Bee and PuppyCat

[Drunk Monk]

Okay lemme just explain for once. I was searching for Road House 2 but couldn’t find it on any of my streaming platforms, only vudu, and that took a lot of searching. In the end, I was staring at this anime(?) because Netflix was pushing it hard on me. It’s classified as surrealism and claims to be mildly psychedelic (if that makes any sense at all)

I think that this is what those middle aged women see when they do too much Brie wrapped xtc. It’s a trip. It bounces back from cutesy quip-laden cartoon to some strange imagery like a giant baby’s head that cries a moon-sized tear globe from which a double-mouthed demon with spike tentacles emerges and wraps puppycat with twin tongues so bee has to use her magic collar bell to summon a sword but she doesn’t use it correctly so she bites the tongues off instead. All in cutesy pastel anime.

Not sure how into it I am, but I’m 2 eps deep (eps are short like 24 mins). I may watch more. Jury is still out on this…

[Drunk Monk]

this really needs a trailer...

[Drunk Monk]

e3 - wtah? what was that episode about? what even happened?!? 

puppycat is a big ass man? and bee is a bot?!? 

i thought i was tracking this but clearly i need more mdma wrapped in brie...

[Drunk Monk]

Watched another ep. This show packs a lot in short episodes, but when you’re free from the constraints of Euclid and logic, you can more much quicker from place to place.

It’s oddly comforting despite being so alien - almost like teletubbies but darker and wittier. I find myself stepping back thinking ‘wait … what? where are we now?’

Turns out Tara has watched this all the way through. She initially watched it haphazardly because she was streaming it off some random source, then went back for it and watched it chronologically to see if it made more sense that way. She said it does not.

[Drunk Monk]

E5: I’m going to go out on a limb here and D00M recommend this episode because it’s off the rails. My only qualifier is that if you do bother to watch it, know that the previous 4 eps do little to give this context. Maybe it’s the shingles shot affecting my brain (my shoulder feels like it was hit with a cinder block).

[Greg]

Shingles shots are the worst. Shingles is still much, much worse.

[Drunk Monk]

Indeed. Last night was rough. So achy. I had to get up to pee and went into chills afterwards. Had to just huddle under the blankets and ride it out. 

I feel a little better this morning. Still achy but I’ll struggle through Kung Fu to get some circulation going. Glad I did yoga yesterday to keep the old joints lubricated. 

The shooter said that this was the last time I’d ever have to take a shingles shot. I’m not sure if she meant the shots were good for life or if she thought I wouldn’t live to whenever they expire. I guess that’s sort of the same thing…

[Drunk Monk]

E6 made more sense in that the story was more linear. Perhaps I’m starting to understand this show more. Or perhaps I’ve just given up and am flowing with it. It is oddly comforting.

[Drunk Monk]

E7: RE: my previous post, yes I am just flowing with it. I was thinking throughout this ep that everything is fine and it all makes sense but upon reflection, a day when all the seasons play out on the island? A racetrack planet? What’s more - a racetrack planet where an old racer is racing against his former selves hoping to beat his best time when he cheated?

[Drunk Monk]

E8 - the midpoint was a bit of a magical girl homage (the magical girl subgenre of anime is exemplified with Sailor Moon). Bee & PuppyCat help their neighbor toss the magical globes that the neighbor has been harvesting from her garden into the ocean but a rude cricket calls PuppyCat ugly and PuppyCat tries to stomp it but the ground is soft and the cricket is hard so PuppyCat chases the cricket into on of thr bags of globes only to be tossed in the ocean where the cricket can’t breathe and PuppyCat gets entangled in the globes flower vines to imagine himself as a cosmic outlaw candy hunter. Or maybe it’s all a dream? It doesn’t matter. I’ve given up on trying to find any logic behind these tales. Its just random stream of consciousness ideas and soothing as such.

[Drunk Monk]

E9 this one had some continuity with the previous where Bee messed up her bike. It was going along coherently until they undertook a mission to the vacation planet that was crazy psychedelic. That started out weird and just kept getting weirder. I loved it.

[Drunk Monk]

E10: Bee’s birthday and she just wants cakes hidden everywhere so PuppyCat obliges. Cardamom the kid landlady breaks down because she can’t deal with the fear bubbles from the princess in a coma (her puppy Sticky is engaged to PuppyCat according to her). They go to the boarded up arcade which Bee turns on with a kiss. Then Bee & PuppyCat go to the dishwashing planet for a job. They use the tears to terraform the planet and their hire-er is so pleased it pays extra (not sure what it was - sort of a monitor that splits in half to reveal like a dozen randomly placed eyes - it also has gangly arms that wash dishes alarmingly fast). Puppycat’s hidden cake finale is ruined by the rain but Bee still gorges down on it happily. There’s one remaining gift - a time bomb - but Bee is still outside eating the rain melted cake so PuppyCat deactivates it. 

This was one of the more coherent eps. I still stand by my initial recommendation that you should just watch e5 to get a taste of the weird.

[Drunk Monk]

E11 So much for coherence. PuppyCat steals Bee’s diary for his own and starts eating floor salad which makes his body mutate into like a worm, then tentacles, then wings, then bloating into a giant… there were more. He returns to normal if he is burped. Bee consults her friend Cas who spills a drink on her laptop and is then attacked by pregnant Toast, who always wear boxing gloves and is looking to fight. Toast ties Cas to a chair and tosses her into a garbage truck which dumps her on a garbage trough and heads out to sea. Meanwhile Bee & PuppyCaf are sent on a mission to clean up foliage on the nursery planet along with other operatives where they meet a telepathic snail who refuses to pay them, but Bee does it anyway. The snail reads the mind of another operative and reveals that he only thinks about taxes and pooping. He confesses he has to go and runs off. PuppyCat eats curled noodle poop and bloats to humungous proportions, too big to get through the gateway so they are stuck on the planet. Meanwhile Cas breaks free with the help of a seagull. She smothers her gag in trash food which the bird eats, cutting her gag tape. She builds a trash raft and is bummed that her first kiss is the bird. The bird sits on her head as she rows back to the island. Bee finishes the weeding and PuppyCat burps returning to normal size so they can go home but they don’t get paid. Cas meets them there and is bummed that her first kiss was with a bird, but Bee says it doesn’t count because birds don’t have lips. Cas is relieved and leaves with the bird still on her head until Sticky the dog snatched it and puts it in his bird prison. But Cardamom tells Sticky ‘no’ and releases all the birds.

I wrote this out to see if it made more sense written. Not really. There’s a lot of details that I’m skipping over like the mysterious black hands that sprout after the first weeding.

[cranefly]

I've found that if you read the lines of your description out of order, it starts making sense.

But White should always be read last...  Or am i getting some threads mixed up?

[Greg]

Nope. Spot on, CF.