No bc me too...idk why im getting sucked into learning about this comic strip. Its such a charming and interesring pastiche of this version of 80s american white womanhood
You want more? Look up “Sally Forth,” and “For Better or Worse.” Both are “Slice of Life” comics strips that, like “Cathy,” were written for the newspaper back in the 70’s and 80’s, but grew so popular with readers that they had their own TV cartoon specials, with the same animation style they were written with! “Sally Forth” tells of the everyday life and shenanigans of a middle-class American Couple and their daughter Hillary; while “For Better or Worse” follows a similar theme, but over four generations of the same family. Check them out; both the original comics AND the animated specials were AMAZING!
@@joshmg25 You would get run out of any pizza place for asking for this price. Last time I ordered pizza it cost about $60 for 2 pizzas. After delivery fees and tip.
For starters, don’t put the tip on your credit card 💳. Secondly, take the advice of the late comedian Jack Benny; always base your tips on the quality of the service, never base them on the percentage of the cost. Thirdly, for good service, a proper tip (even in hard times) should never exceed more than $.10 cents, however, in the event of the service being poor, the tip should not exceed more than $.05 cents. Fourthly, all tips should be made with silver coins 🪙 instead of paper currency or a plastic credit card. Fifthly, always hold onto all receipts 🧾 for when you send your W1040 to the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) every April 15TH.
18:53 “The beauty of valentines gifts is that they’re small enough to slip through the little space that’s open when a woman has her door barricaded with a security chain” LMAO
I can easily see Peggy Hill of Arlen, Texas, exchanging recipes with Cathy after she has moved into the house at 522 Rainey Street; once occupied by the late Dale Gribble.
I must say these cartoon characters act so human-like. The beginning was very realistic. How they both fell asleep before they even got a chance to eat take-out dinner, or how they fell asleep on the couch in front of the TV before they even got a chance to get intimate with one another. When you get to be their age, you'll definitely relate more. As an adult, there are times when you have to work long, tiring hours and run a ton of errands in order to keep a roof over your head.
I dont hate Irving. I think they both want their independence but also want companionship. And neither one respects the other's idea of affection. Both also seem to be deathly allergic to communication. It's like, yeah, they obviously shouldn't be together, but the cartoon points out multiple times that it's both of their faults.
I would have been 5….. I remember reading the comic strips in the Dayton Daily News on Saturdays sometimes .. Cathy was a good one… and these cartoons are better than the computer and AI stuff nowadays, in my opinion..
Try imagining the possibility of Cathy dumping Irving for Orville Snorkel aka Sarge (from the Beetle Bailey comics), and after getting his honorable discharge back into civilian life, they go on to become the new next door neighbors to Hank and Peggy Hill in the old Dale Gribble house at 522 Rainey Street.
Charlie Brown has nothing in common with Bill Dauterive, except for the fact that while Bill lives across the alley from Hank, Charlie Brown lives at 517 Rainey Street across the street from Hank.
Charlie Brown’s boyhood home is Norfolk, Virginia. He moves to Arlen, Texas, after graduation from Texas A&M with a Masters Degree in Business Administration, topped off with the Class A CDL (commercial drivers license) as a self-employed driver with his very own cabover semi truck.
I was an American kid living in Europe in 1989 and, as afn did not have commercials, it's always fun to see these. I actually recognize the dad from one of my favorite shows, The adventures of Pete and Pete in that Burger King commercial.
I love Cathys relationship with Zenith, even when Cathy was on vacation and she found out Zenith and her parents were there, she never seems annoyed with having the baby forced on her as a babysitter. She genuinely loves Zenith, and also i love how Zeniths mom speaks for her. This show is like a warm hug I adore it
Love the "California Raisins" ad! (~13:46) *- I remember when the Raisins debuted, and there was the contest to name them...it feels like a long time ago now. Claymation was awesome!
No, that was a teenager with the beginnings of a mustache. Remember, during the late 60’s long hair (for both sexes) and facial hair (for men) were just starting to become popular (mostly thanks to the Beatles); a fashion trend which was expanded upon in the 70’s. So don’t worry, no pedo or ick here.
Well, be that as it may, I still think that Orville Snorkel aka Sarge would still give Irving a run for his money. Now, you’re just now wondering how he would go about it, right? For starters, while going to a family reunion of her Father’s relatives in Riverdale, where 1ST Cousin Archie Andrews resides, especially since he’s now married to Veronica Lodge. So before all the things that are normal for family reunions occurs, Archie and Veronica take Cathy to Pop Tate’s Choklit Shoppe where Jughead Jones is in a hamburger eating contest against another out-of-town visitor who’s a 1ST Cousin to their old school principal, Waldo Weatherbee. The cousin of Principal Weatherbee is Orville Snorkel aka Sarge. They arrive just in time as Pop Tate lays out these two gigantic platters of hamburgers that measure 3’FT tall each. By contest’s end no burgers are left on Jughead’s platter while Orville has five burgers left, yet now all he wants is Alka-Seltzer. Since the family reunion will last for an entire week at the latest, Cathy and Orville get to know each other better. However, Mr. Pinkley while having a drink with Irving lets it slip about the hamburger eating contest in Riverdale. So, Irving also goes up to Riverdale by Amtrak. He confronts and embarrasses as well as humiliating Cathy in the presence of Archie and Veronica. They put in their $.02 cents worth, word wise that is, and Orville just happens to drop in on Cathy at the house of Archie and Veronica. With Irving’s accusations of infidelity, Orville considers them as ‘fighting words’, and wants satisfaction for the way that Irving just insulted Cathy. Irving figures to use the Judo he’s been learning lately against Orville. However, Principal Weatherbee who’s Orville’s 1ST Cousin, suggests an auto race between the two of them, as in a quarter-mile drag race, in front of witnesses so that everything is fair and square. So, Irving seeks out help from local funeral director and prankster Reggie Mantle, in order to win the drag race, only their plans are uncovered by Reggie’s old high school nemesis, Moose Mason, while making his monthly visits to the funeral home for the Better Business Bureau. Once tipped off, Weatherbee is in a bind. Therefore, Archie and Veronica call on their occult friend from high school, Sabrina Spellman, to aid Orville in winning the drag race together with Cathy’s heart. So, on Friday afternoon at the race track in Riverdale, they’re all set. Reggie has supplied Irving with his transportation in the race, a great 1963 Chevrolet Corvette roadster. Orville on the other hand drives a 1959 Ford Edsel convertible in the race. To start the race, Jughead will signal them by taking a bite out of a burger. Before anyone knows what happens next, they’re off. Fearing that Irving will use the nitrous oxide hookup Reggie had installed in the Stingray roadster, Sabrina goes into action by using her occult powers to make Irving think that Reggie didn’t put enough gas in the roadster, which succeeds, and by a miracle, Orville wins the drag race fair and square. Irving is as mad as the character played by Peter Finch in the 1976 movie “NETWORK”, and he punches Reggie, knocking him up against the hearse from the funeral home before leaving town. Irving leaves on the Amtrak going home that night, and this is the stepping stone of his turning in his resignation to become Vice-President of advertising for J.C Dithers Construction Unlimited, seeing as how his uncle who’s his mother’s brother owns the company, which also employs Dagwood Bumstead. At the big family reunion barbecue on Saturday, Orville joins in together with his dog Otto. During a lull in the conversations, that’s when Cathy announces that Orville has proposed marriage, and that she’s accepted, even though it means resigning from her job, and relocating to married housing at Camp Swampy where Orville’s stationed. With the exceptions of Archie and Veronica, the rest of the family is puzzled while Cathy’s parents are just shocked entirely. So, within the following month, not only does she resign, he has her house put up for rent until she’s ready to decide when to sell it. Yet, she manages to obtain a good cash offer on her vehicle from a used car dealership. Still, although her father thinks that having a soldier for a son-in-law isn’t too bad, her mother just absolutely refuses to attend the wedding to be held in the chapel at Camp Swampy (according to my prior posting a few comments above this one), even though it only covers the vows. So, before heading to Camp Swampy, she first picks up a few things in Riverdale that includes her aunt’s (Archie’s mother’s) wedding gown, which fits her like a glove. Thus, one could easily say that Cathy’s eloping. Eventually, after exchanging vows with Orville, they spend the next year and a half in married housing at Camp Swampy, by which time Orville is honorably discharged and they also have a baby on the way. So, they head for the Texas town of Arlen where through realtor Peggy Hill, they buy the old Dale Gribble house at 522 Rainey Street, which is next door to the house that Peggy shares with her husband, propane salesman Hank Hill. Although, purchasing the house takes most of Orville’s discharge pay, he manages to secure himself a G.I. Bill loan to open up his very own discount auto parts store in Arlen. By the time that Orville has sold enough discount auto parts to payoff both his loan from the G.I. Bill, and the mortgage that they took out to pay the remaining balance on what they owed on the house to Sizemore Realty, Cathy successfully gives birth to a son that they name Orville Snorkel, Jr.
I guess people selling ads assumed Cathy fans also have long hair 💇 otherwise I don't understand the True Value hardware ad for drain clearing augurs EDIT 28:25 OK I get the hardware ad
Chaplain Ransahoff: “Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to witness the unification in marriage of this magnificent couple of Orville and Catharine. Now, do you Orville, take thee Catharine to be thy lawfully wedded wife? To love, honor, obey, cherish, and to have, and to hold from this day forward, and cling only unto her in forsaking all others for so long as you both shall live? For better or worse? For richer or poorer? In sickness, and in health, until death do you part?” Orville: “I do!” Chaplain Ransahoff: “Do you Catharine, take thee Orville to be thy lawfully wedded husband? To love, honor, obey, cherish, and to have, and to hold from this day forward, and cling only unto him in forsaking all others for so long as you both shall live? For better or worse? For richer or poorer? In sickness, and in health, until death do you part?” Cathy: “I do!” Chaplain Ransahoff: (staring at Orville’s dog Otto; serving as the Ringbearer) “The rings, please?” Otto hands the two plain yellow gold 8MM wedding rings up to Orville. Chaplain Ransahoff: “Orville, take the smaller one of the two rings, and place it on the third finger of Catharine’s left hand, and repeat after me, ‘With this ring, I thee wed.’” Orville: (stuttering). “W-W-With this r-r-r-r-r-ring, I thee wed.” Chaplain Ransahoff: (now repeating with Cathy) “Catharine, take the other ring, and place it on the third finger of Orville’s left hand, and repeat after me, ‘With this ring, I too thee wed.’” Cathy: “With this ring, I too thee wed.” Chaplain Ransahoff: (looking all about the guests in a nervous manner) “If there is anyone here who can show just cause as to why they may not join in wedlock, let them speak now, or else, hereafter and forever, hold their peace?” Silence is looming over the guests. Chaplain Ransahoff: “By all the power and authority vested in me by the United States Army, I now pronounce you husband and wife! You may kiss the bride!” Orville and Cathy seal their wedding vows with the traditional first kiss as a happily married couple. Chaplain Ransahoff: “Ladies and Gentlemen! Officers and Enlisted Personnel alike, may I present unto you, Sergeant and Mrs. Orville Snorkel!”
Well, be that as it may, perhaps Pepper Ann is a possible fifth cousin to Cathy through Cathy’s mother and Pepper Ann’s father. However, it just happens that the surname on her birth certificate reads Andrews, which makes her a first cousin to Archie Andrews of Riverdale (BFF of Jughead Jones) as well as Annabelle Andrews (the Jodie Foster character from the classic 1976 Disney movie of “FREAKY FRIDAY”), and through her father’s sister Marjorie McDeevers, she’s also a first cousin to siblings Wally McDeevers and his sister Stephanie; Wally plays drums while Stephanie does 4-string bass guitar for the rock group known as Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kids.
For someone who admires the Jodie Foster version of “FREAKY FRIDAY”, you seem to have overlooked that Jughead Jones’ BFF Archie Andrews of Riverdale is a paternal first cousin to Cathy, not to mention her first cousins the McDeevers siblings (Wally and Stephanie) from the classic short-lived 1973 NBC/Hanna-Barbera animated series “BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KIDS” that aired from September to December that year. If in doubt, just scare yourself up a dvd boxset of the complete animated series of “BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KIDS” as well as possibly looking for any footage of them on certain UA-cam channels, just in case?
These old commercials, they give a glimpse into what Life was like in 1989. 99 cents for a cheese burger, and a good one at that. I wish I couldve had been in this time.
Sounds better than trying to piece it together from this special. The best I could get is that by 1981 she'd be at around 25 since she outlined 20 years of valentines. If she was school aged by the first one at least.
Qwer-teaBinch, Don’t you think that maybe it’s just about time that she dumped Irving to elope with Orville Snorkel aka Sarge (from the Beetle Bailey comics)?
Those two just have different love languages. I talked to my therapist about this with an ex and she gave me some insight. Cathy is someone whose love language is time together and physical touch. Irving’s is deeds and actions (and possibly physical touch and time together when he cheated on Cathy with Brenda earlier). He was setting up their new stereo so she can enjoy it. Looking at it, it’s very evident in that scene. To make this type of dynamic work, you have to recognize what the other partner likes.
Tell it to Texas propane salesman Hank Hill and his wife Peggy who will hopefully welcome Cathy as a new next door neighbor when she comes to Arlen, Texas, as Mrs. Orville Snorkel when they move into the house at 522 Rainey Street.
Awww the intro is so heartwarming! When I had my first valentine with my boyfriend, we also fell asleep at the movie theatre, after running around the mall, then eating a hearty dinner together!
It's because everyone in her life basically gives her terrible advice and she takes the worst from each. She then chases after a man that has no interest in committing to a relationship and being consistent. Finally, it is her. She is the one that can choose to control these things but doesn't and swings from scenario to scenario. The writer is a genius for creating this unsettling amount of cringe hidden under saccarine music and cutsey music.
At least if she dumped Irving to elope with Orville Snorkel aka Sarge, and after a year and a half in married housing at Camp Swampy, Orville gets an honorable discharge back into civilian life. Then they load up everything that they own into their vintage 1974 Chevrolet C20 Custom Deluxe crewcab pickup truck with a vintage Airstream Double Axle Land Yacht Safari hitched up to the rear bumper, and together with Orville’s dog Otto, they head to the Texas town of Arlen where they become the new next door neighbors to Hank and Peggy Hill by moving into the old Dale Gribble house at 522 Rainey Street, which Peggy sold to them through Sizemore Realty of Arlen. However, most of the discharge pay went on the down payment on the house, which leads to them taking out a mortgage to payoff the remainder of what they owe to Sizemore Realty and the commission for Peggy. Before too long, Orville gets a loan through the G.I. Bill to open up a discount auto parts store in Arlen. After one week in business, Orville gets Hank’s help with converting Dale’s old basement into a rumpus room while Peggy is helping Cathy select maternity clothes now that she’s expectant with Orville Jr.?!
The plot is a more affluent & dysfunctional version of O Henry 's Gift of the Magi where a married couple each give presents they think the other wants but didn't communicate with each other & so receive gifts the can't use
Going to therapy was normal in 1989? I thought back then people viewed it as a nutcase thing. Alright, I wasn’t wrong. Lol. Her boyfriend didn’t seem happy about her seeing the therapist and was a bit condescending about it. Her Silent/Greatest Generation parents freaked out.
Well, be that as it may, just try imagining how her paternal 1ST Cousin Archie Andrews together his wife Veronica Lodge Andrews and his parents Fred and Marie Andrews also react to the circumstances of the situation of the dilemma?!
And above all else, under these circumstances, there’s no doubt that Cathy rightly deserves to become Mrs. Orville Snorkel, even if it means being stationed in married housing at Camp Swampy for starters. Ofcourse, when Cathy finds out that she’s expectant with Orville Jr., and finds out that Orville is getting his honorable discharge back into civilian life, not to mention that he’s applying for a loan on the G.I. Bill for acquiring a house as well as to start up a discount auto parts store in Arlen, Texas. Sure it’ll put them in the old Gribble house now that a stroke from all those years of smoking has finished off Dale Gribble.
12:38 I don't understand why they couldn't do both? Couldn't Irving set up the cable splitters then they had a romantic night Cathy wanted? Irving is a true paycho who pnly gets 2 gallons of gas even for the late 80s that ridiculous
If only she had been able to get in touch with Sergeant Orville Snorkel of Camp Swampy, and then she would have found for herself the exact soulmate for matrimony, and to start a family to boot.
I remember reading this comic as a little kid and thinking that Irving was a woman because of his mouth always being drawn like a triangle (I thought it was lipstick?) The cartoon draws their mouths differently: look up the comic strip, you'll see what I mean. If I had seen this cartoon I would have realized he was a man sooner. Maybe I was looking for other lesbians before I knew what they were, LOL. Anyway, the cartoon is cute, especially when Cathy does her little happy dance and kisses the snowman at 9:31.
I'd like to see more adult animation from the western world like this instead of all the crude, surreal, and gross out humour stuff they pump out nowadays.
Memorial Hospital in Arlen, Texas. Saturday March 17TH, 2012. A hospital waiting room is filled to capacity with neighbors ranging from Hank Hill to Charlie Brown as well as assorted out-of-towners, including Daria Morgendorffer Sloane. Orville Snorkel walks in wearing operating room regulation scrubs. Hank Hill: “What’s the news, Sarge?” Orville: “It’s a boy! Orville Jr.! I just knew that Cathy could do it, and somehow she knew it too in spite of my doubts. As to the details, well, he’s 11LBS 5.5OZS, 23.95”Inches, one blue eye, one brown eye, and sleek whispy brown hair. The first chip off the old block!” Cooky: “Congratulations to you, Sarge! I didn’t know that you had it in you at all.” Orville: “Ah, it twarn’t nothing. Anyway, how are things going for you at your semi truck 🚛 stop these days now, Cooky?” Cooky: (sighing) “I still keep a clean kitchen, but above all else, the food I cook for the semi truckers has its stove fueled by Strickland Propane.” Orville: “Beetle, how’s Otto doing?” Beetle Bailey: “He’s okay, even though he’s hungover from an entire keg of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer, about a hundred dozen of those Whattaburgers, and a whole night of watching The 3 Stooges in the rumpus room.” Orville: “Given all the circumstances, he should be sober enough in few days when Cathy and I bring home little Orville, Jr.”
the part where the florist encourages breaking restraining orders got me though mom throwing a bag of what were obviously supposed to be sex toys in the trash is good, too
I don’t know why UA-cam has been suggesting Cathy specials but I’m loving it I think it’s because it’s not trying to do a checklist like stuff now a days
Wow. I wasn’t even born, and yet this is super nostalgic. The 80s were about over when I came along. This just takes me to what looks like an easier time.
Never did I think I would catch feelings for an adult comedy cartoon where the centerpiece is banal relationship troubles, yet here I am.
No bc me too...idk why im getting sucked into learning about this comic strip. Its such a charming and interesring pastiche of this version of 80s american white womanhood
Literally me rn looking for more episodes instead of sleep.
You want more?
Look up “Sally Forth,” and “For Better or Worse.”
Both are “Slice of Life” comics strips that, like “Cathy,” were written for the newspaper back in the 70’s and 80’s, but grew so popular with readers that they had their own TV cartoon specials, with the same animation style they were written with!
“Sally Forth” tells of the everyday life and shenanigans of a middle-class American Couple and their daughter Hillary; while “For Better or Worse” follows a similar theme, but over four generations of the same family.
Check them out; both the original comics AND the animated specials were AMAZING!
Good grief.
Easier said than done.
I love Cathy.. but can we address the 2 pizzas for $10.99?
A countdown to the Super Bowl special.
Ikr? I don’t even think you could get one for that price nowadays.
@@joshmg25 You would get run out of any pizza place for asking for this price. Last time I ordered pizza it cost about $60 for 2 pizzas. After delivery fees and tip.
Blame it on the return of the 1970s and 1980s inflation rate that returned with a vengeance starting January 20TH, 2001.
For starters, don’t put the tip on your credit card 💳.
Secondly, take the advice of the late comedian Jack Benny; always base your tips on the quality of the service, never base them on the percentage of the cost.
Thirdly, for good service, a proper tip (even in hard times) should never exceed more than $.10 cents, however, in the event of the service being poor, the tip should not exceed more than $.05 cents.
Fourthly, all tips should be made with silver coins 🪙 instead of paper currency or a plastic credit card.
Fifthly, always hold onto all receipts 🧾 for when you send your W1040 to the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) every April 15TH.
18:53 “The beauty of valentines gifts is that they’re small enough to slip through the little space that’s open when a woman has her door barricaded with a security chain” LMAO
I can easily see Peggy Hill of Arlen, Texas, exchanging recipes with Cathy after she has moved into the house at 522 Rainey Street; once occupied by the late Dale Gribble.
Tv back in the day had some much character!
Zenith would be about Cathy’s age now 😳
Apparently so.
I must say these cartoon characters act so human-like. The beginning was very realistic. How they both fell asleep before they even got a chance to eat take-out dinner, or how they fell asleep on the couch in front of the TV before they even got a chance to get intimate with one another. When you get to be their age, you'll definitely relate more. As an adult, there are times when you have to work long, tiring hours and run a ton of errands in order to keep a roof over your head.
Oh, Cathy is old… she was a little girl when my parents were newborns in 1961.
And the same thing goes for her paternal 1ST Cousin Archie Andrews from Riverdale.
Really??? I'd like to know more about that gene pool. @@LindaCooper-i3f
I dont hate Irving.
I think they both want their independence but also want companionship. And neither one respects the other's idea of affection. Both also seem to be deathly allergic to communication.
It's like, yeah, they obviously shouldn't be together, but the cartoon points out multiple times that it's both of their faults.
I was only a year old when this came out. I’m just now discovering Cathy at 36. 😅
Unusual, isn’t it?
I would have been 5….. I remember reading the comic strips in the Dayton Daily News on Saturdays sometimes .. Cathy was a good one… and these cartoons are better than the computer and AI stuff nowadays, in my opinion..
that's crazy. im 27 but used to read it from time to time in the newspapers back in the 00s
Now that’s the spirit.
Try imagining the possibility of Cathy dumping Irving for Orville Snorkel aka Sarge (from the Beetle Bailey comics), and after getting his honorable discharge back into civilian life, they go on to become the new next door neighbors to Hank and Peggy Hill in the old Dale Gribble house at 522 Rainey Street.
This is like an adult version of Charlie Brown.
The nearest thing to that would be having a fully grown Charlie Brown as a neighbor to Texas propane salesman Hank Hill and his wife Peggy.
@@LindaCooper-i3f Wait... are you talking about Bill?
Charlie Brown has nothing in common with Bill Dauterive, except for the fact that while Bill lives across the alley from Hank, Charlie Brown lives at 517 Rainey Street across the street from Hank.
@@LindaCooper-i3f Ohhh. I thought you said... never mind. So I guess Charlie Brown takes place in Texas?
Charlie Brown’s boyhood home is Norfolk, Virginia.
He moves to Arlen, Texas, after graduation from Texas A&M with a Masters Degree in Business Administration, topped off with the Class A CDL (commercial drivers license) as a self-employed driver with his very own cabover semi truck.
I used to read Cathy in the newspaper comic strips back in the early 1980s, gr8 memories 😊
I read them in the early/ mid 90’s, Dayton Daily News on Saturdays sometimes.. I didn’t know they made a tv cartoon though until today
Intriguing.
Quite amazing.
I was an American kid living in Europe in 1989 and, as afn did not have commercials, it's always fun to see these. I actually recognize the dad from one of my favorite shows, The adventures of Pete and Pete in that Burger King commercial.
The California Raisins! I loved them when I was little
And good old Cooky at Camp Swampy would occasionally use them in his recipe for Swiss Steak 🥩 for the soldiers stationed there.
I love Cathys relationship with Zenith, even when Cathy was on vacation and she found out Zenith and her parents were there, she never seems annoyed with having the baby forced on her as a babysitter. She genuinely loves Zenith, and also i love how Zeniths mom speaks for her. This show is like a warm hug I adore it
God I actually remember that Pizza Hut commercial. The nostalgia hurts.
The Simpsons really did save TV.
Thank you so very much for this!! It's greatly appreciated!! I have not seen this in year's!!
You ain’t seen nothing yet!
Rob Paulsen is still an awesome VA throughout my childhood!😊
How unusual.
Aww this is good. Poor Carthy. I was 4-5 in 89 never knew Cathy had a cartoon.
I would love to see this show Come back.
Will take a miracle of miracles.
It’s weird hearing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle yell at his significant other.
Love the "California Raisins" ad! (~13:46)
*- I remember when the Raisins debuted, and there was the contest to name them...it feels like a long time ago now. Claymation was awesome!
Burger King double stack with cheese for $.99 we didn’t know how good we had it! We had it all!!!!😂
What's up my We Hate Movies Patreon people?
Aaaaaack!
😂 Yup. Can't believe those guys didn't know about the Pat Sajax show.
Ayyy I’m late to the party
Good question.
Good grief!
Oh damn I would totally do the audio equipment thing...
Good luck!
Ah I wonder what it was like to be alive for this ❤
Also Irving is such a man child
Double Cheeseburgers used to be 99 cents. Remember what they took from you.
This was perfect thanks
Why does Cathy only have a nose 👃 in profile 9:40 but it disappears when she looks into the camera?
It’s rather tiny like the nose of the late actress-comedian Lucille Ball.
That's just how she was drawn in the comic, so they adapted it to the cartoon
Any amateur in animation can see that.
Scenes with her nose are rare, great catch!
2:04 Was that an older man trying to woo a teenager?
Good grief.
No, that was a teenager with the beginnings of a mustache.
Remember, during the late 60’s long hair (for both sexes) and facial hair (for men) were just starting to become popular (mostly thanks to the Beatles); a fashion trend which was expanded upon in the 70’s.
So don’t worry, no pedo or ick here.
@@matthewcardoza1190 Thanks for clarifying, that's a relief to hear.
Likewise.
Amazing cartoon! Just needs a live-action.
🤔 Hmm I'd watch it.
Only if it features a crossover with Beetle Bailey, and eventually Cathy becomes Mrs. Orville Snorkel?????!!!!!
Ditto!
Technically there already is one. It's called Marriage Story.
Well, be that as it may, I still think that Orville Snorkel aka Sarge would still give Irving a run for his money.
Now, you’re just now wondering how he would go about it, right?
For starters, while going to a family reunion of her Father’s relatives in Riverdale, where 1ST Cousin Archie Andrews resides, especially since he’s now married to Veronica Lodge. So before all the things that are normal for family reunions occurs, Archie and Veronica take Cathy to Pop Tate’s Choklit Shoppe where Jughead Jones is in a hamburger eating contest against another out-of-town visitor who’s a 1ST Cousin to their old school principal, Waldo Weatherbee. The cousin of Principal Weatherbee is Orville Snorkel aka Sarge. They arrive just in time as Pop Tate lays out these two gigantic platters of hamburgers that measure 3’FT tall each. By contest’s end no burgers are left on Jughead’s platter while Orville has five burgers left, yet now all he wants is Alka-Seltzer. Since the family reunion will last for an entire week at the latest, Cathy and Orville get to know each other better. However, Mr. Pinkley while having a drink with Irving lets it slip about the hamburger eating contest in Riverdale. So, Irving also goes up to Riverdale by Amtrak. He confronts and embarrasses as well as humiliating Cathy in the presence of Archie and Veronica. They put in their $.02 cents worth, word wise that is, and Orville just happens to drop in on Cathy at the house of Archie and Veronica. With Irving’s accusations of infidelity, Orville considers them as ‘fighting words’, and wants satisfaction for the way that Irving just insulted Cathy. Irving figures to use the Judo he’s been learning lately against Orville. However, Principal Weatherbee who’s Orville’s 1ST Cousin, suggests an auto race between the two of them, as in a quarter-mile drag race, in front of witnesses so that everything is fair and square.
So, Irving seeks out help from local funeral director and prankster Reggie Mantle, in order to win the drag race, only their plans are uncovered by Reggie’s old high school nemesis, Moose Mason, while making his monthly visits to the funeral home for the Better Business Bureau.
Once tipped off, Weatherbee is in a bind. Therefore, Archie and Veronica call on their occult friend from high school, Sabrina Spellman, to aid Orville in winning the drag race together with Cathy’s heart. So, on Friday afternoon at the race track in Riverdale, they’re all set. Reggie has supplied Irving with his transportation in the race, a great 1963 Chevrolet Corvette roadster. Orville on the other hand drives a 1959 Ford Edsel convertible in the race. To start the race, Jughead will signal them by taking a bite out of a burger. Before anyone knows what happens next, they’re off. Fearing that Irving will use the nitrous oxide hookup Reggie had installed in the Stingray roadster, Sabrina goes into action by using her occult powers to make Irving think that Reggie didn’t put enough gas in the roadster, which succeeds, and by a miracle, Orville wins the drag race fair and square. Irving is as mad as the character played by Peter Finch in the 1976 movie “NETWORK”, and he punches Reggie, knocking him up against the hearse from the funeral home before leaving town. Irving leaves on the Amtrak going home that night, and this is the stepping stone of his turning in his resignation to become Vice-President of advertising for J.C Dithers Construction Unlimited, seeing as how his uncle who’s his mother’s brother owns the company, which also employs Dagwood Bumstead.
At the big family reunion barbecue on Saturday, Orville joins in together with his dog Otto. During a lull in the conversations, that’s when Cathy announces that Orville has proposed marriage, and that she’s accepted, even though it means resigning from her job, and relocating to married housing at Camp Swampy where Orville’s stationed. With the exceptions of Archie and Veronica, the rest of the family is puzzled while Cathy’s parents are just shocked entirely.
So, within the following month, not only does she resign, he has her house put up for rent until she’s ready to decide when to sell it. Yet, she manages to obtain a good cash offer on her vehicle from a used car dealership. Still, although her father thinks that having a soldier for a son-in-law isn’t too bad, her mother just absolutely refuses to attend the wedding to be held in the chapel at Camp Swampy (according to my prior posting a few comments above this one), even though it only covers the vows.
So, before heading to Camp Swampy, she first picks up a few things in Riverdale that includes her aunt’s (Archie’s mother’s) wedding gown, which fits her like a glove. Thus, one could easily say that Cathy’s eloping. Eventually, after exchanging vows with Orville, they spend the next year and a half in married housing at Camp Swampy, by which time Orville is honorably discharged and they also have a baby on the way. So, they head for the Texas town of Arlen where through realtor Peggy Hill, they buy the old Dale Gribble house at 522 Rainey Street, which is next door to the house that Peggy shares with her husband, propane salesman Hank Hill. Although, purchasing the house takes most of Orville’s discharge pay, he manages to secure himself a G.I. Bill loan to open up his very own discount auto parts store in Arlen. By the time that Orville has sold enough discount auto parts to payoff both his loan from the G.I. Bill, and the mortgage that they took out to pay the remaining balance on what they owed on the house to Sizemore Realty, Cathy successfully gives birth to a son that they name Orville Snorkel, Jr.
1:43 to skip to the start
3:55 gets you past ad break 1
15:44 gets you past ad break 2
23:08 passes ad break 3
So it seems.
Most unusual.
I guess people selling ads assumed Cathy fans also have long hair 💇 otherwise I don't understand the True Value hardware ad for drain clearing augurs
EDIT 28:25 OK I get the hardware ad
Perhaps.
We have to go to Valentine’s Day
Sounds like Lucy Van Pelt trying to trap poor old Schroeder.
How did I get here? But I'm staying 🤷🏻♀️
Robert Paulsennnnn
Yep.
Indeed
I remember CBS had the best Saturday morning cartoons
This is CBS..i always wondered why they announced that.
OML
❤❤❤❤
Chaplain Ransahoff: “Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to witness the unification in marriage of this magnificent couple of Orville and Catharine. Now, do you Orville, take thee Catharine to be thy lawfully wedded wife? To love, honor, obey, cherish, and to have, and to hold from this day forward, and cling only unto her in forsaking all others for so long as you both shall live? For better or worse? For richer or poorer? In sickness, and in health, until death do you part?”
Orville: “I do!”
Chaplain Ransahoff: “Do you Catharine, take thee Orville to be thy lawfully wedded husband? To love, honor, obey, cherish, and to have, and to hold from this day forward, and cling only unto him in forsaking all others for so long as you both shall live? For better or worse? For richer or poorer? In sickness, and in health, until death do you part?”
Cathy: “I do!”
Chaplain Ransahoff: (staring at Orville’s dog Otto; serving as the Ringbearer) “The rings, please?”
Otto hands the two plain yellow gold 8MM wedding rings up to Orville.
Chaplain Ransahoff: “Orville, take the smaller one of the two rings, and place it on the third finger of Catharine’s left hand, and repeat after me, ‘With this ring, I thee wed.’”
Orville: (stuttering). “W-W-With this r-r-r-r-r-ring, I thee wed.”
Chaplain Ransahoff: (now repeating with Cathy) “Catharine, take the other ring, and place it on the third finger of Orville’s left hand, and repeat after me, ‘With this ring, I too thee wed.’”
Cathy: “With this ring, I too thee wed.”
Chaplain Ransahoff: (looking all about the guests in a nervous manner) “If there is anyone here who can show just cause as to why they may not join in wedlock, let them speak now, or else, hereafter and forever, hold their peace?”
Silence is looming over the guests.
Chaplain Ransahoff: “By all the power and authority vested in me by the United States Army, I now pronounce you husband and wife! You may kiss the bride!”
Orville and Cathy seal their wedding vows with the traditional first kiss as a happily married couple.
Chaplain Ransahoff: “Ladies and Gentlemen! Officers and Enlisted Personnel alike, may I present unto you, Sergeant and Mrs. Orville Snorkel!”
There is nothing special about all those commercials
Nostalgia.
Pepper Ann
Probably a distant cousin; otherwise no biological relation at all.
@@LindaCooper-i3f Although both voices are provided by Kathleen Wilhoite
Well, be that as it may, perhaps Pepper Ann is a possible fifth cousin to Cathy through Cathy’s mother and Pepper Ann’s father.
However, it just happens that the surname on her birth certificate reads Andrews, which makes her a first cousin to Archie Andrews of Riverdale (BFF of Jughead Jones) as well as Annabelle Andrews (the Jodie Foster character from the classic 1976 Disney movie of “FREAKY FRIDAY”), and through her father’s sister Marjorie McDeevers, she’s also a first cousin to siblings Wally McDeevers and his sister Stephanie; Wally plays drums while Stephanie does 4-string bass guitar for the rock group known as Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kids.
@@LindaCooper-i3f I LOVE FREAKY FRIDAY WITH JODIE FOSTER 🤩
For someone who admires the Jodie Foster version of “FREAKY FRIDAY”, you seem to have overlooked that Jughead Jones’ BFF Archie Andrews of Riverdale is a paternal first cousin to Cathy, not to mention her first cousins the McDeevers siblings (Wally and Stephanie) from the classic short-lived 1973 NBC/Hanna-Barbera animated series “BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KIDS” that aired from September to December that year.
If in doubt, just scare yourself up a dvd boxset of the complete animated series of “BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KIDS” as well as possibly looking for any footage of them on certain UA-cam channels, just in case?
Fun Fact: Cathy and Irving are voiced by Kathleen Wilhoute ( Pepper Ann ) and Rob Paulsen ( Yakko Warner and Pinky from Animaniacs) respectively!
Cathy Andrews should dump Irving for Orville Snorkel aka Sarge (from the Beetle Bailey comics), spousal wise that is.
I knew her voice was familiar!!!!!
I knew they sounded familiar. Thanks for sharing. I used to love Pepper Ann.
Definitely.
Both her and Cathy are biological 5TH Cousins through Cathy’s mother and Pepper Ann’s father.
These old commercials, they give a glimpse into what Life was like in 1989. 99 cents for a cheese burger, and a good one at that. I wish I couldve had been in this time.
And to think that the inflation from those days has returned.
i was niner
Yea but probably the minimum wage was also $2
the reality of the 80s from the perspective of today is that americans sold the american dream for just that; a 99¢ cheeseburger.
When I was in my junior year of high school in 2009, Burger King had double cheeseburgers, whopper jrs. and rodeo burgers for a dollar.
Too bad they never did more Cathy tv specials, let alone do a prime time tv series. It’d be like a tamed, kid friendly version of Sex & the City.
Quite possibly yes.
That sounds like actual hell
It’s just about the best thing that could possibly happen under the circumstances.
Sounds alot better than the actual sex in the city, which is hell.
Quite possibly.
The creator of Cathy was born on September 1950, so I’ll pretend that’s Cathy’s birthday which makes her 73 years old today.
Sounds obvious.
Sounds better than trying to piece it together from this special. The best I could get is that by 1981 she'd be at around 25 since she outlined 20 years of valentines. If she was school aged by the first one at least.
Unusual, isn’t it?
Why is this show so good lol
Let’s just say that it’s quite possible that Cathy is seriously thinking about moving to the Texas town of Arlen.
@@LindaCooper-i3f shed like it there I tell you h'wat (I do an amazing hank hill voice)
It's good because it's made by the same people that made Peanuts 👀
You nailed it for sure.
Because it’s relatable
I hate how he yells at her and makes her into the bad guy for the most normal and understandable things ever
Qwer-teaBinch,
Don’t you think that maybe it’s just about time that she dumped Irving to elope with Orville Snorkel aka Sarge (from the Beetle Bailey comics)?
@@LindaCooper-i3f id say yes, but I don't remember who that is. Most would be better than Irving at this point
Apparently right.
Those two just have different love languages. I talked to my therapist about this with an ex and she gave me some insight. Cathy is someone whose love language is time together and physical touch. Irving’s is deeds and actions (and possibly physical touch and time together when he cheated on Cathy with Brenda earlier). He was setting up their new stereo so she can enjoy it. Looking at it, it’s very evident in that scene. To make this type of dynamic work, you have to recognize what the other partner likes.
Cathy's parents are probably the most loving and supporting cast of any animated sitcom.
Tell it to Texas propane salesman Hank Hill and his wife Peggy who will hopefully welcome Cathy as a new next door neighbor when she comes to Arlen, Texas, as Mrs. Orville Snorkel when they move into the house at 522 Rainey Street.
What about The Addams Family?
Come to think about it, Gomez Addams might even just have quite a batch of oil wells in and around Arlen, Texas.
@@LindaCooper-i3f what is with all the KoTH mentions?
no idea how or why i fell down the cathy rabbit hole but im not mad 😭 these specials are great, i wish they made more but im glad they’re available
Such is life.
Awww the intro is so heartwarming! When I had my first valentine with my boyfriend, we also fell asleep at the movie theatre, after running around the mall, then eating a hearty dinner together!
It must have been a Lulu.
I genuinely wonder what Cathy sees in Irving
Given time, she’ll probably come around to Camp Swampy, and wed Orville Snorkel aka Sarge (from the Beetle Bailey comics).
Fucking give it up already. Jesus.@@LindaCooper-i3f
I like a lot of the commentary but they're very bad together.
At least we know that Cathy might have taken a liking to Mayberry living.
Jfc I hate Irving.
@@LindaCooper-i3fleast Hank is loyal to Peggy not to mention Hank would kick his ass
Irving is a fucking man child
He sucks
if Irving has 0 haters that means I have passed away
How about Cathy’s biological paternal 1ST Cousin Archie Andrews from Riverdale?
@@LindaCooper-i3fomg he’s not her cousin
The wedding scene was honestly so beautiful I got choked up 😢
That wedding in this special took place on a Tuesday.
her parents are so cute haha
She is always exhausted looking
DamplyDoo,
It’s just all the more reason why she would be better off becoming the wife of Orville Snorkel aka Sarge (from the Beetle Bailey comics).
It's because everyone in her life basically gives her terrible advice and she takes the worst from each. She then chases after a man that has no interest in committing to a relationship and being consistent.
Finally, it is her. She is the one that can choose to control these things but doesn't and swings from scenario to scenario.
The writer is a genius for creating this unsettling amount of cringe hidden under saccarine music and cutsey music.
At least if she dumped Irving to elope with Orville Snorkel aka Sarge, and after a year and a half in married housing at Camp Swampy, Orville gets an honorable discharge back into civilian life. Then they load up everything that they own into their vintage 1974 Chevrolet C20 Custom Deluxe crewcab pickup truck with a vintage Airstream Double Axle Land Yacht Safari hitched up to the rear bumper, and together with Orville’s dog Otto, they head to the Texas town of Arlen where they become the new next door neighbors to Hank and Peggy Hill by moving into the old Dale Gribble house at 522 Rainey Street, which Peggy sold to them through Sizemore Realty of Arlen.
However, most of the discharge pay went on the down payment on the house, which leads to them taking out a mortgage to payoff the remainder of what they owe to Sizemore Realty and the commission for Peggy.
Before too long, Orville gets a loan through the G.I. Bill to open up a discount auto parts store in Arlen.
After one week in business, Orville gets Hank’s help with converting Dale’s old basement into a rumpus room while Peggy is helping Cathy select maternity clothes now that she’s expectant with Orville Jr.?!
arghh these old prices wtf happened
The inflation of the 1970s and 1980s has struck back with a vengeance of both Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon from the graves.
@@LindaCooper-i3f President Hoover was president from 1929-1933.
TFTI (thanks for the information), and keep it in mind that Trump is the modern day version of Hoover.
@@LindaCooper-i3f nah Biden is modern Hoover.
The plot is a more affluent & dysfunctional version of O Henry 's Gift of the Magi where a married couple each give presents they think the other wants but didn't communicate with each other & so receive gifts the can't use
Going to therapy was normal in 1989?
I thought back then people viewed it as a nutcase thing.
Alright, I wasn’t wrong. Lol.
Her boyfriend didn’t seem happy about her seeing the therapist and was a bit condescending about it.
Her Silent/Greatest Generation parents freaked out.
Well, be that as it may, just try imagining how her paternal 1ST Cousin Archie Andrews together his wife Veronica Lodge Andrews and his parents Fred and Marie Andrews also react to the circumstances of the situation of the dilemma?!
theyre too old to be boomers!
@@ruhampton8455yes cathy is a boomer
@@ruhampton8455 SIlents or Greatest Generation then.
Definitely gotta be pension territory.
Wow I really relate to Irvings excitement over home audio. Shit am I Irving?
It’s a possibility.
Do you complain allot if not you're not irving you're probably better
Well, that Simpson trial in the 1990s was just part of a conspiracy to oust Willie Williams from his job as the chief of police on the LAPD.
I'm a girl and I would be ecstatic 😂
Good grief.
This reminds me of Charlie Brown, but for adults.
Happy Valentine’s Day, Cathy!
And above all else, under these circumstances, there’s no doubt that Cathy rightly deserves to become Mrs. Orville Snorkel, even if it means being stationed in married housing at Camp Swampy for starters. Ofcourse, when Cathy finds out that she’s expectant with Orville Jr., and finds out that Orville is getting his honorable discharge back into civilian life, not to mention that he’s applying for a loan on the G.I. Bill for acquiring a house as well as to start up a discount auto parts store in Arlen, Texas. Sure it’ll put them in the old Gribble house now that a stroke from all those years of smoking has finished off Dale Gribble.
13:50 California Raisins 🍇 🎶
Only until just after Cooky uses them in his Swiss Steak 🥩 recipe for the soldiers stationed at Camp Swampy.
@15:38 I always thought that show was called Wheel of Fortune.
Good grief!
Talk about total mixups?!
I love these comic shorts, I was a baby when these are out, nice to see these on the big screen.
How puzzling.
Women don’t wear pantyhose anymore. You don’t even see commercials about it today.
Apparently not.
3:03 I remembered I was so brokw one day, I went to get me a 99cent burger 😂😂😂 the joke was on me. That do not exist anymore which is extremely sad!
irving sucks.
12:38 I don't understand why they couldn't do both? Couldn't Irving set up the cable splitters then they had a romantic night Cathy wanted?
Irving is a true paycho who pnly gets 2 gallons of gas even for the late 80s that ridiculous
Happy Valentine’s Day, Cathy
From Cooky at the mess hall of Camp Swampy.
Happy Valentine's Day, Cathy!
If only she had been able to get in touch with Sergeant Orville Snorkel of Camp Swampy, and then she would have found for herself the exact soulmate for matrimony, and to start a family to boot.
This show is so fucking goddamn cute
2024 Thank you Cathy
❤❤❤
All the way from Camp Swampy to Arlen, Texas, USA 🇺🇸.
Oh and let’s add her controlling yet delusional parents. I can see why she would rather go to a therapist than talk to them.
Bless u! Love get Comic and these commercials
The special is okay, but the advertisements should have been edited out prior to posting here.
@@LindaCooper-i3fI love the advertisements! Adds to the nostalgia!
@@LindaCooper-i3fnonsense! They add to experience
Two medium pizzas for 10.99?! 😭
Even with the bad inflation rate from back then, which returned with a vengeance on Saturday January 20TH, 2001.
I remember reading this comic as a little kid and thinking that Irving was a woman because of his mouth always being drawn like a triangle (I thought it was lipstick?) The cartoon draws their mouths differently: look up the comic strip, you'll see what I mean. If I had seen this cartoon I would have realized he was a man sooner. Maybe I was looking for other lesbians before I knew what they were, LOL. Anyway, the cartoon is cute, especially when Cathy does her little happy dance and kisses the snowman at 9:31.
Unusual, isn’t it,
Do they even still make “Whiskas” can cat food? I don’t remember seeing it in the store or seeing a commercial for it in a long time
Same here.
Don't know if they still make canned cat food, but they sell dry cat food here in the Philippines.
Nah. This is more commercial than special. Why does America have so many commercial breaks 😂😂😂
I'd like to see more adult animation from the western world like this instead of all the crude, surreal, and gross out humour stuff they pump out nowadays.
5:27 I have to point to this bit right here. Made me laugh a lot.
Great Caesar’s Ghost.
um irving can choke
Happy Valentine’s Day. Cathy!
From the platoon of Sergeant Snorkel of Camp Swampy.
Happy Valentines Day, Cathy
Memorial Hospital in Arlen, Texas.
Saturday March 17TH, 2012.
A hospital waiting room is filled to capacity with neighbors ranging from Hank Hill to Charlie Brown as well as assorted out-of-towners, including Daria Morgendorffer Sloane.
Orville Snorkel walks in wearing operating room regulation scrubs.
Hank Hill: “What’s the news, Sarge?”
Orville: “It’s a boy! Orville Jr.! I just knew that Cathy could do it, and somehow she knew it too in spite of my doubts. As to the details, well, he’s 11LBS 5.5OZS, 23.95”Inches, one blue eye, one brown eye, and sleek whispy brown hair. The first chip off the old block!”
Cooky: “Congratulations to you, Sarge! I didn’t know that you had it in you at all.”
Orville: “Ah, it twarn’t nothing. Anyway, how are things going for you at your semi truck 🚛 stop these days now, Cooky?”
Cooky: (sighing) “I still keep a clean kitchen, but above all else, the food I cook for the semi truckers has its stove fueled by Strickland Propane.”
Orville: “Beetle, how’s Otto doing?”
Beetle Bailey: “He’s okay, even though he’s hungover from an entire keg of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer, about a hundred dozen of those Whattaburgers, and a whole night of watching The 3 Stooges in the rumpus room.”
Orville: “Given all the circumstances, he should be sober enough in few days when Cathy and I bring home little Orville, Jr.”
Oh yay, ive found another Cathy episode!
Congratulations!
Pure gem
In more ways than one assuredly.
Rob Paulsen voicing Irving
Interesting point.
I wish I could meet someone like Cathy
Try your luck in Kiev.
@@LindaCooper-i3f where’s that
17:30 he is using you otherwise he would've married you
And all the more reason why she needs to elope with Orville Snorkel aka Sarge (from the Beetle Bailey comics).
Man. Homer was right about there being too much baggage in this one. 😅
If you ask me, Homer’s let the bats 🦇 take over his belfry.
I love this cartoon! Cathy is a great character! Top bad we can't make animation like this anymore.
Real ones remember Familiar Faces Valentine's special countdown
Very interesting.
the part where the florist encourages breaking restraining orders got me
though mom throwing a bag of what were obviously supposed to be sex toys in the trash is good, too
That florist needs to be analyzed by Dr. Alfred Bellows; retired USAF Colonel from the psychiatric division of NASA on “I DREAM OF JEANNIE”.
I miss the 80s
Even the inflation?
17:09 “your father went to get me a wastebasket”
Egads.
We have to go to the Valentine’s Day
Still sounds like Lucy Van Pelt trying to pressure Schroeder into an unfair and unwanted possible matrimonial relationship.
She is sooooo adorable!❤❤
I don’t know why UA-cam has been suggesting Cathy specials but I’m loving it I think it’s because it’s not trying to do a checklist like stuff now a days
Wow. I wasn’t even born, and yet this is super nostalgic. The 80s were about over when I came along. This just takes me to what looks like an easier time.
And some of the worst inflation of all time.