The Lucky Cat Car

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## **Guide**

"**The Lucky Cat Car**" is the 6th episode of Season 2 of *Infinity Train* and the 16th episode overall. It aired on January 8, 2020.

## Synopsis

MT and Jesse enter a carnival car and have to compete for the exit.

## Plot

The group find themselves in a car with a giant Lucky Cat. Upon entering it, they find themselves at a carnival visited by other car passengers. They run into the Cat who tells them that they have to play for the exit and that only one person can leave once a month. However, if they get a combined score of 1000 points, both MT and Jesse can leave. They play against a mysterious masked gamer and quickly learn that Jesse unfairly gets more points than MT due to being a passenger, while MT is not. Jesse reveals that he does not want to leave without MT, causing his number to go down to 4. They get distracted by Alan Dracula wanting the fake grass in a crane game and eventually trapping himself inside to eat it. Although the duo was able get enough tickets first, once they retrieved Alan Dracula, they find that the gamer has taken this opportunity to get the door, who turns out to be a girl named Grace, who has a big number on her arm. She has several kids enter the car to ransack the place and then invites Jesse and MT to hang out with her in the next car, to which they agree.

## Features

### Characters

* Mirror Tulip
* Jesse Cosay
* Alan Dracula
* The Cat
* Nancy (cameo)
* Khaki Bottoms (cameo)
* Greige (cameo)
* Terrance
* Randall
* Tiny Wizard
* Turtle Person (cameo)
* Cardigan Welsh Corgi (cameo)
* Frank (debut)
* Goblins (debut)
* Badger People (debut)
	+ Arnold (debut)
* The Apex (debut)
	+ Grace Monroe

### Locations

* Wasteland (not fully seen)
* Infinity Train
	+ Lucky Cat Car (debut)

## Trivia

* The number 4 on Jesse's hand is a reference to the fact that there are only 4 episodes left in this particular season.
	+ A similar reference was used during the previous season in "The Chrome Car."
* **End tag:** M.T. looking at her reflection in her hand while on board the Infinity Train.

### Continuity

* The Toad from "The Toad Car" is named Terrance. Apparently that wasn't his name in that episode.
* Various characters from Book One make return appearances in this episode, including Nancy, Khaki Bottoms, Greige, Randall, a Tiny Wizard, and a Turtle Person.
* Grace was first hinted at in the finale of Book One, "The Engine," where a monitor in the engine showed her image as well as her extremely high number.
* In the background of the scene with Terrance, there is a stand for the "Hey Ho Whoa Toss."

### Behind the scenes

* Supervising director Madeline Queripel stepped in to do the storyboards for this episode when Sofia Alexander had to leave the storyboarding team to work on her own show, *Onyx Equinox*.
* Jesse’s explanation for why red blood cells are shaped like innertubes is completely incorrect, and was in fact googled by episode writer Lindsay Katai to ensure it was wrong. Owen Dennis’ wife, who is a scientist, chemistry teacher, and doctor, expressed annoyance that the show was spreading disinformation about science in Jesse’s explanation of red blood cells. Dennis’ defense was that M.T. and Jesse aren’t very smart.
* The team were excited for the chance to feature the Cat in a different outfit and in a different situation, something they wanted to do every season.
	+ They also expressed amusement at being able to get Kate Mulgrew as the Cat to say the line “buzzo-toot.”
* Khaki Bottoms originally had a much larger role in this episode where he served as the Cat's assistant. According to Lindsay Katai, the Cat would have offered him up to M.T. and Jesse in exchange for tickets. M.T. would have asked how much he costs, to which Khaki would have replied "I'm not for sale, I'm priceless!" "He's negotiable," the Cat would have retorted. Katai was very attached to this bit, which had to be trimmed for time.
* Jesse's line about attending a pow wow with his family at the county fair was actually recorded by his voice actor Robbie Daymond during production on Book Four's episode "The Old West Car", and inserted into this episode in post-production. It is the only time in the series that Jesse's Native American heritage is directly acknowledged, as Cartoon Network executives largely refused to allow the writers to confirm it on the show.
* At one point during the very early planning stages the plot would have included a moment where Alan Dracula gets stuck on a roller coaster.
* There was a deleted scene where M.T. gets mad at a monstrous tusked denizen running a booth for not acknowledging her win. The denizen would claim he's on break, and then hang an "On Break" sign on one of his tusks.
* At one point M.T. puts a hand on her arm while blushing. This gesture was boarded by Madeline Queripel and is essentially her attempt to get back at *Regular Show* creator J.G. Quintel: during an episode of *Regular Show*, Queripel had Mordecai make a similar gesture, only for Quintel to tell her it was too "feminine."
* Despite the Cat's cutthroat nature, Lindsay Katai thinks it is telling that the Cat 1) lets M.T. and Jesse combine scores and 2) has the scores weighted so passengers can get out quicker.

### Error

* During the episode's premiere on Cartoon Network, a brief shot (Greige playing a DDR-parody) included an editor's timer by mistake. The error was removed in re-runs, but as of November 2020 is still present in the version of the episode released on iTunes/Apple TV.

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Book 2 DVD Commentary: "The Lucky Cat Car"
2. ↑ "Khaki Bottoms: I never officially wrote for Khaki Bottoms, but like @heyjustin mentioned, there was a draft where he was the Cat’s assistant in The Lucky Cat Car where’s she willing to trade him to Jesse and Lake for tickets. Lol."
3. ↑ Owen Dennis shares the story of the extra line.

Infinity Train (pilot)

**Book One**
The Grid Car • The Beach Car • The Corgi Car • The Crystal Car • The Cat's Car • The Unfinished Car • The Chrome Car • The Ball Pit Car • The Past Car • The Engine

**Minisodes**
The Green Car • The Tiny Wizard Car • The Kaiju Car • The Tech Support Car • The Snow Car • The Hill Car • The Movie Theater Car • The Cross-Eyed Ducks Car • The Minecart Car • The Wedding Cake Car

**Book Two**
The Black Market Car • The Family Tree Car • The Map Car • The Toad Car • The Parasite Car • **The Lucky Cat Car** • The Mall Car • The Wasteland • The Tape Car • The Number Car

**Book Three**
The Musical Car • The Jungle Car • The Debutante Ball Car • Le Chat Chalet Car • The Color Clock Car • The Campfire Car • The Canyon of the Golden Winged Snakes Car • The Hey Ho Whoa Car • The Origami Car • The New Apex

**Book Four**
The Twin Tapes • The Iceberg Car • The Old West Car • The Pig Baby Car • The Astro Queue Car • The Party Car • The Art Gallery Car • The Mega Maze Car • The Castle Car • The Train to Nowhere