This is the first episode and the first two segments of Courage the Cowardly Dog.
A Night at the Katz Motel
Original air date: 11/12/1999
Production code: CCD-109a
Muriel, Eustace and Courage stop at the Katz Motel to end their vacation. Unfortunately for them, it's no five-star hotel, and Katz's hotel is the perfect excuse for finding unlimited food to keep his giant pet spiders happy.
Cajun Granny Stew
Original air date: 12/17/1999
Production code: CCD-109b
Courage and Muriel go on a walk in the park. However, a Cajun Fox eyes Muriel as the final ingredient in his dinner, "Cajun Granny Stew", so he steals her. Now it's up to Courage to get her back.
"A Night at the Katz Motel" features examples of the following tropes:
- Big Damn Heroes: Muriel bashes Katz over the head with a tennis racket as he's strangling Courage.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Muriel calling Eustace "Grandpa".
- Giant Spider: Katz feeds his victims to large spiders.
- Handbag of Hurt: When Eustace scares the leashed-up Courage by imitating a thunderclap, Muriel smacks him with her handbag for it before giving Courage a blanket.
- Hell Hotel: The Katz Motel qualifies as a hotel that is to be avoided, since it's just a front for Katz to lure in people he can kill.
- Inn of No Return: Katz is shown to run one of these. Anyone who stays ends up as spider food for his pets.
"Cajun Granny Stew" features examples of the following tropes:
- Curse Cut Short:Cajun Fox: That dog is starting to become a real pain in my a— [head goes underwater]
- Double Subversion: Courage tries to defeat the Cajun Fox by putting a detour sign on the road so that he drives his steamroller into a bunch of rocks blocking the other road. He ignores it, thinking he's too smart for that, and plows over the detour sign, plummeting off a cliff.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: This is the one and only episode in which Eustace does not appear.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The Cajun Fox ends up getting cooked in his own pot.
