Mouse Droppings

"**Mouse Droppings**" is the 16th episode in the series and the seventh episode of Season 2.

## Episode Description

A certain cursor has trouble controlling its bowel movements...

## Appearances

* Christian Horsey
* Reinold Rodriquez
* Horseybro
* Poopsmice
* Female Security Guard
* Tyrone Leffew

## Notes & trivia

* This is the first...
	+ RJL Show episode to be produced entirely in 2022.
	+ RJL Show episode released in 2022 and...
		- using the normal animation style.
		- Mr. Kirby and Mrs. Jimenes are absent from it.
	+ RJL Show episode where the title card and YouTube thumbnail are different from each other, as the actual YouTube thumbnail originally had the actual brown poop that's seen in the title card.
	+ RJL Show episode/animation where the weather is not sunny for once (in this case, it's cloudy).
	+ RJL Show episode/animation where the Report RJL Prank details window has a reply button.
	+ RJL Show episode/animation where Horseybro appears. He's frequently been mentioned (mostly in Mr. Horsey's emails) in previous episodes. That being said, what he truly looks like (or at least what his actual color is) has yet to be revealed as he's just mostly tinted black the whole episode.
	+ RJL Show episode/animation to use the emotion effects of Voicemaker for the characters that have its voices, especially with Horseybro.
	+ RJL Show episode/animation where the Secret Door is seen but never opened at any point in it.
	+ RJL Show episode/animation where OisenBuckley did some animation.
	+ RJL Show episode where Mr. Horsey is sitting in his office the entire episode (sans his brief appearance in the punishment explanation).
	+ RJL Show episode where Nat23 audio mixed the entire episode while Bbtund8 didn't do any audio mixing since "HeadAche".
	+ RJL Show episode/animation to use art from or inspired by Craiyon, DALL-E 2 and Midjourney.
		- It's also the first Nat23 animation to do so (for the latter two).
		- Craiyon was used as a reference for the background in the Poor Bloban meme.
		- Midjourney was used for the backgrounds of the two transition cards and the punishment explaination this episode. The mice cage was also partially based off of a Midjourney image.
		- On the other hand, images from DALL-E 2 were used as references for Horseybro's room, house, car, and the backgrounds for some of his posters in his room.
* This is the second...
	+ RJL Show episode to be released in less than a month. The first was "Showing and Hiding Desktop".
	+ RJL Show episode/animation to be released on the anniversary of another RJL Show episode (let alone in a row). The episode in question is "Clippy".
	+ Coincidentally, both episodes are part of Season 2.
* This is the third RJL Show episode to have all of the audio and animation was done on Windows, with "Mouse Mover" and "Clippy" being the first two to meet this criteria.
* The beta script for this episode was written at two separate occasions not too long before the release of the preceeding episode. In fact, the script was technically finished about an hour after the release of said episode too.
* Discounting the script being started for this episode late into the preceeding episode's production, this episode was in production for the second shortest amount of time compared to all other episodes so far, with only "Showing and Hiding Desktop" beating it (as it was released two weeks after its preceeding episode).
	+ This also means that this episode had the shortest production time of all Season 2 episodes, as the aforementioned episode is a Season 1 episode.
	+ Coincidentally, both episodes were released in August.
* The release of this episode brought the entire series up to an hour's worth of content. The preceding episode was ten seconds away from doing that.
* Much unlike the previous two episodes at least, this episode had a much quicker start as the script and (most of) the audio for it was finished just a week after the preceding episode was released. Almost the entire first minute of animation (excluding the intro) was finished in the same time frame as well.
* While not too noticable, the sky has now been properly extended in the background for Mr. Horsey's office as of this episode (including the intro).
* Part of the monitors' cords and the gray holder for Mr. Horsey's plant have been altered this episode to better match the show's style. The monitor cords were also darkened, and the vase for Mr. Horsey's plant was also edited very slightly.
* The typical Horsey Inc. wallpaper (not the one Mr. Horsey himself has) was purposefully brightened up in this episode to better see the turds the cursor left.
* The comptuer monitor brand name has been changed from "SEDELL" (which was only seen in the second episode) to "BLDELL" this episode.
* Even though the animation in the emergency meeting flashback is mostly the same, Mr. Horsey and Mr. Leffew have their updated designs in it this episode, along with lip sync edited a bit to match the current RJL Show lip sync style.
* With Horseybro calling Mr. Horsey Friedkinbro and Horsey being Mr. Horsey's surname, Horseybro's surname being Friedkin is pretty much confirmed, although his first name is still unknown at this point.
* One of Horseybro's posters is a caesar cipher repeated six times; cracking it reveals that the message says "GETOUT".
* Nat23's mice design was based off of two mice: an icon of a mouse from a Windows 3.1 program and the mouse from Rodent's Revenge.
* The security desk was shortened to an improved height considering the characters' shortness as of this episode.
* Like with the "or else...death" phrase in "Clippy", the phrase "shut up your mouth" was based on Nat23's youngest brother occasionally saying that.
	+ The funny face he makes when saying that is also based on some of his drawings, along with the poor bloban from earlier (not the bloban's color though).
* While there will almost certainly never be swearing in the show, Horseybro saying "for f's sake" is one of the closest the show has gotten to including one.
* The female security guard was going to be killed by the bomb originally, although partially due to the other security guard dying in the previous season as well, that was scrapped.
* The original plan was possibly to just have Mr. Leffew catch one mouse (which may not have been defecating either), and Horseybro likely wouldn't have been involved either.
* Horseybro's mouth was considered being seen through the silhouette early in production, but Artistunknown suggested against it.
* Unlike the YouTube version, the Newgrounds version has embedded captions in the video.

### Goofs

* When Horseybro rests the mouse cage on the ground in Mr. Horsey's office, the loop of the mice moving in the cage goes back a few frames.
* While the Secret Door is to the left of the entrance of Mr. Horsey's office (from the inside of course), the preceeding episode implies the opposite.
* The perspective is a bit off on the left side of the background in the same shot the Secret Door is seen in.
* When Mr. Leffew questions the identity of Horseybro, not only is he not holding the phone, but the phone is back on the phone system, even though in the shots before and after that shot he's still in the call. Furthermore, in the same shot, one of the feces and mice are above Mr. Leffew's layer.
* Midjourney is missing from the credits.