jordan fringe who'd you expect peter pan you wanna eat a hot dog it sure is one fine day
i said it sure is one fine day that's better cat dog my favorite anatomically mysterious conjoined
feline canine animated show from the 90s as a kid i never felt the need to question what am i
looking at here it just was and you accepted that fact and moved on to your next yu-gi-oh duel with
your neighbor who swore he had real exodia pieces but we all knew they were counterfeit curse you
jimmy regardless the show for some reason in my mind ends with the tv movie about them looking
for and finding their parents in fact it was the season 4 premier 3 episode length special then
by episode 8 of the fourth season the show came to what i guess would be an abrupt end sopranos style
cat and dog are out eating paranoid looking at the door of the restaurant suddenly the door opens cat
and dog look over cut to black masterpiece can't wait for the many saints of nearberg coming to
hbo max soon so for today i don't know if you want to hang out with me for a little bit that
would be cool i'd like to talk about the final moments of cat dog why it was so weird and just
how did the show conclude so quickly shout out to andrew alcorn for guessing today's video correct
first on twitter thanks so much for checking out the video make sure to hit the like button as it
helps out the video and it helps me feed my pet rock another month part two of the final episode
meet dog's friend revolves around dogs need to eat meat while thinking johnny meat seed here plants
meat trees around the world to grow meat so cat decides to educate dog on the truth about where
meat comes from green is people in this case it's animals what you mad i spoiled a movie from 1973
fair enough i'm sorry kind of which causes doggo to freak out about what he's been eating all this
time during the night dog is visited by three meat ghosts who take him on a self-discovering journey
through the era of his meat-eating ways first a later hozen hamburger shows how he was turned into
said hamburger next dog is visited by a chicken taco explaining their story of being turned into
food in a rather gruesome and disgusting way and dog's final ghost is a new york hot dog telling
dog what's what and his friend mervis a pig explains that you wouldn't want to eat a friend
friends don't eat friends you wouldn't download a car would you wait what dog swears off meat for
good while cat explains dogs need to eat meat then at a trip to the grocery store dog won't even like
cat get any fish and goes completely crazy as all the food in the grocery store vegetables fruits
you name it all start coming alive saying that their friends and friends don't eat friends now
everything he tries to find as a substitute causes hallucinations of everything being his friend
the visuals while going through dog's mind are pretty cool here kind of chock zone-esque leading
to dog realizing that cat isn't on the food list exclaiming you're not my friend you are my brother
turning into a black and white horror movie where he tries to cook and eat cat which is pretty
morbid literally dunking cat's head into a pot and slamming a microwave on him and just before he
finally cooks him johnny meat seed comes around to plant meat treats right outside the house totally
negating the lessons that dog was learning and making it seem as if meat doesn't come from his
friends okay interesting on one hand it's good to learn about not eating your friends if you happen
to be an animal and so do they but somehow there are trees that grow what animals are made out of
anyway so then no one would be truly killing and eating said animals dog easily while daydreaming
made up some stories in his head about various food items coming from animals it was definitely
all done in a dream-like sequence and more focused specifically on some of the animals he considers
friends but there's a real channel that kat shows him called the meat channel and everyone involved
in that channel's production knows and shows that meat comes from animals so logically some animals
in cat dog believe in the fact that meat comes from their fellow animal friends but now there's
a magical man running around planting meat trees that grow actual meat which is real what's a dream
is everything after we see them head to bed a dream a hallucination or do the majority of
animals living in the world cat dog has built okay with animals some like the same animals that they
are being killed and eaten does any of this make sense am i hallucinating is reality falling apart
and this paradoxical situation we find ourselves in a way to make a pseudo statement that both meat
is bad and it is fine is tofu bad is the fruits and vegetables bad is eating your brother okay
my brain hurts i'll stick with the cat dog cheese nips it's totally cheesy now why did cat dog end
on this particular note why only eight episodes into the fourth season did nickelodeon no longer
feel like cat dog fit their programming block especially with this season being so
important with a huge tv movie to start it off attempting to convince you that those were the
answers to explain why cat dog is a cat dog nope learned nothing but i had a good time
just like school minus the good time part cat dog unfortunately had its plug pulled shortly into
the fourth season ending for the biggest and main reason of low viewership yeah nickelodeon noticed
that the show had not been reaching the viewership threshold the network sets for them to give the
go-ahead for shows to continue in which catdog was not able to get past 25 of that ask so nickelodeon
took the old yellows over here out back and well you know now there are some indicators proving
that the show could have ended a long time before it truly ended on television with the
tv movie which is the starter of season 4 coming out at the end of 2001 following the third season
there was a multiple year gap between the rest of season 4 ever premiering with those eight episodes
so it is possible that it was canceled earlier and these final episodes were just in the can
this whole time until they finally decided to release them they wouldn't have come before
the movie as some of them have consequences based on the movie so it's an interesting case of this
show probably stopping production back in 2001 and nickelodeon storing the final parts of the series
but to have this be the last note cat dog leaves us on is odd not bad just odd it sure is in cat
dog fashion to be shocking and weird but to leave us all more confused than ever and that
being the final episode just feels well you know what it feels kind of right i guess in a weird
way what other avenue would you have cat dog end on most would say the great parent mystery which
is totally understandable i would too but in the spirit of cat dog ending in such a distractibly
noticeable moment made it more memorable if that makes sense part of it being one of the weaker
episodes overall perhaps writing wise or substance wise the fact that we get an episode full of
contradictions full of colliding perspectives is kind of like an allegory for what cat dog is
the character or i guess characters that they are in general two complete opposites that are
constantly at odds with different personalities different viewpoints it somehow weirdly fits into
what catdog was again it wasn't like the peak of the show where it had been nominated for
outstanding writing in an animated television production in 1998. clearly the show had been
steadily losing the interest of its viewership over the years leading to this cancellation and it
spent its last moments being as disjointed as the odd couple relationship cat and dog had throughout
the show yes there were moments in the show's run showing how much they care for each other i'm not
attacking that or disregarding that in any way i actually like their brotherly relationship that
they always seem to come back to and have by the end of an episode but even you have to admit the
show focused heavily on their differences and how their character traits clash nearly every episode
at one point or another regardless of them coming together at the end i guess what i'm trying to say
is that if you spend some time over analyzing a cartoon from your childhood to the point where
you have to make a video on it both saying it's bad and good means that either there is a deeper
meaning that runs true to how people are and can be we all have our faults and we all have our
strengths that make us unique or it means that i've had too much coffee to be writing this at
3am and i need to go outside and get some fresh air soon on a serious note catdog is a special
show not only for what it meant to me overall growing up but how unique and different it felt
from everything else at the time it was weird it was interesting and it had charm the majority of
the show produced incredible moments some creative animation songs lessons and an overall feeling of
curiosity for the more zany moments for some reason the final episode intrigues me it's not
a great send-off for the fun times the series granted us beforehand the tv movie really felt
like the best send-off they could have given us and since the show was coming to an end not even
halfway through what a usual 20 episode season would offer it's weird we even saw anything
past the movie with viewership on the decline but in saying that i still appreciated a few more runs
in the park with one of my favorite cartoons it feels like that final season that botches
a great overall show that you still watch because you like the characters in the world built within
it but you just know that it's not as great as it could have been and now i would love to speak
more on cat dog in the future some episodes that have left an impact on me the weirder episodes
that left me uncomfortable with what i was seeing on the screen and a lot more that i could discuss
so if that's something you'd like to see please let me know something else i'd like to know since
you've all heard from me is i want to hear from you in the comments your thoughts on cat dog your
memories with the show weird episodes you remember what you thought about the ending all of it thanks
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