Catty Brown

Catty Brown is the second episode of the fifth and final season of Peanuts (2017 TV Series). It was directed by Craig Schulz (son of Charles M. Schulz) and written by Adam Wingard and Craig's son Bryan Schulz. According to the episode's producer Genndy Tartakovsky, this is one of the only episodes in the Peanuts series to not focus on Snoopy or Woodstock.

Synopsis
After having escaped from the zoo, Charlie Brown finds a cat named Catty in an alleyway and decides to adopt her. He thinks the cat is friendly, but is it friendly?

Plot
At nighttime at the zoo, a guard who is supposed to stay up and watch the animals, falls asleep. A cat then escapes and makes the guard fall. The guard then wakes up and finds the cat missing, in which later that night, the cat goes to an alleyway and sleeps in a dumpster along with a talking cat. The next morning, while Charlie Brown is walking to school, he finds the cat in the dumpster and calls her Catty, he then hides her in his bag.

After school, Charlie Brown returns home and runs to the shower to shower Catty. While Charlie Brown goes with his mother to buy the things that Catty needs, Catty then sees Snoopy and Woodstock playing chess and tries to kill them, but Snoopy and Woodstock survive but hide in Sally's room's closet. When Charlie Brown and her mother (in which his mother goes to bed after being exhausted), Charlie Brown decides to take Catty to the park while Snoopy and Woodstock come out of the closet after seeing that Catty is gone, and decides to go back to playing chess.

While Charlie Brown is training Catty to do "cat" stuff, he meets up with his friend Linus, in which Linus thinks that there is something suspicious after Catty. Linus tells Charlie Brown about the Cat Pageant Show after the Dog Pageant Show and decides to take Catty there. Then, the guard from the zoo puts of posters of the cat being missing. Linus gets one of the posters and believes that Catty is an dangerous creature sent to kill pets and kids, so he goes to warn Charlie Brown before having Lucy call him for lunch.

Having no choice, Linus then goes to him and Lucy's house to have some of his mother's delicious turkey and cheese. Charlie Brown and Catty than arrive at the Cat Pageant Show where Charlie Brown signs 50 papers to audition. During this, Catty attacks the other cats there. But the other cats survive, and two minutes later, Charlie Brown gets into the finalists, in which he has to sit in the waiting room until the pageant can start a 7:50pm. After Linus finishes eating his food, he tries to warn Charlie Brown about Catty, but becomes interested in a store full of blankets. The pageant then starts in which it is 7:50pm which includes all of the cats including Catty.

Linus, who got 20 blankets from the blanket store, looks on his imagination watch and realizes that it's 7:50pm, and then goes to the pageant with the picture of Catty. Then, three other cats have done their talents while Catty is next. Charlie Brown is about to send Catty into there, but Linus interrupts the project and tells Charlie Brown that Catty is a dangerous beast. This causes the people (including Peppermint Patty and Marcie) to panic. One person calls the FBI and the guard from the zoo, in which both of them comes.

Charlie Brown, who is disappointed at Linus, says: "You can't judge somebody for who they are or what they is, and the fact is, you can't always judge somebody for who they are unless if you learn about them." Linus then becomes sad about this and slaps himself in the face five times. They hide under a bench as the FBI arrive in the room. To distract the FBI and the guard while Charlie Brown and Catty exit the building, Linus uses his never-before seen invisibility cloak and draws an ugly drawing of Catty, which the FBI and the guard from the zoo chase Linus while Charlie Brown and Catty (in which Catty is disguised as a little kid).

Charlie Brown and Catty then exit the building where they bump into an FBI guard. The guard, believing that Catty is Charlie Brown's little brother, tells Charlie Brown to keep Catty safe before giving Catty an lollipop and sending them off. Charlie Brown then sends Catty back to the zoo. Catty, who wants to stay with him, wants to stay with him still. Charlie Brown, in tears, then takes one last picture with Catty before sending her back to the zoo. Saddened by this, Charlie Brown then walks home when it is 9:20pm. Meanwhile, Linus, who is back home than takes off of his invisibility cloak before getting into a fight with Lucy.

Then at Sally and Charlie Brown's house, Charlie Brown, who is about to go to sleep, kisses Catty in their final picture, before going to bed with Catty standing outside his window.