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 the orphanage where he is forced to endure ill-mannered children who interpret themselves as cavemen. During a thievery mission, the three mice notice the children tormenting Matt, 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 center 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 the their kind than it is for Matthew's, can be worth it for a lifetime of thrill and adventure.

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