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Cat and Girl versus the Patriarchy [[Girl stands alone.]] / Cat: What's up? / Girl: I'm co-opting the media's portrayal of Peter Pan collars. / [[Girl stands alone.]] / Cat: Good luck. / Girl: I don't need luck. I have truth. / [[Girl stands alone.]] / [[Girl stands alone.]] / Cat: Phone's for you. / Girl: Hello? / [[She listens.]] / Girl: It's the Patriarchy. / Girl: And he's calling from inside the house!
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Cat and Girl are Relative [[Grrrl is playing records. A Comet Gain poster is behind her.]] / Teddy Bear: It all sounds the same. / Grrrl: That was the Ramones and this is Beat Happening. / [[Boy and the Teddy Bears are drinking wine.]] / Boy: It all tastes the same. / Teddy Bear: That's white and that's red. / [[Boy is holding fish.]] / Grrrl: It all looks the same. / Boy: That's a trout and the other's a halibut. / Girl: Connoisseurship makes anything interesting. / Girl: A handful of gravel is as structured and complex as a symphony - if you know enough about gravel. / Grrrl: But the gravel wasn't arranged purposefully. / Girl: Did Emily Dickinson write poems about your life? Did Dr. Augustin Thompson invent Moxie so hipsters could wear the tee shirt? / Girl: Intent is bunk! It's the viewer who makes the meaning. / Girl: Nothing, in and of itself, can be good or - / Cat: This milk is bad.
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Cat 1, Girl 0 [[Girl sits on a blanket on the roof. Cat leans out a window.]] / Cat: Will you make me popcorn? / Girl: No. / Cat: If you don't make me popcorn I'll turn evil. / Girl: Don't be so binary. / Cat: I'm not being binary! / Girl: Our world is filled with on/off switches, with media made of 1s and 0s. You don't think it changes you? Makes you think in terms of on or off, yes or no? / Cat: No. / Girl: Gah! / Girl: Our modes of representation, the languages we speak, they affect how we think. / Girl: IKEA wouldn't be so kicky if those Swedishish names didn't look so funny to us. / Girl: I'm just saying that the mode of delivery affects the content. / [[Cat and Girl are made of 1s and 0s.]] / Cat: I think you're binary. / Girl: No!
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Cat in Slumberland [[Cat is outside.]] / [[He walks down the beach.]] / [[He sees a beach house on stilts.]] / [[He and a lady eat dinner by candlelight.]] / [[They hold hands.]] / [[He serenades her as they float on the sea in a rowboat.]] / [[Cat wakes up. He is on the couch in front of the television.]] / [[Cat talks to Girl.]] / Cat: I had the most wonderful dream. / Cat: I dreamt I was in a Herpes commercial.
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Cat and Girl in "The New Economy" [[Girl walks downstairs to find the house a mess.]] / Girl: Where's the television? / Girl: What happened to my books? / [[Cat is wearing a bucket.]] / Girl: Where are your clothes? / Cat: I call this my "Paternity Suit." / Cat: Ta-da! / Girl: But you've been fixed. / Cat: I lied about the suit. / [[A man walks by them.]] / [[He walks back out carrying a table.]] / Girl: Cat! Why are they taking our stuff? / Cat: I invested all our money in trapezoids.
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Cat and Girl on Public Transportation [[Cat and Girl sit on the subway. Girl tries to read a newspaper.]] / Cat: I wish I had a garage. / Cat: I could keep my motorcycle in it! / Girl: You don't have a motorcycle. / Cat: My imaginary motorcycle. / [[They sit.]] / Girl: Remember to wear your imaginary helmet. / Cat: I don't want to look like an imaginary dork!
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Merry Labor Day from Cat and Girl [[Cat lies on the couch, a blanket wrapped around him.]] / Girl: What are you doing for Labor Day? / Cat: Huh? / Girl: What are you doing for Labor Day? / Girl: Going to the beach? Having a barbeque? / Girl: Purchasing sale items? / Girl: Mourning the end of yet another summer? / Girl: Protesting the exploitation of the American worker? / Girl: What are you doing for Labor Day? / [[Cat throws his hands up.]] / Cat: All Star Variety Review! / Cat: On television. I'm watching television.
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Of Mice and Men and Cat and Girl [[A mouse sits by himself, looking up into the sky.]] / [[Another mouse comes up to him.]] / [[The second mouse places his bindle on the grass and sits down.]] / Mouse: No luck. / [[They sit.]] / Mouse: I'm so tired. / [[They sit.]] / [[They sit.]] / Mouse: Won't there ever be work? / Girl: The dentist said you shouldn't eat for six hours. / Cat: What's this? / Mouse: Tell me again about the rabbits, George. / [[Cat stuffs a mouse in his mouth.]] / Girl: The best laid plans of Cat and Girl - / Cat: He got away.
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Cat and Girl: A Nation Remembers [[Cat and Girl watch televison.]] / <> / <> / <> / Girl: Well. / Girl: It's been a year now. / Girl: And does it mean anything? / Girl: It means there's nothing on television. / Cat: Don't blame me. I voted for myself.
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Same Old, Same Old Cat and Girl Girl: Another whole year of school. / Grrrl: I hate it already. / [[Cat meets them with an umbrella as it starts to rain.]] / Grrrl: Like that Gary "U.S." Bonds "School is Out," about how glad that made him. / Girl: But his "School Is In" is about how happy he is that - you know. / Girl: Aren't we always looking forward to what we're not doing? / Grrrl: But "School Is In" was just a cynical attempt to replicate the success of "School Is Out." / Girl: It's still a dichotomy. / Grrrl: It's a cash in! / Girl: That's not my point! / Grrrl: That invalidates your point! / Girl: My record collection can beat up your record collection! / [[Girl's eyes bug out. She holds her hand over her mouth.]] / Girl: I'm such a cliche. / Cat: But you're our cliche.
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Sweet Dreams of Cat and Girl [[Cat sits at the kitchen table dreaming of a ham.]] / [[Cat fixes himself a ham sandwich.]] / [[Girl sits at school dreaming of a book.]] / [[Girl sits in a tree house reading.]] / [[Grrrl stands at the bus stop thinking about her guitar.]] / [[Grrrl stands in her bedroom playing guitar.]] / [[Dog stands in a yard, imagining himself standing in a yard.]] / [[Dog stands in a yard.]] / [[Boy imagines sitting with Girl in a tree house.]] / Boy: Do you wanna - / Girl: What? / Boy: Nothing. / [[Boy lies in bed, imagining that he is sitting with Girl in a tree house.]]
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Cat's Wild Party [[Cat turns on the radio.]] / [[He has a drink.]] / [[He gets his head stuck in a bucket of paint. Girl watches from the doorway.]] / [[Cat dances.]] / Girl: What are you doing? What is this mess? / Cat: I'm just trying to have fun without dying. / Cat: It's harder than it looks. / Girl: I guess risk and danger do make you more aware of life. / Girl: So in that sense, death is always a part of fun. / Death: Who wants to play Parcheesi?
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Cat and Girl's Circle of Life [[Girl sits with a cup of coffee reading a book.]] / [[Girl lies in bed at night, dreaming of sitting with a cup of coffee reading a book.]] / [[Girl sits with a cup of coffee reading a book.]] / [[Girl lies in bed at night, dreaming of sitting with a cup of coffee reading a book.]] / [[Girl sits with a cup of coffee reading a book.]] / [[Girl lies in bed at night, dreaming of sitting with a cup of coffee reading a book.]] / [[Girl sits with a cup of coffee reading a book.]] / [[Girl lies in bed at night, dreaming of sitting with a cup of coffee reading a book.]] / [[Girl sits with a cup of coffee reading a book.]] / [[Girl lies in bed at night, dreaming of sitting with a cup of coffee reading a book.]] / [[Girl sit with a cup of coffee reading a book. Cat pokes his head in.]] / Girl: I've been having prophetic dreams.
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Cat names the Planets Girl: You can't put stuff behind glass and expect me to find it relevant. / Girl: Give me disposable culture - the kind that comes with bubblegum. / Cat: The Martian Hop? / Cat: Mars Attacks! / Girl: The scrap heap's the only culture worth saving. / Girl: Incoherent, accidental, glorious trash! / Cat: Men are from Mars. / Cat: Women are from Venus. / Cat: Cats are from Uranus! / [[Cat and Girl stand on the edge of a landfill.]] / Girl: Happy Earth Day. / Cat: Who's from earth?
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Boy's Bad Day <> / [[Boy falls out of bed.]] / <> / [[Boy rips his shirt a he struggles to put it on.]] / <> / [[Boy's lunch falls out of his lunch box.]] / <> / [[Dog runs out the door as Boy leaves his house.]] / <> / [[A car sprays Boy with water.]] / Girl: Hey! / Boy: Whoops! / [[Boy drops his books.]] / [[Boy holds his head in his hands.]] / Boy: Why me? / Girl: Blame Starbucks? / Boy: Yeah, or maybe SUVs.
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Cat and Girl spin their Wheels [[Cat and Girl ride the ferris wheel.]] / Girl: Look at these people. / Girl: They'll believe anything if they don't have to think about it. / Girl: Urban is the new black! / Girl: Gee, that's great! Where can I purchase it? / Cat: What do you believe in? / Girl: I just believe that people ought to make up their own minds - to decide for themselves whether to buy flared jeans or eat organic or vote, to not just take some party line or magazine's recommendation or informal poll of their friends. / Cat: But what do you believe in? / Girl: I don't know.
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Now Cat's Cooking with Gas! [[Cat is at the kitchen counter with ingredients spread out before him. He reads from a book.]] / Cat: Combine in bowl... / [[Cat opens a drawer.]] / [[Cat looks at a cup of vegetables.]] / Vegetables: Don't touch me! / Cat: Huh? / Cat: Why not? / Vegetables: There's been talk of a revolt. / Vegetables: I can give you information. / Vegetables: Names. / Vegetables: Just let me down easy. / Girl: Making vichyssoise again? / Cat: Vichy french fries. / Vegetables: It's the pepper! Take the pepper!
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From the Secret Files of Cat and Girl [[A rumpled piece of paper. Typewritten text.]] / Secret Formula #1A. In the event of death or serious injury, see that these plans are delivered to Agent "Red." The plans are to be followed ad infinitum. / {{Signature}} Dorothy / [[Girl reads a book.]] / Girl: Replace with offhand reference. / Girl: Replace with text resembling social commentary. / Cat: Replace with text resembling social commentary. / Girl: Replace with text resembling social commentary. Give examples. / Girl: Replace with final declaration. / Girl: Replace with punchline. / Cat: Replace with punchline.
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Cat and Girl are Being Watched [[Cat and Girl walk by telephone poles and security cameras.]] / Girl: Everywhere we go we're followed by bar codes and security cameras. / Girl: Not that it matters. / Girl: Not when claiming privacy is considered gauche. When it's an act of snobbery to not answer any stranger's question with what will pass for truth. / Girl: Like having a secret is necessarily shameful, or something. / Girl: And then the flood of tell-all memoirs! / Girl: And sometimes the memoirs make their authors celebrities. / Girl: And what do we do? / Girl: We follow celebrities around with cameras and notepads, demanding to know every last detail of their lives! / Cat: I like security cameras. / Cat: It's like I'm on TV!
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Cat and Girl read the Funny Pages [[Cat sits at the kitchen table reading.]] / Cat: Hee hee! / [[Girl comes in holding her coffee cup.]] / Cat: It's funny. / [[Cat holds up his magazine.]] / Cat: Okay, so this one guy says to another - / Cat: Deep on-seam pockets and two-button through back pockets. 8" inseam! / [[Girl stares.]] / Cat: Ha ha ha. / [[Girl looks closer at what Cat is reading.]] / Girl: That's an L.L.Bean catalog. / Cat: I know. / Cat: Hee hee!
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Cat and Girl sweat the Small Stuff Girl: I made petit fours. / Cat: Yum! / [[Cat bites into one.]] / Cat: Ptthw! / Cat: Ick ick ick! / Girl: They taste fine to me. / Cat: Ick! / Girl: Did you just brush your teeth? / Cat: It was foamy. / Girl: Well, it's that foam that deadens your ability to taste sweetness. But here's where it gets interesting - / Girl: The foam doesn't actually clean your teeth! It's just there because it makes people feel that their teeth are cleaner. So we trade pleasure for theoretical hygeine! / Girl: It's a really elegant metaphor. / Cat: Well, it doesn't help me.
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Cat and Girl are Situationists [[Cat and Girl stand at the base of a statue talking to a lady holding a broom.]] / Cat: Any reasonably aware person of our time is aware of the obvious fact that art can no longer be justified as a superior activity, or even as a compensury activity to which one could honorably devote oneself. / [[Cat and Girl, riding in a canoe, shout out to the people in another canoe.]] / Cat: It is not just returning to the past which is reactionary, even "modern" cultural objectives are ultimately reactionary since they depend on ideological formulations of a past society that has prolonged its death agony to the present. / [[Cat and Girl are crawling through the desert.]] / Cat: The literary and artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes. The mutual interference of two worlds of feeling, or the bringing together of two independent expressions, supercedes the original elements and produces a synthetic organization of greater efficacy - detournement. / [[Cat and Girl walk through a city past girls in sailor outfits.]] / Cat: Such parodic methods have often been used to obtain comical effects. But such humor is the result of contradictions within a condition whose existence is taken for granted. / [[Cat and Girl are on a pirate ship.]] / Cat: The distortions introduced in the detourned elements must be as simplified as possible, since the main impact of a detournment is directly related to the conscious or semiconscious recollection of the original contents of the elements. / [[Cat and Girl are climbing a mountain.]] / Cat: Detournement is less effective the more it approaches a rational reply. / [[Cat talks to a waiter.]] / Cat: Detournement by simple reversal is always the most direct and least effective. / [[Cat holds a map and talks to a polar bear.]] / Cat: Clashing head-on with all social and legal conventions, detournement cannot fail to be a powerful cultural weapon. / [[Cat and Girl sit outside at a cafe.]] / Cat: The cheapness of its products is the heavy artillery that breaks through the walls of understanding. / Girl: Life can never be too disorienting; detournement on a grand scale would really make it beautiful.
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Snack with Cat and Girl [[Cat grabs a bucket of paint from the kitchen cabinet.]] / Girl: You know paint's bad for you, right? / Cat: It tastes so sweet. / Girl: But it'll mess you up in the long run. / Cat: It's still better than boiled cabbage. / Girl: Boiled cabbage might taste like wet tissues, but it's good for me in the long run. / Girl: Stuff that's good or you demands an initial sacrifice, like exercise or hard work. But it eventually pays off - or at least you hope it will. / Girl: Bad stuff gives you the reward up front, and you pay for it later. / Cat: Oh. / Cat: What if I ate the paint while walking backwards?
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Cat and Girl's Photo Album [[Cat, dressed as a cowboy, holds his pistols up at a man dressed as an Indian.]] / [[Cat, dressed as an artist, sits in a dark room.]] / [[Cat, dressed as a rocker, plays guitar.]] / [[Cat and Girl are looking through a photo album.]] / Girl: Hee! / Girl: You look funny in these old pictures. / Cat: Oh yeah? / Cat: Let's look at your pictures. / [[Girl sits at a table reading, coffee by her side.]] / [[Girl sits at a table reading, coffee by her side.]] / [[Girl sits at a table reading, coffee by her side.]] / [[Girl sits at a table reading, coffee by her side.]] / [[Girl sits at a table reading, coffee by her side.]] / Girl: I've wasted my life.
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Cat and Girl Tune In, Turn On and Check Out [[Cat and Girl stand in line at the supermarket.]] / Girl: So Abbie Hoffman's talking about how Howl was the first thing he read that actually spoke to him. / Girl: He's saying how nothing written in the past applied to him. He's like, who cares about the Greeks? / Girl: And - get this - his shirt says Howl Forever! / Girl: You know, like - the Greeks weren't good enough for him, but we're all supposed to worship at this new canon he's created? / Girl: Like past and present are only important concepts in relation to him and his generation? / Cat: Huh? / Girl: God, it's like talking to Helen Keller.
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Cat and Girl Return [[Cat sulks.]] / Cat: Do I have to? / Girl: Oh, come on. / [[Cat and Girl look at a library through the bushes.]] / Cat: I don't know why you like this place so much. / Girl: Libraries are where literature comes alive! / Cat: Oh. / Cat: You mean literally. / Zombie Shakespeare: What dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause. / Zombie Carroll: Twas brillig, and the slithy...brains...
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Cat and Girl stimulate the Economy [[Cat cuts a bookcase in half with a chainsaw.]] / [[Cat and Girl pull a floor lamp apart.]] / [[Cat saws a television in two, while Girl takes a knife to its power cord.]] / [[Girl pulls stuffing out of the couch.]] / [[Cat rummages through the kitchen, spilling food everywhere.]] / [[Girl lights clothes on fire.]] / [[Cat smashes a record player with a sledgehammer.]] / [[Girl throws a computer to the ground.]] / Cat: Who knew planned obsolescence could be so fun?
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Girl's Birthday, Observed [[Cat and Girl walk through a museum. Girl holds a balloon.]] / Cat: I thought you liked museums. / Girl: They're temples to the useless. / Cat: They have posters. Posters are useful! / Girl: Yeah, in 1909 Paris. / Girl: Where these people would've considered them trash. / Girl: Posters didn't get put in museums until they had ceased being an important means of communication. / Cat: There's a motorcycle exhibit. / Girl: Risk-free boomer rebellion. / Cat: Matchbooks? / Girl: Lighters. / Cat: Tattoos? / Girl: Another example where the period of innovation is over and all expression within the medium has become codified. / Girl: King Tut never would've ended up in the British Museum if Egypt had still been a world power. / [[They walk past Cat and Girl comic strips hanging on the walls.]] / Cat: Oh. / Girl: Let's just go home.
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