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Ferrets in literature and the media
The Greek playwright Aristophanes made reference to ferrets in his satire The
Acharneans written around the year 425 BC. "What a happy man he’ll be that
marries you and begets a set of ferrets as good as you at farting in the grey
dawn!".
The main character in the manga series Peach Fuzz is a ferret named Peach who
has delusions of being a princess.
The title character of the short story Sredni Vashtar by Edwardian satirist Saki
is a "polecat" clandestinely kept by a young boy, who is liberated when the
animal he worships as a god kills his overbearing guardian.
The children's book Zucchini by Barbara Dana is about a boy and his pet ferret.
However, the author gets a number of basic ferret facts wrong, claiming that
they are vegetarian rodents.
The Seventh Doctor Sylvester mccoy got his acting start as Sylvester McCoy, the
Human Bomb, a stage act that consisted of stuffing live ferrets down his
trousers.
In the film The Big Lebowski, Lebowski is attacked in the bathroom by a "Marmot"
which is really a ferret.
In the film Kindergarten Cop, John Kimble (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) owns
a pet ferret, which becomes the mascot of his kindergarten class and saves his
life by biting the main antagonist near the end of the film.
In the film Starship Troopers, Colonel Carl Jenkins (played by Neil Patrick
Harris) owns a pet ferret, which he mischievously tells (via Telepathy) to go
and find a treat up his mother's leg.
Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, has written five books
starring ferrets, the Ferret Chronicles series.
In the 2004 romantic comedy Along Came Polly, Jennifer Aniston's character,
Polly, owns a blind ferret who often runs head-first into stationary objects, to
great comic effect. The ferret is featured in the promotional material for the
film.
The film and TV series The Beastmaster has two ferrets which appear as major
characters. The series' protagonist usually kept them in a small pouch attached
to his belt.
In the fourth Harry Potter book and film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,
the character Draco Malfoy is turned into an albino ferret.
The BBC children's television magazine program Xchange featured the puppet
Vinnie, a mischievous ferret.
HTV Wales has a long-running investigation series called The Ferret.
Ferrets are the obvious suspects in the mystery novel "Nothing to Fear but
Ferrets" by Linda O. Johnston.
Budweiser Beer has used a fictitious ferret in a series of radio commercials.
Bill Owen's character Compo in the BBC Series Last of The Summer Wine (1973) had
two ferrets which caused an uproar at a funeral in one episode.
Japanese Media: Ferrets have appeared in the manga Ask The Stars for Help (
困った時には星に聞け! ) by Miyuki Abe ( あべ 美幸 ) and in the anime series Nanoha ( なのは ) -
"In a failed attempt to seal a seed properly, he winds up on Earth in the form
of a ferret." The character Yūno Scrya has an animal form as a ferret.
The popular webcomic, Sluggy Freelance has a main character named Kiki who is a
ferret.
A ferret called Fungo Squiggly is one of the supporting characters in the Get
Fuzzy comic strip by Darby Conley.
There are numerous ferrets in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques.
Paris Hilton once owned a ferret. She walked the red carpet with it many times,
and was publicly scrutinized for taking the ferret, as well as several other
animals, to social events.
On Tucker Carlson Live, Rudy Giuliani tells a man who called in asking why he
banned ferrets in New York City that "The excessive concern that you have for
ferrets is a sickness that you should examine with a therapist."
In the cartoon series The Littles, Dr. Hunter had a ferret which he often used
to try to capture the Littles.
In a commercial for Diet Mountain Dew, a ferret walks through the woods with a
hockey mask and a chainsaw, chasing two teens, after which the commercial says
that ferrets attack more people than grizzly bears. This, by the way, is purely
factitious as there is no such statistic anywhere on record.
In the manga and anime Strawberry Marshmallow (苺ましまろ, Ichigo Mashimaro) by
Barasui, the character Matsuri Sakuragi owns a pet ferret named John.
In the manga Ai Yori Aoshi by Kou Fumizuki, Miyabi Kagurazaki acts as the main
caretaker of an explorative albino ferret named Uzume.
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