Cartoon
SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron

Animal
mens shaver capable of reaching Mach 3

Outfit: flight suit / no shoes / molecular species with unpaired electrons

Tagline: "BINGO!"

Plot summary: When your kitten won't stop getting into the goddamn trash can, call in the SWAT Kats, two zoomorphic cat pilots who protect Megakat City from evil and favor drastic political, economic, or social reform. The Kats are a vigilante superhero team who protect a giant town full of cats from practically everything imaginable (black holes, dinosaurs, boxes of shit in the home) by building an airplane out of the junk they find at the junkyard and then flying around in said airplane. I guess the township was throwing away some pretty expensive stuff. How they made a military-grade fighter jet out of burning tires and wadded-up magazines is beyond me, but careful viewers will remember supporting character "Felina" flushing a perfectly good fuselage down the toilet in episode 93005.

The non-approved jetfightery of the Kats raises the ire of Megakat City's would-be protectors "The Enforcers," lead by the cleverly named "Commander Feral," town mayor "Mayor Manx," and show antagonist "Mr. Biscuits the Cat Man." SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron was the best cartoon on TBS to not involve an aborigine using magic to communicate with a monkey for almost three years. (more)

User Comments: Razor can build any machine or gadget out of found parts in the salvage yard. He is the designer of the SWAT Kats' fighter jet (the Turbokat), and the inventor of their entire arsenal. He is also an impressive marksman, and almost always hits the target no matter how far the target is. And even though he is a technical expert and the smaller one of the duo, Razor possesses great strength and martial arts skills. Also, he can make knives come out of his hands so when he punches you it cuts you! And his dad works for Midway and has already played the new Mortal Kombat game, and thinks it's pretty good!

I can accept that cat-men are like Samoans and don't need to wear shoes when operating heavy equipment, but it always bugged me how they didn't wear shoes but wore weightlifting gloves. The only people who wear weightlifting gloves are weightlifters and horrible pro wrestlers. SWAT Kats is one of those shows the Internet will try to convince you is great, but it really isn't. It's about cats who fly airplanes. I guess my idea of having the Robonic Three Stooges battling angels in the skies above post-apocalyptic Crystal Tokyo isn't good enough for green light, but cats who fly airplanes! That's the ticket. My cat couldn't fly an airplane. He'd just claw everything and shit in the seats.

User Rating: 5.5/10 (0,700 votes)