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* CuteKitten: All of the characters are cute kittens disguised as other animals. Adorable baby abimals are appropriate for toys.
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* CuteKitten: All of the characters are cute kittens disguised as other animals. Adorable baby abimals animals are appropriate for toys.
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* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The kittens have pink fur. And lavender, and bright yellow. The Golden Books show that they aren't the ''only'' ones with odd-colored fur; the cats come in all colors of the rainbow.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The kittens have pink fur. And lavender, and bright yellow. The Golden Books showed they weren't the ''only'' ones with odd-colored fur; the cats came in all colors of the rainbow.
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...However... when they feel happy and content, they start purring. So ''that'' exposes them, while the flimsy disguises apparently hold up otherwise. Thankfully, the kids who learn their secret have already fallen in love with their new pets, so they let them keep lying and pretending to be other animals [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop rather than getting them to accept]] [[BeYourself that they're fine the way they are]].
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...However... when they feel happy and content, they start purring. So ''that'' exposes them, while the flimsy disguises apparently hold up otherwise. Thankfully, the kids who learn their secret have already fallen in love with their new pets, so they let them keep lying and pretending to be other animals [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop rather than getting them to accept]] accept [[BeYourself that they're fine the way they are]].
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* AnimalStereotypes - Romp-purr fits the usual dog stereotype particularly well.
* AssInALionSkin - The cats pretending to be other animals is kinda the whole point.
* CatsAreMean - {{Subverted}}, save for Flop-purr's temper.
* CuteKitten: All of the characters are cute kittens disguised as other animals.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero - Hop-purr
** TheLancer - Flop-purr, who wanted to be/thought of himself as the leader.
** TheBigGuy - Romp-purr
** TheSmartGuy - Scamp-purr, who despite her timidity came up with plans the most often.
** TheChick - Chirp-purr
** SixthRanger - Teddy-purr
* ForTheEvulz - Ed-grr's only motivation for trying to catch the Purr-tenders and drag them back to Pick-A-Dilly.
* AssInALionSkin - The cats pretending to be other animals is kinda the whole point.
* CatsAreMean - {{Subverted}}, save for Flop-purr's temper.
* CuteKitten: All of the characters are cute kittens disguised as other animals.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero - Hop-purr
** TheLancer - Flop-purr, who wanted to be/thought of himself as the leader.
** TheBigGuy - Romp-purr
** TheSmartGuy - Scamp-purr, who despite her timidity came up with plans the most often.
** TheChick - Chirp-purr
** SixthRanger - Teddy-purr
* ForTheEvulz - Ed-grr's only motivation for trying to catch the Purr-tenders and drag them back to Pick-A-Dilly.
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* AnimalStereotypes - AnimalStereotypes: Romp-purr fits the usual dog stereotype particularly well.
*AssInALionSkin - AssInALionSkin: The cats pretending to be other animals is kinda the whole point.
* CatsAreMean - {{Subverted}}, save for Flop-purr's temper.
* CuteKitten: All of the characters are cute kittens disguised as other animals.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero - Hop-purr
** TheLancer - Flop-purr, who wanted to be/thought of himself as the leader.
** TheBigGuy - Romp-purr
** TheSmartGuy - Scamp-purr, who despite her timidity came up with plans the most often.
** TheChick - Chirp-purr
** SixthRanger - Teddy-purr
* ForTheEvulz -animals. Adorable baby abimals are appropriate for toys.
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* FiveManBand:
** TheHero - Hop-purr
** TheLancer - Flop-purr, who wanted to be/thought of himself as the leader.
** TheBigGuy - Romp-purr
** TheSmartGuy - Scamp-purr, who despite her timidity came up with plans the most often.
** TheChick - Chirp-purr
** SixthRanger - Teddy-purr
* ForTheEvulz -
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* PoundsAreAnimalPrisons - More specifically, Pick-a-Dilly is Kitty Prison. Going back to the shop was treated like AFateWorseThanDeath, despite how the owner seemed nice enough, and presumably took care of all the animals' needs, including the cats.
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* PoundsAreAnimalPrisons - More specifically, PoundsAreAnimalPrisons: Pick-a-Dilly is Kitty Prison. Going back to the shop was treated like AFateWorseThanDeath, despite how the owner seemed nice enough, and presumably took care of all the animals' needs, including the cats.
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* PunnyName - ''Every'' name is a pun. From the line itself to the names of the kitties -- Scamp-purr, Hop-purr, Flop-purr -- and their nasty dog nemesis, Ed-grr. Latecomer Teddy-purr was the OddNameOut.
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* PunnyName - PunnyName: ''Every'' name is a pun. From the line itself to the names of the kitties -- Scamp-purr, Hop-purr, Flop-purr -- and their nasty dog nemesis, Ed-grr. Latecomer Teddy-purr was the OddNameOut.
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** As noted above, Flop-purr's personality was strikingly similar to [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Daffy]], with the coloring to match.
** A storybook saw Hop-purr reinacting part of ''Literature/TheTaleOfPeterRabbit'', sneaking off to steal carrots from somebody's garden and getting caught -- not by the owner, but by Ed-grr, who planned to take her back to Pick-a-Dilly.
* ShrinkingViolet - Scamp-purr.
* TalkingAnimal - Notably, while the Purr-tenders could talk, none of the other animals seemed capable of communicating with humans. Ed-grr could talk to the cats, but wasn't able to talk to his owner; otherwise he could have ended the whole charade before it started.
* ThemeNaming - See PunnyName.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl - Romp-purr and Chirp-purr.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair - Or in this case, pink fur. And lavender, and bright yellow. The Golden Books showed they weren't the ''only'' ones with odd-colored fur; the cats came in all colors of the rainbow.
** A storybook saw Hop-purr reinacting part of ''Literature/TheTaleOfPeterRabbit'', sneaking off to steal carrots from somebody's garden and getting caught -- not by the owner, but by Ed-grr, who planned to take her back to Pick-a-Dilly.
* ShrinkingViolet - Scamp-purr.
* TalkingAnimal - Notably, while the Purr-tenders could talk, none of the other animals seemed capable of communicating with humans. Ed-grr could talk to the cats, but wasn't able to talk to his owner; otherwise he could have ended the whole charade before it started.
* ThemeNaming - See PunnyName.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl - Romp-purr and Chirp-purr.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair - Or in this case, pink fur. And lavender, and bright yellow. The Golden Books showed they weren't the ''only'' ones with odd-colored fur; the cats came in all colors of the rainbow.
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** As noted above, Flop-purr's personality was is strikingly similar to [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Daffy]], with the coloring to match.
** A storybook saw Hop-purrreinacting reenacting part of ''Literature/TheTaleOfPeterRabbit'', sneaking off to steal carrots from somebody's garden and getting caught -- not by the owner, but by Ed-grr, who planned to take her back to Pick-a-Dilly.
%% * ShrinkingViolet - Scamp-purr.
*TalkingAnimal - TalkingAnimal: Notably, while the Purr-tenders could talk, none of the other animals seemed capable of communicating with humans. Ed-grr could talk to the cats, but wasn't able to talk to his owner; otherwise he could have ended the whole charade before it started.
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*ThemeNaming.
%%* TomboyAndGirlyGirl - Romp-purr and Chirp-purr.
*YouGottaHaveBlueHair - Or in this case, YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The kittens have pink fur. And lavender, and bright yellow. The Golden Books showed they weren't the ''only'' ones with odd-colored fur; the cats came in all colors of the rainbow.
** A storybook saw Hop-purr
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* AssInALionSkin - Kinda the whole point.
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* AssInALionSkin - Kinda The cats pretending to be other animals is kinda the whole point.
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** TheLancer - Flop-purr, who wanted/thought of himself as the leader.
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** TheLancer - Flop-purr, who wanted/thought wanted to be/thought of himself as the leader.
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* ShoutOut -ShoutOut:
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* ShoutOut - As noted above, Flop-purr's personality was strikingly similar to [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Daffy]], with the coloring to match.
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* ShoutOut - -
** As noted above, Flop-purr's personality was strikingly similar to [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Daffy]], with the coloring to match.
** As noted above, Flop-purr's personality was strikingly similar to [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Daffy]], with the coloring to match.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair- Or in this case, pink fur. And lavender, and bright yellow. The Golden Books showed they weren't the ''only'' ones with odd-colored fur; the cats came in all colors of the rainbow.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair- YouGottaHaveBlueHair - Or in this case, pink fur. And lavender, and bright yellow. The Golden Books showed they weren't the ''only'' ones with odd-colored fur; the cats came in all colors of the rainbow.
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A line of plushies created by Hallmark and Fisher-Price in [[TheEighties the 80s]], the Purr-tenders were a bunch of brightly colored cats wearing little masks and a ''very'' odd {{Backstory}}. At the Pick-A-Dilly Pet Shop, all the customers want to buy unusual, 'exotic' pets... 'exotic' pets like birds, bunnies, mice and ''dogs''. But nobody ''ever'' wants to buy a cat, and the kitty pens are getting rather crowded...
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A line of plushies created by Hallmark and Fisher-Price Creator/FisherPrice in [[TheEighties the 80s]], the Purr-tenders were a bunch of brightly colored cats wearing little masks and a ''very'' odd {{Backstory}}. At the Pick-A-Dilly Pet Shop, all the customers want to buy unusual, 'exotic' pets... 'exotic' pets like birds, bunnies, mice and ''dogs''. But nobody ''ever'' wants to buy a cat, and the kitty pens are getting rather crowded...
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* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Seems to be the Purr-Tenders' justification for pretending to be other animals.
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* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Seems to be the The Purr-Tenders' justification motivation for pretending to be other animals.animals is that they want to be loved like the so-called "exotic" pets.
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* AnimalStereotypes - Romp-purr fit the usual dog stereotype particularly well.
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* AnimalStereotypes - Romp-purr fit fits the usual dog stereotype particularly well.
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* [[CuteKitten Everything's Cuter With Kittens]]
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* [[CuteKitten Everything's Cuter With Kittens]]CuteKitten: All of the characters are cute kittens disguised as other animals.
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* FollowTheLeader - The odd and surreally {{Wangst}}y {{Backstory}} was likely an attempt to cash in on the [[WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies1980s Pound Puppies']] success.
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* IJustWantToBeSpecial
* PaperThinDisguise
* [[PoundsAreAnimalPrisons Pick-A-Dilly Is Kitty Prison]] - Going back to the shop was treated like AFateWorseThanDeath, despite how the owner seemed nice enough, and presumably took care of all the animals' needs, including the cats.
* PaperThinDisguise
* [[PoundsAreAnimalPrisons Pick-A-Dilly Is Kitty Prison]] - Going back to the shop was treated like AFateWorseThanDeath, despite how the owner seemed nice enough, and presumably took care of all the animals' needs, including the cats.
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* IJustWantToBeSpecial
IJustWantToBeSpecial: Seems to be the Purr-Tenders' justification for pretending to be other animals.
*PaperThinDisguise
PaperThinDisguise: The only thing that busts the Purr-tenders' covers is whenever they purr. The disguises hold up surprisingly well otherwise.
*[[PoundsAreAnimalPrisons Pick-A-Dilly Is PoundsAreAnimalPrisons - More specifically, Pick-a-Dilly is Kitty Prison]] - Prison. Going back to the shop was treated like AFateWorseThanDeath, despite how the owner seemed nice enough, and presumably took care of all the animals' needs, including the cats.cats.
* PunBasedTitle: ''Purr-Tenders'' comes from the word "pretenders", with the "purr" coming from the main characters being kittens.
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* PunBasedTitle: ''Purr-Tenders'' comes from the word "pretenders", with the "purr" coming from the main characters being kittens.
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* SecretKeeperSecretKeeper: The pets' owners let them keep up hiding the secret that they're not the animals they're disguised as.
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* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Pink Fur]] - And lavender, and bright yellow. The Golden Books showed they weren't the ''only'' ones with odd-colored fur; the cats came in all colors of the rainbow.
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* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Pink Fur]] - YouGottaHaveBlueHair- Or in this case, pink fur. And lavender, and bright yellow. The Golden Books showed they weren't the ''only'' ones with odd-colored fur; the cats came in all colors of the rainbow.
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A line of plushies created by Hallmark and Fisher-Price in [[TheEighties the 80s]], the Purr-tenders were a bunch of brightly colored cats wearing little masks and a ''very'' odd {{Backstory}}. At the Pick-A-Dilly Pet Shop, all the customers want to buy unusual, 'exotic' pets... 'exotic' pets like birds, bunnies, mice and ''dogs''. But nobody ''ever'' wants to buy a cat, and the kitty pens are getting rather crowded...
So some of the kitties hatch a cunning plan: they make masks and ear-bands out of felt and [[PaperThinDisguise disguise themselves as other animals]], and start hanging around the other animals' pens, trying to pass themselves off as the real thing. Amazingly, this ''works'', and soon they've all ended up in happy homes, still keeping up the charade.
...However... when they feel happy and content, they start purring. So ''that'' exposes them, while the flimsy disguises apparently hold up otherwise. Thankfully, the kids who learn their secret have already fallen in love with their new pets, so they let them keep lying and pretending to be other animals [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop rather than getting them to accept]] [[BeYourself that they're fine the way they are]].
The Purr-tenders were:
* Hop-purr - A lavender cat who wore red and pink rabbit ears and a nose/muzzle with big white buck teeth. Sort of the group's default leader. Developed a taste for carrots and other vegetables.
* Flop-purr - TheOneGuy and TheLancer, he had black fur and disguised himself as a duck with a beak mask and orange flippers for his 'feet'. Averts the usual 'cats hate water' trait; he throws himself into learning how to swim with great gusto. Short-tempered and thought of himself as the leader, despite his abrasive personality; in fact, he was basically a ShoutOut to [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Daffy Duck]].
* Romp-purr - A bright yellow {{Tomboy}} who sported a blue mask and pink doggy ears. A GenkiGirl to the core, extremely affectionate and easily excitable.
* Chirp-purr - A pink kitty who wore a toucan beak and a few feathers for a crown, and the [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Girly Girl to Romp-purr's Tomboy]]. Thought she was a beautiful singer, but her atonal screeches had the Purr-tenders wincing and covering their ears. (The real ones, not the ear-bands.)
* Scamp-purr - The youngest of the group and a ShrinkingViolet, she was white-furred and wore lavender and pink mouse-ears and a whiskered snout. While quiet and easily intimidated, whenever she managed to speak up it was usually to offer a good idea or point out something that helped.
* Teddy-purr - A pink cat pretending to be a bear, with lavender bear ears and a snout with a blue nose. A latecomer to the toy line, so she didn't get to appear in most of what little merchandising they managed to release.
They also had an enemy in Ed-grr, the shop owner's grumpy guard dog who enjoyed mocking them about how nobody wanted them because they weren't special or exotic. Ed-grr hated how their crazy plan ''worked'', and wanted to recapture them and drag them back to Pick-A-Dilly [[ForTheEvulz just so he could torment them more]].
Despite Hallmark's efforts, the series never gained enough steam to earn itself a cartoon series and [[FollowTheLeader compete with its predecessors and peers]], the [[WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies1980s Pound Puppies]]. There was a Burger King tie-in with a few toys, including some odd doll-stocking hybrids called 'Sock-Ems', and a handful of books telling their story, but beyond that there wasn't much beyond the strange backstory and the dolls' ability to purr that made them stand out.
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These toys provide examples of:
* AnimalStereotypes - Romp-purr fit the usual dog stereotype particularly well.
* AssInALionSkin - Kinda the whole point.
* CatsAreMean - {{Subverted}}, save for Flop-purr's temper.
* [[CuteKitten Everything's Cuter With Kittens]]
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero - Hop-purr
** TheLancer - Flop-purr, who wanted/thought of himself as the leader.
** TheBigGuy - Romp-purr
** TheSmartGuy - Scamp-purr, who despite her timidity came up with plans the most often.
** TheChick - Chirp-purr
** SixthRanger - Teddy-purr
* FollowTheLeader - The odd and surreally {{Wangst}}y {{Backstory}} was likely an attempt to cash in on the [[WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies1980s Pound Puppies']] success.
* ForTheEvulz - Ed-grr's only motivation for trying to catch the Purr-tenders and drag them back to Pick-A-Dilly.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial
* PaperThinDisguise
* [[PoundsAreAnimalPrisons Pick-A-Dilly Is Kitty Prison]] - Going back to the shop was treated like AFateWorseThanDeath, despite how the owner seemed nice enough, and presumably took care of all the animals' needs, including the cats.
* PunnyName - ''Every'' name is a pun. From the line itself to the names of the kitties -- Scamp-purr, Hop-purr, Flop-purr -- and their nasty dog nemesis, Ed-grr. Latecomer Teddy-purr was the OddNameOut.
* SecretKeeper
* ShoutOut - As noted above, Flop-purr's personality was strikingly similar to [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Daffy]], with the coloring to match.
** A storybook saw Hop-purr reinacting part of ''Literature/TheTaleOfPeterRabbit'', sneaking off to steal carrots from somebody's garden and getting caught -- not by the owner, but by Ed-grr, who planned to take her back to Pick-a-Dilly.
* ShrinkingViolet - Scamp-purr.
* TalkingAnimal - Notably, while the Purr-tenders could talk, none of the other animals seemed capable of communicating with humans. Ed-grr could talk to the cats, but wasn't able to talk to his owner; otherwise he could have ended the whole charade before it started.
* ThemeNaming - See PunnyName.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl - Romp-purr and Chirp-purr.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Pink Fur]] - And lavender, and bright yellow. The Golden Books showed they weren't the ''only'' ones with odd-colored fur; the cats came in all colors of the rainbow.
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So some of the kitties hatch a cunning plan: they make masks and ear-bands out of felt and [[PaperThinDisguise disguise themselves as other animals]], and start hanging around the other animals' pens, trying to pass themselves off as the real thing. Amazingly, this ''works'', and soon they've all ended up in happy homes, still keeping up the charade.
...However... when they feel happy and content, they start purring. So ''that'' exposes them, while the flimsy disguises apparently hold up otherwise. Thankfully, the kids who learn their secret have already fallen in love with their new pets, so they let them keep lying and pretending to be other animals [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop rather than getting them to accept]] [[BeYourself that they're fine the way they are]].
The Purr-tenders were:
* Hop-purr - A lavender cat who wore red and pink rabbit ears and a nose/muzzle with big white buck teeth. Sort of the group's default leader. Developed a taste for carrots and other vegetables.
* Flop-purr - TheOneGuy and TheLancer, he had black fur and disguised himself as a duck with a beak mask and orange flippers for his 'feet'. Averts the usual 'cats hate water' trait; he throws himself into learning how to swim with great gusto. Short-tempered and thought of himself as the leader, despite his abrasive personality; in fact, he was basically a ShoutOut to [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Daffy Duck]].
* Romp-purr - A bright yellow {{Tomboy}} who sported a blue mask and pink doggy ears. A GenkiGirl to the core, extremely affectionate and easily excitable.
* Chirp-purr - A pink kitty who wore a toucan beak and a few feathers for a crown, and the [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Girly Girl to Romp-purr's Tomboy]]. Thought she was a beautiful singer, but her atonal screeches had the Purr-tenders wincing and covering their ears. (The real ones, not the ear-bands.)
* Scamp-purr - The youngest of the group and a ShrinkingViolet, she was white-furred and wore lavender and pink mouse-ears and a whiskered snout. While quiet and easily intimidated, whenever she managed to speak up it was usually to offer a good idea or point out something that helped.
* Teddy-purr - A pink cat pretending to be a bear, with lavender bear ears and a snout with a blue nose. A latecomer to the toy line, so she didn't get to appear in most of what little merchandising they managed to release.
They also had an enemy in Ed-grr, the shop owner's grumpy guard dog who enjoyed mocking them about how nobody wanted them because they weren't special or exotic. Ed-grr hated how their crazy plan ''worked'', and wanted to recapture them and drag them back to Pick-A-Dilly [[ForTheEvulz just so he could torment them more]].
Despite Hallmark's efforts, the series never gained enough steam to earn itself a cartoon series and [[FollowTheLeader compete with its predecessors and peers]], the [[WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies1980s Pound Puppies]]. There was a Burger King tie-in with a few toys, including some odd doll-stocking hybrids called 'Sock-Ems', and a handful of books telling their story, but beyond that there wasn't much beyond the strange backstory and the dolls' ability to purr that made them stand out.
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These toys provide examples of:
* AnimalStereotypes - Romp-purr fit the usual dog stereotype particularly well.
* AssInALionSkin - Kinda the whole point.
* CatsAreMean - {{Subverted}}, save for Flop-purr's temper.
* [[CuteKitten Everything's Cuter With Kittens]]
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero - Hop-purr
** TheLancer - Flop-purr, who wanted/thought of himself as the leader.
** TheBigGuy - Romp-purr
** TheSmartGuy - Scamp-purr, who despite her timidity came up with plans the most often.
** TheChick - Chirp-purr
** SixthRanger - Teddy-purr
* FollowTheLeader - The odd and surreally {{Wangst}}y {{Backstory}} was likely an attempt to cash in on the [[WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies1980s Pound Puppies']] success.
* ForTheEvulz - Ed-grr's only motivation for trying to catch the Purr-tenders and drag them back to Pick-A-Dilly.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial
* PaperThinDisguise
* [[PoundsAreAnimalPrisons Pick-A-Dilly Is Kitty Prison]] - Going back to the shop was treated like AFateWorseThanDeath, despite how the owner seemed nice enough, and presumably took care of all the animals' needs, including the cats.
* PunnyName - ''Every'' name is a pun. From the line itself to the names of the kitties -- Scamp-purr, Hop-purr, Flop-purr -- and their nasty dog nemesis, Ed-grr. Latecomer Teddy-purr was the OddNameOut.
* SecretKeeper
* ShoutOut - As noted above, Flop-purr's personality was strikingly similar to [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Daffy]], with the coloring to match.
** A storybook saw Hop-purr reinacting part of ''Literature/TheTaleOfPeterRabbit'', sneaking off to steal carrots from somebody's garden and getting caught -- not by the owner, but by Ed-grr, who planned to take her back to Pick-a-Dilly.
* ShrinkingViolet - Scamp-purr.
* TalkingAnimal - Notably, while the Purr-tenders could talk, none of the other animals seemed capable of communicating with humans. Ed-grr could talk to the cats, but wasn't able to talk to his owner; otherwise he could have ended the whole charade before it started.
* ThemeNaming - See PunnyName.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl - Romp-purr and Chirp-purr.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Pink Fur]] - And lavender, and bright yellow. The Golden Books showed they weren't the ''only'' ones with odd-colored fur; the cats came in all colors of the rainbow.
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