Elliot's Guide to Becoming a True Mouse

Elliot's Guide to Becoming a True Mouse is an American animated television series created by animator Arlo-Avocha Vernon for Gingo. It is Vernon's third animated series for Gingo after Funky Fu! Pop Star Fighter (1997-2004) and Limo Dude (2004-2006). The series centers on a young orphan named Matthew, who is transformed into a mouse by an undercover mouse trio of Elliott, Heden, and Frank, and learns how to embrace the urban world from a rodent's perspective.

Vernon originally conceived the mice in 2007 as a web animated short My Best Mice, while experimenting to implement the traditional squash-and-stretch method into Adobe Flash. Vernon later created another short, which featured redesigns of the mice and a new then-unnamed character, Matthew. The short was pitched to Gingo in March 2012, and picked up for a half-hour television series that debuted on August 23, 2014, with the final episode airing on May 25, 2019.

Premise
The series is set in an orphanage where three mice --- named Elliot, Heden, and Frank --- live, survive, and steal as their specialty.

In the pilot episode, a young orphan named Matthew Caesar is sent to a foster filled with roughhousing children. During a thievery mission, the three notice Matt as the only reasonable human under the kids' roof, and pull him into their mousehole using Heden's Mouseflucto ("magnetic form alteration wave projector"), transforming him into a mouse in the process. The episodes focus on the trio as they teach the boy to adapt to their lifestyle, customs, and survival instincts, and explore a new environment that, while much scarier for their kind than it is for Matthew's, can be worth it for a lifetime of thrill and adventure.

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