Choo Choo Fraidy

**Choo Choo Fraidy** (also known as "**Choo Choo"**) is the tenth episode of *Fraidy Cat*.

## Synopsis

After stowing away on a freight train, Fraidy winds up in a desert. Thirsty, he encounters different animals including a buzzard (who is a friend of Jasper) named Ruth Buzzard, a coyote named Smile E. Coyote, a cougar, a prairie dog and a circus lion.

## Plot

Fraidy finally finds a good place to sleep for the night - a train cart. While Fraidy is asleep, the train then starts up, and heads from the city to the desert.

Fraidy wakes up noticing it's windy, but its really the train moving as he panics to notice the train is going in a tunnel, calling it a "low bridge", he tries to escape it from falling into a "acme green ink" cart to a "acme chicken farm" cart. He jumps off of the rear cart, and lands on the tracks. He sees in a differnet enviorment, to realizing he is in the desert, After a moment, Fraidy gets thirsty and exclaims that he wouldn't last "six" minutes here, he says "six" that summons Jasper Catdaver, he greets that he would only last "six" seconds, he taunts Fraidy by drinking a glass of water, merely any water left, Fraidy begs for it, Jasper gives him the drop the remaining water for it to dry before making to Fraidy's tounge, Jasper points out how dry it is out here.

He spots and calls his friend, Ruth the Buzzard, she drops in to greet her old freind, Jasper. She noticed Fraidy as Jasper says that his cousin, Fraidy, he asks Ruth to help Fraidy find a nearby water source, she accepts and then lead them to a lake that resembles a skull-and-crossbones. Smiley E. Coyote disturbs the peace with his howling, Ruth notices that he is in her terriotory, she flies up to confront him, Smile E. howls again that hurts Ruth ears and causes her to fall down, Jasper then leaves. Smilely meets up to Fraidy and asks him to join in lunch but Fraidy declines. Smiley then leaves Fraidy in the dust to chases a fat roadrunner while the bird is jogging.

Fraidy then looks for water and falls into the water tank. Once inside, he says "one" and summons Ant and Tinker Elephunt the Cave Cat. Ant drinks up the entire lake, and afterwards the prehistoic ghosts lead Fraidy to a storm cloud. Ant blows the cloud to Fraidy but a bunch of cacti drink water from the cloud. A cougar finds Ant and Tinker and finding him a deliocous lunch, Elephunt notices the cougar and disappears before the cougar had any ideas.

The cougar (who has a voiced modeled after Senator Claghorn) finds Fraidy and thinking of devouring him, before Fraidy successfully convinces him that he's a cougar (or cat) like him, The cougar is joyed to meet a fellow cougar and wants Fraidy to do a roar! as Fraidy is unable to do so, the cougar questions if he was a cougar, Fraidy response that he's a "young cougar", the cougar ask Fraidy to prove it by catching a praire dog.

The cougar pats his feet patiently, as Fraidy is searching for a praire dog in a hole, Fraidy come back to the surface to say that he isn't home, the cougar says that praire dog is in there, Fraidy exclaims that the praire dog "is five feet under" that accidentally summons Billy the Kitt (as the cougar disappers offscreen) Fraidy finds a praire dog that gets in his head,

Billy accuse that Fraidy of being a gopher rustler, he ask the praire dog if it was true, the little rodent shakes his head vertically, Billy uses his cowboy rope to dangle Fraidy, locking Fraidy inside an abandoned circus truck he leaves him. Fraidy being relief after encountering varies wild animals, A circus lion (that is also in the circus truck with Fraidy) is considering to eat Fraidy, but the latter uses his unexpected strength to open the cells and runs away before he can do it. The protagonist flees into the desert and then the cartoon ends.

## Characters

* Fraidy Cat
* Jasper Catdaver
* Ruth Buzzard
* Smile E. Coyote
* Jogging Roadrunner
* Cougar
* Prairie Dog
* Billy the Kit
* Circus Lion

## Trivia

* Jasper Catdaver is seen to be friends with Ruth Buzzard.
* Smile E. Coyote and the Jogging Roadrunner are both parodies of Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner.
* The cougar's voice is modeled after Senator Claghorn.
* The episode title is either mistaken or intentionally called "Choo Choo".
* It is unknown where the cougar disappeared after Billy the Kitt is summoned, he assumed to be scared away by the earthequake from Billy's summoning.

### Goofs

* When Smiley appears with Fraidy for the first time, Fraidy's hand and elbow are drawn not connected to the rest of his body.