August 2025 "It Was All Started by a Mouse" Exercise Challenge

70 minutes for me (265/600) and congrats to Elizabeth Smith on reaching orange!! :tigger:

The team stands at 3,204 minutes and 36% of goal :cheer2:


Continuing with the Great Mouse Detective, we have Professor Ratigan (a.k.a. Raya's trainer :laughing:) -
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Basil's long-time arch-enemy, and based on Professor Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes franchise, professor Ratigan is voiced by Vincent Price:


Some Ratigan Trivia:
His first name is Padraic.
He hates being called a rat, and refers to himself as a big mouse.
He is animated with 5 fingers, unlike the usual 4 that the rest of the characters have.
He has a pet cat named Felicia.
 
60 new minutes for me (325/600) and I'm purple!

Team total is 3,422 and 38%.

Continuing with the GMD, we have Olivia and Hiram Flaversham:
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Olivia is the five-year-old girl mouse who comes to Basil for help in finding her father, who has been kidnapped (on her birthday, no less!) by Fidget the bat. She was voiced by then eight-year-old Susanne Pollatschek, who did not continue with Disney voice acting as a career.

Olivia's father, Hiram Flaversham, is a Scottish toymaker with a shop in London. He specializes in very lifelike automata, which makes him valuable to Ratigan in his plot to takeover Buckingham Palace. He was voiced by Alan Young, who you might know better as the voice of Scrooge McDuck.

But I learned in the video below that he also voiced Farmer Smurf and co-wrote the original Mickey's Christmas Carol album (in 1974, not the 1983 cartoon version). ~

 













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