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''Ratz'' is a Franco-Canadian animated series produced by the Montreal-based [=ToonCan=] Productions and France's Creator/{{Xilam}}. Created by Richard Zielenkiewicz, the show aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}} in Canada and France 3 in France, running for a single season of 26 episodes.

Two rats, Rapido and Razmo (voiced by French comedy duo Creator/RamzyBedia and Éric Judor), are stowaways on the S.S. Wanderer, a cargo ship transporting a huge amount of Gouda cheese. When they're not dealing with the current crisis of the episode (often due to themselves, the crew or temporary passengers/cargo), they race throughout the ship using "ratboards", makeshift flying racecars.

The show debuted March 7, 2003 in Canada, arriving to France a few months later on September 21 of the same year. The final episode debuted on November 11, 2003. Outside of France and Canada, the show has appeared on Creator/{{Boomerang}} in the United States, Creator/CartoonNetwork in Latin America, Animax in India, [=MBC3=] in the Middle East, K2 in Italy, and Creator/ToonDisney in Britain. It is currently available on the French version of Creator/{{Netflix}}.

Not to be confused with ''Franchise/{{Bratz}}''.
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!!''Ratz'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The smoke from the ratboards, among other things, are CGI.
* ALizardNamedLiz: Of the wordplay variety with Rapido and Razmo, the title rats.
* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Benny is of Chinese origin, so he knows how to fight off the rats, unsurprisingly.
* BalloonBelly: Rapido sports one in an episode, after drowning his sorrow in cheese.
* BottleEpisode: The entirety of the show takes place on the S.S. Wanderer, and whichever harbors she arrives at. However, there are enough settings in and on the ship to make up for it.
* CaptainOblivious: The Captain of the ship, appropriately.
* CarnivoreConfusion: Razmo once raised a stray kitten to adulthood, which showed affection in return. [[spoiler:[[PredatorTurnedProtector This paid off]].]]
* CartoonCheese: It's more holey than Gouda usually is.
* DerangedAnimation: Small wonder, considering it was made by the same studio behind ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'' and ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'', two other French series well-known for their own crazy animation.
* DoubleEntendre: In the French dub of "Eat As You Can" [[labelnote:note]]"Fromage à gogo" in French[[/labelnote]]. In reply to Rapido's comment about how the engine which Razmo tried to lift weighed six tons, Razmo's last line of this episode could be translated as "what 'six tons'? I once lifted [[YourMom your mom]]" [[labelnote:note]]"Et alors, six tonnes ? J'ai déjà soulevé, une fois, j'ai déjà soulevé ta mère…"[[/labelnote]]. While this could be understood as [[YouAreFat a mockery about the weight]] of Rapido's mother, this becomes a crude joke when you realize that the French verb for "lift" is also slang for "having sex".
* ExplosiveBreeder: A female rabbit in one episode soon swarms the whole ship in white rabbits.
* FantasticRacism: When Razmo asks a genie if he can do a wish for both himself and Rapido[[labelnote:*]]They were down to one wish at this point.[[/labelnote]], the genie considers the option, but forbids it when he remembers that Razmo is a rat. Razmo immediately calls him out on this after he leaves.
* FatAndSkinny: Razmo and Rapido.
* FlyingCar[=/=]HoverBoard: The ratboards.
* HomemadeInventions
** The ratboards seem to be made by strapping jet engines to mousetraps, but an episode shows that the rats don't know what an actual mousetrap is.
** Razmo is a mechanic and creates various gadgets over the course of the series.
* HugeGirlTinyGuy: Svetlana (the Huge Girl), Benny and the Captain (the Tiny Guys).
* HulkSpeak: Svetlana talks like this.
* HuskyRusskie: Svetlana, a rare female case. She is the biggest threat to the rats by herself, thanks to her strength.
* MouseWorld: Downplayed; the show takes place on the ship, where the rats have their own living quarters.
* NoNameGiven: The Captain is simply named for what he is.
* [[OddlySmallOrganisation Oddly Small Crew]]: With the captain, a chef and one engineer, the S.S Wanderer has the bare minimum.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: One episode centers around a duo of man-eating mermaids that try to devour the crew of the ship. One is your typical woman with a fish tail, but the other rather has human legs and a fish head. Both have unusual skin color (green and blue), and both are shapeshifters (they can turn into human women, but only for a limited time, and at the end of the episode one turns into a clown). When they can't eat humans, they usually eat snails - and they are apparently terribly afraid of rats.
* RedOniBlueOni: [[ColorCodedCharacters Rapido wears red and Razmo wears blue]]. Razmo ''does'' lose his temper on occasion, however.
* TerribleTrio: The Captain, Svetlana and Benny. [[JustifiedTrope Mostly because they try to kill the rats, for being near the Gouda]].
* WildTake: These are frequently used.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Given how [[{{Narcissist}} self]][[ItsAllAboutMe -]][[MilesGloriosus centered]] Rapido tends to be as a roommate, can you blame Razmo for barely standing him?
* XtremeKoolLetterz: Uzed in the zhow'z tytle.
* YouDirtyRat: Our main duo is a benign case. The crew wants to get rid of them all the same.
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