Post by Admin on Jan 25, 2018 9:51:51 GMT
Examples and Subversions
1) The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries used this kind of joke in the episode "Fifty Karat Furball" when Tweety offers to help Sylvester get the I of Istanbul out of his stomach and tries to assure him by saying he'll be fixed in no time. Sylvester panics at the mention of "fixed", which causes Tweety to acknowledge that he used a very poor choice of words.
2) In a Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons (that I mentioned before), when Scratchy falls in love with Snowball II, Marge decides that Scratchy will have to be neutered, to which he reacts appropriately.
Scratchy: You're beautiful.
Marge: Aww, somebody's in love. That means you have to be neutered.
Scratchy: Noooooooooooo!!!
3) In the Abridged Series None Piece, Luffy mentions this about Django attempting to spay and neuter cats.
4) Subverted in Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal where Charles Darwin keeps telling a cat to "eat, f***, fight!" until he gets neutered and stops listening.
Darwin: "But... if you don't have me, you don't have a purpose in life... so..."
Fat, lazy Cat: "Sooooo haaaapppy."
5) In Faux Pas, Kira the cat ran off and lived at the zoo for a few weeks after she heard her owners talking about getting her fixed. But, she later confesses that she was spayed pre-adoption and just doesn't want her numerous "friends" to think she's too domesticated.
6) This was Garfield's initial reason for dreading the vet — his uncle Bernie went there once and came back as his aunt Bernice.
7) A Robot Chicken skit has Garfield on a parody of The Biggest Loser wanting to lose weight so he can lick his balls. When he does, he finds that Jon "Monday'ed" them.
8) In Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Salem (a human warlock turned talking cat) tells Sabrina that she shouldn't kiss the guy she likes because he'll turn into a frog. She responds with: "Fine. I won't kiss Harvey. But if you're lying, I promise that you will be neutered. Slowly."
9) Spayed and neutered cats in The Book of Night with Moon are treated essentially as they have no biological sex by other cats. Played with in that most cat wizards are altered. Rhiow, at least, considers this something of a blessing, as it means she's never been distracted by estrus.
10) In the first Warrior Cats novel when Rusty/Fireheart first meets the Clan cats they warn him to leave the "twolegs" before they have him "cut". Later he meets one of his old friends who has become fat and lethargic and concludes that he had been cut.
11) The cats in Tailchaser's Song regard neutering as a demeaning violation humans visit upon cats for inexplicable reasons. One previously energetic and affectionate female becomes sluggish and aloof after having it done to her. According to the cats' legends, neutering can even make a tomcat all but indistinguishable from a female.
12) A crazy cat lady finds a genie in a bottle, and asks for wealth, fame, and to turn her cat into Prince Charming. The genie complies and disappears, but as she starts to flirt with the prince, he says "Bet you must really regret having me neutered now".
Most examples of this trope treat the subject of neutering, the fact that no animal subjected to this procedure has consented to it, the breach of trust that this procedure creates, and that many animals, including cats, may fear it being done on them as just a joke when this procedure should be taken more seriously.
1) The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries used this kind of joke in the episode "Fifty Karat Furball" when Tweety offers to help Sylvester get the I of Istanbul out of his stomach and tries to assure him by saying he'll be fixed in no time. Sylvester panics at the mention of "fixed", which causes Tweety to acknowledge that he used a very poor choice of words.
2) In a Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons (that I mentioned before), when Scratchy falls in love with Snowball II, Marge decides that Scratchy will have to be neutered, to which he reacts appropriately.
Scratchy: You're beautiful.
Marge: Aww, somebody's in love. That means you have to be neutered.
Scratchy: Noooooooooooo!!!
3) In the Abridged Series None Piece, Luffy mentions this about Django attempting to spay and neuter cats.
4) Subverted in Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal where Charles Darwin keeps telling a cat to "eat, f***, fight!" until he gets neutered and stops listening.
Darwin: "But... if you don't have me, you don't have a purpose in life... so..."
Fat, lazy Cat: "Sooooo haaaapppy."
5) In Faux Pas, Kira the cat ran off and lived at the zoo for a few weeks after she heard her owners talking about getting her fixed. But, she later confesses that she was spayed pre-adoption and just doesn't want her numerous "friends" to think she's too domesticated.
6) This was Garfield's initial reason for dreading the vet — his uncle Bernie went there once and came back as his aunt Bernice.
7) A Robot Chicken skit has Garfield on a parody of The Biggest Loser wanting to lose weight so he can lick his balls. When he does, he finds that Jon "Monday'ed" them.
8) In Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Salem (a human warlock turned talking cat) tells Sabrina that she shouldn't kiss the guy she likes because he'll turn into a frog. She responds with: "Fine. I won't kiss Harvey. But if you're lying, I promise that you will be neutered. Slowly."
9) Spayed and neutered cats in The Book of Night with Moon are treated essentially as they have no biological sex by other cats. Played with in that most cat wizards are altered. Rhiow, at least, considers this something of a blessing, as it means she's never been distracted by estrus.
10) In the first Warrior Cats novel when Rusty/Fireheart first meets the Clan cats they warn him to leave the "twolegs" before they have him "cut". Later he meets one of his old friends who has become fat and lethargic and concludes that he had been cut.
11) The cats in Tailchaser's Song regard neutering as a demeaning violation humans visit upon cats for inexplicable reasons. One previously energetic and affectionate female becomes sluggish and aloof after having it done to her. According to the cats' legends, neutering can even make a tomcat all but indistinguishable from a female.
12) A crazy cat lady finds a genie in a bottle, and asks for wealth, fame, and to turn her cat into Prince Charming. The genie complies and disappears, but as she starts to flirt with the prince, he says "Bet you must really regret having me neutered now".
Most examples of this trope treat the subject of neutering, the fact that no animal subjected to this procedure has consented to it, the breach of trust that this procedure creates, and that many animals, including cats, may fear it being done on them as just a joke when this procedure should be taken more seriously.