Thread:Ngh93/@comment-3300142-20190524151840

While those two episodes are really great, to compare the Dongwa abuse in "My Fair Kitty" to its sister episode "The Favorite"

In "My Fair Kitty", Dongwa isn't doing anything wrong in "My Fair Kitty", despite him just laughing and saying what Mung said: "That's the funniest thing I've ever heard!". Usually, he does something bad, leading to karma bitting him back. But this strangely doesn't. He lost his collar, and fell in the sea and got mistook for Mung by Cook, but he at least had a happy ending. This is how you do "Helpless Abuse" in a tolerable way, because it at least didn't go too far, unlike the Squidward torture episodes, the Meg torture episodes and of course, the Percy torture in "Middle Engine".

In "The Favorite", Dongwa at least did do something wrong to deserve his abuse - he insulted Sagwa in the beginning, but Baba tries to deal with Dongwa's insults. Dongwa still doesn't listen a tad bit, and said to Sagwa "And I'm Baba's favorite". And later in the episode, his butt monkey status is at least justified - the water splash scared the heck out of Dongwa, causing him to splash into the water. Also, Baba's laughing and remark embarrassed Dongwa at first, but once his karma was over with, he got over it and resumed his fun til after we last saw him before Sagwa rode home in Oogway (the same turtle from The Tortoise and the Cat. It's so nice to have some Dongwa Karma Tip thrown as a minimal humor instead of being the usual plot formula. Much like Squidward in "My Pretty Seahorse", in which he mocked the flowers and fell off the cliff, which felt justified, and he appeared a few minutes after that, revealing to be fine and appears more til after he showed Mystery eat all the money.

What do you think of the comparision? 