Cat Face. He's got a big cat face. He's got the body of a cat and the face of a cat. And he flies through the air 'cause he's got a cat face. Cat Face!
Cat Face is a series of funny animated shorts starring a strange, floating, talking cat named Cat Face who gets into various misadventures in his neighborhood, together with his housemates Old Lady and Box Cat. Later episodes include one of Box Cat's offspring, Tiny. Made by Jonti "Weebl" Picking, the episodes are on Weebl's Stuff.com
and the Cat Face YouTube channel.
Cat Face provides examples of:
- And Knowing Is Half the Battle: Each episode ends with Cat Face giving some bit of advice to the "kids" watching the show, which is played for laughs because his tips never have anything to do with what happened in the episode.
- Animal Facial Hair: Posh Tom has fur which resembles a moustache.
- Animals Fear Neutering: Cat Face tries to have Box Cat neutered after the latter ends up getting every female cat in the neighborhood pregnant. Box Cat manages to avoid this, however, and tricks Cat Face into getting Gordon Ramsay neutered instead.
- Another Dimension: Cat Face has a cat flap leading to one. His counterpart there is named Facecat.
- Art Shift: "Cat Banana", Tiny's animation in "Movie Moggy", was drawn in crayon.
- Blank White Eyes: Cat Face gets these whenever he's surprised or shocked by something.
- Blatant Lies: The dog in the dating video:Dog: Hello, I am a cat, I like doing cat things, turnoffs are dogs and walkies, I do not find cats at all delicious, if you would like to be my dinner- er, join me for dinner, I will not eat you.
- Brick Joke: In one episode, the shopkeeper of the DIY shop spontaneously combusts. Two episodes later, the shop is still on fire.
- Buffy Speak: Cat Face often struggles to find the right words for things. For example, he refers to fireworks as "explodey-whizzy-bangs" at one point.
- Camera Abuse: In "Spying Tonight", Posh Tom tips over Cat Face's garbage bin which splatters some garbage on the camera lens, and we see someone wiping it off with a rag. This leads Cat Face to notice he is being filmed.
- Catchphrase:
- Cat face has "Trust me, I'm a cat!" and "I don't know, I'm a cat!"
- Posh Tom has "Rooooooting through your garbage!
- Censor Box:
- Along with Sound-Effect Bleep, whenever Gordon starts cursing, a bar covers his mouth filled with words related to what he's saying ("something about your mother" or "sexual slur involving a dog") and sometimes not ("Hello") - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idqunLHJ-Q0&feature=related
- Played for laughs as well in "Spying Tonight", in which the television feed of a nature program spying on Cat Face while he showers includes a censor bar over where his private parts would be, despite him being a cat who has no external genitals to be seen and whose nakedness has never been considered indecent by other people.
- Along with Sound-Effect Bleep, whenever Gordon starts cursing, a bar covers his mouth filled with words related to what he's saying ("something about your mother" or "sexual slur involving a dog") and sometimes not ("Hello") - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idqunLHJ-Q0&feature=related
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Cat Face has some strange misimpressions about how the world works, and sometimes you don't know what the heck he's talking about:Cat Face: There is no ash flavored with fish in here. There is no pulpy wood products that smell like beef. What is this? This is no good for me. I must go to the shops, yes.
- Cute Kitten: Tiny.
- Déjà Vu: After Cat Face sees Tiny's animation, "Cat Banana", it seems a bit familiar to him.
- Department of Redundancy Department: "He's got the body of a cat and the face of a cat."
- Expository Theme Tune: Parodied. The theme song certainly feels like one of these, but it doesn't give any information that isn't immediately obvious by just looking at Cat Face.
- Expressive Shirt: More like expressive BOX for Boxcat, who is never actually shown except for the box he's in. In one episode, his box sags when he becomes depressed.
- The Faceless: Boxcat, who lives inside a cardboard box and never comes out. So far, the only parts of him that have been shown are his legs and tufts of grey fur.
- Fainting: When he insults Cat Face's cooking, Gordon Ramsey swears so much he collapses.
- Fan Disservice: During the first Halloween special, Old Lady dressed up as Princess Leia... in the slave bikini. There's also that one time where she took off her bath towel, letting the audience see her saggy butt, and forcing Cat Face who saw her in full frontal nudity to reach for the Brain Bleach.
- Fatal Fireworks: In "Bonfire Night", Facecat sneaks out on Guy Fawkes Night and gets scared back in by the fireworks. Cat Face and Boxcat were holed up in the house because they were scared of the fireworks (Cat Face actually boarded up the windows for it). At the end of the episode, we find out Cat Face was actually burned by a discarded sparkler as a kitten.
- Gratuitous French: Cat Face talks in a ridiculous French accent.
- Green Aesop: Cat Face sometimes gives these at the end of an episode, despite his advice having nothing to do with the episode in question.
- High on Catnip: Double Subverted. Cat Face rubs himself against some catnip, following with a close-up of his dilating eyes and psychedelic music, implying he's going on a trip. Then it automatically zooms out and Cat Face tells Boxcat to stop playing the "crappy music". After yelling at his friend, Cat Face flies up and purrs until he runs into a lit lightbulb.
- Ho Yay: Invoked, as Cat Face tells Boxcat Cat Face is not his "man-wife" before admitting he is sometimes.
- Intelligible Unintelligible: Cat Face is able to perfectly understand everything Boxcat says despite the box mumbling his dialogue.
- Large Ham: Posh Tom.
- Lethal Chef: In "Hell's Kitchen", Cat Face is making a pot of mishmash on the stove which is obviously producing black smoke, and Gordon Ramsay says it looks like something the proverbial cat threw up.
- Lower-Class Lout: The urban fox.
- Mind Screw: The entire series of shorts runs on Rule of Funny rather than haing a story that makes any kind of sense.
- My Brain Is Big: Cat Face's head is disproportionately larger than his small swaying body, which may also allow him to float off the ground. Not that he appears to have any brains (or at the least common sense) to back it up.
- Never Mess with Granny: The Old Lady takes appropriate action when Cat Face is kidnapped by a Crazy Cat Lady.
- Nightmare Face: Facecat. So much.
- The Noseless: None of the shopkeepers have noses.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: During a stakeout, Boxcat wears a box with a crudely-drawn bush on the side, and the words "Not a cat in a box" written on the front. Also, an infrequent recurring character is a spotted dog who dresses in various disguises to try to catch a cat to eat.
- Really Gets Around: Boxcat has multiple offspring. At one point, Catface tried to get him neutered.
- The Reveal: "Movie Moggy" starts with Cat Face coaxing one of Boxcat's kittens out of its box, revealing Tiny to be insufferably cute.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Tiny the cat, Boxcat's youngest kitten.
- Self-Induced Allergic Reaction: What happens when Boxcat provokes a wasp, even though he's allergic.Cat Face: Okay, I will get the adrenaline, honestly.
- Shout-Out: The Snowman appears in an episode.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Gordon Ramsay curses like a sailor every minute he's onscreen, Played for Laughs as all his swearing is bleeped out.
- Sound-Effect Bleep: Every time Gordon Ramsey yells out a curse, it's replaced by a bleep.
- Spell My Name With An S: Is it spelt Cat face or Catface?
- Spontaneous Human Combustion: In one episode, a shopkeeper suddenly catches fire while talking to Cat Face. Cat Face doesn't seem to notice.
- Talking in Your Sleep: The nature documentary catches Catface talking in his slumber while he's in bed.
- Toilet Humour: Pops up occasionally, such as in episode 10.Cat Face: We are not playing "Poo Jenga" now!
- Trilling Rs: Posh Tom speaks with trilling "r"s, a contrast between his upper-crust sounding speech and his habit of rooting through the garbage.
- Trust Me, I'm an X: Cat Face often gives dubious advice while reassuring the viewer with his unofficial Catchphrase, "Trust me, I'm a cat!"
- The Unintelligible: Boxcat communicates in nothing but indistinct meowling, in contrast to Cat Face who speaks English and can be understood by humans.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Nobody bats an eyelid at the talking cat with a giant head floating down the street.
- Verbal Tic: Cat Face tends to end a lot of his sentences with "yes".
- Very Loosely Based on a True Story: According to the creator on "Weebl's Stuff", http://www.weebls-stuff.com/catface/Cat+Face/, it's based on true events. It's unclear whether he's being sarcastic or not, though.
- Visual Pun: When Cat Face has some catnip, he floats towards the ceiling, literally becoming high.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Cat Face explains to Gordon Ramsey that he eats grass so he can vomit up hairballs, before doing just that.
- Weird Currency: Cat Face seems to be under the impression that he can pay for things with dead animals, which the shopkeeper in the Pet Shop isn't very happy about. She gets back at him by selling him bouncy cat litter.
- Wildlife Commentary Spoof: At one point, a nature programme called 'Cat Spy: In The Suburbs' is made about Cat Face, which is commentated in this way.
SILLY CAT FACE!
