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what do singing newts three cats in a mansion have in common nothing unless you remember cat scratch
a mid-2000s animated nickelodeon show created by doug 10 apple while responsible for things
like earthworm gym a myriad of graphic novels and a lot more he's been no stranger to controversy
but he did create the show we are speaking about today cat scratch while only airing between 2005
to 2007 the show left a scratch on your brain to remember the design of these characters if you
were around at the time of it airing like why do i own this plushie of gordon guess i had too much
fast food growing up thanks mom and dad there are so many shows from this era especially in
nickelodeon's catalog that i personally remember and find fascinating to look into what the show
was and ultimately what happened to it especially cat scratch a show that when people look back on
or speak on seem to have enjoyed its short time on the air so let's take a look into the quirky rich
cat show that ran through its nine lives through the network scratching it out of existence you
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three cats mr blick waffle and gordon who inherit all the vast riches of their owner
after they passed away aside from the mansion and the large fortune left to them they also have the
deceased owner snarky butler hovis who attends to all their needs with attitude all three of their
cats have their own unique personalities with a greatly added bonus of voice talent behind them mr
blick voiced by yes wayne knight blick who likes to think of himself as the leader of the cat trio
is a bossy mostly snobby cat that deals with the shenanigans of waffles and gordon his nerves are
easily stricken when his wants are affected in any way by anyone else obsessed with being the
center of attention and overall winning in life like he's charlie sheen winning he thinks himself
to be a genius and flaunts the wealth that he has inherited around mostly in compensation for his
height being the shortest of the three cats his ears don't count for the height that's cheating
waffle the lovable goofball the group is usually the center of stupidity for the situations they
all find themselves in voiced by kevin mcdonald and his farms bringing a hopeful yet gullible
tone to the character touted as the comic relief he plays a similar character to ed from eddie and
eddie although overall may just be a little bit smarter than ed gordon voiced by carl himself
rob paulson while not acting like the leader of the trio like blick tries to do gordon is the
targeted actual main protagonist of the group with most of the situations in every episode revolving
around him and as the do-gooder of the group he stands up for what's right and has a big heart
even if that heart has feelings for the neighbor human child kimberly yeah i'm just gonna move on
from that there is so much going on at any given time and things go awry so fast even regular
show is shook you pissed me off one of the more fast-paced shows that would hit joke after joke
all the while ridiculous scenarios play out that start from simple beginnings episode 1 we don't
even spend time meeting the characters blick wants to win a rib cook-off so they blast off into space
in hopes of getting some moon rocks for the perfect roasting fire for the ribs all based
off of a story that gordon read about someone who sold their soul to a seal woman everything gets
messed up the ribs come out terrible blick wins the worst ribs award and that's on the tame side
of things for the show and that's how it started a magical wish granting kraken would be faced blick
dealing with a vet diagnosis of 24 hours remaining to live undead dinner parties changing the very
reality of the world as we know it and golf also then losing their money making robots a secret
world inside of the mansion in which waffle is a king where he has to face dragon riders superhero
powers a duck wrestling match freaking aliens and golf what more needs to be said these wacky
adventures were a visual treat especially to go back and watch and reminisce of watching it back
in the day during its limited release schedule from 2005 to 2007. there was a tried-and-true
effort to stick out from the crowd and in a way before it even was a show it had to do just that
that journey to this show being made is weird yet intriguing one of doug's graphic novels was called
gear a limited six issue run comic book series that follows four cats mr black simon waffle and
gordon tasked with capturing a guardian to help protect the town without spoiling gear further
than that this gritty dark and even violent graphic novel was the inspiration that would
later turn into nickelodeon's cat scratch yeah kind of a far stretch to go from this
to this regardless this test animatic which would try and hold a bit of what gear looked
like was the final in between until we got what cat scratch looked like and became and like i said
the show was heck in good dude now i'm not saying it's the greatest and certainly not my favorite
but having fond enough memories and going back through it now it's clear that this show had
something that was unique and worked for it but we all know good old nickelodeon they don't like that
they want safe non-risk cartoons to hold them up so sadly after season 1 it was over nick however
aired some reruns of the show on their sister channel nicktoons until the start of 2009 and
briefly once more in december of 2015. the show had attention towards it fast food toys award
nominations and clearly a lot of people remember it well enough to still talk about it over 15
years past its premiere that's how this show lives on mostly episode bits are scattered across the
internet with no official release of the full season two random segments make appearances on
nick picks vol 3 and 5 on dvd and that's it not even anything from my video now what do you prefer
game boy advance video well too bad it ain't there either but hey it had some nick.com games at least
to be fair some critics at the time gave the show middling reviews not fully going into a great nor
awful territory but no matter what any review says and especially whatever i say it's reliant on you
and how you feel if you like it that's great and if it wasn't for you that's also completely
fine not that i need to explain that to you it's a shame that a show like this that actually did some
different things kept your attention and in my opinion was fun getting once again nickelodeon's
cold steel-toed boots stomping down on it it barely had a chance to leave a paw print but
it did the best job it could even nick magazine brought everything back full circle with three
two page cat scratch comics coming from a graphic novel turned into a show and back
into a comic and by the way may i just add nick magazine was pretty awesome simpler times i just
had a birthday i'm getting old morbidness aside i appreciate shows like this would it have been
awesome to have seen a minimum of another season of the show sure the show definitely deserved
it but i'm just happy we at least had it it's better to have had at all than to have never had
and at least ending on higher notes rather than outstaying its welcome is a good thing i fully
enjoyed hanging out nostalgia land revisiting the show to see how it held up and i must say it did
a pretty good job at holding up i enjoy the voice talents the fast-paced over-the-top adventures and
cats are cool alright i would love nothing more than to see this show released in a proper way
definitely in better quality than the limited ways it's scattered online and accessible to older and
newer audiences to rediscover or discover for the first time cat scratch did deserve better
at the time but do you agree do you disagree let me know in the comments below i'd love to hear
from you i have wanted to spend time looking at this show once again for a while now so it
was fun to finally sit down and get around to it i hope you enjoyed the video and if it sparked some
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