Captain Ratbeard is one of five key members of the Pirats. His role in the crew is the captain leading the hunt against Reader Rabbit and Sam the Lion. According to Riley, his previous name was "Harold Hairball the Third" and he was a laughing stock.
Personality[]
Captain Ratbeard is a tough acting rat who leads a number of rats in his crew of Merry Pirats. He speaks in a thick Irish accent. As revealed in his song, he has been into piracy since he was a baby. His goals are to protect the Pirats' cheese supply on Pirate Island, to capture Reader Rabbit and Sam the Lion and to commandeer their Dreamship, and he will stop at nothing to accomplish these. He likes to get his way through trickery and recklessness. He is very quick to judge and assume, often ignoring advice from Vermina and as a result his plans fall into ruin. Occasionally he does nice things for his crew, like reserving pink lemonade for a special occasion. His favorite food is cheese.[1]
Appearance[]
In "Reader Rabbit Math Adventures Ages 6–9", Captain Ratbeard is a anthropomorphic rat who has cream colored fur with ginger hair, beard and mustache, and a pink nose. He wears a pirate hat made of cheese and a green feather, a white shirt, a violet jacket, a brass buckle leather belt, grey trousers and brown shoes.
In "Reader Rabbit Preschool: Sparkle Star Rescue" he wears a black pirate hat with a green feather and yellow lining, a pair of gold earrings, a pair of brown gloves, a buttonless violet jacket with yellow lining, grey trousers and black boots. He now has ginger eyebrows and no longer has pink colored inner ears.
In "Reader Rabbit Learn to Read With Phonics: 1st & 2nd Grade", his nose color is changed to black. This is also the case with the other Pirats.
In "Lapin Malin - J'Apprends a Lire et a Ecrire", he has brown colored fur with ginger hair, eyebrows, mustache and beard, and a brown nose. He wears a yellow pirate hat with blue trimmings, a yellow rain jacket, grey striped shirt, grey gloves, blue trousers and brown buckle boots.
Quotes[]
Pirats Island[]
- "Try to find the boat piece if you dare! (laugh)"
- "When I’m through with Reader Rabbit to that "sea lion", they wish they would never sell the seven seas! (laugh)"
- "We’ll catch that maingee lion and the fuzzy bunny too, Pirats dial (laugh)!"
Pirats Hideout[]
- "Oh, I feel wonderfully, mean and nasty today!"
- "Hhhmmm, it's about time one of us sang a beautiful pirate song!"
- "i’m waiting and it’s not good to keep the captain waiting."
- "So Ah, who’s going to sing us a song Ay?"
Pirate Lookout[]
- "Dar! There's nothing more delicate than being on a lookout duty. I can hardly wait till it's time to do something more interesting."
- "Darr, rutabagas are fired in, and fired out, and pirates upside down in the maestro, right near shipping."
- "What was that noise over there?"
- "Well, okay then!"
- "Well, pull my pirate beard; this delicate scum in that noise seems exciting!"
- "Darr, shiver me timbers of all that har and all of that har!"
- "Darg!"
- "I want to eat Dinner, I’m hungry!"
- "I’m so hungry. I could hear my furry tummy aching!"
- "My Cabin is too messy. I need to go clean it.!"
- "Arg, my cabin is a rats nest. I can’t wait to go clean it.!"
- "There’s nothing no better than being on a lookout unless I can be making treasure maps!"
- "Without me, they’ll put the X in the wrong place in the treasure map!"
- "I wish I were taking a nap right now!"
- "I’m so sleepy. I can’t hardly keep me, see legs standing!"
- "I love to sing sea shanty by the shore. They remind me of how lovely it is to be a pirat (chuckled)!"
- "Well, tickle me ivory no one can play the accordion without me. I have to get there for the sing-along.!"
- "Oh, I just love to polish cannon balls I Do!"
- "Darg those cannon balls are so dull and grimy. I can hardly wait to get me paw and shine and cough on Them.!"
- "Areg, I want to go play Parcheesi!"
- "Playing Parcheesi, is so much more fun!"
- "I want to go walk the plank!"
- "The plank of calling me name I can hear it from here, Ratbeard, Ratbeard!"
- "Oh I wish I were White cheddar rafting right now!"
- "Are I want to be sailing wrapped down that river of cheese?!"
- "I want to go treasure hunting!"
- "The treasure Hunt is pretty crafty, they’ll never find it without me!"
- "Areg, I love fishing, especially with deep-sea fishing!"
- "Those little deep sea fishes are waiting for me to catch them (chuckled)!"
- "I wanna set sail. I need to set sail.!"
- "Shiver me timbers my crew will never get out of that harbour by themselves and they’ll wreck me both by Dring!"
- "I wish I were swapping that deck!"
- "Be a lookout. It makes swabbing a deck sound like fun.!"
- "Climbing the rigging is good exercises!"
- "I love screwing up their readings, like a rat, a Pirat, (chuckled.)!"
- "It no true pirat but no Lookout duty didn’t!"
- "If I find out who had this Lookout duty job I’ll, Oh I’ll, And than I’ll, on And Than I’ll, Hhmmm!"
- "It makes me Piraty angry when nobody’s watching this area!"
- "I can’t believe, the Skurvy swab, look out, left me before left me unwatched!"
- "Oh it looks like this pirate rat lookout duty is standing forever!"
- "Standing on lookout. This has to be the mousiest pirat job of all.!"
- "By my Ratbeard. This is the last time, I ever assigned me self on Lookout duty of course that’s what I said last time too Hmm!"
- "I can’t believe I assigned myself on Lookout duty. What was I thinking?!"
- "Shiver me timbers I feel like I’ve been standing watch all day!"
- "Still stuck here won’t it be any time for me to leave?!"
- "Darg!"
- "Blow me down might turn on Lookout duty is over Wahoo!"
- "Get ready Deswabs, here I come look out below!"
- "Time to leave at last Yahoo!"
Trivia[]
- Captain Ratbeard is the only rat who wears shoes. Every other rat goes barefoot, although Riley wears boots in "Lapin Malin - J'Apprends a Lire et a Ecrire".
- Ratbeard has always had his beard since he was a baby, even though most young males don't have facial hair until they are about 14 years old.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Reader Rabbit's Math Ages 6-9 Activity Book, Page 11