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Early episode weirdness: Courage the Cowardly Dog
I had been planning on breathing some life into this comm a while back... Oops.
Anyway, I thought I'd post about a bit of early episode weirdness I saw in Courage the Cowardly Dog. Which I will admit is a bit of a strange thing to say for a cartoon with almost no continuity whatsoever. It involves Katz in the first official episode after "The Chicken From Outer Space" (well, going by the episode order from my DVD set at any rate). Namely, the first business he's shown running, the Katz Motel. This struck me as a bit odd on a series rewatch. The other two businesses we see Katz running both involve a hard "C" sound, stylized as a "K" in their names, "Katz Kandy" and "Klub Katz", and I'm willing to bet his submarine cruise enterprise would have been "Katz Kruises".
So, is there a way a motel could fit this naming scheme? I looked for synonyms for "motel" that had that hard "C" sound that could become spelled with a "K", and found "caravansary." Merriam-Webster defines this word as "a place that provides rooms and usually a public dining room for overnight guests." Now, you could easily get a place like this to work with the plot of the episode- say that Eustace is in the dining room, only for Katz to send his spiders in through covered dishes. But then again, your average viewer isn't going to know what a caravansary even is, especially not a kid.
Why this? I'm not sure. Maybe the show's crew just hadn't quite nailed down what they wanted to do with Katz just yet. I just thought it was interesting.
So, if anyone's reading this, have you seen anything in an animated series you would count as early episode weirdness?
Anyway, I thought I'd post about a bit of early episode weirdness I saw in Courage the Cowardly Dog. Which I will admit is a bit of a strange thing to say for a cartoon with almost no continuity whatsoever. It involves Katz in the first official episode after "The Chicken From Outer Space" (well, going by the episode order from my DVD set at any rate). Namely, the first business he's shown running, the Katz Motel. This struck me as a bit odd on a series rewatch. The other two businesses we see Katz running both involve a hard "C" sound, stylized as a "K" in their names, "Katz Kandy" and "Klub Katz", and I'm willing to bet his submarine cruise enterprise would have been "Katz Kruises".
So, is there a way a motel could fit this naming scheme? I looked for synonyms for "motel" that had that hard "C" sound that could become spelled with a "K", and found "caravansary." Merriam-Webster defines this word as "a place that provides rooms and usually a public dining room for overnight guests." Now, you could easily get a place like this to work with the plot of the episode- say that Eustace is in the dining room, only for Katz to send his spiders in through covered dishes. But then again, your average viewer isn't going to know what a caravansary even is, especially not a kid.
Why this? I'm not sure. Maybe the show's crew just hadn't quite nailed down what they wanted to do with Katz just yet. I just thought it was interesting.
So, if anyone's reading this, have you seen anything in an animated series you would count as early episode weirdness?
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