- “Well, for starters, I'm a six-foot rat.”
- ―Gary
Gary Andrews (also known as Gary the Rat) is the title character and the main character of the 2000 webseries and the 2003 Spike TV original animated series, Gary the Rat. Gary himself is a successful and ruthless lawyer at Harrison, Camille, Beckett and Weiss who has turned into a 6-foot rat. According to the episode This Is Not a Pipe, Gary likes opera.
Overview[]
Gary "The Rat" Andrews is a self-centered, misanthropic defense attorney who awakens one morning to find that he has somehow transformed into a giant bipedal rat. Gary struggles to deal with his transformation and hold on to his status as a high-paid, if mercenary, lawyer. Until Gary figures out why he's like this he has decided to try and function the best he can in a "human" world. Outraged at his new appearance, Truman, a tenant in Gary's expensive apartment building, has hired exterminator Johnny Bugz to get rid of Gary for good.
Appearance[]
His appearance as giant bipedal rat left people hanging on the wrong ending sometimes.
Personality[]
Gary Andrews is a very mean-spirited attorney to everyone except possibly his mother. His human face isn’t even seen in flashbacks. It isn’t explained why he got transformed into a giant rat. He likes convincing the delivery man to kill himself after getting some cheese. He resembles more like a blue giant dog with rat ears than a rat.
Behind the scenes[]
- Kelsey Grammer would later portray Beast from the X-Men film series who is also a blue furred man wearing a suit.
- Kelsey Grammer did a spectacular job voicing Gary.
- His design for the show is somewhat appealing.