Fraidy Cat

Fraidy Cat is an animated series on CTN Kids. It was originally just a segment on Uncle Croc's Block, but ever since it ended, it has also been aired as its own thing.
In 2022, it was announced that the show would be revived, and the first episode aired as a segment on the Adult Swim reboot of Uncle Croc, on March 25,2023. The character also cameoed in CTN Kids: Toontown.
Also see The 9th Life of Sherman Phelps, a segment from the Ricochet anthology show Funpak that shares extreme similarities with this show.
== Plot ==
The show follows the titular Fraidy Cat, an unlucky, miserable cat who is on his 9th and last life, and he wants to make this one last the longest, while everything tries to kill him. To make things even worse, every time he says a number in-between 1 through 8, a ghost of one of his previous lives appears to torture him. These include:
# Elephunt, an overweight prehistoric saber tooth tiger with a caveman motif. He owns a huge pet Brontosaurus named "Ant", which Fraidy often uses as a hiding place in his times of need.
# Kitty Wizard, a befuddled wizard whose magic wand is often on the wrong setting. He is the most troublesome of the ghosts with his goofing up causing Fraidy more hindering than help.
# Captain Kitt is a pirate who is the self-proclaimed "buccaneer's buccaneer". Anything he sees that has value to it or is important he steals, such as keys, and money (which he calls "green printed parchment").
# Sir Walter Cat is a foppish Elizabethan nobleman who is also an expert swordsman. He tends to look out for Fraidy the most and is the most loyal of the spirits.
# Billy the Kit is a western cowboy with a very loud voice, who carries a very problem heavy lasso. His name is a play on Billy the Kid.
# Jasper Catdaver is an undertaker who is Fraidy's cousin and prefers to expedite his passing to the Other Side, though not out of spite. Jasper is ironically the least troublesome of the ghosts.
# Captain Eddie Kittenbacker is a pilot who is a very erratic flier, usually resulting in his plane flying upside-down or sideways. His name is a play on Eddie Rickenbacker, a WWI fighter ace.
# Hep Cat is a zoot-suited jive-talking street cat with a beatnik accent. He actually seems to be the smartest of the lives, often providing assistance to Fraidy.
Whilst accidentally uttering any of the aforementioned numbers gives Fraidy a ghost, saying the number nine materializes Cloud Nine, a malevolent anthropomorphic deific number nine made from a storm cloud. Cloud Nine is always seen trying to electrocute him with his lightning bolts and he can regenerate if he mistakenly electrocutes himself.
== Episodes ==
=== Original series (1975-1976) ===
# "The Not So Nice Mice" (September 6,1975)
# "Cupid and the Cat" (September 13,1975)
# "Over the Wall and Havin' a Ball" (September 20,1975)
# "Feline Fortune" (September 27,1975)
# "Puss 'n' Boats" (October 4,1975)
# "A Scaredy Fraidy" (October 11,1975)
# "Meaner Than a Junkyard Cat" (October 18,1975)
# "Love Is a Many Feathered Thing" (October 25,1975)
# "It's a Dog's Life" (November 1,1975)
# "Choo Choo Fraidy" (November 8,1975)
# "Magic Numbers" (November 15,1975)
# "A Semi-Star is Born" (November 22,1975)
# "Fraidy Gone Fishing" (November 29,1975)
# "Fraidy Come Home" (December 5,1975)
# "Double Trouble" (December 12,1975)
# "Unlucky Fraidy" (December 19,1975)
# "This Cat for Hire" (January 30,1976)
# "Culture Shlock" (February 14,1976)
=== Revival series (2023-present) ===
# "Still Living" (March 25,2023)
# "Fraidy Krueger" (April 8,2023)
# "See No Medieval" (April 29,2023)
# "Hell Kitty" (May 20,2023)
# "Immortal Fraidy" (June 10,2023)
== Broadcast ==
Ever since it ended, it, along with the other Uncle Croc cartoon segments, have aired on Cuboxian television as their own seperate shows many times. Reruns were on Cartoon Network from 1997 to 2002, and then on Boomerang from 2003 to 2008. It also aired on Ricochet around 2001.
Internationally, the show aired on VTV in Venezuela, RTÉ2 in Ireland, Canal+ in France, Super Ecran in French Canada, Junior in Germany, TV2 in Portugal, and it got Finnish and Norwegian VHS releases. The revival shorts, along with the rest of the Uncle Croc reboot, has aired on Adult Swim in Cuboxia, the United States and Canada, and is on HBO Max in Latin America. The show is also streaming on Tubi in the United States, albeit incomplete.
== Trivia ==
* The show has similarities to the Funpak short series The 9th Life of Sherman Phelps and the 2022 DreamWorks movie Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, where all three are about a cat on his 9th and final life with death at every corner and his past 8 lives haunting him.
* A CGI movie was announced in 2011, and was going to be made with DreamWorks, but nothing has come out about it since then, heavily implying that it was scrapped. Rumors say that some elements from the cancelled film were reworked into Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. It also doesn't help that the show is now considered an Adult Swim property, and the movie was going to be aimed at families.