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Dot recites her interpretation of "Jack Be Nimble" called "Ode to Jack:" "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jumped over the candlestick and burnt his butt."
The Fountain in the Park and Shoo Fly are the BGM.
Smitten with Kittens
Animation by Wang
Plot
At a French Restaurant, a kind lady is giving treats to Rita and Runt, who are hiding under a table. Rita and Runt’s cover gets blown when Runt steals a sheet. In the alley, Rita and Runt hide in a garbage pail.
Runt sees three pairs of eyes stare at them from the darkness, which turns out to be some stray kittens. Runt, thinking they’re puppies, is quick to father them, while Rita is extremely hesitant about being their “mother” and tries pushing them away. Eventually, she decides to get them food while Runt watches the kittens. She goes to the restaurant she and Runt hid in earlier and is abducted by the Head Chef. Fortunately, the lady rescues her.
The lady returns Rita to Runt. While she meets the kittens, Rita and Runt hide. Surprised that they disappeared, the lady correctly assumes Rita and Runt always planned to part ways with the kittens once they found them a home. She adopts the kittens and leaves. Runt is left in tears at first to see the "puppies" leave, and he and Rita go to take shelter from the incoming rain. But when Rita corrects Runt that the "puppies" were actually cats, Runt starts to get defensive, looking for any nearby cats to fight.
Pinky and the Brain made a cameo appearance, popping out of a trash can
Queenie is a parody of Ruth Gordon's character from the film Harold and Maude.
Runt says Rita is "a mama with a family" like Vicki Lawrence (who played the title character in the sitcom Mama's Family), Meredith Baxter (who was going by Meredith Baxter-Birney at the time) and Roseanne.
Yakko, with Mr. Skullhead playing the skull of Yorick, does the "Alas, poor Yorick" soliloquy from Shakespeare'sHamlet, while Dot "translates" for the viewers at home. In the background, Wakko keeps digging a big hole and finds interesting things, including Cher, and the next cartoon.
This marks the first time one of the Waner's bare hands were shown.
Goofs
Wakko's lips don't move when he says, "I lose more gloves that way," a possible indication that the line was dubbed in after the animation was finished.
Quotes
Wakko: Tomorrow I'll play the xylophone! With my butt!