List of 12 oz. Mouse episodes
This article contains episode summaries for the American animated television series 12 oz. Mouse. All episodes aired on the Adult Swim programming block on Cartoon Network.
Season One
"Hired"
Episode number: 101
Original airdate: June 19, 2005
Mouse Fitzgerald is hired for a job by Shark. His first task is to pick up an important rectangular businessman and take him to Cheese Industries. Instead of doing the job, Fitz takes him to a porno set where he stars in his very first porno, then he blows him up. Fitz then robs a bank, orders 12 beers from Rhoda, throws up on the Siren Lady, and sings to the police. Fitz and Skillet go to Liquor's to get a drink. As Fitz leaves Liquor's, The Siren Lady (Man/Woman) yells at him as he is hit by several cars. The Talent Scout shows up and offers him a job as an actor. Fitz then returns to Shark to recap his failed assignment. Fitz shoots Shark who reveals that he is Bulletproof, and then decides to take Shark's new job. He meets Eye and claims that he "can't do it."
- This episode is the pilot which aired as a special presentation in summer of 2005.
"Signals"
Episode number: 102
Original airdate: October 23, 2005
Fitz meets his newest client, Eye, in the Diner. Man/Woman serves them food on fire. The New Guy is seen on the Diner's video camera, having just broken free from prison. Eye hires him to find the mysterious Golden Joe and retrieve money he owes to Eye. Man/Woman sounds her alarm, and Fitz and Eye go back to discussing money. Fitz goes visits Shark where his office floods, and Fitz opens the door spilling them out into the street. Fitz and Joe run into each other at a bar. After Fitz shoots at Golden Joe he gives up the money he owes to Eye. They go to Liquor's for beer and the Siren Lady sounds her alarm to Liquor. Fitz and Golden Joe then buy a tank in order to free Skillet from prison. They are stopped briefly by a Girl with Green Shoes, but they shoot her and enter the Jale. They meet the Policeman as he smokes and give him a bomb to hold. They go to Skillet's cell and trade him for Golden Joe. They leave and The Policeman shows the bomb to Golden Joe before he teleports away, leaving the Policeman to blow-up. Fitz and Skillet leave in the Tank. Fitz begins singing to the mountains when Eye parachutes in. He asks about his money which Fitz pissed away on a tank. Skillet, still wearing his ankle bracelet explodes. Fitz then returns to Shark to review his mission, which he again failed. Shark introduces the New Guy.
"Rooster"
Episode number: 103
Original airdate: October 30, 2005
Fitz is asleep having a strange dream in which a baby mouse is born. It cuts to him, the baby mouse and a lady mouse on the beach as sharks swim in the water and Fitz laughs in an abnormally deep voice. It then cuts to Fitz looking at his "Federul" ID Card. The Lady Mouse (presumably his wife) calls him to bed, but he is hit in the neck with a dart. Next he is seen talking to an incoherent, silhouetted figure in the doorway. He wakes up, drinks and Skillet knocks at the door with a package. Shark is sleeping in his office when Rectangle calls him. Shark is surprised at his surviving Fitz's bomb. Rectangle reveals that he is using Man/Woman to send signals to people. Back at Fitz's house, Skillet gives Fitz the package which turns out to be a homing corndog. It leads them to Roostre, a man who farms corndogs. They talk, the homing corndog tries to fly away, but Roostre shoots it down with a missile. Eye is awoken in his home by Man/Woman (working for Rectangle). Cut to Shark's office as he shows Eye and Man/Woman a slide-show, as Rectangle makes business plans. Fitz and Roostre drink beer as Skillet, who is watching the jet, is kidnapped by The New Guy. Fitz returns to find Skillet gone and the jet covered in mysterious papers. Rectangle hits on Man/Woman in Rhoda's. She turns into a Man and calls the Policeman, who is of no help. Eye is gassed by Shark's clock. At his home, The New Guy has Skillet bound and gagged. The walls are covered in pictures of the chinchilla. The New Guy puts on a record and hula-hoops seductively. Fitz goes to Shark, where Shark expresses his hatred for corndogs and calls Fitz "Butch".
"Spider"
Episode number: 104
Original airdate: November 6, 2005
Fitz receives a call from Shark about his icebox. There is a frozen, ringing phone inside. A Spider builds a web in his apartment and draws an arrow on the wall. Meanwhile, Eye and Rhoda are discussing things in the bar but stop when Fitz arrives. Fitz orders some beer and takes Eye with him. Shark has his bug plant cameras in Fitz's apartment. Fitz and Eye go to the apartment, but the spider and the arrow are mysteriously gone. As The New Guy sleeps Skillet shoots laserbeams from his eyes to cut his ropes. Fitz searches for the arrow as Eye escapes. Fitz shoots the cameras out. Fitz realizes that there are papers similar to the ones on his jet, scattered all over his apartment. There's a knock at the door and Skillet enters. Shark threatens Rhoda about talking too much. He also asks Rhoda about the letter addressed to Roostre, but sent to Liquor by accident. Fitz looks at the papers as a clock appears, gasses him, and Fitz feels compelled to burn the papers. Skillet shrieks as he does. Fitz and Skillet break in to the music store. Fitz starts up on the guitar, Skillet on the drums as The Policeman comes in. The Policeman rocks out as The Talent Agent enters to sign them onto his record label, only to have his head split in half. Liquor reads Roostre's letter. It is from Roostre's son, who claims to have transformed himself into a Mosquito, named Mosquitor. Blood pours out from the letter as he reads it. Fitz shows Shark his record "F-off". Shark tells Fitz not to look under his bed. Cuts to the inside of a house with arrows on the walls and someone taking a shower. Fitz finds a hand under his bed.
"Rememorized"
Episode number: 105
Original airdate: November 13, 2005
Man/Woman wants to play ball but no one will play it. A large crowd of unidentified people pass her. Rectangle follows them, claiming that they are actually following him. Rhoda then passes by, asking where everyone went. At Fitz's place, Fitz and Skillet find a television outside the door. Shark appears on the television and introduces Pronto in a threatening tone, revealing that Pronto is an expert archer. After this, Fitz and Skillet decide they're hungry and drive the jet car to the diner. What follows is a long scene that alternates between the policeman trying to holdup the empty diner and Skillet and Fitz engaged in a gunfight just outside against an unseen person who they don't even know. Eventually, they make it inside the diner, but are followed by the Girl with Green Shoes. Annoyed by her constant admonishments, Fitz, Skillet and the policeman shoot her. Man/Woman is in Liquor's store, complaining that no one wants to play ball. Liquor tells her to flip off people on the highway. Rectangle meets with Shark, along with the large group of unidentified people, who now have hat-like devices attached to their heads. At Shark's demand, Rectangle recites the command words "miglo la mafla vermimanin" and the hat devices start glowing. Shark then promptly demands he leave. Fitz and Skillet drive past Man/Woman, who flips them off as they pass by. They pick her up and drive to the bar, where they find Rhoda's body shot full of arrows...
"Spharktasm"
Episode number: 106
Original airdate: November 20, 2005
Fitz et al. take advantage of Rhoda's death to consume large amounts of beer, only to be interrupted by what appears to be an impostor Rhoda. The new Rhoda tries to smooth over the situation but Fitz pulls a gun on him and then takes him back to his place for an interrogation. Man/Woman is incapacitated by turkeys placed around her feet. Rhoda starts talking, saying that Roostre is "The Man" and knows everything. Fitz goes to Roostre's while Rhoda stays behind under instructions to notify Fitz when Rectangle shows up. At Roostre's, Fitz and Skillet find Roostre, Golden Joe, and The Policeman partying. While spying on them with an awesome scope Fitz has another flashback, this time remembering his wife giving him the scope as a birthday present. When she goes to check on the baby, she is shot in the neck with a dart and sees the silhouetted figure. Back in the present, Fitz and Skillet burst into Roostre's house and capture everyone after an epic gunfight. Fitz demands answers at gunpoint, asking why he was "ripped" from his life. The New Guy appears in the middle of the room and starts playing his song on a record player. Meanwhile at the bar, Rhoda tries to call Fitz to report that Rectangle has appeared, but the call is intercepted by Shark, and the viewer learns he's "not going to like what comes next."
"Adventure Mouse"
Episode number: 107
Original airdate: January 1, 2006
Rectangle uses what appears to be a telekinetic blast to slice Rhoda clean in half. Rhoda's innards fall out, revealing a snake that was coiled inside of him. The snake breathes fire and slithers away. Rectangle calls Shark, who is in his den wearing a tuxedo jacket, and confirms he's coming to Shark's fancy party. At Roostre's house, everyone is mesmerized by New Guy's song and hula-hooping. Roostre shouts that they have to get away before the song ends. Everyone scrambles out of the house except for Skillet, who is still dancing with the New Guy. Fitz gives the keys to his jetcar to Roostre, Policeman and Golden Joe, telling them to meet up in town in an hour. Fitz goes back to rescue Skillet. He launches a rocket-powered skateboard into the room, which destroys the record player and knocks out the New Guy. Skillet shows Fitz an invitation to Shark's party which he found on the New Guy. Fitz gathers up Skillet and the unconscious New Guy and skates back to town. He arrives at Shark's party to find Roostre, Golden Joe, and Policeman unable to exit his jetcar. Roostre calls Fitz by his name, which seems to strike a chord in his memory. Meanwhile, Shark and Rectangle decide to put an end to Eye. Rectangle conjures a pair of bloddy shears, but no one has hands to use it. So Shark sends Pronto to Fitz's house to retrieve the Hand from his ice box. The Hand apparently attacks Eye with the shears and cuts one of his legs off. Fitz gets drunk at the party and falls through a secret passage behind a bookcase into a warped dimension. Skillet attempts to break into the bookcase to rescue Fitz but is knocked out by a dart fired by Shark...
Specials
"12 oz. Mouse Spider-Man Special"
Episode number: 104b
Original airdate: June 19, 2005
This alternate version of Spider was the same as the original, but with several things cut out, and Skillet's long drum solo was added in. Things removed: Rhoda and Shark's conversation is cut down thus removing Golden Joe's appearance, Mosquitor's letter was cut down and the dripping blood was removed, and Shark's conversation with Fitz about the record is cut down to "don't look under your bed." All this made room for the extended drum solo which went on for several minutes.
This special aired directly following the premiere of the standard version of "Spider."
12 oz. New Year Marathon
Original airdate: December 31, 2005 - January 1, 2006
This marathon aired on the night of New Year's Eve. It consisted of the first six episodes and concluded with the premiere of episode 7 "Adventure Mouse."
The bumpers featured new scenes from the world of 12 oz. Mouse:
- Fitz and Skillet surfing
- Fitz and Skillet shooting at a skeleton
- Fitz and Skillet continue shooting the skeleton to pieces
- Policeman getting blown up by a bomb
- Girl in Green talking to Liquor
- The Eye tap dancing on an island
- Fitz playing his guitar