Team Rodent Quotes

“If anything is more irresistible than Jesus, it's Mickey.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World

“Team Rodent knows the tolerance level of its audience because it raised its audience. The fundamentalists’ “boycott” of Disney is doomed to flop because Middle America isn’t participating and doesn’t, if you’ll pardon the expression, give a rat’s ass. Middle America completely trusts Mickey with sex, violence, and occasional unwholesomeness, as long as it’s mildly entertaining.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World

“For decades, city and state politicians had vowed to purge the place of its legendary seediness, in order to make the streets safe, clean, and attractive for out-of-town visitors. New Yorkers paid no attention to such fanciful promises, for Times Square was knowledgeably regarded as lost and unconquerable; a mephitic pit, so formidably infested that nothing short of a full-scale military occupation could tame it. As recently as 1994 Times Square swarmed unabashedly with hookers, hustlers, and crackheads and was the address of forty-seven porn shops.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World

“The message, never stated but avuncularly implied, is that America’s values ought to reflect those of the Walt Disney Company and not the other way around.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World