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On this month's Animation Damnation, we just may have reached the nadir of filmed animation as we try to discuss the absolutely abysmal television special, Cathy's Valentine

Originally airing back on February 10, 1989, this is, without question, one of the worst things we've ever watched for this show in AD's entire 10-year run! Is Kathy narcoleptic or is there a gas leak in her house? Why does Irving think re-wiring a stereo is a hot Valentine's Day present? Shouldn't Cathy cut ties with these abhorrent parents? And what is with both of these idiots leaving the house in 1989 without cash in hand? 

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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

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Michael Patrick

Cathy is female Dilbert. No doubt. Somehow, to this day, there is a Cathy-themed ice cream parlor in Orlando. If you guessed that the whole place is shaped like an ice cream carton with a big Cathy swimming in it, you’re right.

Terry

Watching this cartoon made my skin crawl. It's an encapsulation of all the horrible messages about gender roles and relationships I heard growing up. Maybe at the time it was relatable, but this constant drumming on about "I'm a woman, therefore I hate my body and eat too much chocolate and overthink everything and fight with my boyfriend" is both reductive and dismissive and terribly depressing. Media in the 80's and 90's loved to boil everything down to "women are like this, and men are like this" and it's just the worst most insulting garbage. This attitude of "this is just how it is, it's normal, this is what all women are like, not just me and my specific friend group but all women everywhere, universally" just sucks and I hate it.