The Episode of CatDog That Finally Explained EVERYTHING... Kind Of...

CatDog is one of my favorite Nicktoons. They may have replicated the formula from The Angry Beavers (two brothers with opposite personalities are stuck with one another), but they put just the right spin on it that kept viewers wanting more. This show left my young brain with so many questions when I watched it as a kid. Where did CatDog come from? Do they have parents? and... Do they go to the bathroom? For years, these questions would remain unanswered. Until finally, a made-for-TV movie would drop on Nickelodeon that would address many of the questions we had about CatDog. Today, on our nostalgic walk down memory lane, we take a look at CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery.
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[@DuskTillShawn]

Thank you so much for watching everyone! Do you have a favorite CatDog episode? Personally, I had too hard of a time picking just one. They're all so good.

[@Jesus-hu4lq]

The mean bob action figure episode where cat starts collecting mean bob figures for money Correction: mean bob not big bob

[@gmorel7332]

They should do a Netflix movie of catdog actually find their REAL parents

[@SoshiTheYoshi]

My favorite has always been The Island, and I also love All You Can’t Eat

[@eddog6666]

Did you hear that catdog is one of the possible reboots? But with a sequel series.

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

Too many to choose from. I would say, fred the sky fish or the episode with the candy crystal mines.

[@truthspeaker2191]

Imagin two orphans looking for their parents and the town bullies are like “yeah let’s still beat the crap out of them AND their parents. “Like dudes, relax for once in your life

[@EPGamer22]

Ikr that what I been saying while watching the whole series

[@Duvmasta]

Maybe they orphaned them themselves.

[@szeth5287]

It gives off “I’m gonna beat you so hard that it makes your ancestors bleed” vibes

[@jocelynecupcake]

LOL true Cliff's the worst of the greasers.

[@Zipperskull_]

Right, I'm like wtf is wrong with the bully?

[@halfdemonprince]

I love the message that blood doesn’t make a family, love does. Cat was confused at first when he said how those two were his parents. Then the frog corrects him and says they loved them, raised them, and made them who they are, therefore they are their parents. So many people still have this mindset that adopted parents aren’t “real” parents. There’s even a stigma against adopted and step parents. Every tv show, movie, and book with an adopted child is always about the child finding their birth parents. Once they find them, the birth parents are always perfect and loving (and sometimes even rich/magical) in contrast to the inferior and or abusive step/adopted parents. As someone who plans on adopting, it’s refreshing seeing a main stream kid’s show portray adopted parents in a loving and positive light.

[@NitwitsWorld]

Power Rangers did that shit as well in mystic force. :/

[@darylesells19]

The Fosters sure didn't do that with the adopted kids on that show. The biological parents stayed in the kids' lives sure, but they already had parents and loved the life they had. And the biological parents were a far cry from perfect, which was why they were in the foster care system to begin with.

[@darkstarmoonshadow]

Thats how my family is, we are a blended family we take in friends of family mrmbers heck we even adopt people into our family so we are one big happy family and growing

[@mcfry13]

I guess we watch different shows. A lot of shows I watch back in the day had a similar message to this cat dog episode. Digimon season 1, American Dad (several episodes regarding Francine and her upbringing), Dragon Ball, etc. Either they never meet their birth parents, but completely accept their adoptive parents or meet their parents and realize how bad their parents are and are happy they were adopted. Imo I've seen less of your trope, but it all depends on what shows we watch.

[@mikemath9508]

Im adopting cuz I wanna make sure my kids cute

[@x.a.v.i2329]

I never realized that all of Dog's theories involved his parents being conjoined twins too. So he thought that him and Cat were inbred this entire time...

[@jellyidunno6482]

Sweet home Alabama-

[@Nari_Trovi]

maybe he thought he was a different crazy species

[@Quyana16]

Asexual reproduction

[@island_girl_shan]

Ikr. I was wondering why he had them conjoined in every theory instead of a cat and dog couple

[@RektalReptil]

Many animals can have kids with themselves, they have both genders in them

[@OpenDoor19]

I do remember seeing this episode and loving it. Being adopted myself, the whole "where they came from" and "who are their birth parents", didn't matter to me; it wasn't the point. Their parents were the ones who raised them and loved them.

[@ChrissieBear]

But I want to know how the abomination came to be!

[@Zacman1123]

I thought this episode was a fever dream cause I only saw it when it premiered: OVER 20 YEARS AGO!

[@DuskTillShawn]

You're blowing my mind right now lol. I'm working on my next video and it's about an episode of a show that felt like a fever dream to me. haha

[@Zacman1123]

@@DuskTillShawn oh boy. I can't wait to see that.

[@SJxPVR]

Me 2 so I ended up getting the paramount app and rewatched it after all these years lol

[@StudioUAC]

I know! it's such a weird feeling! like the episodes of Rugrats with that rocker babysitter.

[@darkstarmoonshadow]

Over 20 yrs? Than id be a teen or tween in any case, over 20... 31- 20 give or take a year id be 10 and NO

[@StudioUAC]

in the episode where Dog gets smart watching those tapes, there's a brief scene about gene splicing between a cat and a dog. I like to believe that Catdog was an escaped gene-splicing experiment.

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

Well that's dark

[@Neku628]

@@MASTEROFEVIL Yup and it didn't help that Winslow mistreated CatDog throughout their childhood. He's the worst foster father ever!

[@squirrel670]

@@Neku628 is that the mouse because i remember hating him. I couldn't watch the show becaus of how mean it was but it was ingrained in me that i hate him and those greaser dogs.

[@hellonokay1925]

@@squirrel670 well I think he considers it that because...well catdog is catdog, it has a cat in it.

[@hellonokay1925]

@@squirrel670 but yeah I think it's understandable considering how other commenter say about how characters interact with catdog are mean to them

[@Celestial7Heavens]

I love how the CatDog movie special, Wild Thornberries Origin of Dawny, and The Hey Arnold Jungle movie answered so many questions and had a common theme of searching for the protagonists’ lost parents.

[@Noodlepunk]

I never realized that dogs voice actor was spoungbobs voice actor.

[@currychapo]

Same broo

[@benja-tp1sp]

Btw in Latin Spanish dubbing they also share the same voice actors

[@alexandriaa44]

Samee I’m like wth

[@dnasty312]

And Heffer Wolfe #hesasteer!

[@justinw7323]

I hear so much of Sponge Bob in Dogs voice. Aka Tom Kenny who voices both.

[@ameliaespinal5031]

He also voices ice king on adventure time.

[@vanessastegall]

And the narrator in the Powerpuff Girls.

[@alexserrano9694]

I noticed that back when they on the air at the same time

[@agusperez5837]

The exact same thing happened in Latin America

[@tomcruise7820]

He also voices Heffer from Rockos Modern Life

[@Maniac4Bricks]

The funny thing about CatDog's foster parents is that they're somewhat accurate to the original theme song lyrics "no blue buzzard, no 3-eyed frog".

[@midnightgamer2158]

Yes!

[@enimo9241]

Foreshadowing

[@darrellgardner4561]

But a buzzard is a bird..

[@stringwhore]

@@darrellgardner4561 right... And she's no blue buzzard

[@reinadelosdulces907]

@@darrellgardner4561 yes but she's blue

[@andysmith5806]

As a foster kid I absolutely loved this episode. Blood doesn’t make a family.

[@lapislazuli2259]

3:08 is literally just spongebob asking for cat dogs parents

[@Mooncat4001]

@yossarian yes

[@mackfarlainethebarenakedau5113]

I never actually realized SpongeBob and Dog were the same voice.

[@jocelynecupcake]

Tom Kenny voiced him in the movie. He doesn't sound that much like SpongeBob but you hear it slightly. In the show I promise Dog sounded nothing like SpongeBob. I feel like they spent more money on the movie LOL that's why Tom Kenny's in it

[@InvdrDana]

@@jocelynecupcake Tom Kenny voiced him in the show too. This creator also did another Catdog episode and Dog sounds the same as in this. For some reason, I had remembered it being Rob Paulsen since he makes me think of Pinky lol

[@msthecommentator2863]

My theory is that CatDog was born of a cat and dog from the town with everyone living in harmony. The feud would have been going on when CatDog was born, and their birth parents feared them being ridiculed by both sides, so they left them by the cave where their adopted parents found them. The reason why no one at the village claimed them was because their parents already passed away or moved on to seek out a more accepting community.

[@vickyandersen8660]

But they said 50 years of harmony. Cat dog aren’t that old

[@ouci]

@@vickyandersen8660 tbh theyre adults and cat went to uni. maybe early on cat and dog 'mixing' was still taboo

[@cubanlinx936]

@@vickyandersen8660 also you gotta take into consideration they could be implying cat/dog years

[@thepurpleelephante2296]

@@cubanlinx936 you’re right!

[@vickyandersen8660]

@@cubanlinx936 true true

[@GamePlague]

Considering they see themselves as brothers it's kind of weird that they expect their biological parents to be a single male/female catdog entity rather than 2 separate catdogs.

[@SpencerLemay]

Well are they Siamese twins or a single organism with two brains? If when a cat and dog mate in this universe does it create either a cat, dog, both, or under extremely rare circumstances a catdog??

[@razminfox1787]

@@SpencerLemay I’m assuming their parents are a single cat and dog and they were abandoned for being combined twins

[@shawnmichaud4013]

@@SpencerLemay well the singing cat and dog where loues parents so maybe

[@Indianaexplorer]

@@SpencerLemay No. Lube's mom and dad were a seperate cat and dog >:[

[@BP.l0ne]

Uhh do cat dogs have genitals? Would they just regurgitate their child assuming they reproduce asexually or something?

[@insightfulgiraffe]

As someone who is adopted, this really hit me in the feels. I still remember that episode

[@bobgordon7113]

CatDog meeting their parents is symbolic. No matter how different from your parents you might be you're both weird in your own way, and love knows no boundaries.

[@SammyPfoten95]

I loved cat dog as a kid although it always had kind of a grimy feel to me, like ren and stimpy for example... regardless it and angry beavers were my favorite shows growing up.

[@DuskTillShawn]

I definitely see what you mean! It did have a Ren and Stimpy like feeling to it.

[@SteelerFanInRI]

The episode where they destroy each other's teeth with junk food was my favorite; that DEFINITELY had a Ren & Stimpy vibe to it lol.

[@darkstarmoonshadow]

Mine were AAHHH Real Monsters, Rugrats, Wild Thornberrys, KABLAM, Ren and Stimpy, Double Dare, are you afraid of the Dark what would you do Legend of the hidden temple and All That( and thats only Nickelodeon.

[@darkstarmoonshadow]

@@DuskTillShawn i akways felt i needed a shower after watching Ren and Stimpy and CatDog

[@catrinad2491]

I loved these "grimy" nickelodeon shows do much as a kid, rockos modern life, cat dog that monsters one, ren and stimpy,

[@EinsamPibroch278]

Why did Dog imagine their parents opposite sex conjoined twin siblings? They definitely were a separate cat and dog. They had to have come from that village, because that's the only known community where they get along without conflict. The biological parents must have been a cat and dog with similar fur pattern (NOT the country singers, they're too old by comparison), but were panicked by their union, that they abandoned CatDog at birth. This is why the village initially accepted them as outsiders, but nobody actually claimed them as their family. Besides, CatDog was never raised in the village, so it wouldn't be their home anyway.

[@Crow0567]

i think he imagined them conjoined because his adoptive parents always stuck together like they shared a body

[@taylort3674]

Its likely the comment above or the aspect where he likely assumed they must have come from a catdog to be one themselves or that a catdog was at least one of their parents Being in the village despite the end of the the war between them, it's possible they feared the aspect CatDog was not one or the other but technically neither (possibly something that they thought could reignite the war between both sides by result)

[@lucindamobley5492]

I think that he was thinking with child logic 'I look this way so this is what my parents look like too'. I don't believe he ever saw them as siblings. But he was right in his descriptions of 'mom's four eyes and dad's slimy green skin'. I do think that their birth parents were from the cat and dog town, but they must have been killed in an accident or something and catdog were transported down the river where they were expelled through the geyser just like when they found their parents again. It's also possible that they were abandoned by a dog and cat couple, but they still would have been living in that cat and dog town and would have encountered them when they showed up.

[@kringlez7340]

thats what i thought as a kid too!

[@jocelynecupcake]

because he doesn't know about sex LOL Cat probably didn't explain it to him yet

[@PandieSucks]

I remember back in middle school, on March 20th 2019, a substitute teacher for my math class came in named Steve Owens, and on the whiteboard was a drawing of CatDog, we later learned he was one of the storyboard artists for the show back in 1998-1999 there was a huge opportunity to get his autograph however I was unable to due to him accepting only very limited autographs as he needed some place to be, though quite a few of my friends got one. He was very nice and a very good substitute teacher. I don't think that memory will leave my head tbh.

[@jamesb.russell2942]

That's fuckin awesome

[@Royyaaaal]

Amazing!!! Your memory is just as special as an autograph 💙

[@Felix-gm9im]

Core memory unlocked

[@jocelynecupcake]

That would have been a dream for me LOL I used to draw fan art of catdog in school all the time. I would have showed him my own

[@TheWallsAreSkin]

2:19 *they look in places where the sun don’t go* Me: SAY WHAT AGAIN???!?!

[@rosenrot234]

I still remember crying as a kid when Dog just gives up and says "Lets just go home".

[@Penguinmanereikel]

Understandable.

[@aidenorpington4637]

Fr

[@specsa.1426]

Wish I got to see this in my childhood. I was adopted by parents who loved me unconditionally until the day they died. I couldn't have been born into a more loving family. i know for sure they would have fought with all they had to find me if I ever got lost. this is a cute episode, i'll rewatch the whole series just for this one. thanks for making the video, it really made my whole day to find this in my recommendations.

[@DanielParedes965]

this was so wholesome im starting to tear up rereading it

[@vergilmontiero2558]

Also I've got a theory, that they did have a set of parents ghat originated from yokelburg just like Lube. But they got separated from them during the 50 yr feud between both sides. Went down the geyser and that's when their adopted parents found them.

[@mattbarnes2185]

The "pin the child on the parent" sounds like a real life situation lol

[@PKshockwave]

I was originally disappointed when the parents weren't a catdog as well, but I did like the montage of them having a life with them.

[@Jank9975]

How would that work tho? Like making a baby with your conjoined twin? Would be super awkward giving birth idk

[@cherilynsarts8845]

@@Jank9975 ikr lmao

[@menacetosociety471]

@@Jank9975 also they'd be inbred

[@kaylam8906]

Wouldn’t that make them siblings

[@Nameless82284]

Maybe CatDog doesn't have biological parents, maybe CatDog was a lab experiment or something.

[@mr.checkyourself4672]

The theme song of CatDog tells about their parents as well.

[@JonathanGaeta]

And it’s still a bomb to listen to

[@firekat7933]

Omg.This gave me ALL the good feels. So wholesome and hillarious. I miss this show!

[@CosplayCore]

I was 8 years old when this episode aired. I actually do remember sitting and watching it. As soon as I found out it wasn't a rerun of Pecanitis, I just sat through it and enjoyed it.

[@NitwitsWorld]

I believe when after the show ended the creator confirmed that Catdog was created by a mad scientist but threw them away cause they were complete failures.

[@silyknow]

Source?

[@NitwitsWorld]

@@silyknow It was on some Facebook page many years ago so I wasn't sure if the creator confirmed it in an interview or not. :/

[@kingraplhmativo5178]

@@NitwitsWorld shut up and stop spreading fake news!

[@specialistdeadmaxyayodente6588]

@@kingraplhmativo5178 we don't know if it fake news are what and that's rude so you shut up

[@landlobsterqueen5578]

Fake or not, I like this theory

[@HelloKittyGal16]

So ingrained in my memory, cause the show being creatively weird and feeling sorry for Cat, getting the short end of the stick... Yes a verified cat person.

[@JediOttselWaluigikid115]

To be honest I feel bad for dog because he’s not stupid, he just thinks differently from cat. And yes a verified dog person.

[@Giran_0]

Yea cat has the universe against him for some reason

[@DianneRoberts722]

​@@Giran_0He has a Mr. Doom after him! 😢

[@maroonggirl]

I love that their dad says "We don't know where your mom came from either, but that's not important". It doesn't matter who/what biologically created Catdog or their mom. The little family they made is what really matters. If they ever do a Catdog revival, I want to know more about the parents. What was the mom's life like being this big blue bean-shaped person with no one else who looks like her? Does she have a family? How'd she meet the frog and fall in love? Is the frog close with his family or were they a crappy family he willfully left? I got a lot of questions and potential fanfics brewing in my head.

[@PowerRangersFanAntiDinoFury]

Man, you can just tell that tom kenny is balancing between two characters around this time. Dog and spongebob.

[@Pooky1991]

I remember loving this. It explained so much without 100 percent explaining where they came from. Its pretty much implied a cat and dog got together. One of them became pregnant and due to the feud between their people, it was taboo and would have got them in alot of trouble, or the pregnancy was known, but once Catdog were born their abnormality made them unwanted. As a result they were abandoned on the mountain where the Sasquash woman and frog guy raised them as their own, pretty much adopting them. I thought it was really sweet and sad to watch their childhood and is a very wholesome ending.

[@lianaverwood9810]

In fact, it could even be that the baby CatDog was the reason for the truce agreement 50 Years ago (don't forget that Dogs/Cats age at the rate of about 7 years for each Human one). "After their birth, the uneasy peace didn't last long, with the erratic actions of Baby CatDog. The feud between the Catfields and the McDogs (that's what the Credits referred to the two Yokelburg families as) was about to resume before someone realized that CatDog was the real problem - the two Families called a Truce and joined together to throw CatDog out of town! After that, the town had a substantial amount of Peace for 50 Years - until the return of the child from 50 Years ago would bring destruction yet again..." My story parallels with what happens in the show because that's a common practice in storytelling, when an author wants to hide lore within somethings History without spelling it outright. The fact that this 50 year event happens to be around 7 Human Years ago (CatDog's likely Age) also gives evidence to this history ending up as a self-fulfilling prophecy when CatDog shows up again. Also: When using Google Closed Captioning to check the lyrics of the Intro, the nonsensical line 'No blue butter or Three-eyed Frogs' shows up. Whether or not this wording is accurate, the words 'Blue' and 'Frog' are distinctly clear - given what we know about CatDog's adoptive parents now, could they have been hinting us to them all along?

[@Channel9001]

I recall an episode where Cat told Dog to watch what he eats because "it may go in your mouth, but it has to go through OUR colon!" Which means they do go to the bathroom, and they have a butthole... somewhere, that is distinct from either of their mouths, and they have to share it...

[@extremsuper3891]

I still vaguely remember that one episode when they go to their own bathroom a litter box (Cat) and a fire hydrant (Dog) they raise their hand which make me think they defecate through their armpits or something lol

[@kou7191]

@@extremsuper3891 when their bird friend finds out they go to the toilet and Dog starts crying saying it was meant to be a secret

[@vergilmontiero2558]

It's always been a frightening and interesting thought

[@jocelynecupcake]

ahaha XD The creator said not to worry about it, tho. Like, he got that question form fans all the time

[@morganrussman]

​@kou7191 bird friend? You mean Lola Caricola?

[@nobudobu5444]

The surprising fact that Jim Cummings (The Voice of Cat) also voiced Pooh and Tom Kenny (Who also voices Spongebob) is the one who voiced Dog but this is just nostalgic when I still remember CatDog.

[@SweetSeline777]

I always loved watching it when it was in air back in a day. Funny thing is (and it's just a theory of mine) that in the 1st few seasons of the show - a couple of episodes hinted at Catdog having an extended family (maybe even with parents included), that just were living in a different city (or maybe the countryside) and visited on family reunions. And then later on in the show all of that was retconned to make Catdog an orphan which spawned the 4-part parent mystery episode - not that I'm complaining,mind you. Those who remember the show will understand.

[@FoxJ10027]

We need a modern day CatDog series where Cat signs up for 23andMe to find their biological parents

[@DuskTillShawn]

lol I laughed way too hard at this.

[@canaisyoung3601]

They had a TV movie where we find out about their parents. Trouble is, no one saw it.

[@tawnie9204]

I would watch!

[@EinsamPibroch278]

I'm pretty sure they really were a conjoined hybrid from that hillbilly village, just that nobody claimed them. Besides, why did Dog imagine their parents opposite sex conjoined twin siblings? They definitely were a separate cat and dog.

[@Thunderkak222]

@@canaisyoung3601 isn't that literally what this video is about....

[@mathieuleader8601]

Catdog is not the only member of their family as their X2 great-uncle whom they got an inheritence is Uncle Horseduck

[@jocelynecupcake]

uncle horseduck was maybe the brother of the big blue lady that's their mum

[@UnknownPerson-wc7wf]

But they said they don't know they have an uncle and pretend to be sad just to get the lake

[@DianneRoberts722]

​@@jocelynecupcakeWinslow's sister?

[@sabrina.natalie]

Watching this felt nostalgic. I was definitely more of a Nickelodeon kid, more than a Cartoon Network kid. CatDog was so simplistic - yet innovative. It was fun, creative, and just artistic. The whole concept of a whole CatDog immediately captured my attention - being that I was so young when I started watching the show. Ah… such simpler times. Nowadays, the shows are just… different.

[@xviinaichi3793]

That hairball idea was actually a 300 IQ move lmao

[@JustinZarian]

Yup, I was there when it premiered. I didn’t even realize other new episodes aired after the movie though. It was such a definitive ending that I didn’t feel like there was anything else to say. And it was a pretty darn good movie for what’s a pretty darn weird but lovable show.

[@Jah_LEASE_yah]

I love that they kept what Cat Dog is and they came to be a mystery. And they got to tell a really heartwarming story about a beautiful adoptive family.

[@madisondampier3389]

I'm surprised I even remember watching this episode, I haven't seen catdog in years, but this video brought all of those memories back and more, I really loved this show as a kid and I'm definitely going to re-watch it now

[@static-san]

I remember this airing here in Australia! They re-wrote not just the opening song, but the closing song, too, which is my strongest memory of the episode. And yes, it was a fitting end of the whole show. A very fitting end.

[@MFTony727]

I think about this episode whenever I think of CatDog. Just one of those things that stuck with me as a kid I guess. Another great upload man.

[@DuskTillShawn]

Thanks for watching Tony!

[@Etekatte]

"Leaving everyone else to be eaten by the giant lake monster" Good! It's what they deserved, especially Cliff.

[@xCoffeeNWeedx]

i never saw the episode, but i wanted to cry when dog gave up on himself and finding his parent, then cat had to give up the act of not caring. great vid .

[@EmGames41]

I remember when this episode came out! I remember Nickelodeon airing the crap out of the previews for it because Catdog was ending and youll finally get to see who the parents are. I was soo excited. Thanks for recapping the episode. It has been so long since ive last seen it. I thought the frog and the monster were their bio parents lolll i guess i did pay attention enough.

[@7kortos7]

7:34 Dog's flex though, why he so ripped? lmao. chasing trucks pays off.

[@jocelynecupcake]

he also needs to protect himself

[@SMBancho830]

I loved this episode! I remember I was wishing for a catdog movie and then 1 day I was able to watch this thinking why was is so long ang cool. It's like my wish came true and it was like a movie. I really love these era of cartoons. Catdog, Roccos, Real monsters, Spongebob, all their episodes were so good. Ren and Stimpy, kinda weirded me out but it's cool too lol.

[@Ms.Bullet352]

This warms my heart. I grew watching this. I remember when this showed first aired.

[@greywolf2809]

“Pin the child on the parent” Yeaaaa my parents played that one.

[@erick001bc]

I could only think of 2 parents not wanting their kid and trying to give it to the other parent, like in divorce or something. Hopefully not that dark.

[@greywolf2809]

@@erick001bc yes exactly haha

[@logiciansvlog5800]

Holy shit 🤣

[@IaeyanElyuex]

Cool, cool, depressing, cool.

[@g1rldraco7]

I remember when this first came out, blew my mind wide open. I use to have a stuffed animal of catdog. I did get the funko pop of it :)

[@DuskTillShawn]

Awesome! I have the CatDog funko pop too! :D

[@g1rldraco7]

@@DuskTillShawn one of my favorite episodes is when Dog finally beat that paperboy aka the mailman!!!! White fish Chubb!!!!

[@g1rldraco7]

@CrysJay Agreed Winslow sucked!!!! Whats crazy is that the voice actor for Rocko from Rockos Modern Life thats winslow

[@Geonite207]

They may not be Catdogs real parents, but they loved and raised them as though they are. I get the warm feels when I see them reunite.❤❤❤

[@Zedryx69]

I'm 12 years old right now, so I wouldn't've seen catdog anyway... but I do have a theory: they were stitched together via cliche evil lab stuff when they were born because science experiment

[@shannonhensley2942]

I remember this episode really well. I was having my own sort of parental crisis as a small kid. I was adopted and had no idea who my bio mom and dad were. The episode stuck with me for a long time. I eventually had to look it up again in highschool. And all those feelings came back for a third time watching this.

[@ineffablemars]

This is such an important episode because of its message.

[@miketurik9404]

This episode still needs the answer on how CatDog ended up on that ledge when they were babies

[@PhineasFlynn98]

we really don’t know because it’s top secret

[@PhineasFlynn98]

Vexed Of Kin and Meat, Dog’s Friends was the series finale of CatDog.

[@Shidyk]

Man, can't believe its been over 20 years since I saw this special. So many great memories

[@theCarbonFreeze]

This show always seemed so meanspirited. So much of it was everyone beating up catdog, treating them like freaks and just being unpleasant. They never learn their lesson and Catdog never finds acceptance. Just an overall unpleasant atmosphere in this cartoon. Im glad some people like it, but it was never one of my favorites and Ive never had any desire to rewatch it as an adult.

[@SpencerLemay]

For a lot of people being treated like a freak and never being respected is just life and there isn't really a fix so this is a show for them. Maybe this is a bullshit observation but I feel like guys are more attracted to cynical shows where the characters continuously fail or endure suffering with no resolution.

[@squirrel670]

As someone who loves shows with animals in it, i couldn't like it as a kid because of how mean it was. Especially with the greaser dogs. I just didn't like it. I'm glad it's not just me.

[@malfaroangel3896]

I think it has to do with the art style.

[@aznchik7229]

This was back in the day when shows didn't have to be conscientious of parents being up in arms over shows being true to reality. I wish current kids shows exposed kids to real life and how cruel it can be (in a light cartoony way). Kids get bullied when they don't deserve it. This show did a good job at showing how to still live life even when there's negative external factors that can't be controlled. Everyone is entitled their own thoughts and opinions though. This comment is mine.

[@squirrel670]

@@aznchik7229 I've seen anime with terrible bullying and of course everything has to be depressing. It's not just the bullying

[@JustOneMoreVermin]

My six year old self was obsessed with this show and when the commercials aired that we would find out the stuff that we all wanted to know, I was beyond excited. I had flashbacks when watching this yt vid lol.

[@seconddaymusic8393]

Of course Tom Kenny voices dog, he's practically the voice of Nickelodeon from the 90's

[@foxracing8973]

Catdog was my favorite Nick show as a kid besides SpongeBob ( old SpongeBob when it was still good). I had always wondered about how they went to the bathroom too. There was one episode that showed the inside of their bathroom for like the 1st time and there was a fire hydrant on one side and a litter box on the other side. They didn't actually show them going to the bathroom ofc but I then assumed that meant they somehow could go separately lol. Also if you notice this was around the time that Dog's voice (Tom Kenny) started getting higher pitched and different sounding to the point where I almost didn't like it. The weird thing is that the same thing happened with Tom doing SpongeBob's voice later in the seasons and I'm not sure why.

[@haileymacisaac5089]

That makes so much sense! I didn’t remember his voice being this high when I watched it.

[@AudraBurgess]

After the movie aired I noticed the theme song had always hinted at their parents: "No blue buddy, no three eyed frog..." EDIT: so someone in the replies pointed out that it's blue buzzard not blue buddy but I still stand by my theory that they planned this from the beginning. It's possible they could have changed their mom from a bird to a Sasquatch during the development of the movie. Also here's a link to the 1998 CatDog music video that still has the blue buzzard and three-eyed frog lyric: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYWqZ5-YoKqDlc0

[@robbiewalker2831]

So they actually planned this from the start.

[@AudraBurgess]

@@robbiewalker2831 I've believed that for years. Either that was their idea from the very beginning or they added the lyric in after the movie aired but I don't see them doing that to all the episodes.

[@bruceaskew2107]

😲😲😲👌🏾

[@AudraBurgess]

@@TheRealYuckl3s_9000 I looked it up and you're correct. I was going off of memory alone but I still stand by my theory their parents were planned from the beginning. It could be possible that their mom was supposed to be a blue buzzard and they changed her to a Sasquatch later.

[@YukiTheOkami]

I dont remember the german version of it but i think that hint got lost in translation cause rhyme and flow is a thing that needs to be considered

[@Anna-ps1us]

Having this air for the first time when I was 2 and watching it till I was 9 makes the memory of this whole movie super surreal. Feels like on of those weird recurring dream you have once every 6 years or something.

[@chris_kyleartist279]

Nick was doing a bunch of like hour tv specials for their shows around that time, this was one. I know they also did one for “Are You Afraid of the Dark” “ Kennan and Kel” “Cousin Skeeter” “As Told By Ginger”

[@joseph4964]

what a trip this video was. it was like diving deep into my memories the more your video went on. Great job!

[@sabrina.natalie]

Yeah, I agree. It really felt nostalgic. I was definitely more of a Nickelodeon kid, more than a Cartoon Network kid. CatDog was so simplistic - yet innovative. It was fun, creative, and just artistic. The whole concept of a whole CatDog immediately captured my attention - being that I was so young when I started watching the show. Ah… such simpler times. Nowadays, the shows are just… different.

[@KimarKurosaski]

Cliff give off insane black Air Force 1 energy like bro started off roasting some orphans on Parents Day then tried to find Catdog and the parents just so he can beat them all up. Bro a demon 😂😂😂

[@dannyhuskerjay]

I remember when the parents lost them. The moms screams were haunting and scared me as a kid. Great acting it truly sounded like a mother just lost he children.

[@angeypork]

I was young and barely remembered catdog and could only watch it when I was about to fall asleep. I always thought they were just roomates that wore a belt together one night and woke up and were conjoined and just were like “involuntary besties?”

[@unripetheberrby6283]

🎶"Alone no more, is a lil CatDog~"🎶 ?? Woow wonderful :') Thanks for the video. I actually never knew much about this special. Other then it happening and thinking remembering what the parents looked like.. I wasn't even 5 when it aired, and it was all before internet got more and more available.. It sounded so sweet and felt just like an episode *but* with some real certain importance behind it. That it didn't "NEED" being the simple cute comedy it is, but definitely appreciated and well-deserved. And full of passion completely... I can agree it feels like a farewell ending to the series in a way, and if anything it's a great one!

[@zanenevada7327]

The reason i love it is because i am adopted even though my parents don’t look like me i still love them so much

[@creepykidandinfinitedreams2987]

Same :)

[@piercepatterson9274]

The funniest thing is that all dog's theories were right in a way

[@borachoi6085]

They're adopted, they've got quite different body feature and they get bullied, but are loved.

[@NCTStudio]

Besides the fact that IT WAS MENTIONED ALL THE TIME IN THE THEME SONG

[@DuskTillShawn]

Right?! I had a little segment about that in the original edit for this video, but I ended up cutting it out. lol

[@ronnieperez8519]

So catdog is just the result of a cat and dog trying to mate and they're conjoined because of the incompatibleness of the species!

[@Neku628]

@@ronnieperez8519 Aren't they able to have kids because in Parent's Day, we saw a whole bunch of people that didn't look like their parents much less the same species?

[@aznchik7229]

@@Neku628 Those could've been adoptive parents if they don't look anything like their kid...

[@AdamAve93]

Yet we never got the answer of who their birth parents were or where they really came from. But the Parents who found them loved them so and were glad to get them back. One of the greatest shows I grew up with.

[@ari_valentine]

I remember seeing this! I was 7 years old sitting on the floor of my grandmother’s living room.

[@blindbookworm8019]

When my friend was little he had the burning question of how Catdog went to the restroom. Haha.

[@SupHapCak]

One hole in the middle. I’m pretty sure.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

*Question:* How does CatDog's digestive system works after eating their meal?

[@kamenrideraquarius]

Mostlikely it meets at the stomach or colon

[@jamesb.russell2942]

@@kamenrideraquarius yeah and then what?

[@kamenrideraquarius]

@@jamesb.russell2942 they share a stomach and a colon they must share a spincter

[@jamesb.russell2942]

@@kamenrideraquarius yes but. Where.

[@youcannowplayasluigi3698]

@@jamesb.russell2942 I don’t want to think about this

[@johnnybravosfeetfetish8319]

Cat really started a race war between the cats and dogs I'm done 💀

[@dwinters6291]

To be fair, he is technically half dog

[@johnnybravosfeetfetish8319]

@@dwinters6291 they saw the cat part of him not the dog this would be a perfect society joke

[@jamesb.russell2942]

I REMEMBER THIS EPISODE but I was so young, I think I saw it at someone else's house too... this video brought back so many obscure memories

[@patcahill3724]

I love CatDog it's one of the best nicktoons in my opinion and I love that great parent mystery episode it's so heartwarming.

[@aznchik7229]

I vaguely remembered this episode existed (I was 4 when this came out) but as I watched this vid, all the memories came flooding back as if it were just yesterday! I love the message. It doesn't matter who your biological parents are, just as long as the people who raised you / took care of you treated you correctly with love. I'm adopted and while I am grateful to my biological parents for bringing me into this world, that's about it. My adopted parents are my true parents. They are the ones who instilled my moral compass, gave me what I needed to live (food/water, clothing, shelter, education, etc), and gifted me with what I wanted when I behaved. I have friends whose "family" don't even deserve that title. They're treated as a doormat, always expected to give, give, give, and rarely do they receive in return. Granted, doing nice isn't about receiving in return, but being a FAMILY is knowing you can rely on each other (giving AND receiving when needed).

[@dragonslayer101]

Despite being a show about two conjoined brothers who are ridiculed for their looks and also for causing havoc across town full of animal and human residents, Cat Dog is actually one of the most normal show I watched as a kid. And the characters Cat Dogs themselves look way more normal than the other character's designs, Winslow for example is a mouse with a human nose!

[@brandonahmed7459]

The end got me very emotional 😭

[@KingKyrool]

I remember this episode when it came out, one of those last shows I remember being really into when I used to watch Nick. Man they used to have alot more creativity back in those days but times have changed and I guess kids wants are different now. I love how simple the show was.

[@sabrina.natalie]

Yeah, I agree. I was definitely more of a Nickelodeon kid, more than a Cartoon Network kid. CatDog was so simplistic - yet innovative. It was fun, creative, and just artistic. The whole concept of a whole CatDog immediately captured my attention - being that I was so young when I started watching the show. I agree with everything you said. Nowadays, the shows are just… different.

[@SupHapCak]

Kids’ wants aren’t different, it’s the networks who want to push a message onto people

[@echoepsilon8909]

I never thought Cat dog would make me cry. I have vague memories of watching episodes on a dvd my dad illegally pirated. This honestly makes me want to binge watch the series (legally this time)

[@rayjenboi]

I remember watching this episode, back somewhere in 2015. I loved this episode a lot. It was really happy and I was honestly shocked at how they ended the episode. I personally loved this episode and it sure is still a mystery on how they came first, but hey, I guess we learned that love is blind :)

[@colossusequinox5388]

But there is one mystery people never seemed to talk about- How can CatDog be both fraternal and conjoined twins?

[@Harbinger2842]

About halfway through your video I had a fever dream and memories of this episode came flooding back.

[@jabberfish_]

CatDog was one of my favorites as a kid! I remember being so excited when this was announced and I made my mom record it so I wouldn't miss it.

[@srirachasoda8961]

Omg. Nostalgia and so many lore questions finally answered. I loved this show, cow and chicken, angry beavers, rockos modern life, and so many others. The 90s and early 2000s truly had some amazing gems. Where children's cartoons contained something for everyone. Going back and watching these shows as an adult, catching all the subtle jokes in em I never understood as a child. Or shows like Hey Arnold(especially the Mr.Huynh Christmas special) hit really close to home for me. They werent afraid to show us/teach us the hardships of life. Today's cartoons have been massively dumbed down, even shows that are on going or have had modern reboots just arent the same. You've earned a sub. Thank you for this.

[@jocelynecupcake]

Rocko's modern life was more of an adult cartoon, try rewatching it LOL I think CatDog and Angry beavers were way more family friendly. Hey Arnold as well.

[@theopulentone1650]

This was my favorite episode, it made me cry like a baby when I first saw it lol

[@Ican3sleepxd]

This show is straight up Nostalgia I use to watch all it all the time- and to be quite fair with you I forgot about it and how amazing it was. I missed those good old days where you would just watch old shows and old movies that were silly yet fun to have around.

[@MichaelOKeefe2009]

I'm still having those nightmarish vibes of "Scientifically Accurate CatDog". Don't watch it kiddies.

[@irayathecool]

I remember being hyped for this when i was little, and kind of disappointed that we never actually learned how they came to be.

[@mechajay3358]

Now I always enjoyed this show since it's beginning, but this tv movie actually made me really appreciate Cat Dog.

[@vergilmontiero2558]

Does anyone remember that one episode when catdog had a "family reunion" they were preparing for. This bus came however because cat and dog were both occupied the bus came and then ended up leaving because no one came out to greet them.