YMMV / Cat Burglar

• Awesome Art:
  • The series absolutely nails its visual aspirations, from the color design and faux-film grain, to homage the late Tex Avery's humor and timing. More so than another previous attempt from the 1990s.
  • The art and animation during the sequence where Rowdy goes to Hell, despite being Nightmare Fuel, is just beautiful with fluid animation and bright/dark colors.
• Awesome Moments: Some of Peanut's victories are this over Rowdy:
  • It turns out that he's a master fencer. When he and Rowdy have at it as Rowdy fights for the vault key, he defends himself quite well.
  • In the suit of armor encounter, he does Scooby-Dooby Doors with the suits of armor. When Rowdy attempts to tape up the armor and set up a cannon, Peanut sneaks out and makes Rowdy bite the dust instead, via cannonball to the face.
  • He sets up some fairly dangerous booby traps for the paintings, "accidentally" breaking the lever for some of them. One can't help but snicker if you accidentally or on purpose fail the questions and watch how gloriously Rowdy fails, like with the land mines.
  • If Rowdy tries ascending to Heaven after three failures, Peanut gets some revenge by literally clipping his angel wings.
• Crosses the Line Twice: A couple of the bad endings:
  • Being Driven to Suicide due to a loveless relationship is a depressing realistic concept. That being the result of Peanut flirting with Rowdy Pepé Le Pew style due to Rowdy's attempt to distract him by disguising himself as "Cleocatra"? A true example of messed up and hilarious. Also factoring in is Rowdy's soul blubbering while he passes by the window.
• Heartwarming Moments: In a behind-the-scenes interview with Peanut and Rowdy, Peanut is too pure. He explains that he and Rowdy are just acting out their animosity, and they're actually great friends. Pity that Rowdy doesn't feel the same way about him.
  • There's something oddly heartwarming about Rowdy's ghost giving Peanut a dinosaur toy if you were to fail the prehistoric swinging mini-game.
• Older Than They Think: The death involving the shovel isn't the first time someone digs underground and gets blown up by a gas tank.
• Surprise Difficulty: The game is brutally unforgiving if you make even one mistake. Answering even one of the three quick-fire questions incorrectly will guarantee a bad ending to whatever section you're on, losing a life as a result, and the player will have to start the section over again, being unable to move on until you answer the questions flawlessly. The questions themselves are mostly simple, but it's still very easy to get caught out by unexpectedly esoteric subjects or tricky wordplay, especially with the short time limit adding to your anxiety.
• Unexpectedly Obscure Answer: You get questions that are simple like "Things that make for a good fireman" then you get asked "Shakespeare wrote about him" and they ask you which King Henry Shakespeare wrote about, they also ask for breakfast items then throw in babka, which is a braided sweet bread that is both a breakfast and a dessert, which you might not have heard of, or for the geographically challenged "Countries That Start With B".
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: This series was released a few days after The Cuphead Show!, another Netflix title with a Retraux take on the The Golden Age of Animation. While that series aimed to be an all-ages affair, Cat Burglar was developed through Netflix Animation's adult division. Thus, it landed with a TV-14 rating on release.

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