Kid-E-Cats.

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[Gentle music plays]

Logo: C.T.C.

[Cheerful music plays, birds chirp]

DESCRIPTION: A path leads up a grassy hill to a town of brightly coloured houses. Cookie, an orange tabby, wears a blue striped shirt and a blue sailor hat with a picture of an anchor on it. Pudding, an orange tabby, wears a blue shirt and hat. Candy, an orange tabby, wears a red dress and bow.

NARRATOR: In this little town lives a kitten named Cookie, his big brother Pudding, and their little sister Candy. Lots of other kittens live here, too.

DESCRIPTION: Kittens wave happily.

NARRATOR: Cookie, Candy, And Pudding! Kid-E-Cats!

[Title] Kid-E-Cats.

COOKIE AND PUDDING: We're cute!

CANDY: But I'm cuter!

THE KITTENS: Me-wow!

[Episode Title] Undersea Kitties.

[Chiming, gull squawks, cheerful music plays]

DESCRIPTION: A gull swoops down towards the sea. In a playground by boat moorings, Cookie stands at the top of a slide. On the ground, Mommy Cat, Daddy Cat, Pudding, and Candy watch him.

NARRATOR: One lovely summer, the kittens were having a seaside vacation with their parents.

COOKIE: I'm Stripe Tail, tough pirate captain. Yo-ho-ho!

[Cookie laughs, balls clatter, gull squawks]

DESCRIPTION: Cookie slides down the slide into a ball pit.

MOMMY CAT: Cookie's enjoying this so much, he's completely forgotten about his birthday.

[Bag rustles]

DESCRIPTION: Daddy Cat takes a skateboard with a blue ribbon out of a plastic bag and shows it to Pudding and Candy. Mommy Cat watches Cookie over her shoulder.

DADDY CAT: Then this is going to be a real surprise. I have the salesman at the skate shop engrave it with Cookie's name.

DESCRIPTION: Pudding takes the skateboard.

PUDDING: Nice! "To Skater Cookie from the entire family, enjoy your rides."

[Candy and Pudding giggle, whoosh]

DESCRIPTION: Candy grabs the skateboard.

CANDY: Awesome! Can I give him his present?

[Whoosh, light music plays]

DESCRIPTION: Pudding takes the skateboard from Candy.

PUDDING: Hey, I wanna give it to him.

[Whoosh]

DESCRIPTION: Candy takes the skateboard.

CANDY: I am.

[Whoosh]

DESCRIPTION: Pudding and Candy tug the skateboard between them.

PUDDING: No, me.

[Kittens grunt, skateboard clatters, everyone gasps]

DESCRIPTION: The skateboard flies out of the kittens’ paws and rolls on the ground.

DADDY CAT: After it, quickly! Go!

[Daddy Cat pants, footsteps patter, splashing, gull squawks]

DESCRIPTION: The skateboard rolls off a dock into the sea.

EVERYONE: Aw!

DADDY CAT: Hm.

[Cookie giggles]

DESCRIPTION: Cookie stands behind the others on the dock.

DADDY CAT: Huh?

COOKIE: So, what's going to be my birthday surprise? I haven't forgotten.

DADDY CAT: Uh, heh-heh, well, it's a—

DESCRIPTION: On a nearby yellow submarine, an instructor dressed as a captain holds a megaphone.

[Epic music plays, gull wings flap]

INSTRUCTOR: Don't miss your chance to take a ride on a real submarine! An unforgettable adventure in the deep sea awaits. Ticket booth's right there.

DADDY CAT: Cookie, we're giving you a wonderful trip on a real submarine.

COOKIE: Wowie!

KITTENS: So awesome! Me-wow, me-wow, me-wow, me-wow!

[Upbeat music plays, gull wings whoosh, gull squawks]

DESCRIPTION: The kittens hold hands and wave their arms. Later, on the submarine, the Instructor stands with the family. Daddy Cat reads a manual.

INSTRUCTOR: Right, that completes your training. If you feel like taking a closer look at something, just use these bathyspheres for a short time.

[Family grunts, gulls squawk, footsteps clank]

DESCRIPTION: The Instructor gestures at bathyspheres in the submarine. The family salutes him. The Instructor climbs the metal ladder and exits the submarine.

COOKIE: Look at that!

[Candy gasps]

PUDDING: Whoa.

[Board scrapes, thumps]

DESCRIPTION: On the dock, the Instructor removes the gangplank that leads to the submarine hatch.

MOMMY CAT: Darling, how are we supposed to drive this thing? There's not a steering wheel.

[Gull squawks]

DADDY CAT: Fear not, my darling, this is a very modern submarine. It's voice-operated. Excuse me, submarine, dive.

[Hatch creaks, squeaks, slams, wheel rattles]

DESCRIPTION: Daddy Cat speaks into a speaker on the wall, and the submarine hatch closes. The locking wheel spins.

SUBMARINE: Commencing dive.

[Parents laugh]

PUDDING AND CANDY: Ooh.

[Propeller bubbles, slide whistle, chest creaks, chimes]

DESCRIPTION: In a daydream, Cookie imagines a chest full of gold coins.

COOKIE: Hey, maybe we'll discover underwater pirate treasure.

DESCRIPTION: In a daydream, Pudding imagines the skateboard behind a rock.

PUDDING WHISPERS: Or Cookie's skateboard.

[Propeller bubbles, pop]

DESCRIPTION: The daydream ends.

CANDY: Hope so, let's both keep an eye out for it.

[Engine whirs]

DESCRIPTION: The submarine drives above the sea floor.

NARRATOR: It turned out to be very beautiful underwater. Mommy, Daddy, and the kittens were excited to see how wonderful it was. But then, Cookie noticed something.

COOKIE: It's a grotto! There's sure to be pirate treasure in there! Submarine, into grotto!

SUBMARINE: Heading into grotto.

[Propeller bubbles, light music plays]

DESCRIPTION: The submarine drives towards the grotto opening.

PUDDING: We won't find his skateboard in there.

[Footsteps patter]

DESCRIPTION: Candy runs to the front of the submarine.

CANDY: Submarine, stop!

SUBMARINE: Commencing stop.

[Whir, light music plays, propeller bubbles]

DESCRIPTION: The submarine stops in front of the grotto opening.

COOKIE: What do you mean 'stop'? I want the grotto!

CANDY: Uh... well, if I were a pirate, I'd definitely have hidden my treasure somewhere else.

[Footsteps patter]

Pudding arrives.

[Upbeat music plays]

COOKIE: But this is my birthday trip, and I want to look for treasure in there! Submarine, forward.

DESCRIPTION: The submarine drives forward.

CANDY: Stop.

DESCRIPTION: The submarine stops.

COOKIE: Go!

DESCRIPTION: The submarine drives forward.

PUDDING: Stop.

DESCRIPTION: The submarine stops.

COOKIE: Go!

DESCRIPTION: The submarine drives forward.

PUDDING AND CANDY: Stop.

DESCRIPTION: The submarine stops.

MOMMY CAT: Kittens, stop arguing. We're not going into a dark grotto.

CANDY AND PUDDING: Mm.

MOMMY CAT: Submarine, turn around.

[Submarine whirs, buzzes]

SUMARINE: Not enough space to turn around.

[Clank, propeller bubbles]

DESCRIPTION: Daddy Cat stands and pushes the speaker away from a porthole.

DADDY CAT: Oh, we just have to keep on forward and look for another way out.

COOKIE: And for some pirate treasure.

[Engine whirs, cheerful music plays]

DESCRIPTION: The submarine drives forward in the grotto. Fish swim in front of the bright headlight.

COOKIE: There's something glowing out there, guys. Didn't I say this place was full of treasure?

DESCRIPTION: The family watches glowing fish through the portholes on the side.

PUDDING: Whoa, I read that there were glowing fish that lived deep in the sea, but I never imagined I'd see them for myself.

MOMMY CAT: Cookie, you were right. Getting to see these fish is an experience better than treasure.

DADDY CAT: Let's take a picture with them. Submarine, photo.

[Whirs, camera shutter snaps]

DESCRIPTION: A mechanical arm extends from the outside of the submarine, taking a photo of the cat family with a smiling, glowing fish in front of the portholes.

SUBMARINE: Your picture is ready.

[Cheerful music plays]

MOMMY CAT: And right there's the way out.

[Everyone gasps, submarine buzzes, engine sputters]

DESCRIPTION: The submarine emerges from the grotto.

DADDY CAT: Uh, submarine, what's happening? Why aren't we moving?

SUBMARINE: There is an obstacle.

MOMMY CAT: Guess it must be stuck on something.

DADDY CAT: Oh, we'll have to get out there and take a look at the problem.

[Cheerful music plays, propeller bubbles]

DESCRIPTION: The family drives five bathyspheres out of the submarine and discovers seaweed wound around the propeller.

DADDY CAT: It's just a clump of seaweed. Let's clear it off.

[Mechanical arms whir, seaweed creaks, seaweed snaps, tense music plays]

DESCRIPTION: Mechanical arms extend from the bathyspheres and pull the seaweed tangled around the propeller. The seaweed breaks, and Cookie’s bathysphere spins away from the others.

COOKIE: Whoa!

[Bathysphere thuds, Cookie grunts, propeller bubbles, light music plays]

DESCRIPTION: Cookie’s bathysphere bounces off the side of a sunken ship.

COOKIE: Hooray! I found a real pirate ship!

[Bathyspheres whoosh]

DESCRIPTION: The rest of the family arrives in their bathyspheres.

COOKIE: Wanna bet that there's some pirate treasure inside?

[Upbeat music plays]

DESCRIPTION: Cookie drives towards a hole in the side of the ship.

PUDDING: His skateboard could've fallen in there.

CANDY: Mm-hmm.

DESCRIPTION: Pudding and Candy follow Cookie.

MOMMY CAT: Slow down, kittens, it's hard to keep up with you.

[Bathyspheres whoosh]

DESCRIPTION: The family drives through the crack and enters the cargo hold. Barrels lie scattered beside a large hole in the floor.

COOKIE: Hey, the pirates might have kept their treasure in barrels.

[Mechanical arm whirs, lid clunks]

DESCRIPTION: Cookie drives to a barrel, uses a mechanical arm to lift the lid, peers inside, and drops the lid.

[Bathysphere whooshes]

DADDY CAT: Cookie, I'm not sure this ship belonged to pirates. It looks like a cargo ship. We really should be getting back to the submarine, though.

COOKIE: Well, a cargo ship could also have been carrying treasure.

[Bathyspheres whoosh, propeller bubbles, mechanical arm whirs, door creaks, upbeat music plays, mechanical arm whirs, metal hatch thuds, sand rustles]

DESCRIPTION: Cookie drives his bathysphere through the hole in the floor, and the rest of his family follows him. Cookie drives into a room and opens a wardrobe door. A crab family scuttles away across the sand. Pudding opens the other door, and another crab family scuttles out. Cookie moves a metal hatch, and it falls to the ground. A pair of large eyes peers out at him from the darkness, and he drives away. Pudding follows Cookie, but Candy stops.

CANDY: Ah!

[Propellers bubble]

DESCRIPTION: Candy drives above the opening with the eyes. Everyone follows Cookie into different rooms.

COOKIE: Hm.

[Mechanical arm whirs, door thuds]

DESCRIPTION: Cookie finds a closed door and uses the mechanical arm to pull on the doorknob.

COOKIE: Let's try together.

[Mechanical arms click, whir, whoosh, everyone laughs, door creaks, slams]

DESCRIPTION: The kittens extend the mechanical arms to the doorknob and pull the door open. Dirt floats out and reveals a toilet. The family drives away, and an octopus swims into the bathroom, shutting the door behind them.

[Propellers bubble, light music plays]

NARRATOR: The kittens checked cabin after cabin but couldn't find the treasure or the skateboard.

DADDY CAT: Cookie, this is the last one. Let's check it and then head back.

DESCRIPTION: Cookie notices a chest half-buried in the sand.

COOKIE: All right. Look, there's a chest over here. Finally, I found treasure!

[Mechanical arm whirs]

DESCRIPTION: Cookie opens the chest, and crabs scuttle away from the marble tiles.

CANDY: Hm.

[Mechanical arm whirs]

DESCRIPTION: The mechanical arms on Pudding's bathysphere pick up a tile.

PUDDING: That doesn't look like gold. Hm.

[Slide whistle, upbeat music plays, trowel taps]

DESCRIPTION: In a daydream, a builder attaches marble tiles to the outside of a building. On a balcony above, a king holds a sceptre and a small pouch.

MOMMY CAT: Kittens, that's marble. A long time ago, marble was considered a real treasure. They used it to decorate king's palaces.

[Slide whistle, upbeat music plays, pop]

DESCRIPTION: The daydream ends.

COOKIE: That's cool, but I'm not a king, you know, and I don't need any marble.

[Tile thuds]

DESCRIPTION: Pudding drops the tile back into the chest.

[Propellers bubble]

DADDY CAT: We're done. It's time to head back.

DESCRIPTION: The family drives into a room with a hole in the floor and in the ceiling. A large anchor leans against a wall.

DADDY CAT: Huh, uh, uh, does someone recall the way back?

[Mechanical arm whirs]

DESCRIPTION: Everyone points in a different direction. Candy points to the hole in the floor using the mechanical arm on her bathysphere.

EVERYONE: That way.

DADDY CAT: All right, we'll try this way. Let's go.

[Propellers bubble, upbeat music plays]

DESCRIPTION: The family drives past the room with the anchor and then drives through it again.

MOMMY CAT: Darling, this is the third time we've been through this room.

PUDDING: Oh, no, we're lost at sea.

[Pudding sobs]

CANDY: Let's trying using the radio to call the submarine. It can come get us.

[Slide whistle, bang]

DESCRIPTION: In a thought bubble, the submarine drives to the hole in the side of the ship and bounces off. The thought bubble disappears.

[Slide whistle, pop]

DADDY CAT: I'm afraid the submarine won't fit in here.

PUDDING: Look, it's a sea turtle!

[Light music plays]

DESCRIPTION: A sea turtle swims through the room.

Cookie says, Pudding, we're trapped in an underwater maze, forget the turtle.

PUDDING: Sea turtles always have to return to the surface to catch their breath. Maybe if we follow him, he'll lead us out of here.

MOMMY CAT: Pudding, well done, such a clever idea.

[Propellers bubble, upbeat music plays]

DESCRIPTION: They follow the sea turtle through the ship, past the bathroom door, up through the hole to the cargo hold, and outside.

EVERYONE: Yay!

DADDY CAT: I think we should say thank you very much to this wonderful turtle.

EVERYONE: Thank you, Mr. Turtle!

[Everyone laughs]

MOMMY CAT: Well, it's time to get back to our ship.

[Bathyspheres whoosh]

DESCRIPTION: Everyone drives to the submarine, and they float beside it.

COOKIE: Mommy, can't we look around a little longer?

PUDDING: We think this is awesome.

MOMMY CAT: Well, I don't know. What if you wander off again without checking with us?

CANDY: I have a really good idea. We promise to stay close to both of you.

DADDY CAT: Okay, little ones, but not for very long, my tummy's rumbling.

[Upbeat music plays, propellers bubble, mechanical arm whirs, camera snaps, oyster snaps, puffer fish pops]

DESCRIPTION: The submarine takes a photo of the kittens driving beside a giant manta ray. The mechanical arm on Cookie’s bathysphere reaches for a large pearl, and the oyster snaps shut. The family watches a puffer fish puff, and Daddy Cat’s mechanical arm shakes an octopus’s tentacle.

NARRATOR: So the kittens and their parents enjoyed themselves around the sea pool. And the kittens forgot all about treasures and sunken skateboards.

[Mechanical arm whirs, propellers bubble, hypothermal vent bubbles, upbeat music plays]

DESCRIPTION: Cookie drives over a hypothermal vent, and his bathysphere spins up in the bubble stream.

DADDY CAT: Exploring has been fun, but it's lunchtime now, everyone.

[Seaweed rustles, light music plays]

DESCRIPTION: The mechanical arms on Cookie’s bathysphere pick up the skateboard from behind the seaweed.

COOKIE: I think I found something! Whoa! It's a skateboard! A really cool one! There's something written on it. Hey Pudding, read that.

PUDDING: Hehe.

PUDDING READS: "To Skater Cookie from the whole family, enjoy your rides."

[Cookie and Pudding laugh, mechanical arm whirs]

COOKIE: Heh, how could a thing like this have ended up down here? Was there a pirate named the Dread Pirate Skater Cookie?

DADDY CAT: Uh, actually, Cookie, this was your original birthday present, but it fell off the dock.

COOKIE: And I discovered it myself! It's way better than any pirate treasure.

MOMMY CAT: I think it's time we get back on dry land and celebrate Cookie's birthday with dinner and some cake.

[Mechanical arms whir, upbeat music plays]

DESCRIPTION: The mechanical arms on the kittens’ bathyspheres hold hands and wave.

KITTENS: So awesome! Me-wow, me-wow, me-wow, me-wow!

DESCRIPTION: Later, on the dock, the family eats dessert at a table near a cupcake stand. Cookie hops on the skateboard and rides, while the family and the cupcake baker applaud.

NARRATOR: And so, the kittens visited the undersea world. And Cookie found himself a real treasure.

[Upbeat music plays]

[End Credits] Directors: Dmitry Vysotsky, Alexey Gorbunov. Composer: Alexey Yakovel. Producer: Karina Kabanova. Executive Producers: Nigel Pickard, Artem Vasiliev, Vyacheslav Murugov. Cast: Cookie, Lori Gardner. Candy, Kate Bristol. Pudding, Billy Bob Thompson. Dad, Marc Thompson. Mom, Erica Schroeder. Narrator, Marc Thompson. Instructor: Billy Bob Thompson. Submarine, Tom Wayland. Kid-E-Cats. Distributed by A.P.C. Kids. Created by Studio Metrafilms, commissioned by C.T.C. Network J.S.C. Copyright C.T.C. Network J.S.C. Logos: A.P.C. Kids, Metrafilms, C.T.C. Media.