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Most of his videos consist of Crisp Rat reacting to internet memes and popular media with his character. He'll sometimes react to YouTubers who get into drama or talk about StinkyBlueRat specifically. He also creates skits parodically summarizing YouTubers or media where he'll create his own puppets or use different action figures, such as Godzilla, OneyPlays, or Spider-Man. You know, I still don't really know who David Claridge is. Sure, he's a true visionary and incredibly talented, but he's managed to keep his puppet creations at the forefront of people's attention rather than shine the light on himself. Perhaps he feels that revealing too much of the magic behind them somehow confirms the fact that they're not fully conscious beings. This hints at a true dedication to his art and can only be applauded for the lengths he has gone to achieve this, although, I suspect this is as simple as not granting interviews. Just as Roland Rat was beginning to reach stratospheric levels of fame and popularity, though, The Sun and The Daily star published stories which revealed a little known association from Claridge's recent past. The tabloids had discovered that Claridge had established a rubber/latex fetish night called Skin Two at gay club Stallions in Falconberg Court, Soho. These series also featured Roland's parents, Iris and Freddie, his pet flea Colin, Fergie the Ferret, Eric the Eagle, and his agent D'Arcy De Farcy. His girlfriend Glenis was joined by another female character called Roxanne Rat.

Roland appeared in the fourth episode of the second series of Ashes to Ashes. This appearance was anachronistic, as the show is set in 1982 whereas Roland did not debut until the following year. Roland Rat first appeared on 1 April 1983 [2] (Good Friday) on the ailing breakfast television network TV-am, and is generally regarded as its saviour, being described as "the only rat to join a sinking ship". After a couple of months on TV-am, Roland took the audience from 100,000 to 1.8 million. Roland was launched at TV-am by Children's editor Anne Wood to give kids entertainment during the Easter holidays. [3] [4]Roland Rat offers to rescue ITV's Daybreak breakfast show yeahhh!". asda.com. 21 October 2010. Archived from the original on 6 December 2010 . Retrieved 23 November 2010. The OWRRAS Summer Spectacular (Summer 1985) – This stood for Official Worldwide Roland Rat Appreciation Society. Broadcast in the summer of 1985, a studio based programme like The Spectacular Shedvision Show and the half-term series Roland Live. The last TV-am Roland Rat series. Roland's Rat Race (Easter 1985) – A quiz show, featuring James Saxon as Roland's incompetent friend and conman D'Arcy De Farcey.

Roland would also host the children's game show entitled Roland's Rat Race, where child contestants answered general knowledge questions in a race car set.On 11 February 2010, whilst making an appearance on BBC's The One Show to answer a question about how children's programmes have changed over the years, Roland Rat spent so much time joking about the presenters ( Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley) that Adrian ended the interview before he answered the question. The half-term week of October 1984 saw Operation FOGI (Free Our Glenis Immediately) which revolved around the gang's attempts – eventually successful – to liberate Glenis The Guinea Pig from her life in the pets department of Harrods. Following enormous demand, the season was repeated across subsequent Sundays for the benefit of school pupils whose half term had not fallen the week of the series' transmission. Roland and Kevin the Gerbil would travel around the United Kingdom, spending each week in a different town. In one episode, they met Austrian racing driver Roland Ratzenberger and raced the rat’s car, the ratmobile against Ratzenberger’s racing car. Trace and cut a circle approximately 17cm in diamter. Having said that, with smaller hands you may want to make these a bit smaller too. Experiment!