Underplayed Gems

Bee and PuppyCat (2013)

Bee and PuppyCat poster
Directed by
Larry Leichliter
Genre
comedy television program, fantasy television program
Country
United States
Length
2 seasons, 10 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
8.2 of 10 from 65 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

An unemployed young woman named Bee adopts a strange cat-dog creature she calls PuppyCat. Together they take odd jobs across different worlds to pay her rent.

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What happens

Bee and PuppyCat is an American animated web and television series created and written by Natasha Allegri. The series revolves around Bee (voiced by Allyn Rachel), an unemployed slacker, who encounters a mysterious creature named PuppyCat (voiced by the Vocaloid program Oliver). She adopts this apparent cat-dog hybrid, and together they go on a series of temporary jobs to pay off her monthly rent. These bizarre jobs take the duo across strange worlds out in space. The original series was produced by Frederator Studios with the animation initially outsourced to South Korean studio Dong Woo Animation for episodes 1 to 6, and to Japanese studio OLM for episodes 7 to 10. The series originated with a web pilot in 2013, followed by a Kickstarter-supported first season which was released on YouTube from 2014 to 2016. A second series titled Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space was produced and billed for a 2019 release on VRV, but it was delayed and leaked online in 2020. Netflix later commissioned three additional episodes re-adapting the pilot and first season, and then packaged these along with the Lazy in Space episodes. The complete rebooted series was released on Netflix in 2022. KaBoom! Studios also published a comic book adaptation from 2014 to 2016. On January 4, 2023, Genius Brands announced that they would sell a 50% stake in the series to Toho International, the US-based division of Japanese film studio Toho. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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