Rankin Bass' Puss In Boots

I doubt anything from this film would get a cat meme, because this is Rankin Bass’ Puss In Boots.

A teenager boy named Jacque and his cat came to town. What caught the boy’s eyes in the parade is Princess Trophi (OK that’s not her real name, it’s Melody, but that’s what she is, and I need a variety of names for the damsel.) He paid cheaply with one gold coin to a cobbler for new shoes, but the cobbler made a child size shoes. There must have been some magic in those little shoes they bought, for when they placed it on cat’s feet, he became to speak his thought. Thus Tabby the Cat became the Puss In Boots, or Orlando is his real name. Puss In Boots uses his wisdom, luck, and pluck to pretend Jacque to be the Marquise of Carabas. Orlando got to the ogre to for his castle.  

Puss In Boots, at least the cat himself reminds me of Heathcliff, or at least since he exist before Heathcliff’s series exist, in fact, Rankin Bass’ Puss In Boots existed a year before Heathcliff was made into comic form. The closest existing Cartoon Cat I would compare before this film was either Sylvester or Top Cat in terms of the accent and wit.  He’s what makes this special good.

The story is based on the original story of Puss In Boots that this version follows close, a lot closer than the CGI version with William Shatner. Somehow, they both have their human boy hiding naked. (You know, for kids!) Nowadays, when people hear this particular story, they would think Aladdin; the teen boy pretends to be royalty with a supernatural character. Dreamworks Puss In Boots from Shrek 2 would be an upgrade from proto-Heathcliff to Zorro, and by ditching his human. OK, that's quite a stretch since there's many Puss In Boots between this version and Dreamworks version, so later we can judge it through evolution. It would help the characters to have an occupation as a hero/ bounty hunter to be enough to have his own film and TV show. Though upon realizing, Dreamworks’ Puss In Boots wouldn’t work as an ogre hunter since Shrek and Fiona was the only ogre in that film, while questioning where was the other ogre in Shrek 4 Ever? Maybe Puss uses his wit to be a liar that he slayed an ogre, after he left Humpty.

Overall, this is a decent version of the story, and I do recommend this. If you’re not interested in the main human characters, you’ll have a brief fast forward to get to many better parts. If you’re not interested in cat characters, then this is the shortest film for you, mostly dog and people lovers, not counting a Mog.

The next episode is episode 10, The Ballad of Paul Bunyan. Where’s episode 9? I’m saving that for Christmas,