Puss n' Boats

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**Puss n' Boats** is the fifth episode of *Fraidy Cat*.

## Synopsis

When Fraidy stows away on a ship, he encounters a group of pirate birds who make him round up food for them.

## Plot

Fraidy is sneaking around boxes in a pier. The cargo is intended to be deported, thus Fraidy states "he should be careful where he sleeps at" becuase his last life. Then, he decides to sleep on the boxes despite his statement. During his slumber, the stow is being lifted up the cargo ship.

Fraidy wakes up, when his sleeping place has been lifted high and loses his grip inside the ship. It turns out, that there are pirate birds inside, led by a green parrot captain named Captain Squeak. The bird commander ask one of his cabin birds, named Sam, what is in the cargo. Sam exclaims there's only yo-yos, roller-skates, and hockey pucks. Captain Squeak replies that there are only bananas and he is sick of them.

Stanley points out a stoaway Fraidy. Captain Squeak ask if Fraidy came here to join. Fraidy wants to find the nearest exit, having realized that they are far from pier. Captain Squeak exclaims that he doesn't allow stoaways in his ship, for he plans to kick Fraidy to the sea by saying that it is time for a bath. Fraidy understands it as the need for maintaining hygiene, so licks his fingers. In an act of anger, Captain Squeak asks Stanley to throw Fraidy out of ship, as Stanley doesn't hesitate on throwing Fraidy through the window,

Fraidy quickly grips the window from the water inhabited by sharks, Fraidy says "tree" which rhymes with "three" summoning Captain Kitt, Fraidy is happy and relief to seet furry captain appearing for his time of need, Captain Kitt assist Fraidy and throws him back to the ship, which causes Fraidy to land on Captain Squeak in the process. Captain Kitt states to be happy helping Fraidy and disappears afterwards.

Before Stanley could throw Fraidy out fo the ship again, Captain Squeak stops him and decide to ask Fraidy to get food but warned by Sam for the captain's guard dog, with Fraidy on the job with him getting the box with fish inside and interuped by the guard dog turns out to be a small non-agreesive dog, name Sweeny, it turns out his eight armed companian Rover the Octopus throwned Fraidy out the room.

Captain Squeak noticed he met Sweeny, as Fraidy wished they warned about him having a pet with eight arms, the number eight summons Hep Cat, who greets Fraidy with his friendly slang, as Sam acknowledges Fraidy's weird friends, as Hep Cat finds cans of sardines that Fraidy left behind, Captain Squeak questions that is Fraidy getting food for himself, as Fraidy declines that he was intentionally, Captain Squeak then insist that Fraidy goes before them as they go together, but before that Hep claims that Captain Squeak is the weirdest bird he ever heard and leaves.

As Fraidy and pirate birds goes inside the room, as Sweeny sees intruders inside the room he is in, he then commands Rover to throw the intruders back to the room, with octopus holding Fraidy, Captain Squeak, and Sam Seagull, too much intruders overwhelms the octopus and is tied up in it's own tenticles, as Captain Squeak tells his crew to grab the boxes of chow as they throw boxes to Fraidy to hold, with Sweeny helping his pet Rover getting untied which he not good at untieing knots, as Fraidy says to him that he'll hope they quit work at 6:00, as Jasper Catdaver is summoned with Fraidy regreting saying "six", Jasper prusumebly mistaken the boxes for coffins and are about his size, Fraidy tell Jasper to don't get any ideas of a potenal coffin, Jasper steals a box a crackers from Captain Squeak, as the green parrot demands for his crackers back, Jasper then gives it to parrot captain squishing him underneath it, as Captain Squeak tells his crew for an attack, as Jasper leaving and hope to see the Fraidy in the "otherside", leaving the timid feline with Captain Squeak and his crew as he couldn't explain to them, he then retreats with his catchphrase "*This kitten is splittin'",* Fraidy being chased by all pirate birds: (Captain Squeak, Stanley, Sam, and Patrick) as Fraidy is on the ladder and is blown off by a foghorn falling to a trampoline and landing around the pier, Fraidy then finds himself under the the porting from the cargo as it is lowing down the pier.

## Characters

* Fraidy Cat (voiced by Alan Oppenheimer)
* Captain Squeak (voiced by Lennie Weinrib)
* Sam Seagull (voiced by Lennie Weinrib)
* Stanley Livingston Seagull (voiced by Lennie Weinrib)
* Patrick Pelican
* Sharks
* Captain Kitt (voiced by Lennie Weinrib)
* Sweeny the Guard Dog
* Rover the Octopus
* Hep Cat (voiced by Lennie Weinrib)
* Jasper Catdaver (debut; voiced by Lennie Weinrib)

## Trivia

* This is the first episode to take place in a setting other than the city.
* Jasper Catdaver, Fraidy's sixth life, debuts in this episode.
* In many home media releases of Fraidy Cat, this episode is often labeled as "The Cat for Hire". The latter is one of the scrapped episodes.
* The running animation of Fraidy, Stanley, Sam, Patrick and Captain Squeak is reused two times during the episode.