CatDog - "Hail the Great Meow Woof"

All the great me! All hail the great cartoon reviewer! That's right, I'm reviewing "Hail the Great Meow Woof."

While playing with a kite, Cat and Dog chase it through the outskirts of Nearburg, where they come across a tribe worshiping Rancid Rabbit as the Great Rancid. After accidentally knocking down Rancid's statue, the tribe to worship CatDog, also referring to them as the Great Meow Woof. And with that, the formerly great Rancid decides to seek vengeance.

Will CatDog win? Or will Rancid win? Well, I'm not telling! Because you've got to watch and see for yourself.

This episode is filled with a lot of stuff that made me laugh from beginning to end. Not just that, this is a sure sign this episode was originally written for the first season, since Gary Goldstein was credited and this was his last episode he storyboarded. That being said, I can see why it was never in the first season. It was also the last episode where Derek Drymon was the supervising director and where Erik Wiese served as a storyboard artist, after this episode, they both went on to work on SpongeBob. These are the reasons why I think this was originally for the first season. Anyways, I also like the fact that "Abra-Cadabra" are the magic words for the magic stuff Rancid puts onto CatDog.

Overall, this episode has a little bit of something for CatDog fans. You get CatDog fighting off Rancid Rabbit, ultimately winning, and the Greasers (sigh), unfairly beating up Cat and Dog.

I also like the fourth wall break they did at the very end where Cat says "Iris out!" in which the episode actually does.

All I can say is, "ALL HAIL THE GREAT EPISODE! ALL HAIL THE GREAT EPISODE!" Okay, okay, enough of that. thank you.

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.