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“Oh, I'm so nervous! Quick, I was. How's my hair? Do I have any rocks in my teeth?”
I can't believe we're going to be a national TV, this is so exciting! I know, I couldn't believe it when I got the call. Apparently the Slaycads auditioned without me knowing it, and the next thing I know, we're all going to be in a real-life game show together. Yeah, but I gotta say I don't really know this game show that well, oh, what's it called? Perfect match? Uh-huh, the perfect match! Three R's on Per. And why are the Slaycads here again? Okay,
well, basically, the challenge in this game is to get these cats to correctly guess their
human based on the way their human smells. I see, and if your Slaycads correctly identify your smell, it means that we are the perfect match. Most of the show, please report to the stage. Moose moving tip to the stage, please. We're about to get stuck. Can someone please keep these cats out of my dressing room? They are using one of my shoes as a litter box. Oh, hello there. Most boofing 10. Hello, are you
part of the show? Hi, I'm Mindy, and I'm Guy Ross, and I'm gonna be a contestant on your show today. Mindy wants to see if she and her Slaycads are a perfect match. We're big fans. I mean, Guy Ross here is only just now learning about the show, but I am a major
“big fan. Okay, well, I've got to get to set. Mindy is it?”
He knows my name. Yes? You've got some rock stuck in your teeth though. I want to take care of that. What? How stupid is that? Now, could someone get these cats away from me? You, oh, no, that I'm allergic. Nice guy. It's a wonder this show is still on the air with a host as rude as that. Well, I think the show is actually a success because the game is based on a new scientific study published in the Science Journal plus one. A new scientific study,
been to you. This game shows been on the air since the 1960s. It was. That's not important. What's important is that there is a new study on cats. Do you know how hard it is to get cats to cooperate for anything? Much less a scientific study? Play cats to hair and make up. Play cats to hair and make up, please. I'm Cheryl, where did you come from? You know, you've got to point there, Mindy. There are countless scientific studies on
dogs and birds and other animals, but not so much for cats. Nope, and you're saying that there aren't many studies because cats are uncooperative? Well, yeah, pretty much. See, unlike dogs, cats are known for being super independent and super unpredictable.
Security, we've got to cat with a hammer on set, cat with a hammer on set.
kitty. Yeah, I can see why more scientists would prefer to study animals that are easier
“to work with like dogs. Come on, Colonel's touch, thunder, oh, let's go fan that old moosey.”
Where am I, G4s? What are you doing here? Man, Colonel's touch is looking for moosey. Who's moosey? Well, moosey is what I call them, but everybody else called them moose moose. Well, if it isn't Miss G4s, say, we meet again. No, you miss G4s, say me. It's grandma, G4s now, and I'm rich. Oh, no, I know. I've heard about your pennies and your fancy diaper house. Why didn't they?
It was. Those are all the pennies she fishes out of the fountain at the mall and ships into her unitarred. Oh, right, grab a chief horse. You would moose boofing tin here and know each other? No. Oh, yes, we do. I asked Miss G4s, say, for a date, 70 years ago, and I've been trying to get her to the drive-in
movies ever since. Isn't that right, darling? You'll never catch me, Mr. Moosey.
Oh, please. Call me moosey, Boofy. I will, ma'am. G4s, and cardal tubes, thunderpods, make a please. G4s, and thunderpods to make up. We've had G4s, are you a contestant on the show, too? What show? The perfect match of the game show we're all here for. Yes, she is. Okay, I is. When I heard that Miss G4s say had a cat, I just had to get her as a contestant.
And maybe, dinner and a drive-in movie afterwards? Yes, Boofy, I need makeup, her no-touch. Come on, we gotta get all these pennies camera ready. Oh, I'll never give up on you, Miss G4s, say. So in order to be on this game show, the perfect match? Right, to get on as a contestant
“on the perfect match, I'm assuming you have to own a cat, right?”
Well, technically, gernal tubes is Miss G4s' landlord, but yes, each contestant must have a cat that is very familiar to them. Or cat, it's plural. Yes, or cats. It's moving 10 to wardrobe, most moving 10 to wardrobe, please.
We finish cleaning the cat poop out of your shoe. Finally!
And could someone get me a lit roller? I need to get this cat hair off my lap now. So, maybe, yeah, you mentioned that this game show is based on a new scientific study about cats? Oh, yeah, so the study was done by a team of animal science researchers from the Tokyo University of Agriculture. And they had a big wonder. Cat wonders?
That's right, they wondered, can cats identify their humans by their odor or the way they smell?
“The interesting, and so basically finding an answer to this wonder is the whole challenge of the game show?”
Exactly. The game show replicates or copies the experiment that the scientists performed on the cat. Wow, so how does the game work? Well, in the game show, the cats will be given three test tubes full of different smells or odors.
One will be the smell of their human, another will be the smell of a stranger, and the third will be basically no smell at all.
Ah, the tube with no smell is the control tube, right? Yep, having a tube with no smell will help to verify that the cats are choosing based off smell in the tubes and not something else like how the tubes look. Well, why didn't they, I don't know, blindfold the cats. Have you ever tried to blindfold a cat? No, I guess not, so if the cats picked the tube with the owner's smell at it, then they win the game?
Well, actually. Oh, cats to the stage. Oh, cats to the stage. Debbie, don't have his fixative carol, Cheryl, Janice, Steve, and Colonel Toots Thunderpodge to the stage, please. Oh, hi, Steve, how'd you get your stuff out?
Yikes! Well, sounds like we're about to start the show. Yeah, that is, if they can get the cats to cooperate. Ah, should be a piece of cake compared to the experiment done by the researchers. In their study, they somehow managed to get 30 cats to cooperate, and there was no prize at the end. Whoa, 30 cats, that's unheard of in a scientific study.
You're telling me. I'm loving me. I'm sorry to interrupt, but before the game show can get started, I need to capture your odor. Oh, right, yeah, for the odor tube. That's right. Now, I need to rub this cotton swab behind your ears between your toes and under your armpits.
Okey, don't.
Swabbing my toes. Swabbing my armpits. Nice and smelly, cos I didn't take up back today.
Okay, thank you. I'll take that swab now. Here you go. And sir, are you our volunteer odor donor? Volunteer odor donor? Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you guys, I volunteered you to be the smell of a stranger.
Since the slay cats don't really know you because you run in your house whenever they walk down the street or come near you.
“Maybe you want me to swab my ears and toes and armpits for National TV?”
Anything for science? What do you say, sir? Anything for science? Oh, okay, fine. You. Don't get right there between your toes.
Here you go. Thank you very much. Now, Mindy, you can go take your place on the stage. You'll be contestant number two right over there. Yep, you got it. Oh, and can my volunteer odor donor come with me?
What? Uh, yeah, sir, whatever. Hey, come on, guys, let's strut out to the stage. Oh, boy. Strat, strut, strut, strut, strut. Come on, guys, you got to strut.
Strat, strut, strut, strut, strut. Hi, Grimmigy Force, are you excited? They made me swab my pants. Slide on, Seth, please. Lights, camera, and action.
The best. It's the perfect match.
“These cats will be smiling with self-circuitity”
on the perfect match. Ha-ha. Welcome to the perfect match.
The game show where the cat's nose always knows.
They're one true human, that is. Ha-ha-ha. Let's meet our contestants, Shelley. Contestant number one. Miss, get four say.
The G stands for G4s. That's right. She's a spicy pepper eating former world wrestler who has made a fortune scooping pennies out of a local mall fountain. And I get the wishes, too.
It also says here in my notes, if Miss G4s say could change one moment in history, it would be to go back to the summer of 1955 and say yes. To a date at the Drive in Movies with Moose Boobyton. What?
Hey! Okay. Now let's meet contestant number two. She's a science-minded sassafras, whose favorite smell is whichever one she can get for free.
Give it up for Mendi.
“Mendi, why don't you tell us a little something about yourself?”
Okay. Hi, I'm Mendi. I'm a little bit nervous right now. I'll see. I love inside-out sandwiches and I can sneeze with my eyes open.
And who do you have there with you? Oh, this is my best friend and odor donor volunteer, Guy Ross. Hi, everyone. Welcome, Guy Ross. Are you also a science-minded sassafras?
Sure, I guess so. And can you sneeze with your eyes open? That seems dangerous. Very cool. Let's start the game!
First up is contestant number one,
Miska Forse and her pet cat, Colonel Toots Thunderpulse. He's actually my cat landlord. Alright, let's reveal the tubes. Inside these three little test tubes is an odor. Colonel Toots doesn't know this, but inside the blue test tube is the odor of a stranger.
Inside the red test tube is the odor of Miska Forse. And inside the white test tube is the smell of nothing. The white tube is the control tube, right Mendi? Yeah, in science, the control tube is used to make sure that the experiment is working or to compare what happens when a researcher changes something.
Hush, you too! Now, using his sense of smell, let's see if Colonel Toots Thunderpulse can make the perfect match. There he goes. He's sniffing the blue stranger tube. Oh, now he's moving over to the red Good Forse tube.
Come on, Tootsie, you can do it. Mendi, he's going to do it. He's going to choose Grandma GeForce's odor in the red tube. Oh, no! Colonel Toots, how could you?
Too bad.
Wait, what happened?
Colonel Toots chose the red tube.
Isn't that Grandma GeForce's odor? I mean, does that mean they won?
“Well, no, GeForce, the winning tube is the blue tube.”
But, that's the stranger's odor. Exactly. See, the scientists who designed and conducted this experiment didn't train the cats to locate their owners' odor. Instead, they relied on the cat's natural instincts, which is to be more interested in a new unknown smell. Ah-ha!
And the more interesting unknown smell is the stranger's odor. Exactly. So, if the cats for more interested in the blue strangers tube, that would mean they found the red tube familiar, and therefore, uninteresting. You got to guide us. But, wait.
How did Colonel Toots thunderpocket confuse us?
Oh, sorry, Miss GeForce. It appears Colonel Toots found your odor to be new and novel, and therefore, more interesting as though you were a stranger. Unfortunately, you are not a purr-fect match. And neither are we mostly. What do you think happened?
“Why did Colonel Toots find your smell so interested?”
Well, I'm guessing it's on the cam of all these pennies. I've based out of the mall family. Ah, he can smell all the strange odors from strangers on the pennies. And all their wishes probably too. Wow.
Where am I, GeForce? You shoved so many of those fountain pennies in your unitard. You probably smell like the wishes of all the strangers at the mall. Yeah. I don't even got no personal smell anymore.
How sad for GeForce. Well, talk about this at home, Tootsie. Okay. Now, let's move on to contestant number two. Mindy with her slacats.
Yeah! Let's reveal the twos. Now, using their senses of smell,
“let's see if the slacats can make the perfect match.”
There they go. Walking right past the white tube with nothing in it. Come on, Freiketh. Come on, Debbie. You can do this, Donna. They're walking past the red tube with Mindy's odor in it. Mindy, yeah. They're going to do it.
Come on, Cheryl. Come on, Carol. And there they go. They're sniffing the blue strangers too. - Hey, baby! - Hey, baby! - Congratulations to Mindy and the Slake Hats. You're the perfect match.
- Oh, come here, little Slake Hats. - Hey! - Hey, Slake Hats, we're going over here! - Slake Hats, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. - They like you, Mr. Stranger. - Hey, Mr. Dickson, Steve, stop, please, ow,
- Let's hear it one more time for our winner, Mindy! And here's your prize, a year supply of Snacky Cat Kitty treats. - Ooh, I love those! - Snacky cats, the kitty treat, kitty cats cry. - And sometimes they're owners too, too.
- And Ms. Geforce, I don't you worry. We have a consolation prize for you. - Oh, yeah, give me my prize, Moose. Our second place, finisher, gets oh my goodness, to take it to the drive-in movie theater with me,
your host, Mooseful thing to do. - No, but it's--
- I want a million dollars.
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