CatDog - "It's a Jungle in Here!"

Dawn your Tarzan gear or your safari gear and let's explore the forest within CatDog's house as we review my personal favorite season two episode, "It's a Jungle in Here" from about July 1999/ Let's begin the exploring, shall we?

While preparing their house for a special visit from Cat's classmate, Sally, Dog forgot to plant up the grass floors. So, he and Cat go to the plant store to buy some grass manure to cover up the hole. Unfortunately, due to Dog's small brain, Dog puts in too much of the manure that overnight, it turned into a big, safari-like jungle, and worse than that, Sally has already, that's bad news.

Will Cat and Dog make it to the door? Or will they be sacrificed to Jungle Man? Stay tuned to find out.

This is really one of those mid-season two episodes that still feels like early season two episodes, because Ken Kessel returned after a four-episode absence to be one of the supervising producers, and Russ Mooney also helped out as the supervising director of the show with Robert Porter. I kind of like the character design of Jungle Man, he looks like a cartoon version of Animal from The Muppets or something, but that's just me. And, much like Dog the Mighty, Andy Rheingold did a fine job writing the script for this episode, seeing this was perhaps one of his last ones he did for CatDog, before leaving the writing to Jon Ross.

All in all, this is a pretty good episode. It's got clever comedy, a clever plot, and a clever twist ending where Sally decided to get in touch with her wild side since she got tired of being a neat freak. Hmm, I wonder if this is what inspired Figure it Out to make Figure it Out: Wild Style a few months later? Oh, well, I don't know, but what I do know is that CatDog appeared on Figure it Out Wild Style a few times.

You have to see it to understand it. That show was pretty fitting for that comedy duo.

Watch this episode if you come across it, folks.