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Fraidy Cat

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Fraidy Cat	label	Fraidy Cat
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Fraidy Cat	comment	Fraidy Cat is a 1975 children's cartoon that was aired on a syndication program named Uncle Croc's Block, which aired on ABC. It was produced by Filmation, and is one of their only original (original as in "not based off of an existing IP") cartoons that are known to exist. 18 episodes were commissioned for the network, but only 12 completed production.The premise revolves around the titular Fraidy Cat, an anxiety-struck feline who has the ability to involuntarily release the ghosts of his past, who also happen to be his previous eight lives; past incarnations of himself he has already lived through from previous time periods. Every time a ghost is released, it tries to help Fraidy in a predicament, but it unknowingly hinders the troubled cat into making his situation worse than before.While intoning all single digit numbers (or worse, homonyms or words in other languages that sound like said numbers) from "one" to "eight" summon a ghost, saying "nine" is a death wish to poor Fraidy, as it gives him Cloud Nine, who is hell-bent on electrocuting Fraidy with lightning.During its original run on Uncle Croc's Block, it was heavily unpopular with critics, audiences, and even the producers themselves, and it, along with the rest of Croc's roster, nearly made Filmation shut down and lose money as ABC severed all ties with Filmation due to the show's bad performance. The segment, plus the rest of the UCB roster among other shows, was later re-syndicated on The Groovie Goolies and Friends in 1977.Compare and contrast The 9th Life of Sherman Phelps, a show that shares extreme similarities with this series. Not to be confused with the Tom and Jerry episode with the same name.
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Fraidy Cat / int_18d420b0	type	Lovable Coward
Fraidy Cat / int_18d420b0	comment	Lovable Coward: Fraidy.
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Fraidy Cat / int_193e7e99	type	Contemporary Caveman
Fraidy Cat / int_193e7e99	comment	Contemporary Caveman: A rather downplayed example, as Fraidy's first life, a caveman named Elafunt, is only seen in the modern era when he is accidentally called forth by Fraidy.
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Fraidy Cat / int_1a68856b	type	Cats Hate Water
Fraidy Cat / int_1a68856b	comment	Cats Hate Water: In "Love is a Many Feathered Thing", Mary Tyler Too the cockatoo tries to soak Fraidy in the bird bath, but once Fraidy hears the word "bath", he flails and flies onto the top of the building, which attracts the attention of the savage dog..
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Fraidy Cat / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Fraidy Cat / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Cloud Nine is a storm cloud shaped like a nine.
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Fraidy Cat / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Fraidy Cat / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: A somewhat more literal example of this trope in "It's a Dog's Life," after Fraidy wins the first prize trophy, the dog show contestants growl as they turn green with envy.
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Fraidy Cat / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
Fraidy Cat / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: In the beginning of "Cupid and the Cat," Chuck can be seen crushing a car bound for the junkyard into a tiny, miniature version of itself. Later on, Fraidy gets crushed exactly like the car after Chuck catches Lulu flirting with Fraidy.
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Fraidy Cat / int_246f70c6	type	Identical Twin Mistake
Fraidy Cat / int_246f70c6	comment	Identical Twin Mistake: In â€œA Semi-Star is Bornâ€�, Fraidy disguises himself as an exact lookalike named Boris the Cat in an effort to get food, and it unsurprisingly works. However, the real Boris visits the Animal Actors Retirement Home and all of the residents, including Kitty Wizard, mistake one for the other.
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Fraidy Cat / int_264b8f4c	type	Balloon Belly
Fraidy Cat / int_264b8f4c	comment	Balloon Belly: Fraidy's girth expands to cartoonish proportions after eating the contestants' food in "It's a Dog's Life". In a storyboard panel◊ for the scrapped "Fraidy Gone Fishin'" episode, Fraidy's stomach expands to show how hungry he is.
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Fraidy Cat / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
Fraidy Cat / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: Downplayed in "Cupid and the Cat", as Lulu meets Fraidy after he saves her from a dog, which eventually leads to Chuck walking in, thinking Fraidy is "messing around" with Lulu.
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Fraidy Cat / int_2e8875f0	type	Misplaced Retribution
Fraidy Cat / int_2e8875f0	comment	Misplaced Retribution: In "A Scaredy Fraidy", the police horse Kojacki catches a hungry Fraidy tasting an oat-flavored lollipop, which leads to Kojacki going on a manhunt against Fraidy. The aforementioned horse somehow mistook Fraidy for a "Lollipop Burglar", who's implied to be on the loose.
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Fraidy Cat / int_3669898	type	Undertaker
Fraidy Cat / int_3669898	comment	Undertaker: Jasper Catdaver, the sixth incarnation of Fraidy, is an undertaker who wishes to expedite Fraidy's passing onto the Other Side. While he may seem to be the worst of the ghosts intention-wise, it is justified, since he IS an undertaker, after all.
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Fraidy Cat / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
Fraidy Cat / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: Tiny, the oversized, overall-bearing, helicopter beanie-wearing mouse.
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Fraidy Cat / int_47393201	type	Pet Contest Episode
Fraidy Cat / int_47393201	comment	Pet Contest Episode: A hunt motivated by food leads Fraidy into a dog show in "It's a Dog's Life," and unsurprisingly, he eats the contestants' food. The contestants are furious and chase the poor feline across the building, and right after paint splatters onto himself, Fraidy is mistaken as a Dalmatian by both the contestants and the judge, which in turn leads him into winning first prize.
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Fraidy Cat / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Fraidy Cat / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Take a guess as to who it is. Not only does Fraidy have to be wary of the ghosts of his past lives, but he also has to deal with being frequently chased by dogs, along with encountering other animals who always put him in life-threatening situations.
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Fraidy Cat / int_4a08416a	type	Cupid's Arrow
Fraidy Cat / int_4a08416a	comment	Cupid's Arrow: This applies to Fraidy, Ant, and Chuck in â€œCupid and the Catâ€�. Danny Cupid shoots his arrow at Fraidy at the beginning, and later has Fraidy falling in love with Lulu. Later, Cupid misfires and accidentally shoots a â€œdouble-whammyâ€� at Ant and Chuck, causing them to fall in love, in which Cupid meant to strike Fraidy.
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Fraidy Cat / int_509769e7	type	Numerological Motif
Fraidy Cat / int_509769e7	comment	Numerological Motif: Each of the eight lives of Fraidy (plus Cloud Nine) appear as numbers when they materialize and saying any of the numbers (minus zero or any number past "nine") causes the ghosts to appear and cause mischief towards poor Fraidy.
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Fraidy Cat / int_60f37373	type	Attack Reflector
Fraidy Cat / int_60f37373	comment	Attack Reflector: Cloud Nine's chase in "Magic Numbers" causes Fraidy to wield a conveniently placed mirror in a pile of junk. The mirror reflects the lightning and zaps Cloud Nine, because Mirrors Reflect Everything.
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Fraidy Cat / int_6b146924	type	Species Surname
Fraidy Cat / int_6b146924	comment	Species Surname: The title character's full name is, in fact, Fraidy Cat.
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Fraidy Cat / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Fraidy Cat / int_6d7026fa	comment	â€œA Scaredy Fraidyâ€� has Edgar Allen Crow, a poetic crow with a Punny Name based off of Edgar Allen Poe. He even goes as far as to directly quote The Raven by saying "Nevermore."
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Fraidy Cat / int_70bd07ef	type	Caught Up in a Robbery
Fraidy Cat / int_70bd07ef	comment	Caught Up in a Robbery: Fraidy has the misfortune of turning in the Cat Burglars' money in "Feline Fortune," which leads to the trio of thieves chasing Fraidy until an encounter with Captain Kitt scares the thieves, so much so that they give up crime.
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Fraidy Cat / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
Fraidy Cat / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: After getting crunched by Chuck, Fraidy's shrunken self gets turned into a towering giant after Kitty Wizard's wand malfunctions in "Cupid and the Cat"'s climax.
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Fraidy Cat / int_7e5f2db2	type	Talk Like a Pirate
Fraidy Cat / int_7e5f2db2	comment	Talk Like a Pirate: Captain Kitt often sprinkles pirate vocabulary into his dialogue.
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Fraidy Cat / int_85460422	type	Reaching Between the Lines
Fraidy Cat / int_85460422	comment	Reaching Between the Lines: In "Feline Fortune," the lady working at the phone company informs Fraidy that his phone bill is past due. Right as Fraidy proclaims heâ€™s broke, the ladyâ€™s arm, holding a pair of scissors, pops out of the phone, ready to cut his phone cord. She makes a second appearance at the end of the episode, with Fraidy handing over his "small bills" over to her through the phone.
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Fraidy Cat / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Fraidy Cat / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: A majority of the characters in most of the episodes disappear from the scene without any explanation.
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Fraidy Cat / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Fraidy Cat / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: "Love is a Many Feathered Thing" has Fraidy hiding from a dog in an exotic pet shop, where he's being romanced by a comically overweight cockatoo who won't stop hugging him. Fortunately for Fraidy, as soon as the dog makes its way in, the cockatoo finds a new object for her affections.
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Fraidy Cat / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
Fraidy Cat / int_8b442f50	comment	Did Not Get the Girl: The end of "Cupid and the Cat" has Lulu rejecting Fraidy when he offers a kiss, apparently because he "shows off" (which in reality is the uncontrollable force that are his lives). That alone stings very badly, but to rub more salt in the wound, she goes back to Chuck, who is the bulky cat that Fraidy desperately fought to get Lulu.
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Fraidy Cat / int_8bc5b86e	type	One-Shot Character
Fraidy Cat / int_8bc5b86e	comment	One-Shot Character: Every single character except for Fraidy and his lives, and Ant the dinosaur. In fact, some one-shot characters get little to no dialogue all for the purpose of filler.
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Fraidy Cat / int_97928805	type	Barefoot Cartoon Animal
Fraidy Cat / int_97928805	comment	Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Seven of Fraidy's eight lives have costumes that apply to this trope: #2 Kitty Wizard; #3 Captain Kitt, a pirate; #4 Sir Walter Cat, a noble cat; #5 Billy the Kit, a cowboy; #6 Jasper Catdaver, an undertaker; #7 Captain Eddie Kittenbacker, a pilot; #8 Hep Cat, a cat in a zoot suit. The only one who doesnâ€™t is #1, Elafunt, a caveman who isnâ€™t dressed enough to count.
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Fraidy Cat / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
Fraidy Cat / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: One of the few times Fraidy reigns victory in the end is seen in a storyboard panel◊ in "Fraidy Gone Fishin'", one of the six scrapped episodes. Fraidy falls into a fish truck for unknown reasons and rightfully gloats to himself about his big score.
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Fraidy Cat / int_991d9e86	type	Cowboy
Fraidy Cat / int_991d9e86	comment	Cowboy: Fraidy's fifth life, Billy the Kit, is a small, gruff, loud cowboy... er, cowcat.
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Fraidy Cat / int_9ffe5da5	type	Depending Upon the Undependable
Fraidy Cat / int_9ffe5da5	comment	Depending Upon the Undependable: A good chunk of the episodes have the character of the week make Fraidy work the job they usually take on: "Over the Wall and Havin' a Ball" involves the trio of dog mobsters (dogsters?) make the incompetent Fraidy work out an escape plan. Made worse by the fact that his reward is a big kiss from The Grandfather. Despite the fact that Fraidy is desperately trying to leave a freight ship and is too cowardly to stay on, a gang of pirate birds make him gather up food for them in "Puss 'n' Boats". Meaney in "Meaner than a Junkyard Cat" makes Fraidy work his job as a junkyard nighttime security guard, to a sleepy Fraidy's dismay. Cue the hijinks caused by the bumbling ghosts, which in turn lead to him falling into a train station.
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Fraidy Cat / int_a1b27125	type	Nervous Wreck
Fraidy Cat / int_a1b27125	comment	Nervous Wreck: Reasonably with the titular character. He's always having the expression of anxiety (this is better shown on the page's image above) and for how much everything always goes wrong for him.
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Fraidy Cat / int_a293102a	type	Eek, a Mouse!!
Fraidy Cat / int_a293102a	comment	Eek, a Mouse!!: Upon the sight of seeing one of Boss Mouse's cronies in "The Not-so-Nice Mice", Elafunt and Ant both get so frightened of him to the point that they disappear in a puff of smoke.
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Fraidy Cat / int_b02f21f	type	Digital Destruction
Fraidy Cat / int_b02f21f	comment	Digital Destruction: This happens to be a more literal and deliberate example than others. All modern releases of Fraidy Cat are slightly sped up, with the reason being that in 1995, the card company Hallmark acquired Filmation, but only for the singular purpose of international distribution. Other than that, the company detested Filmation's work, and after the master negatives were converted from NTSC to PAL format, Hallmark disposed of the original negative masters, which explains why not just Fraidy Cat, but nearly ALL of Filmation's cartoons are not in their original formats. This begs the question, "why would you buy out a studio you detest, only to deliberately destroy pieces of cartoon history?"
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Fraidy Cat / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Fraidy Cat / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: In "A Semi-Star is Born," a phony Pink Panther is shown being thrown out of the Animal Actors Retirement Home.
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Fraidy Cat / int_bc46a33a	type	Remaster
Fraidy Cat / int_bc46a33a	comment	Remaster: All of the Fraidy Cat cartoons were eventually restored to pristine condition for the Frightfully Funny Volume Two DVD release in 2008.
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Fraidy Cat / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Fraidy Cat / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Just the mere existence of Fraidy is sure to send Cloud Nine into an ongoing, homicidal rage.
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Fraidy Cat / int_bfed099b	type	Inconsistent Coloring
Fraidy Cat / int_bfed099b	comment	Inconsistent Coloring: A few of the characters sometimes have their body parts being painted incorrectly, most notoriously in "Meaner Than a Junkyard Cat", in which the fur surrounding Fraidy's mouth is sometimes colored white throughout the episode, whereas it's supposed to be colored brownish orange like the rest of his body.
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Fraidy Cat / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Fraidy Cat / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: Sometimes when an episode ends, Fraidy does end up getting his way in the end, but his moment of glee is often soured by either his lives or something else: In "Over The Wall and Havin' a Ball," Fraidy falls onto a trash can after a bomb sends him soaring out of the animal shelter. Fraidy finds a nine-course meal, but right after Fraidy catches his tongue slipping, Cloud Nine sics itself onto Fraidy. In "Feline Fortune," Fraidy gets his reward money back from the Cat Burglars, but after he vocalizes his accomplishment, it not only attracts the attention of a bunch of alley cats, but also Kitty Wizard who accidentally shrinks his money and leaves it that way. In "A Semi-Star is Born," Fraidy gets kicked out of the Animal Actors Retirement Home and flies back into the city, but just when Fraidy thinks he's finally at peace, a dog pops into view and chases him.
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Fraidy Cat / int_c54522c3	type	Ghost Pirate
Fraidy Cat / int_c54522c3	comment	Ghost Pirate: Captain Kitt, the self proclaimed "buccaneer's buccaneer," has a tendency to steal anything of value, such as wallets, keys, and money, which is "worthless green printed parchment" to him.
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Fraidy Cat / int_c6fe99cf	type	Creepy Cemetery
Fraidy Cat / int_c6fe99cf	comment	Creepy Cemetery: An averted/downplayed example, since the only residents of the cemetery are a talking bat and crow, and the only ghosts seen roaming the cemetery are that of Fraidy's.
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Fraidy Cat / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Fraidy Cat / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A handful of the jokes or character names in the show are references to media or cultural figures that were popular during its original run. â€œA Scaredy Fraidyâ€� has Edgar Allen Crow, a poetic crow with a Punny Name based off of Edgar Allen Poe. He even goes as far as to directly quote The Raven by saying "Nevermore." â€œLove is a Many Feathered Thingâ€�'s title is a reference to the movie â€œLove is a Many Splendored Thingâ€�. â€œChoo-Choo Fraidyâ€� clearly references Looney Tunes. There's a coyote named Smiley Coyote (who has a voice similar to that of Harvey Korman), and he goes as far as saying that he "prefers roadrunners"; right as he mentions his preferences, a fat roadrunner jogs right beside him, to which he immediately gives chase, Road-Runner style. Several other characters in the episode reference comedians and actors. Ruth Buzzard is to Ruth Buzzi; J. Edgar Cougar is to Colonel Sanders; and a prairie dog has a voice modeled after a high-pitched Don Rickles. In the final episode, â€œA Semi-Star is Bornâ€�, some of the animal actors are based off real-life animal icons (who are dated by today's standards). Boris the Cat is based off of Morris the Cat, Mister Fred is Mr. Ed, Laffy is Lassie (ironically enough Lassie had a series made by Filmation), Cling Clong is King Kong, Lawrence the Lop-Sided Lion is Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion, and Gentle Babs is Gentle Ben.
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Fraidy Cat / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
Fraidy Cat / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: Fraidy has two: "This kitten's splittin'!" when he decides itâ€™s time to leave, and "Oops, I said [x]!" whenever he says a number and summons a previous life or Cloud Nine.
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Fraidy Cat / int_d65defec	type	Cumulonemesis
Fraidy Cat / int_d65defec	comment	Cumulonemesis: The numbers from "one" to "eight" give Fraidy a ghost, but "nine" however summons an extremely short-tempered storm cloud in the shape of the number nine named Cloud Nine. Cloud Nine also has the ability to spit out lightning, and reform itself back into one if it itself is electrocuted.
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Fraidy Cat / int_e034faef	type	Limited Animation
Fraidy Cat / int_e034faef	comment	Limited Animation: Along with the signature moving mouths with stiff/nonexistent character animation, the animators cut costs by reusing many of the cels seen in the episodes. Lulu the cat is the possibly one of, if not, the worst offender; her modelâ€™s pose changes only three times.
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Fraidy Cat / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Fraidy Cat / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: The episodes "It's a Dog's Life" and "A Semi-Star is Born" are seen with slightly more expressive animation. Slightly.
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Fraidy Cat / int_e4f5affb	type	The Chew Toy
Fraidy Cat / int_e4f5affb	comment	The Chew Toy: The show focuses on Fraidy always getting the short end of the stick in his troubled life. Try and find a single episode that doesn't have him suffering.
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Fraidy Cat / int_eb002293	type	Shrinking Violet
Fraidy Cat / int_eb002293	comment	Shrinking Violet: The titular character's name is a cat based pun based on this trope purely because of his sheer timidity.
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Fraidy Cat / int_eb41a151	type	GangsterLand
Fraidy Cat / int_eb41a151	comment	Gangster Land: Mouse Town.
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Fraidy Cat / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Fraidy Cat / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: While some of the characters Fraidy encounters are unpleasant at most, a majority of them seek out harming or relentlessly bullying Fraidy. For example, nearly all of the dogs seen in the show are bent on chasing Fraidy simply because dogs like chasing cats. Not only are dogs vexatious, but some of his fellow cats, or even animals that cats prey on too. There's Fatty Catty and Long Tail who bully Fraidy into saying "nine", Lulu's boyfriend Chuck, and surprisingly, a gang of mice who threaten to kill Fraidy after he refuses to exchange his phone number with them. And then you have the worst one of them all, Cloud Nine, whose purpose is to electrocute Fraidy with lightning. "Why?", you may ask? This is never explored in the show.
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Fraidy Cat / int_efd11fe3	type	A Dog Named "Dog"
Fraidy Cat / int_efd11fe3	comment	A Dog Named "Dog": Dane, the Great Dane.
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Fraidy Cat / int_f05444a4	type	Once per Episode
Fraidy Cat / int_f05444a4	comment	Once per Episode: Expect to see Fraidy's lives wreak havoc for him in every single episode.
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Fraidy Cat / int_f1a15f4b	type	Cats Have Nine Lives
Fraidy Cat / int_f1a15f4b	comment	Cats Have Nine Lives: The premise of the show. Fraidy is already nervous because he's on his final life, and it doesn't help that the ghosts of his eight previous incarnations keep appearing to him if he (even accidentally) intones their number or says a word that sounds like or rhymes with the numbers, even in another language. At least one of these ghosts, who was an undertaker in life, hopes to bring Fraidy over to the afterlife. The worst one is Cloud Nine, a psychotic storm cloud who tries to electrocute poor Fraidy.
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Fraidy Cat / int_f2667f5f	type	Impostor-Exposing Test
Fraidy Cat / int_f2667f5f	comment	Impostor-Exposing Test: In â€œA Semi-Star is Bornâ€�, Lawrence the Lop-Sided Lion catches both Boris and Fraidy and has Cling-Clong test and see which one is real and fake. Both Boris and Fraidy are given food, and Boris, being the picky eater he is, puts his nose up to the food. Fraidy, however, gorges upon the dish, and he is literally kicked back to the city.
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Fraidy Cat / int_f271765a	type	KafkaComedy
Fraidy Cat / int_f271765a	comment	Kafka Comedy: The show is centered around Fraidy's woes whenever his lives make things worse or when he gets tormented by his peers.
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Fraidy Cat / int_f2bf7993	type	Psycho Electro
Fraidy Cat / int_f2bf7993	comment	Psycho Electro: Cloud Nine shows no remorse towards Fraidy, as he tends to eject strikes of electricity and always tries to zap poor Fraidy to a crisp.
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Fraidy Cat / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Fraidy Cat / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: In "Love is a Many Feathered Thing", Fraidy has to not only go through the cockatoos constantly hugging him, but he also has to deal with his lives goofing things up, and a stray dog that's on his tail. In the end though, Fraidy takes a risk in letting the dog into the bird shop, in which it gets caught inside the cockatoos' cage, with the birds switching their affections over to it, and Fraidy reigns the victor.
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Fraidy Cat / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Fraidy Cat / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Fraidy sometimes gets chased by dogs every now and then in an episode. In fact, one of them became a central part of the story in â€œLove is a Many Feathered Thingâ€�.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Fraidy Cat	hasFeature	Beware of Vicious Dog / int_5507c921
Fraidy Cat	hasFeature	By the Lights of Their Eyes / int_5507c921
Fraidy Cat	hasFeature	Cats Are Mean / int_5507c921
Fraidy Cat	hasFeature	Cats Have Nine Lives / int_5507c921
Fraidy Cat	hasFeature	Cumulonemesis / int_5507c921
Fraidy Cat	hasFeature	Feline Fiction / int_5507c921
Fraidy Cat	hasFeature	Impostor-Exposing Test / int_5507c921
Fraidy Cat	hasFeature	Just Train Wrong / int_5507c921
Fraidy Cat	hasFeature	Named After Somebody Famous / int_5507c921
Fraidy Cat	hasFeature	Unfinished Episode / int_5507c921
Fraidy Cat	hasFeature	Wraparound Background / int_5507c921

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