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Article: 'Rat Fink': All Revved Up
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 27, 2006
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People don't generally think of documentaries as being fun, but
"Tales of the Rat Fink" is one of the most fun stories to come along
in quite a while.
It uses animation to tell the tale of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, a guy
you may not have heard of but who had a huge influence on pop
culture. He is probably best known for his "Rat Fink" cartoon, which
he developed because of his hatred for Disney's Mickey Mouse. (Roth
lived not far from Disneyland, so he saw the mouse ears frequently.)
He got his start pinstriping cars and soon moved on to customizing
them with junkyard parts and, eventually, a then relatively new
material called fiberglass. To help finance his creations, he sold T-
shirts ...