Tone it down! Especially because with this curriculum, parents need to be taught as much as their kids about the environment and how important it is to go outside and do stuff with your kids. A lot of the comedy originates with the voice actors, who are all comedians. While the actor is in a studio on the coast, Spiffy records them in an audio booth in Illinois, giving feedback and direction.
The characters just keep evolving. But Nature Cat is not just a comedy. So how does Spiffy ensure that the episodes do more than simply entertain? Each episode begins life as a brief written by Nankin and McMahon that outlines the lessons that should be taught.
Image: Courtesy of Spiffy Pictures Spiffy and a writer then collaborate on story ideas, and the writer sketches an outline. As the fledgling episode goes through several drafts, PBS advisors review it. A Toronto-based media group called 9 Story then receives the script and designs characters, props, and backgrounds, all of which is overseen by Spiffy.
The cast records the scripts, and 9 Story produces increasingly detailed animated mock-ups. Finally, about a year after work started on the eleven-minute episode, it is ready to air. Spiffy manages the entire process, juggling up to eight scripts in different stages of the process at once.
But somehow they stay on top of it all, filling numerous roles. View the discussion thread. Skip to main content. Search WTTW:. Playlist Culture. A panel from an early stage of animation for 'Nature Cat. PBS Kids. Nature Cat. Spiffy Pictures. Summer of Adventure. Thanks to our sponsors:. In deference, he reluctantly gives Stinky pizza and ice cream.
After an exhaustive search for the cat around the house, Doug finally finds him inside the trunk in Judy's room, where he discovers that Stinky has become fat and sick. Doug is worried that Roger will kill him if the latter found out about it. Doug's imagination: Doug is calling Roger about the sick cat.
Roger suddenly appears through the phone and strangles Doug right before pulling him inside. Doug is later seen strapped to a car, with a furious Roger about to run him over with a monster truck. Doug hopelessly lets out a scream. Stinky is then seen lying on a basket inside Doug's closet howling in pain as Doug and Skeeter watch. Just then, the phone rings. Doug answers it and gets a call from him and Roger wants to talk to Stinky. Skeeter feigns a cat's meow, but Roger is quick to catch on to Skeeter's fake meow and demands him to put Stinky on the phone.
Realizing that he has no other choice, Doug decides to tell him that Stinky is sick and he has to take him to the vet, much to Roger's rage and he hangs up. Doug and Skeeter ride their bicycles to take Stinky to the vet as the cat continues to howl in pain.
At the vet, Doug prances around the waiting room and decides to go into the doctor's room to ask questions. When he steps into the room, he overhears the veterinarians talking about the cat's fate and Doug soon becomes convinced that Stinky has passed away.
Suddenly, a weeping Doug is comforted by Skeeter. This theme is used as the same theme in the episode Doug's Christmas Story. When a worried Roger and his mother finally arrive at the vet, while Roger, who begins weeping, asks Doug where his cat is, Doug explains everything to Roger and to the two's surprise, the veterinarians bring Stinky to the waiting room.
Doug and Roger find out that Stinky is, in fact, a female cat and has given birth to kittens. Porkchop fainted at the sight of them. One of the vets explains to Doug that feeding Stinky pizza and ice cream was the cause of the cat giving birth to the kittens. Doug tells Skeeter that he is glad that he told Roger about Stinky, considering that he would want Roger to tell him about Porkchop if he had taken care of him.
Doug and Skeeter laugh as they watch Porkchop playing with one of the kittens. Doug Wiki Explore. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Doug's Fat Cat. History Talk 0. Episode information.
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