Kid vs. Kat is a Canadian animated television series developed at Studio B Productions for Jetix Europe and YTV. The show is created and co-directed by Rob Boutilier. The feature revolves around a 10-year-old boy's constant battle with his sister's Sphynx kitten which, in reality, is an alien. The series is distributed by Studio B Productions. A series preview was made available on iTunes on February 5, 2009 and the show premiered on YTV on October 25, 2008, and on Jetix Europe on April 4, 2009.
This show provides examples of:
The Ace - Subverted. Coop could have easily been the smartest, most popular kid in town if he didn't have Kat to worry about.
Adults Are Useless - Only three people know Kat is an alien and they're all kids; Coop, Dennis and Fiona.
Technically, so do Coop's grandparents, but they choose not to say anything because they might get "put in the old-folk's home." They also travel alot and visit only on occasions so pretty much its up to the kids.
Alien Animals - Kat and the rest of his race happen to look and act like Earth cats. Also done with Mr. Cheeks and his race, sentient talking hamsters who are also enemies of the cat folk.
Bad Ass - Kat would definitely be one if he wasn't humiliated so many times.
Bad Boss - Kat Kommander won't hesitate to vaporize his minions for anything that displeases him, including not getting a nice enough birthday present. Kat is probably glad that he's several solar systems away.
Bad Future - Technically an alternate present rather than the future, but in "Cat to the Future", Kat takes over the world after Coop alters the past so that he was never adopted by Millie.
Bizarre Alien Biology - And how! Acidic saliva, freakish reaction to cold germs, unexplainable weight gain from certain foods... And that's not even getting into what we've seen in the Shorts episodes.
Brainwashed and Crazy - Kat does this to all the neighborhood cats in one episode. As well as all of Bootsville (except for Coop, Lorn, and Harley) in another.
Butt Monkey - Coop and Kat, definitely. Coop generally filling the "butt of every demeaning joke" side of things, and Kat with the "put through hell" plotline.
Call Back - "Kat to the Future" has Coop time-travel back to the first episode, where Kat was first adopted by the family.
Cassandra Truth - No one will ever believe that Coop is not solely responsible for the destruction his feud with Kat causes. No one will ever believe that Kat is an alien until it's too late.
Apparently Kat's homeworld is an Evil Empire. They take over a planet and consume the natural resources. It inevitably ends up becoming a huge mess and at that point, they move on to a new world. When they are called out on this, the basic answer is "well, we're cats." This is less malicious and more a lack of effort to clean up after themselves.
CoolGrandparents - Old Mr. and Mrs. Burtonburger, who borders on being Senior Sues in the episode "Keep On Rockin'"
Crapsack World - Parodied. Most of people are pretty much unsympathetic, because of their really weird psyche. Overally the city seems to be very unfriendly towards each other.
Crazy Cat Lady - In "Pet Peeved" Kat is found and taken in by one after he runs away.
Devil in Plain Sight - Kat. You'd think someone would have noticed the pet cat was chuckling evilly all the time.
Disproportionate Retribution - Kat is very, very guilty of this. Especially in the earlier episodes, where he would try to kill Coop for the slightest insult, like splashing him with water, with creating a whole forest of murderous, meat-eating plants to get revenge.
Four-Fingered Hands - Lampshaded in "Kat to the Future". After Coop abused the time machine Kat created, Dennis points out that time trave can create a bunch of anomalies. At that moment, he notices he has a fifth finger on his left hand. This episode points out a few times they also have 4-toed feet as well.
Generation Xerox: Coop and Dennis' lives are awfully similar to their fathers' childhoods.
Lorne bullies Coop and Lorne's mother used to bully Coop's father, although she was actually masking a childhood crush.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: Once both Millie, Lorne and Haley learned the truth about Kat, this was inevitable. More interestingly, Fiona also became a victim of this at the same time.
Coop suffers from this in one Christmas episode. Then, somehow, Mr. Burtonburger inherits them. It's fixed by the end, though.
The Men in Black - One episode has the family being investigated by some really incompetent ones. They end up arresting everyone except Kat for being aliens.
Missing Mom - What happened to Mrs. Burtonburger remains a mystery
The Munchausen - Mrs. Munson in "Down The Creek". Although it appears she has proof of her tall tales.
Older Than They Look - Old Lady Munson was an old lady back when Burt was a kid and Fiona is her great great great great great grand niece.
Robotic Reveal - Mr. Kat turns out to be a cyborg when his X-rays are exposed in the episode called "Nip/Duck".
Rock Beats Laser - More often than not, Coop and Dennis' clever use of common Earth technology or simply whatever is at hand can outmatch Kat's superior alien technology.
The Scapegoat - Whenever something goes wrong, Old Lady Munson will always blame it on Coop, even if it's something not humanly possible.
Screwed by the Network -(US) The show's remaining episodes for Season 2 have been deathslotted to both a 6:00 am and 6:30 am timeslot on Disney XD in the US as of July 11th, 2011. Two episodes at once, even. Just like Jimmy Two-Shoes, it may have something to do with its ratings...
Serious Business - Wiener dogs are really, really serious business in Bootsville. Spoil a drop of the boiling water, and you're banished for life.
Voices Are Mental - In "Board Kat" when Coop and Kat switch bodies. Millie and Burt notice Coop's voice coming out of Kat, but think it's just Coop using ventriloquism.
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