Once upon a meow

I watched he last of my Netflix this weekend. The Secret Lives of Dentists
was not quite what I was expecting (although I don't know what I was
expecting) but it definitely reinforced my lack of enthusiasm for starting
a family.

My other disc was "Hello Kitty Becomes a Princess" this was a set of 5
stories from the 1987 TV show Hello Kitty's Furry Tale theater . I don't ever remember this show existing. The cover artwork had me beleiving this was a new, made for DVD
thing. But, one look at the actual show and you see a mutant kitty that I
don't remember at all. But it makes up for it by being super-charming. If I
had a daughter, I would buy all the DVDs for her.

The cast of characters that we know an love is: Hello Kitty voiced by Tara
Strong (Bubbles from PPG), Tuxedo Sam, the little seal friend, and My Melody.The cast of characters they just made up and I've never seen a sanrio.

product for are: Catnip the selfish valley girl voiced by Cree Summer (the
hardest working voice in show biz (or at least the shows I watch) best
known as Suzy from Rugrats), and some ugly bulldog, not very bright, good
at brute force, as long as he understands the direction. Not bad hearted,
but does whatever catnip says. They are, obviously, the villians. They
weren't very exciting, but at least they stayed constant through the shows.
So, the point of this series is that Kitty and her little friends (and
enemy) put on plays of fairy tales. My disc was 4 episodes where she
is/becomes a princess and one where she just has beautiful hair:
cinder-kitty, kitty and the beast, snow white kitty, sleeping kitty, and
kitty-locks and the 3 bears.

Like shows like Hamtaro and Smurfs, they like to work in the Kitty angle
whenever possible saying things like purr-iffic and cat-tastic. Every
vignette starts "once upon a meow"

Cinder-kitty: We open with Kitty outside. since she isn't allowed to have
friends, she's rigged some kind of machine where she can catapult a
football at herself and catch it. Because the evil step-sister, Catnip
moves the catapult Kitty ends up breaking the window. The big game is
today. and it's rumored that prince tuxedo sam will choose his princess
from the cheerleading tryouts before hand. Kitty doesn't care so much about
being princess, she just wants to see the big game. So the mom and sister
leave her home alone, crying. Then the fairy god-kitty appears, and doesn't
mince words. She will not stand for self-pitty and crying. (the best fairy
godmother I've ever seen). So first she puts kitty in a cheerleading
uniform and drives her off to the tryouts in style. Sam sees her routine
and falls in love. Unfortunately at the big moment Catnip unties kitty's
shoe and if flies off and gets stuck in Sam's mouth, they spend a good 5
secs showing that it's rather stuck and needs a strong tug to get out.
Kitty runs off in embarassment, but Sam still likes her. And her God-kitty
gives here another good talking to about running away in embarassment
Later the game starts, and someone gets hurt, kitty asks the god-kitty for
one last favor, and she gets put into the game. She makes the game winning
touchdown (or whatever) and then runs off before she can be discovered.
So the prince searches the land for the one who can fit the shoe. the
stepsister tries to whore herself off on him, but he finds kitty's foot
dangling out of the chimney that she's trying to clean. It's a match. And
he loves her even more because she's the cheerleader and the football
player.

Sleeping Kitty: Kitty doesn't invite Catnip to the party, so she casts the spell that kitty will fall asleep forever if she ever watches tv again. So they ban all tvs from the kingdom. And the next day all they can do is talk about how fun TV was. Catnip still has her tv though, and kitty decides there's no reason to punish her friends, and lets them to watch tv with Catnip. But they're watching a scary movie, and they're all screaming so kitty rushes up to save them, catches a glimpse of the TV and falls asleep forever. So they take her to the castle. Catnip makes the vines grow superfast so in like 15 mins there's no way to get in. Tuxedo sam is the only hope. He's very nervous about having to go kiss kitty. But vines are covering everything, the only thing he can do is blow her a kiss and hope it sticks. It flies around for a while and finally sticks, waking up kitty, the kingdom, and the vines disappear.

Snow white also hinges on a nervous kiss. But after an adorably chaste kiss on the cheek, snow kitty awakes and the kingdom rejoices

Kitty and the Beast also involves a kiss, and good hearted kitty easily kisses beast on the cheek and the kingdom rejoices.

Kitty-locks is mostly amusing because there are no bears in this show, so 3 of the characters have to wear bear hats. I love it when animals pretend to be other animals! We also learn the very important lesson that bears like to eat porridge, pizza and kitties.

Hello Kitty is almost as good as JEM. She gives Rainbow Brite a run for her money.