Let The Games Begin

Let The Games Begin
Let the Games Begin
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Season	1
Written by	Michael Lahay
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"Let The Games Begin" is the 1st episode of Kid vs. Kat and the 1st episode of Season 1. It aired on May 21, 2001 with Night Of The Zombie Kat.

Plot Summary

In a town called Bootsville is where an average everyday kid named Coop lives, but when a new evil alien cat named Kat appears, Coop's entire life gets turned upside-down after his sister Millie thinks it would be a fun idea to have an alien for a pet. That alien becomes Coop's mortal enemy.

Synopsis

The cartoon opens with a black silhouette (clearly belonging to a cat) between a small forest, leading to the Burtonburgers' yard. While playing softball, Coop sees for a second the feline, but he doesn't care. His sister Millie complains that her older brother doesn't throw her the ball, so the children's father, Burt, tells Coop to throw the ball. Coop mocks Millie by throwing the ball ridiculously gently to her, and as a payback, Millie throws Coop the ball very strongly into the woods behind him, and her brother has to retrieve the ball. When he does it, he encounters the cat again, but the feline's hissing scares the boy, who runs to his dad screaming. Millie follows the cat, and she asks Burt if they could keep the feline because she thinks he's cute. Despite this, Coop clearly doesn't want her to keep him, so he puts up flyers in the entire neighborhood with a picture of the " lost kitty, " only for them to be destroyed by the newly named "Mr. Kat", who seems to like living at his home. Shortly afterwards, Coop receives many people who have come to see if Kat belongs to anyone of them, but everybody gets scared (even a dog, whom Coop recommends to eat the feline).

Later, while Coop tries to get his ball from Old Lady Munson's yard after Millie threw it there earlier, his sister and the cat go on a " safari " and the old woman meets Mr. Kat while trying to catch Coop after she found him. Back to the house, Coop finds that Kat drew him smashed by a giant rock, and shows his father the picture while freaking out. Millie says that Kat couldn't have drawn that picture because he's a cat (even though she immediately believes Kat drew the picture of himself running away in a later episode). Disbelieving him, Burt sends Coop to his room.

At the following day, Old Lady Munson is horrified that she doesn't see "Tom Tolders" (one of her gnomes), and she pays another visit to the family, as some footsteps end there. When Coop wakes up, he finds a giant rock above him (like in Kat's drawing) and he jumps out of bed to avoid being crushed. Kat apparently took Munson's confiscated toys and gnomes and put them in Coop's closet, where they get found by the neighbor. Shortly afterwards, Coop finds that Kat took his left shoe to frame him. The episode ends when Kat leaves and Coop is trapped by the ropes, and Coop says that it's game on.

Notes

• Originally used as the pilot episode for the series.
• The first appearances of Mr. Kat, Coop, Millie and Burt Burtonburger and Old Lady Munson.
• Some of the scenes of the short were used later as part of the opening titles and posters Coop puts up. In the end, Kat is kept in the family, causing all sorts of problems for Coop.

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Overview

Coop Meets Kat

Millie meets Mr Kat

Coop tries to find Mr Kat's owners

We find out Kat is an alien

Kat's strange collar is destroyed

We meet Old Lady Munson

Coop tries to get his baseball back from Old Lady Munson's shed