Human Habitrail (Courage the Cowardly Dog)
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'Human Habitrail' is an unsual but very popular Courage the Cowardly Dog episode in season 2, said to be one of the bizarrest of the lot.
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[edit] Plot
The house is dusty, and Muriel wants someway to clean it better. A rodent introducting himself as Dr. Gerbil offers them a vacuum cleaner. Courage hears a voice screaming for help inside it. Dr. Gerbil tells him that everything will be fine. He sucks Eustace and Muriel into his vacuum cleaner and tells Courage that he is free. He drives off with them, Courage chasing after him. He goes into the gerbil's hideout. Inside the vacuum cleaner, Eustace and Muriel meet a strange woman who has clearly been in the vacuum cleaner a long time. Riding along the river in the gerbil's lair, Courage is annoyed by a constant song. Dr. Gerbil performs grotesque experiments on his three hostages, but the strange woman escapes, slightly mutated. She tells Courage of the terrible things happening. Courage finds the miniaturised Eustace and Muriel and takes the vacuum cleaner. Dr. Gerbil finds him and chases him. After one of the gerbil's products spills, the water becomes all foamy and the music stops. Courage rides in his boat, Dr. Gerbil riding after him, determined to catch him. They come to a waterfall. Courage manages to use the vacuum cleaner to save him, Eustace and Muriel, but Dr. Gerbil falls down the waterfall out of sight. Back home, Courage restores Eustace and Muriel and things go back to normal, until Eustace finds the Lint Lady in his soup!
[edit] Trivia
This episode appears to be making a point about experiments on animals. Dr. Gerbil believes he is doing Courage a favour by taking Eustace and Muriel away.
[edit] Reaction
This episode was massively successful for its weird and imaginative feel, some finding it rather disturbing and thought-provoking. This is among the fan-favourites.
