'Why did the cat have to suffer?'

by husbandorcat @ 26 Mar. 2006 - 15:02:48

On Wednesday night I was reading the bit in Captain Corelli (see elsewhere for my sudden weird obsession with Captain C) where Mussolini shoots a cat – nasty! Actually, it’s a clever bit of writing, because if you wanted to put over the sheer evil madness of the man, what better way to do it? Well, it reminded me of a saying that used to be a catchphrase of mine: ‘Why did the cat have to suffer?’
This comes from about ten years ago, when the kids were young enough to watch ‘Sabrina the teenage witch’, and I used to watch it with them, largely for the sake of Salem, the talking cat. Apart from the fact that he looked like a smooth version of my Ninja, it was his attitude that I loved, absolutely feline, you just knew that if cats could talk, those were the things they would say.
Anyway, in one episode, I can’t remember exactly what happened, but at the end Salem said in a typically histrionic, egocentric way: ‘But why did the cat have to suffer?’ As I said, it became a catchphrase of mine for a while – in fact when I reminded my daughter of it she rolled her eyes and said, ‘Mum, you used to say that for years!’
Also about the same time, I had another phrase, which came from the Aladdin cartoon series, there was a parrot (forget its name) which had pretty much the same attitude and role as Salem, in one episode it said: ‘Nobody cares about the parrot!’ I used to throw this one out from time to time, not that anybody took any notice, of course!

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