Sounds better than trying to piece it together from this special. The best I could get is that by 1981 she'd be at around 25 since she outlined 20 years of valentines. If she was school aged by the first one at least.
These old commercials, they give a glimpse into what Life was like in 1989. 99 cents for a cheese burger, and a good one at that. I wish I couldve had been in this time.
Qwer-teaBinch, Don’t you think that maybe it’s just about time that she dumped Irving to elope with Orville Snorkel aka Sarge (from the Beetle Bailey comics)?
No bc me too...idk why im getting sucked into learning about this comic strip. Its such a charming and interesring pastiche of this version of 80s american white womanhood
You want more? Look up “Sally Forth,” and “For Better or Worse.” Both are “Slice of Life” comics strips that, like “Cathy,” were written for the newspaper back in the 70’s and 80’s, but grew so popular with readers that they had their own TV cartoon specials, with the same animation style they were written with! “Sally Forth” tells of the everyday life and shenanigans of a middle-class American Couple and their daughter Hillary; while “For Better or Worse” follows a similar theme, but over four generations of the same family. Check them out; both the original comics AND the animated specials were AMAZING!
Tell it to Texas propane salesman Hank Hill and his wife Peggy who will hopefully welcome Cathy as a new next door neighbor when she comes to Arlen, Texas, as Mrs. Orville Snorkel when they move into the house at 522 Rainey Street.
@@joshmg25 You would get run out of any pizza place for asking for this price. Last time I ordered pizza it cost about $60 for 2 pizzas. After delivery fees and tip.
For starters, don’t put the tip on your credit card 💳. Secondly, take the advice of the late comedian Jack Benny; always base your tips on the quality of the service, never base them on the percentage of the cost. Thirdly, for good service, a proper tip (even in hard times) should never exceed more than $.10 cents, however, in the event of the service being poor, the tip should not exceed more than $.05 cents. Fourthly, all tips should be made with silver coins 🪙 instead of paper currency or a plastic credit card. Fifthly, always hold onto all receipts 🧾 for when you send your W1040 to the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) every April 15TH.
18:53 “The beauty of valentines gifts is that they’re small enough to slip through the little space that’s open when a woman has her door barricaded with a security chain” LMAO
I can easily see Peggy Hill of Arlen, Texas, exchanging recipes with Cathy after she has moved into the house at 522 Rainey Street; once occupied by the late Dale Gribble.
Those two just have different love languages. I talked to my therapist about this with an ex and she gave me some insight. Cathy is someone whose love language is time together and physical touch. Irving’s is deeds and actions (and possibly physical touch and time together when he cheated on Cathy with Brenda earlier). He was setting up their new stereo so she can enjoy it. Looking at it, it’s very evident in that scene. To make this type of dynamic work, you have to recognize what the other partner likes.
Awww the intro is so heartwarming! When I had my first valentine with my boyfriend, we also fell asleep at the movie theatre, after running around the mall, then eating a hearty dinner together!
I would have been 5….. I remember reading the comic strips in the Dayton Daily News on Saturdays sometimes .. Cathy was a good one… and these cartoons are better than the computer and AI stuff nowadays, in my opinion..
Try imagining the possibility of Cathy dumping Irving for Orville Snorkel aka Sarge (from the Beetle Bailey comics), and after getting his honorable discharge back into civilian life, they go on to become the new next door neighbors to Hank and Peggy Hill in the old Dale Gribble house at 522 Rainey Street.
Charlie Brown has nothing in common with Bill Dauterive, except for the fact that while Bill lives across the alley from Hank, Charlie Brown lives at 517 Rainey Street across the street from Hank.
Charlie Brown’s boyhood home is Norfolk, Virginia. He moves to Arlen, Texas, after graduation from Texas A&M with a Masters Degree in Business Administration, topped off with the Class A CDL (commercial drivers license) as a self-employed driver with his very own cabover semi truck.
It's because everyone in her life basically gives her terrible advice and she takes the worst from each. She then chases after a man that has no interest in committing to a relationship and being consistent. Finally, it is her. She is the one that can choose to control these things but doesn't and swings from scenario to scenario. The writer is a genius for creating this unsettling amount of cringe hidden under saccarine music and cutsey music.
At least if she dumped Irving to elope with Orville Snorkel aka Sarge, and after a year and a half in married housing at Camp Swampy, Orville gets an honorable discharge back into civilian life. Then they load up everything that they own into their vintage 1974 Chevrolet C20 Custom Deluxe crewcab pickup truck with a vintage Airstream Double Axle Land Yacht Safari hitched up to the rear bumper, and together with Orville’s dog Otto, they head to the Texas town of Arlen where they become the new next door neighbors to Hank and Peggy Hill by moving into the old Dale Gribble house at 522 Rainey Street, which Peggy sold to them through Sizemore Realty of Arlen. However, most of the discharge pay went on the down payment on the house, which leads to them taking out a mortgage to payoff the remainder of what they owe to Sizemore Realty and the commission for Peggy. Before too long, Orville gets a loan through the G.I. Bill to open up a discount auto parts store in Arlen. After one week in business, Orville gets Hank’s help with converting Dale’s old basement into a rumpus room while Peggy is helping Cathy select maternity clothes now that she’s expectant with Orville Jr.?!
And above all else, under these circumstances, there’s no doubt that Cathy rightly deserves to become Mrs. Orville Snorkel, even if it means being stationed in married housing at Camp Swampy for starters. Ofcourse, when Cathy finds out that she’s expectant with Orville Jr., and finds out that Orville is getting his honorable discharge back into civilian life, not to mention that he’s applying for a loan on the G.I. Bill for acquiring a house as well as to start up a discount auto parts store in Arlen, Texas. Sure it’ll put them in the old Gribble house now that a stroke from all those years of smoking has finished off Dale Gribble.
I was an American kid living in Europe in 1989 and, as afn did not have commercials, it's always fun to see these. I actually recognize the dad from one of my favorite shows, The adventures of Pete and Pete in that Burger King commercial.
I dont hate Irving. I think they both want their independence but also want companionship. And neither one respects the other's idea of affection. Both also seem to be deathly allergic to communication. It's like, yeah, they obviously shouldn't be together, but the cartoon points out multiple times that it's both of their faults.
The plot is a more affluent & dysfunctional version of O Henry 's Gift of the Magi where a married couple each give presents they think the other wants but didn't communicate with each other & so receive gifts the can't use
Going to therapy was normal in 1989? I thought back then people viewed it as a nutcase thing. Alright, I wasn’t wrong. Lol. Her boyfriend didn’t seem happy about her seeing the therapist and was a bit condescending about it. Her Silent/Greatest Generation parents freaked out.
Well, be that as it may, just try imagining how her paternal 1ST Cousin Archie Andrews together his wife Veronica Lodge Andrews and his parents Fred and Marie Andrews also react to the circumstances of the situation of the dilemma?!
Wow. I wasn’t even born, and yet this is super nostalgic. The 80s were about over when I came along. This just takes me to what looks like an easier time.
I must say these cartoon characters act so human-like. The beginning was very realistic. How they both fell asleep before they even got a chance to eat take-out dinner, or how they fell asleep on the couch in front of the TV before they even got a chance to get intimate with one another. When you get to be their age, you'll definitely relate more. As an adult, there are times when you have to work long, tiring hours and run a ton of errands in order to keep a roof over your head.
So Kathy was a desperate, naïve woman who was dating a loser, had a great career but focused more on that and then gets mad when her man finds someone else to spend time with, who isn’t so absorbed by her career. Then she still stays with him knowing what he had done, has parents who are controlling and allows them to run her life without sticking up for herself. Some roll model for women she was. 🙄
Love the "California Raisins" ad! (~13:46) *- I remember when the Raisins debuted, and there was the contest to name them...it feels like a long time ago now. Claymation was awesome!
I remember reading this comic as a little kid and thinking that Irving was a woman because of his mouth always being drawn like a triangle (I thought it was lipstick?) The cartoon draws their mouths differently: look up the comic strip, you'll see what I mean. If I had seen this cartoon I would have realized he was a man sooner. Maybe I was looking for other lesbians before I knew what they were, LOL. Anyway, the cartoon is cute, especially when Cathy does her little happy dance and kisses the snowman at 9:31.
the part where the florist encourages breaking restraining orders got me though mom throwing a bag of what were obviously supposed to be sex toys in the trash is good, too
12:38 I don't understand why they couldn't do both? Couldn't Irving set up the cable splitters then they had a romantic night Cathy wanted? Irving is a true paycho who pnly gets 2 gallons of gas even for the late 80s that ridiculous
I'd like to see more adult animation from the western world like this instead of all the crude, surreal, and gross out humour stuff they pump out nowadays.
Well, be that as it may, I still think that Orville Snorkel aka Sarge would still give Irving a run for his money. Now, you’re just now wondering how he would go about it, right? For starters, while going to a family reunion of her Father’s relatives in Riverdale, where 1ST Cousin Archie Andrews resides, especially since he’s now married to Veronica Lodge. So before all the things that are normal for family reunions occurs, Archie and Veronica take Cathy to Pop Tate’s Choklit Shoppe where Jughead Jones is in a hamburger eating contest against another out-of-town visitor who’s a 1ST Cousin to their old school principal, Waldo Weatherbee. The cousin of Principal Weatherbee is Orville Snorkel aka Sarge. They arrive just in time as Pop Tate lays out these two gigantic platters of hamburgers that measure 3’FT tall each. By contest’s end no burgers are left on Jughead’s platter while Orville has five burgers left, yet now all he wants is Alka-Seltzer. Since the family reunion will last for an entire week at the latest, Cathy and Orville get to know each other better. However, Mr. Pinkley while having a drink with Irving lets it slip about the hamburger eating contest in Riverdale. So, Irving also goes up to Riverdale by Amtrak. He confronts and embarrasses as well as humiliating Cathy in the presence of Archie and Veronica. They put in their $.02 cents worth, word wise that is, and Orville just happens to drop in on Cathy at the house of Archie and Veronica. With Irving’s accusations of infidelity, Orville considers them as ‘fighting words’, and wants satisfaction for the way that Irving just insulted Cathy. Irving figures to use the Judo he’s been learning lately against Orville. However, Principal Weatherbee who’s Orville’s 1ST Cousin, suggests an auto race between the two of them, as in a quarter-mile drag race, in front of witnesses so that everything is fair and square. So, Irving seeks out help from local funeral director and prankster Reggie Mantle, in order to win the drag race, only their plans are uncovered by Reggie’s old high school nemesis, Moose Mason, while making his monthly visits to the funeral home for the Better Business Bureau. Once tipped off, Weatherbee is in a bind. Therefore, Archie and Veronica call on their occult friend from high school, Sabrina Spellman, to aid Orville in winning the drag race together with Cathy’s heart. So, on Friday afternoon at the race track in Riverdale, they’re all set. Reggie has supplied Irving with his transportation in the race, a great 1963 Chevrolet Corvette roadster. Orville on the other hand drives a 1959 Ford Edsel convertible in the race. To start the race, Jughead will signal them by taking a bite out of a burger. Before anyone knows what happens next, they’re off. Fearing that Irving will use the nitrous oxide hookup Reggie had installed in the Stingray roadster, Sabrina goes into action by using her occult powers to make Irving think that Reggie didn’t put enough gas in the roadster, which succeeds, and by a miracle, Orville wins the drag race fair and square. Irving is as mad as the character played by Peter Finch in the 1976 movie “NETWORK”, and he punches Reggie, knocking him up against the hearse from the funeral home before leaving town. Irving leaves on the Amtrak going home that night, and this is the stepping stone of his turning in his resignation to become Vice-President of advertising for J.C Dithers Construction Unlimited, seeing as how his uncle who’s his mother’s brother owns the company, which also employs Dagwood Bumstead. At the big family reunion barbecue on Saturday, Orville joins in together with his dog Otto. During a lull in the conversations, that’s when Cathy announces that Orville has proposed marriage, and that she’s accepted, even though it means resigning from her job, and relocating to married housing at Camp Swampy where Orville’s stationed. With the exceptions of Archie and Veronica, the rest of the family is puzzled while Cathy’s parents are just shocked entirely. So, within the following month, not only does she resign, he has her house put up for rent until she’s ready to decide when to sell it. Yet, she manages to obtain a good cash offer on her vehicle from a used car dealership. Still, although her father thinks that having a soldier for a son-in-law isn’t too bad, her mother just absolutely refuses to attend the wedding to be held in the chapel at Camp Swampy (according to my prior posting a few comments above this one), even though it only covers the vows. So, before heading to Camp Swampy, she first picks up a few things in Riverdale that includes her aunt’s (Archie’s mother’s) wedding gown, which fits her like a glove. Thus, one could easily say that Cathy’s eloping. Eventually, after exchanging vows with Orville, they spend the next year and a half in married housing at Camp Swampy, by which time Orville is honorably discharged and they also have a baby on the way. So, they head for the Texas town of Arlen where through realtor Peggy Hill, they buy the old Dale Gribble house at 522 Rainey Street, which is next door to the house that Peggy shares with her husband, propane salesman Hank Hill. Although, purchasing the house takes most of Orville’s discharge pay, he manages to secure himself a G.I. Bill loan to open up his very own discount auto parts store in Arlen. By the time that Orville has sold enough discount auto parts to payoff both his loan from the G.I. Bill, and the mortgage that they took out to pay the remaining balance on what they owed on the house to Sizemore Realty, Cathy successfully gives birth to a son that they name Orville Snorkel, Jr.
No, that was a teenager with the beginnings of a mustache. Remember, during the late 60’s long hair (for both sexes) and facial hair (for men) were just starting to become popular (mostly thanks to the Beatles); a fashion trend which was expanded upon in the 70’s. So don’t worry, no pedo or ick here.
Petition all of your congressional leaders demanding that the 1934 Gold Reserve Act of FDR be returned to the books on a permanent type basis instead of a renewable one.
I guess people selling ads assumed Cathy fans also have long hair 💇 otherwise I don't understand the True Value hardware ad for drain clearing augurs EDIT 28:25 OK I get the hardware ad
Chaplain Ransahoff: “Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to witness the unification in marriage of this magnificent couple of Orville and Catharine. Now, do you Orville, take thee Catharine to be thy lawfully wedded wife? To love, honor, obey, cherish, and to have, and to hold from this day forward, and cling only unto her in forsaking all others for so long as you both shall live? For better or worse? For richer or poorer? In sickness, and in health, until death do you part?” Orville: “I do!” Chaplain Ransahoff: “Do you Catharine, take thee Orville to be thy lawfully wedded husband? To love, honor, obey, cherish, and to have, and to hold from this day forward, and cling only unto him in forsaking all others for so long as you both shall live? For better or worse? For richer or poorer? In sickness, and in health, until death do you part?” Cathy: “I do!” Chaplain Ransahoff: (staring at Orville’s dog Otto; serving as the Ringbearer) “The rings, please?” Otto hands the two plain yellow gold 8MM wedding rings up to Orville. Chaplain Ransahoff: “Orville, take the smaller one of the two rings, and place it on the third finger of Catharine’s left hand, and repeat after me, ‘With this ring, I thee wed.’” Orville: (stuttering). “W-W-With this r-r-r-r-r-ring, I thee wed.” Chaplain Ransahoff: (now repeating with Cathy) “Catharine, take the other ring, and place it on the third finger of Orville’s left hand, and repeat after me, ‘With this ring, I too thee wed.’” Cathy: “With this ring, I too thee wed.” Chaplain Ransahoff: (looking all about the guests in a nervous manner) “If there is anyone here who can show just cause as to why they may not join in wedlock, let them speak now, or else, hereafter and forever, hold their peace?” Silence is looming over the guests. Chaplain Ransahoff: “By all the power and authority vested in me by the United States Army, I now pronounce you husband and wife! You may kiss the bride!” Orville and Cathy seal their wedding vows with the traditional first kiss as a happily married couple. Chaplain Ransahoff: “Ladies and Gentlemen! Officers and Enlisted Personnel alike, may I present unto you, Sergeant and Mrs. Orville Snorkel!”
To get that to possibly happen would require every level-headed American petitioning every congressional leader in both the House of Representatives and the senate to put the 1934?Gold Reserve Act of FDR back the books as a permanent law instead of one of those renew every few years type laws.
