Pakdam Pakdai

***Pakdam Pakdai*** (Hindi name: ***पकड़म पकड़ाई***), also known internationally as ***Rat-A-Tat***, is an Indian animated comedy TV series created by Toonz Animation for Nickelodeon India. The show is a rip-off of the French animated series *Oggy and the Cockroaches*.

## Why It Sucks

* This show is nothing but a very low-budget clone and a complete rip-off of *Oggy and the Cockroaches*. It was most likely made because Nick India lost the rights to *Oggy* in 2012 to Cartoon Network India, and was made as a replacement due to the show's popularity.
	+ The show's premise is an anthropomorphic housepet dueling against a trio of vermin, with his green-furred relative. Sure, not familiar at all...
	+ Doggy Don's name bears a resemblance to Oggy's name, just one letter off.
	+ The characters are carbon copies of OatC, and some of them are based around the worst qualities about them:
		- Don is a control freak, and even worse every time the mices bothers him even in the lightest way, he rages. Not to mention he Is very dim-witted and for most of the time his idiocy Is not that funny.
		- Almost all the mices have the same personalities as the Cockroaches, with Lambu (or Larry) being the "sexy" (note the quotes) one like Marky, Motu (or Marly) is the simpleton clumsy 24/7 eating fat of like Deedee and Chotu (Charly) has little to no personality besides being the smart one (like Joey) with weapons (more detils in RQ#4).
		- Colonel is egoistical, and loves to laugh at Don, Jack from OatC tends to do something selfish too, but not up to this point.He even calls Doggy don " baby" just like Jack in the Hindi dub of *Oggy and the Coackroaches*.
		- Don and Colonel's granny is an abusive relative compared to Oggy's, as she is so strict with the two she abuses them and beats them up.
		- Ballu serve the same purpose as Bob, except he doesn't beat characters up off screen, which is VERY mean-spirited.
	+ The show also lacks any dialogue (even title card also), but has an Indian version where it's narrated! (since *Oggy* had a dub parodying Bollywood stars). ***WHAT. HYPOCRITICAL. DUBBING.***
	+ One of the mice's laughter sounds much like the audio that plays when Joey is laughing from *OatC*.
	+ It also rips-off Tom and Jerry due to the violent slapstick and its sound effects.
* Unlikable and idiotic characters, even for slapstick comedy standards and the main characters aren't any better. In one episode Don ate a remote so the mice couldn't find it.
* The animation is cheap and terrible, especially for something made in in 2013. All of them feel like janky, minimal movement, poor use of motion blur and smear frames (which also add to the clipart feeling)
* Don's screaming can get irritating and cliché.
* Tons of illogical, terrible and downright nonsensical scenes throught the show, such as the scene where the whole world sinks due to rain, the mice brothers cooking food using explosives, and the scene where characters land from a plane or from space towards the earth without killing themselves (no joke). Some scenes are even stolen from shows like *Tom and Jerry* and *Oggy and the Cockroaches*, which handle such kind of humour much better than this show. Such scenes can easily make one think the show is intentionally terrible and nothing but a low-budget clone.
* The TDM Ou Mun version suffers poor translation for the Chinese narration as well as the subtitles for text translation.
* Speaking of bad and somewhat annoying sound effects, on the international version the screams are also high pitched, and sometimes the crying ones too. They even overuse stock sound effects.
* Poor music such as the theme song. (That's just as generically poor as it can get..)
* Abysmal voice acting, due to the fact that it's just noises. There's a narrator in the original Indian version though, which can also make it as hard to watch.
* The humor Is pretty stale, as the episodes sometimes focus only on slapstick humor, and the rest of the jokes can be tedious if repeated over and over, making them boring to watch after a couple of minutes.
* Lazy editing as there are animation errors everywhere (likely as a rushed production). Sometimes, the screen will outright flash to black when cutting to the next shot!
* Random copyright infringement. In one episode, the rats watch a scene from *The Jungle Book (1968)* without permission from Disney. Another episode uses a DVD cover of *Super Duper Sumos* without permission from DiC Entertainment (now known as WildBrain). Another episode uses a Tom and Jerry scream without permission from Warner Bros.
* There are lots of mean-spirited moments, such as:
	+ In one episode, the mice actually kick Ballu's *balls*!
	+ In one episode, they actually KILL Don and feel NO remorse! (In the Hindi voice-over, they say "Today Doggy Don will have a good sleep inside the ground!")
	+ In one episode, they make Colonel's eyes pop out in a ***HOSPITAL***!
* Unlike *Oggy and the Cockroaches* and *Tom and Jerry*, it overuses toilet humor, unfunny humor, and gross-out jokes, While the aforementioned shows can handle their humor and jokes much better than this.
* The Mice Brothers (while intentionally Unlikable) Are Annoying, Sadistic jerks who Humiliate Don and Colonel if they even barely provoke them.
* The Doggie Brothers (while intentionally sympathetic) Are annoying, lowbrow, Ill tempered, and Unlikable mostly to the mice. They even Laugh at them when they get hurt or humiliated.
* The character designs are either bland, weak, or out-of-place - the fact this is a cartoon makes them feel as if they're animated clipart characters.

## Redeeming Qualities

* A few of the music isn't that bad.
* Doggy Don and Colonel have okay designs.
* Some funny parts here and there.
* Something original about this show is how Chotu has his own weaponry such as a grappling hook.
* At least the characters screentime is more balanced compared to some episodes from the show it ripped-off.

## Trivia

* There was a little broadcasting event going on called " Doggy and Oggy ", featuring this and the show that it ripped off.
* This was one of the most spammed shows on the network as it airs on Nick India's sister channel, Sonic, nearly the whole day.
	+ Now Zig & Sharko is spammed.
* It aired in 2020 in TDM Ou Mun in the Chinese province of Macao, and some parts of Guangzhou.
* It aired on Cartoon Network Asia for a short while.
* During the year of its release, it aired on Nickelodeon India. In 2014 It moved to Sonic Nickelodeon.