
I've seen bigger rats.
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“Serves him right… That was my cheese!
It’s going to be a glorious football season!
Now what? Even his wife didn’t want him.
Damn that thing hits hard…. it knocked the fur right off of him!
I said, “Be careful what you wish for!”
Told him…Cigarettes will kill ya..
I told you humans are more attracted to beer than peanuts.
Ewww …. I said get a LIVE trap!
Hey, I didn’t know he smoked menthols, see if he has any more on him.
“I’m telling you Walt these guys will buy anything if you promise them washboard abs!”
NFL Package gets ‘em every time.
I am glad we got him before the Stock Market did !!!!
The wife finally figured out a way to keep him home at night.
” He was an exterminator. detective.” “I Guess its true. What goes around comes around.”
I’m glad that rats out ot the way .
These guys just can’t resist a little television.
There’s no way we can flush that down the toilet!
Now we have the run of the house.
We are now the BIG CHEESE of the house.
Wow! I can’t believe it worked so well… We just copied their design and added a lazy boy!
Did it work or is he just passed out or sleeping!?.
How could anyone be stupid enough to fall for a trap like that???
i told you all we need is booze and porn to catch him
It’s not funny Harry! Will you PLEASE stop joking around and just get rid of it..it’s giving me the creeps!
now for that dang cat
“Hmm, looks like we need to lower the arms rests a bit. If he were skinnier that may not have worked so well.”
and he thought smoking was dangerous
Weird….He never thought his stem cell research would ever come back to haunt him…..
I told you it works better than peanut butter.
i wish we could just flush him already he starting to stink
“Build a better human trap and the world will beat a path to your door.”
That trap outta keep him inprisioned while we go hunt down his wife!
I like this much better than those sticky traps.
poor sob did not even see that one coming
Mortimur, put that out. You know those things can kill you.
I wouldn’t have minded if he hadn’t kept pooping all over the place.
Darn Roaches!!!!
Well, now that he’s gone, who is going to feed the cat?
That’ll teach those lazy lilliputians to stay off our turf!
See? Much more human than the sticky paper!
You’re turn to clean it up…
Sick of following orders George and Dick catch Willard napping.
I feel kind if inhumane, maybe we should have just used one of those sticky pads instead.
would it be too soon to claim those cheese balls over there?
you touch him….no, you touch him……NO, YOU TOUCH HIM!
I have not had my H1N1 shot you bag em…
Facebook….It’s like leading cows to the slaughter…
Wow…Lucky we got here before he droped his cigarette…That could have been disasterous!
The comfortable chair and tv gets ‘em every time.
Well, it looks like that “girdle” couldn’t help that belly!
We caught a lazy man in a lazyboy
Using a remote for bait gets’em every time.
PETA called and they are not happy.
yet another case of Slum Landlord pissing off the tenants…
“Help yourself, but I really don’t care for the taste of smoked human.”
“Be sure to remove the hair. I need it to line our nest.”
“…another banker down and about a bazillion trillon to go…”
..maybe a red wine with this one?”
“It’s amazing what you can do when you follow directions.”
“You and your selective hearing !! I said HUMANE!!
Yes, dear, you’re the great hunter. Now take it outside and clean it!
I never saw one up close before. Ugly, aren’t they.
“Yup… T.V. for humans it’s like cheese to a … … well you know”
Well Ralph, I think that’s the last one. It should just about fill the freezer.
One small step for a rat, a giant step for ratkind!
No, I’m NOT sure that it’s dead… it ALWAYS looks like that!
Darn it Louie! I told you to make it look like an accident!
So Mr. Disney… Who’s the “Big Cheese” now?
“Hey… let’s put the Cubs game on…they’ll think he tripped it himself!”
This one smells delicious, like Limburger.
I told you Frank, switching to Cheetos was the smartest thing we’ve done since we busted out of that maze.
“He must have been watching Soccer,he`s just sprung the Offside Trap.”
“You know, if you don’t stop smoking it’s going to kill you.”
“It looks so peaceful lying there.”
See! I told you cheetos would work!
I know you get off on catching them, but do you always have to light up a cigarette immediately afterwards?
Gosh! Look at it’s hair! I wonder what kind of products it used on it?
WOW! Now I understand why those droppings were so big!
“The beer gut gets ‘em every time!”
They’re so much easier to catch when sedated.
I know you think this is cruel Marge, but it is more humane than the sticky matress trap.
Check the bonbon trap to see if we got the female.
“Oh no,this is terrible,He`s pregnant.”
And you wanted to call the exterminator!
“Paybacks are a bitch, aren’t they?”
“I told you with the right bait we’d get back at him!”
“A comfy chair, a bowl of chips and Monday Night Football, and they’ll fall for it every time.”
Store Wars Episode V – The Rodents Strike Back!
“Now who’s the pest and who’s the control, huh? Huh? I thought so!”
i do not think obamas health plan going to help this human
Sobbing and confused, Lonnie and Lennie wondered how long the beer had been warm.
“What’s now?”
“I don’t know. The commercial said to set it and forget it.”
I told you we can build a beter mousetrap. Beer & peanuts gets them everytime!
So which one do you think actually killed him, the trap or the re-runs of Webster?
“Yep, it’s about time to sell that Laz Z-Boy stock.”
“We need a bigger Grill,he`s still not Cooked.”
We caught a fat one! They’re all fat in the US, haven’t you been watching the news.
Happy Halloween!…Oh Crap…Looks like Larry got caught in the rest of my costume. Now what?
Rats!!
It’s sad that Hank did this to himself. He said he has been feeling trapped.
“That reality TV show loop really works wonders.”
He shouldda bought American. That IKEA stuff is better-priced but loaded with hidden design flaws.
How far down are we on the food chain?!?
I don’t know man, Jerry never said nothing about his last name being Cruise, I feel like we jumped the couch on this one.
“Ever see that ‘they check IN, but they don’t check OUT’ commercial on TV about traps? Apparently HE hasn’t! NOW what do we do with him? Ich! I don’t wanna touch him!”