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What A Cartoon! - Eek! The Cat "Great Balls of Fur" (Patreon)

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2021-03-08 05:00:01
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After interviewing co-creator Bill Kopp last year, it was only a matter of time before we covered the overlooked Fox Kids classic, Eek! The Cat!! We cover the history of Kopp and creative partner Savage Steve Holland as they brought the unlucky purple cat to life. Then we cover the first season favorite of ours that is slathered in Elvis references. So listen along, because it never hurts to help!

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beapeabear

I was a big Eek fan back when it began, but I hardly remember a lot of it. It might have been quickly dethroned my the Nicktoons in my childhood eyes. Anyway I too owned the SNES game when I was a kid, and much like the Rocko game, I hated that it was a long escort mission. An ugly one at that, as Eek’s sprites made him look like a weird Star Wars Muppet creature. From what I’ve read it’s really just a reskin of game called Sleepwalker. I kinda dug the game’s music though in a 90’s midi guitar sort of way. I might still have the cartridge in a box somewhere, but the last time I remember actually playing it was to show to a friend that both Eek the Cat and a subsequent SNES game were things that existed.

Dave Dalrymple

It's a shame that Eek! never really got a chance for a second life. Most of the mid-90s Fox Kids cartoons that were part of the Saban-to-Disney sale in 2001 (like X-men and the Tick) solidified their legacies as part of the "Jetix" block in the mid-2000s, but Eek! never fit in with the rest of them.

Replica_Rabbit

Man, I was hoping for the episode Quadrapedia. Those songs are still in my head

ShyRanger

This show holds a special place in my heart for a fairly unique reason. I never grew up with it, never heard of it, then around high school I talked with some older kids who mentioned it. Then a few quick internet searches and I read about it and eventually watched it. It intrigued me enough that it made me start thinking of other shows before my time that I didn’t hear about. So yes, Eek the Cat is the start of my personal exploration into cartoons long past gone, and eventually would lead me to interest in shows like you guys. So thank you Eek for this very specific thing.

crystalhearts

oh, nelvana! neat. they made a lot of really forgettable things out in the cartoon mines of toronto. some definite gems though - these are specifically to my tastes but Rock & Rule is way more fun than it has any right to be and The Raccoons has the most banging closing song of all time

y2kpodcst

One of the maine reasons you saw nelvan a lot was that early on in the decade they bet almost all their chips on the movie rock and rule a not great animated movie with original songs from iggy pop cheap trick and deebie harry This came out around the same time as heavy metal which is more remembered They lost a lot of money on it and had to take a bunch of television jobs to pay off their debts this is why they where animating a bunch of shows during that time. Now they still make shows that get aired hear in canada but not so much in the sates as they also got into dubbing anime in the early 200’s which i think is much cheaper then animating new things.

eddiegiantman

Checking Kopp's resume and he directed Dan Vs. with Curtis Armstrong, hope that's in the cards soon. And funny enough, he did a voice on Amphibia recently I barely remember Eek only because I was still a toddler to 1st grade when it was on the air and have not seen it in full until a random 90s cartoon Youtube hole and man, I would have enjoyed the hell out of this show as a kid. Just the intro alone is nuts. Sucks Disney is just gonna let it collect dust..

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I had never seen the show before this and for whatever reason it just occupied a spot in my brain that told me it was some boring 70s or 80s cartoon nobody cared about (vague association with Fritz the Cat maybe?), so watching this episode and it's zany, in your face 90sness was a big shock. And one I liked, too. It's very dumb that Disney isn't doing shit with it when they could easily through it up on Disney+, and I'd definitely be checking out more of it then -- P.S., MY GOD the Fool's Gold Loaf sounds disgusting. A miniature version of it, or one shared between a group would be interesting, I'm sure, but Elvis eating them by himself is just nasty

Paul

A conversation I vividly remember from when I was 8 or 9 after I watched the first episode of Eek at a friend's house. Me: That was great! Friend: Yeah he's better than Heathcliff. Me: He's better than Garfield! Friend: Let's not say things we can't take back. Also I think I get Eisners decision. I'm guessing his reasoning was Dick Tracy being a comic was kid friendly-adjacent. Arachnophobia being a horror film if they attracted kids to it with a Roger Rabbit short they would have gotten a lot of angry parents mad at them. I think it was purely a CYOA move.

Joe Hodgson

Eek! The Cat is probably the most popular cartoon from the 90s that just, plain, disappeared. Eek was omnipresent when it came to Fox Kids marketing materials, be it print or TV, and he even had at least one of his Christmas specials premiere in prime time on the Fox Network. It's just amazing to me that he's basically a forgotten relic as no one has tried to profit off of him via home media or collectibles or anything of the like. I suppose as a show, it's sort of like a measuring stick of 90s cartoons. If your show is as good as Eek, then it's fine. You'd prefer to be better, but you definitely don't want to be thought of as worse. It was definitely a show that was just on for awhile, but I can't recall ever talking about it with anyone at the time nor was it ever appointment viewing for me. If it was on and I was awake on a Saturday morning, then I watched it. If I slept in, well then I woke up closer to X-Men and Spider-Man so I was happy. Maybe 10 years ago, my sister and I were carpooling with our grandparents somewhere and I remember my Grandma asking if we minded that she put on some Elvis. My Grandfather responded for us, almost incredulously, "Is it okay?! Every one likes Elvis!" This was news to me as I always knew my Grandfather as an old school country and western guy, but I had and still have no objections to his statement. I am not an Elvis fan, but he's pretty listenable. I think the more crooning stuff is better than the rock-a-billy, but "Is it So Strange?," "One Night," and "Suspicious Minds" are all perfectly cromulent.

About to Happy

Minor joke glossed over in the discussion: among the names of Melvis' love interests in the movies was "Lou Al-Cindor", which I tried to spell there like a composition of Louise/Alice/Cindy like one might do with, say, Betty Lou or Ellie May or similar names, but the joke is of course that "Lew Alcindor" is the former name of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar before he converted to Islam.

Shawn

Looking through Youtube, I'm surprised I don't remember much of the first season since I was a big fan of the show. Later episodes like Outbreek always stuck with me. The shorter run times definitely worked better for this type of show.

Dennis Kanenwisher

The "all Elvis movies are the same" gag was forever burned in my memory since I first saw it as a kid. (To this day I have never seen an Elvis movie so I can only assume they're correct).

Sara

loving the pod!

Blue Chameleon

It didn't come up in the podcast and has been eating away at me all week. There are three neo-nazi type skinheads in the background of the parade. It's so out of nowhere - are they in the character pack from another episode or something? ( https://youtu.be/vcHf6FX4sMs?t=276 )