The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures

The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures is a 1998 French and Canadian-animated, television series. It was co-produced by CINAR Films (now Cookie Jar Group), France Animation, Ravensburger Film & TV, and WIC Entertainment, as well as Reader's Digest, Videal, and Motion Pictures,S.A. (the latter three during the first season). It was spun-off from a Christmas special in the HBO Storybook Musicals series, The Country Mouse and the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale. It is also based on Random House's 1994 book, The Country Mouse and the City Mouse: Christmas Is Where The Heart Is. Although the show is somewhat based on the book, the main characters from that were adapted for this series.

Plot
This version follows an American country mouse named Emily and her British, city mouse cousin named Alexander whose adventures have them traveling around the world in the early 20th century. They have more cousins who they visit in various, other countries and they work together to put a stop to the criminal activities that take place. The mice meet kids of various nationalities as well and they communicate with them mostly, with, at least, a couple of exceptions and the kids help out the mice too. Sometimes this serves as an alternate reality to historical events, as the mice sometimes play a part in assisting historical icons, like the Wright brothers and George Washington Carver. The most notable villain Emily and Alexander cross paths with is a rat known as No-Tail No Good-Nik, so-called due to the fact he wears a prosthetic tail. The two mice and their cousins tangle with other villains additionally.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The art style is nice looking and there's plenty of lushness to the animation.
 * 2) The episodes' stories are written inventively, especially with what they do with the re-imaginings of how things went in historical events.
 * 3) The character designs aren't bad on the eyes.
 * 4) A great variety of characters, many of whom have their likability, and there are several of the mice, the kids, and the fictional versions of historical icons to choose as favorites.
 * 5) Wonderfully rollicking ragtime-style theme song.
 * 6) The English voice acting sounds well done.
 * 7) How the mice have roles in this fictionalized version of events and how they help out the historical figures makes for a whole different outlook or aspect that's offered, and make for an alternative way to learn history lessons, even if what's depicted in these particular episodes isn't entirely true or accurate.
 * 8) Again, it is a spin-off of a Christmas special and, to an extent, based on a book.
 * 9) The concept is an altered look on the story and main characters that works out well.

Trivia

 * There is also a Christmas episode called, "All I Want For Christmouse", and it's the only holiday episode.
 * The episode, "Sherlock Mouse", is similar to Disney's The Great Mouse Detective.
 * "The Mouse-Tache Marauder" features a girl named Alice, who not only shares the name with the Alice of Alice in Wonderland, but her appearance is based on that literary character as well.
 * The majority of episode titles have the word "mouse" or "mice" in them, as puns in some variation or another.

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