Herman and Katnip

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Herman and Katnip are a duo of cartoon characters (Herman the mouse and Katnip the cat), who have appeared both separately and together in Famous Studios cartoons from 1943 to 1960. Their cartoon series together is essentially a clone of MGM's Tom and Jerry. The key difference is that, regardless of who personified good or evil (with Katnip being the latter on almost all occasions), Herman always came out on top against Katnip, while Tom won his fair share of comic battles against Jerry. Arnold Stang voiced Herman while Sid Raymond voiced Katnip.

Herman and Katnip and the other original Famous characters were purchased by Harvey Comics in 1958, who continued to promote the characters under the name Harveytoons. The early Herman and Katnip cartoons were sold by Paramount in 1955 to U.M.&M. T.V. Corp. for television distribution.

1 Herman and Henry
- 1.1 The 1946 Recreation
- 1.2 Quotes
2 Rating Info

[edit] Herman and Henry

Herman spawned a spinoff by teaming up with a henpecked rooster named "Henry". Henry's nemises was "Chicken Pie" (aka Chicken Fat). She was a very mean, and strong rooster, who her enemy Henry, does not do the work he is supoosed to do. She was afraid of Herman, who always bawks at him every time Herman scared her.

Mostly at the end of each cartoon, Chicken Pie tries to get rid of Herman by:

Throwing a glass at him.
Uses ax to chop him.
Uses a gun to kill him.
Brings out a cat to eat him.
Throws him in the river.
Throws him back to his home in the mouse hole.
Puts Herman in the oven.
Puts Herman in the boiled water.

After that, Chicken Pie got into a fight with Henry. She usually does one or more of the following options to knockout Henry:

Bop Henry in the head using a dough roller
Tackle Henry similar to a football player in the back
Pulling Henry's feathers
Punch Henry in the body
Tosses Henry into the sky
Use of as Iron to burn Henry's Arm
Ties Henry's beak using a rope
Thorws him in the pond.

Henry uses these moves to knockout Chicken Pie:

Turn into Herman using a costume.
Pulls Chicken Pie's feathers in the back.
Using a Violin to strike Chicken Pie's Back.
Punch Chicken Pie in the face.
Turns into a cat.
Pinched Chicken Pie in the cane.
Dunks paint all over Chicken Pie to turn into "CHICKEN PAINT"

Chicken Pie usually swears to Henry when she got into a fight with Henry like (hell, damn, ruffin).

[edit] The 1946 Recreation

In 1946, Famous Studios decided to re-create Henry and Chicken Pie. Henry was renamed to Hector, and Chicken Pie remained the same. Hector's Body was changed to yellow, his eyebrows were blue, and he got a new voice. Chicken Pie changed her body to orange, her eyebrows to blue, and a different voice was used. The title cards still read "FEATURING HERMAN AND HENRY".

[edit] Quotes

Chicken Pie (repeated line): Hennnnnnnnnnnnnnrrrrrrryyyyyy!!!
Henry (repeated line): Yes my love.
Chicken Pie: I got to get rid of that mouse!
Chicken Pie: (to Henry) Shut Up! I don't want to hear another thing out of your beak.
Henry: (after Chicken Pie get's knocked out) It worked! Thanks Herman!
Henry: You Big Hugon, CHICKEN FAT!

[edit] Rating Info

The Herman and Henry cartoons were rated PG, due to violence (courtesy of Chicken Pie's fights with Henry), and language. Herman and Katnip cartoons are rated G. Many Herman and Katnip, and Herman and Henry shorts are released on public domain VHS/DVDs. Some prints have the U.M.&.M or NTA logo at the start and end, masking the old Paramount Titles. However many TV Stations, Video Production Companies, and the UCLA Film and TV archive restored these shorts to their original Paramount Titles. Many Herman and Henry shorts edited out the swear words and replaced them with bleeps.