrong.

MAIL BAG

weird to think that adult swim will be past tense by the time the blog catches up to the present

It will be my honor to outlive those nasty freaks!!!

#adult swim #adultswim2021 #12 oz. mouse