I've been covering a lot of 90's stuff, so I figure now's a good time to cover something a little more ancient. The 80's! That's like ten years older than the 90's! More importantly, Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats. Heathcliff has a strange history. The comic came before the Garfield comic strip, minecraft rope but Heathcliff is usually passed off as the rip-off. The Heathcliff cartoon (or cartoons, a fact not many people minecraft rope even know about), minecraft rope came out before Garfield and Friends, but I've seen a disturbing amount of people say the Heathcliff cartoon ripped off Garfield. Heathcliff is like the Time Lord of ripping stuff off. I went with this show for a couple reasons. 1. The Heathcliff: The Movie phenomenon, where they basically packaged a couple Heathcliff cartoons already made and put it in theaters . That's right, they actually put episodes minecraft rope that were rerunning on television and made parents charge for it. Wow. That level of just not giving a damn from a big name animation studio is pretty amazing and means I have to touch upon this show at least once. 2. The Catillac Cats, DIC creations, managed to outstage Heathcliff minecraft rope in his own show. I guess it was because minecraft rope there was more of them to bounce their personalities off of each other and therefore were more entertaining than the trickster motif Heathcliff's cartoons had, or I could address the elephant in the room and point out that Cleo, with her really humanoid body and curves, probably created her fair share of furries in the 1980's. It's pretty easy to spot Cleo because she's the only cat with cleavage. 3. The intro was the best part of the series. Don't believe me? I guarantee that if you asked someone what they remembered from the Heathcliff show, they'll minecraft rope probably chime in with " Heathcliff Heathcliff, no one should, terrify the neighborhood !" or recite the part where the singers go "Oh a ohhhh a ooooohhhh oh ohhh a ohhhhh!!" It's one of those classic theme songs that will never leave your head the moment you hear it. Since this show was split into unrelated 11 minute segments, I'll just cover an 11 minute segment and treat it like it's own episode. That means this blog will either be half the length of a traditional "holy crap that's long" blog post I normally do or nothing about the length changes. So with that, let's watch Heathcliff! Or rather, a group of cats that has nothing to do with Heathcliff. That's right, Heathcliff won't even appear in this analysis. Not one bit.
We open our episode on a nice urban park setting, full of cats in various states of undress playing either croquet minecraft rope or soccer, and already I'm calling into question this strange world in which they live in. If you watch this unassociated with the rest of the cartoon, you would assume that these cats live in some sort of weird cat society where there are cats instead of humans (like Swat Kats), but it's been previously established minecraft rope in the intro that there are people and the cats are just...well, cats. Do the humans see these cats with clothes and croquet balls, calling into question the ethnics of keeping sentient beings with human intelligence as pets, or does the human eye just see ordinary minecraft rope house pets? Is this an alternate dimension where we genetically engineered cats to have humanoid limbs, or is mankind slowly dying out and being replaced with cats (no humans are in this episode despite it being near a city)?
Anyways, we pan past some snappily dressed cats playing croquet and get to the Catillac Cats playing soccer. minecraft rope At least, I think they're playing soccer. There's only three of them so basically they're just fooling around with a ball and taking turns hitting it into a goal. If you're a first time watcher, you can immediately pick out the group dynamic just from this scene. There's a fat, dumb, purple cat that resembles a Sonic Adventure character, a sort of head strong (literally) Siamese, and a rhyming white cat that sounds like Snagglepuss and is at that awkward minecraft rope stage in his life where he hasn't yet figured out his sexuality. Looks just like my high school football field. All it's missing is the hobo.
I will say it's kind of odd going from 90's shows with mid to high production values to something DIC outsourced minecraft rope to Japan in the 80's, because then you sometimes get scenes where the poses make absolutely no sense and no real sense of elasticity. I'm not going to rag on the show's animation too much but I just want to point this out before anyone minecraft rope expects like Darkwing Duck-level poses and pose readability.
And then we get to Riff Raff and Cleo and...good lord , Cleo. It's kind of disturbing how they obviously made Cleo to be the sex appeal for this show. It's like the animators decided to get drunk and go "Hey, you know furries? minecraft rope Let's appeal to that demographic." Just look at her compared to her poor boyfriend Riff Raff here. So how do they...you minecraft rope know, I'm not even going to ask that question.
Also, Riff Raff's voice sounds minecraft rope like he's reeeally phoning it in. He's suppo
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