Francisco Lindor interrupted Jeff McNeil’s postgame Zoom interview Saturday night, put an arm around his Mets teammate, flashed a big smile and cracked: “Ratcoon.” And together they laughed.

Mets fans won’t give a rat’s you know what about whether Lindor and McNeil argued, wrestled or threw punches in the tunnel Friday night over their frustrations over infield miscommunications or their respective slow starts at the plate boiling over … as long as they hustle and play together and win together. And as long as Lindor doesn’t endure another 0-for-26 slump.

And the Merry Mouseketeers did hustle and play together as they propelled the Mets to a 4-2 victory over the Diamondbacks on Saturday night.

McNeil slammed a two-run home run in the third inning. Lindor stole second base and raced around to score after catcher Carson Kelly’s throwing error, then later doubled and blooped an RBI single to drive in — yup, McNeil, who had stolen second. Never mind that Pete Alonso saved Lindor from a wild, high throw to first that could have been a bases-loaded error in the seventh.

“Both of them did special things tonight,” Luis Rojas said of Lindor and McNeil.

If the 1977-78 world champion Yankees can be celebrated as The Bronx Zoo, what Mets fan wouldn’t sign up for The Flushing Zoo?

Saturday’s success came after the best-laid plans of mice and Mets had blown up on Lindor and McNeil, their silly rat-versus-raccoon debate Friday night making a mountain out of a molehill in the wrong place to tell even a harmless little fib.

“No one in the organization would make that recommendation to handle it that way,” general manager Zack Scott said before Saturday’s game.

The mild-mannered, even-keeled Rojas is the antithesis of the Bronx Zoo Yankees’ volatile Billy Martin. Rojas keeps talking fondly about his baseball family. If there is a Flushing Zoo, he must be the Flushing Zookeeper.

“He’s the manager of the clubhouse. It would have to be pretty dysfunctional for me to feel like I need to address it,” Scott said.

So Rojas addressed it with Lindor and McNeil.

“Everything that happens in a family on a daily basis happens here,” Rojas said. “There’s agreements, there’s disagreements, and at the end of the day, they both make us better … today, we’re a ball club, and we’re a better family.”

A family rocked late Monday by the shocking firing of hitting coaches Chili Davis and Tom Slater.

On this night, it was All In The Family. “Love playing with the guy. … He’s gonna be here for a while so hopefully I can do the same and hopefully we can have a great up-the-middle combo for years to come,” McNeil said of Lindor.

As long as Rojas can keep the noise and the distractions to a minimum, perhaps this can be a new beginning for the Mets instead of the beginning of the end of owner Steve Cohen’s brave new world.

The Bronx Zoo serves as the model for those who argue that a little tension isn’t necessarily a bad thing:

There was Martin and Reggie Jackson needing to be separated in the dugout during a June 18, 1977 game at Fenway Park. Martin, incensed that Jackson had played a Jim Rice single into a double, immediately removed him on national television for Paul Blair. Jackson went on to become Mr. October and the Yankees won their 21st World Series.

The turmoil between George Steinbrenner and Martin resulted in the Yankees manager resigning in 1978 with a 52-42 record after Martin and Jackson feuded when the slugger disobeyed the manager’s instructions — swinging away when a bunt was called, bunting when the bunt sign had been removed.

Bob Lemon took over and, thanks to Bucky Dent’s home run in the playoff game against the Red Sox, the Yankees defended their World Series championship.

There was the fight between Goose Gossage and Cliff Johnson in the shower at the start of the 1979 season. Gossage wound up with a sprained thumb.

“I don’t know what happened,” Lemon said. “Maybe it was friendly agitation and it got serious. You know, it’s one of those things. You hate to see it happen, but it happens.”

Martin happened (Martin always happened) when Lemon was fired after 65 games by Boss Steinbrenner. The Yankees finished 89-71 and fourth in the AL East.

The love-hate conflict between The Boss and Martin resulted in their “Tastes Great Less Filling” Miller Lite commercial, which for Lindor and McNeil would have been “Rat. No, Raccoon.”

The 1989 Mets gave us the Photo Day fight between Keith Hernandez and Darryl Strawberry. “It was unfortunate,” Hernandez said afterwards, “but we will be fine.” The Mets finished 87-75 in second place in the division.

During the Bulls’ 1995-96 training camp, Michael Jordan punched Steve Kerr and left him with a black eye. “I would say it definitely helped our relationship, and that probably sounds really weird,” Kerr said later. “I wouldn’t recommend that to anybody at home. … For me in that case, Michael was definitely testing me, and I responded. I feel like I kind of passed the test and he trusted me more afterwards.” The Bulls won a record 72 games and their fourth NBA championship.

Back in 1974, Charlie Finley’s Athletics featured one June brawl between Jackson and Billy North and one before the start of the World Series between Blue Moon Odom and Rollie Fingers. Odom wound up on crutches with a sprained ankle and Fingers got six stitches. The A’s beat the Dodgers in five games for the championship.

“The way it was in the clubhouse,” Fingers said, “was guys would get in a fight one day and would be out together for dinner the next day.”

The Jets yearn for the days of the New York Sack Exchange, but Joe Klecko and Marty Lyons hardly appreciated Mark Gastineau’s Look At Me sack dances. Head coach Walt Michaels kept the peace and the 1982 Jets advanced as far as the infamous Mud Bowl.

In the Jets’ 2015 training camp, quarterback Geno Smith had his jaw broken in the locker room by linebacker IK Enemkpali. Journeyman quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick took over and led the Jets to the brink of the playoffs before three fourth-quarter interceptions in the last game of the regular season in Buffalo.

Rat? Raccoon? Animal House was a heckuva movie, right?