Shark Bytes

Eek! The Cat never lost it in the 1992-1994 years. When the Thunderlizards came in 1993, they brought MORE quality to Eek! The Cat. In 1994, when Eek! Stravaganza came (and the co-creator Bill Kopp leaving), Eek! and TTL slowly simmered down with the same jokes, and new characters, but still good. Then, in the 1995 year, Klutter was introduced, and made Eek! even LESS watchable (Pup Fiction, The Magnificent 5 1/2, Octopussy Cat, Valley of The Dogs, Lizard Of Aaaahs, It's A Thunderful Life, The GraduEek
, Eek Space
9 and The Thunder Of It All was good), and in 1996, Eek! was canceled, due to low ratings, with a big handful of remanding episodes in 1997.

One of the best cartoons ever made, the "It never hurts to help" was a great running gag. Star Treek, and the one where the new neighbor tries to seduce Eek away from Annabelle were classics.

The episode mentioned below is one of my all time favs.
Fido (aka the Devil) commands Eek to perform 'impossible' tasks including one:
"This is the terrible realm of.......er, this is the happy valley of soft fuzzy pink things.....that are nice!'

The show is still hysterical to watch 10 years after it's conception and I hope a DVD collection will make it's way on the market soon!

MELVIS! Eek goes to Hell because he was holding another cat's place in line (and made a game out of cleaning the infernal litter box). Jonathan and Wendy Elizabeth's mom learning foreign phrases like "take that bayonet out of my spine," the bunny who tormented Eek. This was an absolutely memorable and wonderful show (pre-Thunderlizards). Too bad the Cartoon Network won't show it.

No question--the addition of the Thunderlizards and cavemen pulled EEk and Wendy-Elizabeth (the world's best thoroughly weird little girl!) over the sharkpit.

Never jumped. The best characters were Eek, Mittens, the slacker cat who had an old lady owner, the moose (I forgot his name) and the moose's little brother, Timmy. In almost every show, Eek has to help Timmy get an operation. One of the best ones was when Timmy needed an operation to release his bulbous butt from a lawn chair. Kumbaya, it never hurts to help!

Never jumped...Need it be said that the Savage Steve Holland also made the classic movie "Better Off Dead". Oh yeah, Sharkdog was my favorite.

When Klutter was added, it seemed to have made the writing for Eek! and The Thunder Lizards seem watered down. Perhaps they got new writers.

I believe the best moment I ever saw on the show was when the tornado was bearing down on the trailer park, but the government meteorologist pointed out that the trailer park had been moved, so they quickly got a load of trailers to place in the path, so the tornado could destroy them. That of the Apocalypse Now parody, when Eek ask "Why, why build the worlds biggest hamburger". Yes, if we could have understood Sharky the sharkdogs answer to that I believe many other things in life would become clear.

This show wasn't really bad. There were some cool episodes like the one where Eek met this family of boring squirrels who do nothing but eat pretzels and square dance, and let's not forget the one where Sharky the shark dog became a rap singer because of a weird noise he made due to he was choking on a mailman's sock (Bearz 2 Men was the funniest part of that one, anything with the Squishie Bears was funny). Eekstravaganza wasn't that bad either, I kinda liked Klutter (he was the alien made of laundry).

How can anyone say this show jumped? It was ahead of it's time. By far one of the funniest cartoons I can remember. Remember this, from inside the cement mixer: "I spy with my little eye, something that is...Gray!" *Long Pause* "Ummmmmm....Cement?" "Wrong!" and when Eek was dressed up as a woman hitchhiking with a sort of coconut shell bra and the trucker picked him up and said "Hey, nice kumquats!"

Another great cartoon show that I will never forget. I hope this show gets more votes so it can go on the "never jumped" list. I'll leave you with two quotes I happen to remember. "Oh no! It's heading for the bowling alley ["AAAAHHHH"]! Oh no! It's heading for the mime school [silence]. Oh no! It's heading for the building that houses every lawyer in the entire city... horray!" "She's so... fat" "Really?"

It jumped when it became the EEKstravaganza, with not just the terrible thunderlizards but also had a bit with some stupid alien made out of laundry. Not enough eek for me

never ever jumped. just needed more promotion - much more worthy of making the jump to late night from late afternoon than similar shows with no real character development like king of the hill, family guy and so forth. obviously could never go prime time like the simpsons cos the characters aren't strong enough. but if you're after a seemingly brain dead yet very smart cartoon aimed more at the adult market, this was right up there. kumbaya!!

Step away from the tank ... this show ran the other way! Eekpocylpse Now!