Viraldice: The Internet Is Losing Its Mind Over a Video of a Rat Who Showers Like a Person

ats have been having a pop culture moment lately. Think about it.

First came Ratatouille, the movie centered around the titular Remy, a rat who can cook. Before Ratatoille, I thought rats were horrible little rodents brimming with such deadly infections as the Bubonic plague. After Ratatouille, I was more okay with coexisting with my rodent brethren and even became inspired to try the French dish the movie was named after.

Note: It was not to my taste. I can't appreciate a dish unless it has pepper. Lots and lots of pepper.

Then, some years later, came Pizza Rat, the intrepid brown avenger who stunned the Internet when he opted to sling home that most New York of lunches, pizza.

Pizza Rat showed us that anything humans can do, rats can do it better. I mean, dude had a slice bigger than he was – extra cheese – and had he not been scared away by a pesky human, he would’ve had enough for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Then of course, there was Avocado Rat. If Pizza Rat was your hardened Manhattenite, Avocado Rat was its millennial cousin living out its hipster dreams in Brooklyn.

Avocado Rat was very obviously an avowed gourmand with waxed whiskers, a monocle for irony, and a disdain for white bread because of the “gluten.”

Now, another rat has arrived to take the rodent crown. The internet has gifted it the obvious moniker Shower Rat, but unlike its predecessors, there are a lot of questions about the veracity of its story.