CatDog: "Escape from the Deep End/The Collector" - Nick Knacks Sample Platter

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@mightyfilm 10 месяцев назад

I love CatDog and all, but the older I get the more depressing the show gets. I give it credit for being a kid's show with the message that life isn't just unfair, it's downright brutal, especially if you're different or around the poverty line. Cat's supposed to be the unreasonable jerk for wanting to be more than he is. He either gets in on a get rich quick scheme or tries to get the respect from higher society, and we're supposed to disapprove of his behavior... all the while being bullied and assaulted by 3 angry, hateful dogs and constantly given the business by an obnoxious rat that lives at his house, sponging off of him (unless I'm incorrect for not seeing a specific episode where he rightfully owns his hole in the wall). And I get Dog's supposed to be the counterpoint of the positive person making the best of a bad situation, but it feels like a good chunk of the time, Cat's driven to wanting to escape the lousy hand he's been dealt. It's basically the most realistic cartoon I've seen as far as messaging goes.

@lainiwakura1776 10 месяцев назад

It's because he goes about it in scummy ways, usually to Dog's detriment.

@mightyfilm 10 месяцев назад

There's a message in there about being in a desperate situation and hurting the few people who love you in there that makes it all the more depressing. Like he's driven to hurt Dog because he was pushed too far. And the world at least sort of likes Dog to some extent. The Greasers aren't quite as mean to him as they are Cat and the fact they're conjoined. Dog represents making the best out of a bad situation, Cat represents what rejection and misery can do to a person. It's like Squidward. Sure, you WANT to hate him because he's mean to Spongebob, has a high opinion of himself, and is surly and dismissive to everyone, BUT then you get the unappreciated artist, who the whole world (except Spongebob) scorns that has to work a miserable, low paying job while seeing his dreams get further and further out of reach. So you really don't know who to root for.

@The_Zeta_Male 9 месяцев назад

THANK YOU i never liked catdog simply cause of how unfairly abusive it was to Cat. he wasn't always squeaky clean but it seemed most of the 'humor' came from seeing how much they could make Cat's (and to a lesser degree, Dog's) life a living hell.

@GoingRampant 10 месяцев назад

Eee! It's here! I knew you could get some good commentary out of this one. "Escape from the Deep End" was really impactful for me as a kid. I liked the sense that the ending wasn't just ironic with them escaping one prison to end up in another but as a sort of call to action that the battle is not over, that opposition to oppressive authority must go on in all settings. In a world of Sunday school messaging telling kids to be obedient, Catdog was out there radicalizing kids. 😉

@sebastianmoreno5814 10 месяцев назад

Oh awesome!

@lainiwakura1776 10 месяцев назад

lmao except most people don't mind a few rules or cops, but when there's too many along with people who shouldn't be cops, then that's where the problem lies. We need _some_ rules, anarchy isn't fun.

@librabeauty23 10 месяцев назад

I just got that the ending of Escape the Deep End is “school to prison pipeline” pretty clever

@SpamNapkin 10 месяцев назад

The episode that sticks with me the most is the one where Cat joins a club for cats not realizing it's actually a hate group that wants to exterminate all dogs. They even wear hoods (shaped like fish) and watch an anti-dog propaganda film which was very obviously based off The Eternal Jew. It didn't get shown very often from what I remember.

@ZemeckisTEN 10 месяцев назад

It’s hilariously ironic that 90’s nostalgia blind purist whine that cartoons today are “pOlItIcAl”, yet we have cartoons from the 90’s like CatDog showing off political themes like this episode that a cartoon of today would absolutely do. And that’s not me knocking on either cartoons from the 90’s and cartoons of today because both the 90’s and today’s cartoons have their fair share of great cartoons and shitty cartoons. But going back to the purists who claim everything from the 90’s is “fLaWlEsS gOsPeL”, if this CatDog episode came out today, those purists would definitely once again complain about “pOlItIcS iN a KiDs CaRtOoN” as if cartoons back in the 90’s never did that.

@mightyfilm 10 месяцев назад

First off, they basically moved the goal post for what "political" means. It's not even messaging at this point. "Political" means that it has a black person or a woman in the cast. All I get out of it is a fake moral panic, the dumbest one in history, that all balances out to "you're getting old and close to death, so blame everyone else for it." It's basically the same "why can't we get a show as brilliant as Jabberjaw? I feel sorry for kids that grow up with Ed, Edd, n Eddy because it's not my taste as a person pushing 40" that crappy message boards had like 20 years ago.

@ZemeckisTEN 10 месяцев назад

@@mightyfilm Okay, no. Political isn’t featuring someone who isn’t a cigendered straight white male in a prominent role. It’s called diversity. Whether it’s handled well or not depends on the piece of media. But idiots like you saying that that shit is “pOlItIcAl” is almost as bad as someone saying it’s “sJw PrOpAgAnDa”. Fuck off.

@nathanlenneman9987 10 месяцев назад

I do think the politicization was always there, it was just more subtle and less “in-your-face”. Today, it’s more open and outward politicization. Much more blatant and unapologetic.

@ZemeckisTEN 10 месяцев назад

@@nathanlenneman9987 IDK, it looks pretty blatant here too. At least, if you ask me.

@vestonbruno2795 10 месяцев назад

I'm kind of glad you enjoy CatDog more than what you did a while ago. It was more than just a Ren and Stimpy copy. It was its own show!

@jbwarner8626 10 месяцев назад

Yeah, as a kid, I never got Ren and Stimpy vibes from CatDog. It was closer to Rocko's Modern Life - maybe not as fast-paced and insane, but definitely big on plots that exaggerated the frustration of trying to do a simple task when everything in life seems to be conspiring against you.

@Tacom4ster 10 месяцев назад

One of your best Nick Knacks episodes.

@goodwinter85 9 месяцев назад

Strongly agree with this!

@apbuitron 10 месяцев назад

Wow I didn’t expect there to be complex ideas in this show!

@vestonbruno2795 10 месяцев назад

6:38, you forgot to mention that Steven Banks also wrote for Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi. And George Chialtas previously worked on Rocko's Modern Life and The Angry Beavers, and he was one of the main sheet timers for Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie.

@bravo6709 10 месяцев назад

It's criminal that you don't have the massive following you deserve

@bluebaron6858 10 месяцев назад

The algorithm will help work soon

@corbittb 10 месяцев назад

Spends a lot of time on stuff most don't want to see. We're only getting reg. Knick Knacks eps every 3 months now. It's tons of out of order Sampler Platters or super niche stuff usually. He works too hard to not be bigger.

@bluebaron6858 10 месяцев назад

@@corbittb huh?

@corbittb 10 месяцев назад

@@bluebaron6858 Not enough timeline content (his most popular stuff) on a regular basis.

@bluebaron6858 10 месяцев назад

@@corbittb i thought they currently work a regular job which makes having to create the YT content tough.?

@SpongeyTheEditor 10 месяцев назад

CatDog was a mixed bag but it was able to have some smart writing. Just wait til you see the one where Rancid Rabbit makes certain species have to need a license to exist in the city.

@mariamotta2987 4 месяца назад

I never imagined this show had ever talked about politics and capitalism before. Whenever I saw these episodes it always passed me by. Well, I already knew that this cartoon has deep episodes when looking at it in a certain analysis, but this one is deep and also teaches in a radicalized way but in a way that they understand about politics. And I found it interesting about this part of "Escape From The Deep End" about you always following the rules, no matter how stupid they are, only to be punished in the end for following the rules. The rules part for me was the most interesting, because I identified with it a lot. Sometimes, you follow the rules and for the most part to the letter, always being careful not to break them and always trying to stay in line, and the other time you break it out of the blue and don't even care, and instead of that person being punished , you are punished. Something I've already observed at my school. There are people there who break the rules in every possible way and don't even care, and others who never break or have broken the rules before, always staying in line or trying, and when they break they are punished severely, the others who should have severe punishments are punished very lightly..... even too much. But in this case of this episode of Catdog, it is shown that you can be punished even for following the rules and unfairly. I understand that you should punish people when they do something they can't do, but some people are punished unfairly or receive punishments that other people should receive in their place.

@christopherb501 10 месяцев назад

Glad SOMEONE else liked something with this show.

@CaptainBZarre 10 месяцев назад

This was one of my favorite episodes of the show growing up just for the stories, I legit didn't even consider the political context of both until this video but *vaguely* connected the plots in my mind. It was way easier for me with "The Collector" than the former episode to me. The one thing that always turned me off of the show was that I didn't like seeing Cat constantly get torn apart against his will but I've seen way worse, maybe it'll hold up better in retrospect.

@alexandergreenhill8129 10 месяцев назад

I love that Car Dogs finale where it talks about unconventional families, it’s quite the tearjearker

@14robertsonb 24 дня назад

4:31 "No You Dont Understand I Just Changed The Rules 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂"

@kniferaffe 10 месяцев назад

Holy fuck, Mean Bob. I haven't thought about Mean Bob in decades.

@samwill7259 10 месяцев назад

As someone whose brother is a Jewish convert, I hate having to point out you should probably explain your opening message better than that. Like, absolutely, free palestine from IDF domination. Freeing Palestine from Hamas domination would ALSO be required and it would be nice if they'd stop kidnapping and murdering people while they're at it.

@14robertsonb 24 дня назад

5:07 "Do You Have a Hall Pass"

@angelinacamacho8575 10 месяцев назад

When hotbox doesnt mean smoking weed in a tiny room for an optimal high.....

@DLZ2000 10 месяцев назад

I remember seeing a bit of Catdog in college, but aside from the odd couple premise, I didn't really retain much. Was the rest of the show as awesomely radical as this??

@angelinacamacho8575 10 месяцев назад

CatDog doesnt deserve the flack it gets...

@bluebaron6858 10 месяцев назад

RANCID rabbit lmao

@Saintnick90 10 месяцев назад

Didn't really watch CatDog, but it definitely had one of the best NickToon theme songs. I kind of wish Johnny Cash would have covered it.

@kevinodonnell4094 10 месяцев назад

Left-libertarian ideals in a Nickelodeon cartoon? I may have misjudged CatDog. It used to make me feel uneasy, even icky at times, and I never forgave Nick for essentially replacing Rocko's Modern Life with what seemed like an inferior product, but I'm willing to give CatDog another try.

@xxthatsnotmexx 10 месяцев назад

Not really libertarian, leftist yes.

@kevinodonnell4094 10 месяцев назад

@@xxthatsnotmexx Small-L libertarian, as in anti-authoritarian on the political compass.

@theblarneystone1023 10 месяцев назад

Actual question. In the CatDog episode, will you talk about the TV movie in a separate video or include it into the nick knacks review?

@darktetsuya 10 месяцев назад

yeah I was about where you were I never really got into catdog, but it sounds like I may have been missing out if these episodes are any indication. definitely some smart commentary on real world stuff from the sound of it, even if the second half doesn't quite stick the landing? but I can definitely still see a lot of those issues being a big deal now... like we're still seeing pokemon card scalper stories every week! (and yeah the prison system being super broken but that's definitely far more evergreen to find one specific example, sadly.)

@Jamessmith-xk3fh 10 месяцев назад

Even though I don't agree with your views I still enjoy the content

@EmperorSeth 10 месяцев назад

It's interesting how close a later Gravity Falls episode ends up being to that first episode, though the "prison" metaphor was more there for a single gag.

@CoolEric258 10 месяцев назад

"Evil Eric" Is that a threat? 🤔

@vestonbruno2795 10 месяцев назад

I should've requested the CatDog episode "Dog the Mighty." I would've loved to hear Greg to talk about them. Anyways, I hope someday he can do my request, which is Dinner for Four and Phoebe Skips.

@Tirgo69 10 месяцев назад

NO BREATHING! Out! SCHOOL PRISON!!

@EBTheOriginalMaster 10 месяцев назад

1:09 Never to see an episode of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 on this show

@Jamessmith-xk3fh 10 месяцев назад

Do an episode from Welcome Freshmen

@twkreviews6683 10 месяцев назад

First off, couldn't agree more regarding Palestine.🤘 Secondly, I never would've guessed CatDog to showcase how bad our prison system and economy are.

@Xyzzyka 10 месяцев назад

CatDog wasn’t one of the 90s gross-out cartoons, it was one of the 90s odd couple cartoons - still Ren & Stimpy, yes, but also Angry Beavers, 2 Stupid Dogs, Pinky and the Brain, etc. I’m pleasantly surprised it seems to hold up so well. Most of this stuff went over my head as a kid, but I guess Jim Cummings sounding exasperated was a big draw for me.

@retroscenery 9 месяцев назад

You’re not a huge fan of Ren and Stimpy, but you like Catdog? It’s a shittier version. If the show was about two misfits banding together in spite of ableism, it may have worked. Instead, cat and dog are just as mean to each other as their oppressors. The only likable character is that Latina bird (I forget her name. I haven’t watched this show in ages.) Imagine if Ren and Squidward didn’t care about Stimpy or SpongeBob? I think both respective shows would suffer from a lot of the same issues as Catdog. It’s interesting you called Catdog political. I don’t agree; I think “Off the Deep End” is merely a spoof. I think this show missed out on a lot of potential ableism commentary. Pelswick did a better job at that (what an underrated show!) Rockos Modern life is a better example of a surprisingly political cartoon. I rewatched it as a teenager and picked up on so much I missed as a kid. I liked Catdog as a kid, but I no longer do as an adult.

@lainiwakura1776 10 месяцев назад

I think you're reading too much into the cartoon lmao. It's just a spoof of prison movies. I swear that rabbit sounds like Billy West, or the voice actor just happens to kinda sound like him. But I watched the cartoon when it first came out and now I can't stand it.

@bluebaron6858 10 месяцев назад

No lol

@meyerj75 10 месяцев назад

I was done with Nickelodeon around 1994 so Cat Dog was immediately inferior to me unlike Doug and Rug Rats. Despite how much of a soulless bastard Cat Dog was, it made a great replacement for one that is so horrible, it deserved the pink slip: Ren and Stimpy.

@paulienuti8031 5 месяцев назад

I can’t stand CatDog Adult but I like it as a kid Good Video nonetheless

@vestonbruno2795 10 месяцев назад

CatDog had a lot of crew who worked on Rocko's Modern Life.

@supermakermatic2111 10 месяцев назад

That explains a lot about this duo of episodes. Rocko also had an anti-prison episode, and the anti-consumerism/capitalism should go without saying.

@vestonbruno2795 10 месяцев назад

@@supermakermatic2111 Was that the episode where Heffer gets obsessed with sausages?

@supermakermatic2111 10 месяцев назад

@@vestonbruno2795 Nope, the episode with the dog pounds.

@tylerferguson3193 10 месяцев назад

Hope you had a good day

@kristinefisher3404 10 месяцев назад

Oi, now me and my boyfriend are debating if de-MON-stra-tive or demonstrate-ive are real words or not.

@MewPrincess2000 10 месяцев назад

CatDog isn't really my taste, though to be fair, i'm not really into wacky and zany cartoons that much, since they feel overstimulating for me. I love the early seasons of SpongeBob, but those don't feel too wacky and zany. I prefer more slower paced, down to earth shows like Hey Arnold!, Bear in the Big Blue House, Rolie Polie Olie, Adventures in Wonderland, Blue's Clues, PB&J Otter, Rugrats, Arthur, Tokyo Mew Mew (It's an action show, but has many slower paced, down to earth moments), etc.

@jsdsps01 10 месяцев назад

Free Palestine from Hamas!

@SuperSpaceGirlHDTV 10 месяцев назад

😱

@xandercruz900 10 месяцев назад

Absolutely. Anyone not demanding this are just terrorist sympathizers.

@narcopsy 10 месяцев назад

*from Israel's brutality

@jsdsps01 10 месяцев назад

@@narcopsy and especially from Hamas

@noahwomack729 10 месяцев назад

Agreed. Having to unsub from this channel right after subbing to it is unfortunate, but I don't really stand with the support of terrorists. I'm not a massive fan of Israel, but yea no Hamas started this current conflict and is the main reason there is no peace.

@bluebaron6858 10 месяцев назад