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#10 Planet Kate
Season 1, Episode 13a
Planet Kate is the longest short we've looked at so far, that's right it's 11 minutes instead of 7. So a more standard length of non 22 minute cartoon series. This was the part of the season 1 finale. Created by Jamie Mitchell. It is interesting how this one is longer by 4 minutes, there must have been something they had planned for this, but not in our timeline apparently.
This one even has a theme song intro, so something was happening. It takes place in the desert there's a girl named Kate talking to her mom as she's frantically looking for her map, which was a homework assignment. Kate is voiced by Shayna Fox, whom was the voice of Reggie on "Rocket Power" that's why I had to tell you that, if you hear her voice and wonder huh? familiar. She goes to look for her dog named Toby and she talks to us to say that alien dogs have arrived she hasn't told her parents about them. Apparently the dogs are there to dig up to find the lost city of dogs.
For the alien dogs they got the voice actors of Billy West, Maurice LaMarche, Cree Summer , Nancy Cartwright. Stacked wow! Yes, the dogs do have her map assignment. They come back down to Earth with her dog with them as well. Anyway, she figures out that they are using her map to find the hidden city, the twist was the map wasn't a real thing, it was just for her assignment.
The alien dog group is sad that this was all for not, during their sadness they reveal a second half to the map, which is on a rock structure they dug up and it's apparently more map and some how Kate's map fits with the half they found.
They take her homework again, now realizing that by change it might be real. She takes Toby with her and leaves them be, and we get the three saddest words ever, "To be Continued"
That's right , there's a To be continued. Now I'm sad. First off this was a great start, there's an idea of this lost city of dogs being searched by aliens, they have a hook with the map proving to maybe be real, and the characters seem interesting. The style also kind of reminds me of "Hey Arnold" crossed with "All Real Monsters" which is not a sentence I expected to write. Kate does look a little like Arnold's relative in some way.
I do wonder if Nickelodeon had bigger ideas for this one but then something fell through, that's sad, the to be continued line kind of hurts, I would like to see more. It was a fun short to watch, it was engaging. So yeah I did really like this one and now wish I could go to a parallel world where this was a series. If you are alright with a little pain of watching something you know doesn't have more, then check this one out for the curiosity at least or to lament at what we could have had.
That's it for now, tune in next time when we see what our parallel universe blog is writing about instead.
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