Looking back CatDog is arguably one of the most bizarre shows to be on Nickelodeon and that’s saying something given the shows they shown up to this point. The show focuses on the life of conjoined brothers with one half being a cat and the other half being a dog. The idea behind the show was to show how two people who are the complete opposite of each other fare against each other and the world they live in a best and worst of both worlds. While Cat and Dog are brothers and best friends the two are the exact opposite of each other. Cat is cunning, smart, sophisticated, neat, and a little dark and selfish at times. Dog on the other hand is more like a dog. He’s happy-go-lucky, enjoys the simple things in life, innocent, naïve, and the conscious of the two. Cat likes to eat healthy Dog likes to eat junk food, Cat likes classical music Dog likes rock music, and Cat likes to keep things nice and orderly while Dog prefers to be dirty and messy. It’s pretty much what would happen if you mixed The Odd Couple with Abbott and Costello.
While the premise for show sounds like it could work it really isn’t that good of a show. The show does try to good message across to its audience but they fall flat each time. The show tries to teach us that it’s okay to be abnormal or different from everyone and that we should accept that these differences are a part of who we are and what make us us. In the show the two are belittled and rejected by society because they’re conjoined, in fact, there’s a street gang of dogs who beat them up constantly just because they’re conjoined. But despite being conjoined CatDog are happy with who they are except there are a few episodes where they fall away from their lesson. There are a few episodes where Cat tries to desperately separate himself from Dog and be a regular normal cat but at the end he realizes his mistakes and remembers he’s happy with Dog. While it’s good that Cat realizes it, the moral loses its touch when Cat tries to separate from Dog a number of times. If it had been like one or two times I be okay with this but Cat tries to do this a number of times that I forget what the lesson the two characters are trying to teach us. And that’s kinda why the show falls flat. I don’t remember it being all that funny or memorable so for me this was a show I remember watching but at the same time it was a show I didn’t really care about all that much.