Earl the Cat

**Earl the Cat** is a downloadable office assistant for Microsoft Office 97. It was created by Microsoft in 1997, but it later became a MSAgent v1.0 character some time later.

Earl also starred in his own Reversi game entitled "Earl's Reversi" (aka NetSage Reversi).

## Office 97 Biography

*"Use Earl to relieve your Office headaches. Recommended adult dose should not exceed 8 hours per day."*

## Appearance

Earl is a blue anthropomorphic cat with a beige tummy and a black nose.

## Animations

Earl had wacky and cartoony animations, unlike other Microsoft Office assistants. While the original Earl the Cat office assistant had more animations, the Microsoft Agent version of him had less, which are:

* Appear
* Begging
* ByeBye
* Champion
* Confused
* Crying
* Disappear
* Dying
* Fighting
* IdiotUser
* Idle(blink)
* Idle(Hacky Head)
* Idle(Pogo)
* Idle(scratch)
* Idle(sniffs himself)
* Idle(tailwag)
* Idle(turns body to screen)
* Idle(turns head to screen)
* Indifferent
* MazMove
* MazMove(old)
* MazMoveReturn
* Nervous
* Pogo
* RestPose
* Scared
* Scratch
* Shocked
* Sniffs
* Tailwag
* Thinking1
* ThumbsUp
* Waiting
* WaitingLong
* Winning

## Earl the Cat on Brian Coukis

On March 24, 2020, Brian made a video showcasing most of Earl's animations using MASH (Microsoft Agent Scripting Helper).

He made his first drawing of Earl the Cat on that same day. He also made more fanart of him later on, showing that Brian is a fan and loves Earl the Cat.

Just a day later, he did a playthrough video of the aforementioned Reversi game, starring Earl the Cat as the computer player.

On that same day, He also made a video of what he thinks of Earl the Cat.

Brian is also making an animated dance video about Earl known as Earl's Boogie, which features him dancing to the Windows 98 commercial music (aka Ludwig's Boogie).

On April 1, 2020, Brian made an April Fools joke video stating that Earl the Cat will be getting his own TV series known as "Earl's Wonderful World" that would premiere on Nickelodeon in the USA and YTV in Canada, among other networks, on September 2020. It was supposed to be about the wacky adventures of Earl and his friends in a fictional city called Meowville. However, it was only an April Fools joke.

On May 20, 2020, Brian got a plush doll of Earl the Cat from Budsies and reviewed it on his YouTube channel Brian Coukis.

His plush of Earl the Cat appeared at the end of his Microsoft Agent Animations video showing Leo's animations, where he says "Wow! Leo was so cool!", with Brian voice acting him.

On December 23, 2020, he, along with Power Pup, were two of Brian's plush dolls that watched Nature Cat: A Nature Carol with him.

Earl, along with Power Pup will be featured as some of the last visitors in the 6th installment of the Scary Logos Theater series on Brian Coukis' YouTube channel on February 2022.

## Trivia

* There is another Microsoft character also named Earl, a surfboarding alien that was mostly used as a Windows XP search companion. It could be possible he replaced Earl the Cat.
* Along with Scribble and Links, Earl is the second Microsoft character that is a cat.

## Gallery

A high quality remake of Earl the Cat's rest pose, re-made by Brian Coukis in November 2020.