Basic Trope: Animals that do human things but still remain in their animal body and tend to adhere to the natural ecosystem.
- Straight: Raymond is a rat who lives in a wall, can't communicate with humans, and eats garbage with a knife and fork.
- Exaggerated: Raymond is a rat who lives in a wall, can't communicate with humans, eats garbage with a knife and fork, and is disgusted by the other rats.
- Downplayed: Raymond is a rat who lives in a wall, can't communicate with humans, and eats garbage with a knife and fork but gets food smeared on his face.
- Justified: Raymond is a pet rat and his owner is a little girl who taught him how to use her doll's utensils.
- Inverted:
- Raymond likes to bathe in the toilet, to the disgust of all the other rats.
- Bob the human wears nothing but a loincloth, and only eats with his hands, no matter what the food is.
- Subverted: Raymond, while getting ready to eat his garbage, takes out a fork, uses it to scratch his back and then throws it away.
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: Raymond's mother tries desperately to teach him to be a normal rat.
- Zigzagged: Raymond is usually a nearly normal rat but can be a civilized one depending on the episode.
- Averted: All animals are uncivilized in this story.
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded: "Did that rat just pull out a little dining apron?"
- Invoked: An animal character who is normally depicted as uncivilized is shown to have better table manners than one of the human characters, just to show how uncivilized the human character is.
- Exploited: A cartoonist observes Raymond and uses him as an inspiration for his comic strip, which is about rats.
- Defied: "Wait, why am I using utensils? What am I, a human?"
- Discussed: "Why can't you just eat with your paws like the rest of us?"
- Conversed: "Oh look how cute! The rat in this cartoon eats with a little knife and fork!"
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