Cats Named Buffy

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. You’re not going to get stuck playing ‘the girlfriend’ or ‘the wife,’ you’re going to get these three-dimensional characters. But truthfully, those roles are very rare. It’s a better time for actresses on TV than on film.”

On taking a break to spend time with her daughter,  Charlotte : “I got to see the first step, hear the first word. Most people – and certainly many working moms – are not lucky enough to get that. I wanted to appreciate the fact that I had worked so hard all my life to be able to have those moments. I don’t regret anything about making that choice.”

Having served as the Chief Editor of Celebrity News Service, Joanna Mazewski is a Florida-bred writer and editor who can’t make it thru her day without three things: her kids, gossip sites, and a peanut butter M&M midday fix. She is a happily married wife and mother to a 3-year-old daughter who decided that Dora was not her idol anymore after draping her entire bedroom décor with the brownie-coiffed polyglot and a 1-year-old son who is a Jedi-in-training, but doesn’t know it yet. Emma Brady has been the publisher of Celebrity Moms — where celebrity and parenthood collide — since January 2006. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her husband, two sons, mother-in-law, dog, and cat. When not following the news and trends of Hollywood, Emma works as a business consultant and freelance business writer.

Hello Kitty « Pop Culture Playpen

I’m cat-sitting at the moment, and feel as if I’ve been thrust into a strange new world.

My clothes are covered in hair, I’m beholden to feline feeding schedules, and there’s cute fluffy things that come up and headbutt my legs at random times.

I haven’t had a cat of my own for a long time, but they are one of my favourite animals. They’re so fluffy and cute! And although affectionate, they’re independent enough that they’re not a stress.

Playing with the moggies got me thinking about pets on TVs, specifically those of the kitty variety, so here are the cream of the cat crop:

Miss Kitty Fantastico ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer )

The original Snowball II was named after the Simpson family’s first cat, who was called Snowball due to her white fur. After Snowball II was hit by a car and killed they went through a few more replacements, and Snowball V (who looked identical to numero dos) was the one that stuck around- and was consequently renamed Snowball II by Lisa, because apparently that would be less

It’s nigh on impossible to screencap a picture of the screeching super-fast cat that Jeff, Troy and Abed found in the basement in the zombified Hallowe’en episode ‘Epidemiology’; it was flailing around so fast that Troy was moved to ask if somebody was throwing it. The feral distraction lampooned the cat scare trope often seen in horror movies- where the tension is ramped up unbearably and then released when it turns out that it was only the cat )

As in the books that the TV series was based on, Mildred Hubble received a tabby cat (which she inventively named Tabby) instead of a black familiar like the other girls at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches. Tabby seemed like a sign that Mildred wasn’t supposed to be at the school; that she wasn’t a real witch. Her clumsiness, impulsiveness and the fact that she didn’t come from a magical family (she was dealing with discrimination against Muggle-borns before J. K. Rowling had even invented the term!) made her the worst student in the school, at least initially.