I don’t want to know what “chat m’epuise” means, so please don’t tell me
Garfield, 9/7/04
Oh, that Garfield! With the laziness and the obesity and the … um … hey hey. One of the more opaque aspects of this cat’s personality is the arbitrariness of his bloodthirstiness. He smashes spiders with a particular savagery; but, while he doesn’t seem to like mice very much, he can’t be bothered to do them any harm. My cat has the opposite tendencies — she’s killed mice, but insects don’t interest her — so maybe this is a realistic insight into cat psychology. Or maybe it’s incredibly lazy writing. You make the call.
Incidentally, I think one of the things that Americans hold against the French is their aura of cultural snobbery. In the interest of promoting international friendship, I’d like to point out that, during my recent trip to Paris, ads for Garfield: The Movie (or, as they call it there, Garfield: Le Film) were literally everywhere. If we take density of advertising as an indication of importance (and I can see no reason why we shouldn’t), then this movie is considered to be the most important film release there since Truffaut’s The 400 Blows.
And yes, that is the emaciated face of an Olsen twin peeking in from the left.
Honey
December 17th, 2004 at 7:47 am
My cats kill and eat bugs and beat the shit out of mice.
Josh
January 21st, 2005 at 5:20 pm
My family has three cats. All of them have attacked insects and spiders (note spiders are NOT insects) with reckless abandon. Mice, no, they don’t bother. I think it might be your cat that is the weird one.
By the way, why so bitter? Is your cat not fun like Garfield, so you feel the need to hate on him? You should really try therapy.
hypochrismutreefuzz
September 1st, 2006 at 2:09 am
“Adventure … cat style.”
Kathryn
January 18th, 2007 at 5:36 am
Yeah, right! As you perfectly well know that isn’t advertising for movies. It is the wall of shame, where the french make snide remarks about American culture and reassure themselves of their own superiority.
Danny
January 19th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Basically it’s a pun on “chat” (”cat”) and “ca” (”that”).
“Adventure – it wears me out!”
“Adventure – cat wears me out!”
albacore
January 10th, 2008 at 7:43 am
are you insane? i take french class and i’m prettysure hypo-what-ever-his-name-is is right.
Nekotaku
January 18th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Due to my nationality I’ve had French classes from the age of 8 to 18, and there’s no way in hell I can see “chat m’epuise” as “cat style”. It simply, quite literally means “cat wears me out”.
Enormous respect to Danny for actually seeing the pun in that. I was too gutted at how little sence that tagline made to suspect there was any meaning at all to it.
Some Guy
March 4th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Lending support to Katheryn’s suggestion, the next poster is for an adaption of a Jules Verne novel with Jackie Chan in the role of the main French character. Clearly Josh snapped this picture just before they set it alight.