Original Air Date: February 13, 2013
Starring: Frosty
Directed by: Beth McCarthy Miller
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode!
Synopsis: Everyone has plans for Valentine’s Day that don’t go as expected.
Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) plan a party for their single friends to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Before the party, Mitchell tells Cameron to put the cat away.
As Cameron picks up Larry the cat, he asks if Mitchell can try to have a good time, pointing out that at parties he doesn’t usually have too much fun. Mitchell gets offended and starts drinking.
The next morning the couple wake up in bed and talk about how Mitchell got drunk. Cameron implies that Mitchell was a little more than tipsy and Mitchell starts to deny that he did anything crazy when they look down on the bed and see Larry colored pink. “I was hoping I dreamt that,” Mitchell sighs. As it turns out later, Mitchell dyed Larry with cherry Kool-Aid.
Things get worse when they find out that they have acquired a roommate in Haley’s off and on boyfriend Dylan (Reid Ewing). To show his gratitude Dylan sings them a song which ends with the lines, “Never knew I would find my answer in my ex-girlfriend’s uncles’ house with the tiny pink panther.” The camera pulls back to show the pink Larry sitting on the table.
Mitchell tries to tell Dylan he can’t stay with them but instead gathers up Larry and says they have to wash their cat.
Moments later we see a shot of the exterior of the house and hear a cat screeching, after which a wet and mostly clean Larry runs out of a room (there are still touches of pink on him, though). Mitchell and Cameron exit after and Mitchell complains, “And yet when I did that drunk, not a scratch!”
Larry is played by cat actor Frosty.
Final Mewsings: Cats and Kool-Aid don’t mix.
Many thanks to Stevie Holcomb for letting us know about Larry the cat in this series!
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