History WesternAnimation / CatBurglar

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: While you can still fail and get a bad ending, if Peanut never taunted Rowdy with the key to the Priceless Display Vault, then the cat would have been unsuccessful in the heist no matter what he did.

* FollowTheBouncingBall: Or rather, follow Peanut's served head. One of the choices has Rowdy lop off his head as it bounces to a song about how incompetent he is.

** [[https://twitter.com/ClaireDaresFood/status/1497966945806782472/photo/1 The stolen paintings Rowdy displays in his mansion]] in the victory endings are all parodies of actual famous artworks: "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring]]", "[[TheBurlesqueOfVenus The Birth Of Venus]]", "[[AmericanGothicCouple American Gothic]]", Art/TheMonaLisa, "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_before_a_Mirror Girl before a Mirror]]", and "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Portrait_with_Bandaged_Ear Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear]]". [[https://www.artstation.com/artwork/LeloAr ArtStation submission of the individual paintings here]].

* TheBadGuyWins: Essensially in all of the 6 main endings where Rowdy successfully steal the painting and become rich. To drive this further, [[spoiler:he even get away with tormenting the homeless Peanut when he's digging for food, [[LaserGuidedKarma except for one of the endings]].]]

* CastingGag: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Creator/BlasGarcia voice {{God}}, who previously voiced him in the dub of ''Film/BruceAlmighty''.

* NiceJobFixingIt Villian: While you can still fail and get a bad ending, if Peanut never taunted Rowdy with the key to the Priceless Display Vault, then the cat would have been unsuccessful in the heist no matter what he did.

** [[https://twitter.com/ClaireDaresFood/status/1497966945806782472/photo/1 The stolen paintings Rowdy displays in his mansion]] in the victory endings are all parodies of actual famous artworks: "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring]]", "[[TheBurlesqueOfVenus The Birth Of Venus]]", "[[AmericanGothicCouple American Gothic]]", Art/TheMonaLisa, "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_before_a_Mirror Girl before a Mirror]]", and "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Portrait_with_Bandaged_Ear Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear]]".

* BadGuysPlayPool: Exaggerated. In the game over scene where Rowdy goes to FireAndBrimstoneHell, a BigRedDevil (possibly Satan himself) turns Rowdy's [[CatsHaveNineLives nine souls]] into pool balls. He hits them all into the same pocket of the pool table, leaving them trapped and hanging above a pit of fire, presumably for eternity.

* BigRedDevil: In one of the game over scenes, Rowdy goes to FireAndBrimstoneHell and is tormented by a red devil with pointed ears, horns, and a pointy tail.

* FatBastard: The BigRedDevil (possibly Satan) who tortures Rowdy in one of the game over screens is so fat that his gut sticks out from under his shirt.

* SelfDeprecation: [[spoiler:The fourth painting ending repeats the ending mentioned in SpinningPaper, with the additional headline "Dumb Audience Expected A New Ending: Animators Slightly Edit Existing Ending To Save $$$".]]

** If Rowdy wins, he becomes rich [[spoiler:while Peanut get fired and is forced to live on the streets, after which Rowdy will give him one last dose of physical harm for kicks, complete with LaughingMad and all.]]

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: So many ways Rowdy can die. All so very funny and/or violent.

* CatsAreMean: Rowdy is introduced tormenting a poor squirrel.

* DeathlyDiesIrae: In the ending where Rowdy’s soul gets his wings clipped while ascending to heaven and ends up in [[FireAndBrimstoneHell hell]], ''dies irae, dies illa'' plays as he falls.

* FireAndBrimstoneHell: A potential fate for Rowdy should he lose all his lives. Quite obvious for a character who specializes in thievery.

* HardTruthAesop: LifeIsntFair, and sometimes a bit of bad luck can screw up even the most foolproof plan. Peanut is just doing his job by stopping a thief, at the threat of going back to the pound and becoming a stray again. Yet to "win," you have to let Rowdy skewer Peanut in a variety of ways. And even if you decide to help Rowdy, the questions get harder the longer you persist.
* HeroAntagonist: Peanut serves as the barrier to Rowdy's goals, being a security guard who tries to get ahead of the cat bugler's antics.

** If Rowdy wins, he becomes rich and Peanut get fired and is forced to live on the streets, after which Rowdy will give him one last dose of physical harm for kicks.

* MultipleEndings: For both victories and defeats. Notably, each time you win the game, a new painting will be added to the display in his mansion, up to six in total.
* OffWithHisHead: One scene has Rowdy decapitating Peanut, his head then becoming the bouncing ball in a FollowTheBouncingBall sing-along. He also loses his head in some of the endings.

* TheVoiceless: Played with. While Rowdy never speaks when he's alive, when he dies Rowdy's soul is very talkative.

''Cat Burglar'' is an interactive short cartoon created by ''Series/BlackMirror'' creator Creator/CharlieBrooker and directed by Mike Hollingsworth (''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman''). It marks another experiment in Creator/{{Netflix}}'s catalog of interactive media, following successes like Brooker’s own ''Film/BlackMirrorBandersnatch''. Though this is marked as an adult-animated production, it is noticeably LighterAndSofter than Brooker’s previous efforts, being a tribute to the works of Creator/TexAvery.

** One of Rowdy's deaths ends up with his skin hanging on a wire. Also on the wire is a skin that's a dead ringer to ''WesternAnimation/ScrewballSquirrel''. May also double as a TakeThat considering Tex himself considered Screwy a CreatorsPest.

* GrossUpCloseUp: Usually averted when something appears more detailed, it's not overtly gross.
** Played straight if you succeed in the mummy's trivia section. Rowdy had to get out of his skin like a suit. The armpit hair, the six nipples (some with piercings) and his innie are grossly designed. That female scream off-screen is warranted.

* DrivenToSuicide: One possible fate for Rowdy. After dressing up as Cleopatra and getting dragged into marriage by Peanut, the bad ending depicts the two in a loveless marriage with screaming children. Ultimately, Rowdy will choose to jump out the window to his death.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Subverted. In the behind-the-scenes interview [[AnimatedActors with Peanut and Rowdy]], Peanut claims that he and Rowdy are great friends off-camera, and Rowdy isn't that bad. [[InstantlyProvenWrong Rowdy proceeds to]] [[{{Jerkass}} steal his money and put a mousetrap in Peanut's wallet.]]

** The books Peanut is reading while in the security station are ''Literature/OldYeller'', "[[Literature/WarAndPeace War and Perkingese]]", "[[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydrant]]" and "[[Literature/CrimeAndPunishment Crime and Pugnishment]]". He asks the audience not to spoil the ending.

The premise is simple. Rowdy, a cat who is also a burglar (get it?), seeks to break into a local museum to steal an impossibly valuable painting. Problem is, he doesn’t have the best luck and he’s down to a third of his nine lives after a string of comical misfortunes. Now the viewers must help him get past security, including inept guard dog Peanut, by correctly answering a series of trivia questions requiring a keen mind and quick reflexes.