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1* ActorAllusion: The episode "Off The Leash" has Barkmeat the dog pronounce grimly to Waffle, [[Film/{{Highlander}} "This struggle is not over. It shall continue until only one of us remains."]] Barkmeat is voiced by Creator/ClancyBrown, who plays The Kurgan.
2* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Human Kimberly was voiced by the then 11-year old Creator/LilianaMumy.
3* ExecutiveMeddling: Why Mr. Black had his name changed to Mr. Blik between ''ComicBook/{{Gear}}'' and this.
4* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The entire series is available online, even if it does take some digging to find them. Constant attempts have been made by various people to get the series on Website/YouTube, but the episodes are usually removed within days, if not hours. Websites have also been made to host high-quality episodes of the show through file storage. Only two episodes have ever even gotten an official home release, and that was on compilation [=DVDs=]; a third was planned, but the DVD series was canceled before that could happen. Two episodes were also released onto the out-dated mobile video platform [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoNow VideoNow]]. Only it's German dub has been [[https://nick.ch/shows/248-katzekratz/videos/ officially released by Nickelodeon]].
5* KidsMealToy: UsefulNotes/McDonalds sold figures and plushies of Gordon, Waffle, and Mr. Blik in their Happy Meals in 2007.
6* ScrewedByTheNetwork: If you look at the episode premieres, you'll notice that there are long breaks in the premieres after the 9th, 16th and 19th episodes. That's right, there was a 4-month break before the last episode premiered. Also, after going off-air on Nickelodeon for a few months, it was moved to premium channel Nicktoons Network - but they somehow only managed to air 17 out of 20 episodes in a 13 month period before replacing it with ''WesternAnimation/ElTigreTheAdventuresOfMannyRivera'' for some arcane reason. It probably would have been 16 if not for the fact that the second-to-last episode was aired way earlier in the order for a Music Week the channel was doing.
7* TrollingCreator: One fan recalled in a 2020 tweet the [[FreezeFrameBonus randomly brief]] appearance of a character's face on Gordon's eye in an unknown episode. When Doug was asked if he knew the episode in question, he simply replied with "[[FlatYes yes]]". [[note]]The episode was "Scaredy Cat", with the face belonging to Sachiko from the previous episode "Big Eyed Bunny".[[/note]]
8* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
9** It was originally supposed to be a less serious adaptation of the creator's graphic novel, which had [[http://tennapel.com/tv.html some pretty epic looking concept art]] (click on the little squares under Catscratch on the left). Somewhere along the way, it morphed into ''Catscratch''.
10** Had the show managed a second season, Katilda, in a similar vein to what happened with Marceline in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', would have appeared much more frequently.

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