It’s been a long time since we’ve had a new TV show to watch that features a cat or cats as the main star. Although the felines are portrayed by human voice actors, Slacker Cats aims to emulate the life of cats in a humorous, yet accurate way. We at Catnabbit got a chance to view the premiere of this new series on ABC Family August 13 and we thought we’d share our initial thoughts and discoveries with our readers.
Buckley is a tubby tuxedo, the more “cultured” of the duo comprising the main characters of the series. If it weren’t for Louise, Buckley’s human and possible love interest, we might suspect that he is gay. Instead we’ll just use the term “metrosexual” to accomodate his love for art, culture, and fuschia fanny-packs. Eddie is Buckley’s best friend, an orange tabby who enjoys mind altering drugs such as catnip. He has not been neutered and thus begins to drool at every opportunity to even lay eyes on a hot female of his species.
Spazzy, annoying, and stupid, Tabitha wears way too much lipstick. Twice in half an hour this mentally ill, necrophiliac cat fell in love with a corpse, one of which wasn’t even from her same species. The other cats don’t seem to be too fond of her, and we’re quite sure the television audience feels the same way. In fact we’re not even sure why she’s on the show, except to provide some comic relief when, someday, she might actually get hit by a truck. Most of us were hoping that she would have gone into the crematorium with her first love, Marmaduke Gingerbits.
Mrs. Boots is (how can we put this delicately) a large and jovial type of cat, most likely a dilute blue persian or ragdoll who is hot with the latest gossip. Hates to be asked about Mr. Boots. She is better than everyone and is not too shy to flaunt it. Further, she shows her rebellion against the humans’ English language by saying “axe” instead of “ask.” Way to go, Mrs. Boots!
Dooper - Filthy, paranoid and afraid of the cat devil. Despite his fears of hell, he participates in a scam to defaud humans of thousands of dollars by crawling into the corpse of a dead cat in order to claim a lost-cat reward. He also agreed to be buried alive temporarily, even though he constantly claims that the cat hell is only inches below the ground and will come bursting out of the cracks at any moment. He’s not quite as annoying as Tabitha, most likely because we can sympathize at least a little bit. Who doesn’t occasionally ponder the possibility of an afterlife? Who hasn’t met someone who stands on the street corners warning of the oncoming apocolypse?
All in all, we think the show was disgusting and not an entirely accurate “slice of life” for feline-kind, but we would watch it again, and again, and again simply because it’s funny. We also want to see Tabitha get hit by a truck. Will you be tuning in next Monday to watch it too?
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Move over, Big Brother! It wouldn’t be the first time Meow Mix does an incredible stunt to get lots of attention. They’ve gone and done it again: this time, they are hosting a reality show where they take 10 homeless bums and throw them in a house together. Each week, viewers will get to vote which of the group is the best, and the loser will get booted out of the house.
Although Meow Mix has assured us that the ten contestants are sweet-natured, we know from past experience with reality shows such as Survivor, Big Brother, and The Bachelor that reality show contestants are anything but sweet-natured. In fact, real cats won’t be entertaining enough to hold our attention. After all, if we wanted to see a regular cat on TV, we can look in a mirror and get all the “reality show” we need. Instead, we expect the cats of the Meow Mix House to fit at least a few of the reality-show clichés: the female cat in heat, the jock, the flirt, the argumentative jerk, and the con artist, just to name a few.