Any of ya'll ever used to read the "Peanuts" comic strip back around the late 60s - early 70s? Remember the little girl named "Frieda" who was quite proud of her "naturally curly hair"? Remember her cat named "Faron" (the cartoonist Charles Schulz said he named the cat after country & western singer Faron Young) that was, say, quite "flexible", and that she used to carry (or rather, wear) around her neck like a mink stole?

Well, in this (IMO delightful) episode, Fred Gwynne plays a wealthy retired widower who's quite lonely, but not looking for feminine companionship at this time. His son, played by Paul Hecht, seems to underestimate how lonely his father is, but recommends to his father that he get a cat to keep him company. He tells his Dad that studying the cat will show him how to relax.

Gwynne's character scoffs at the notion at first, but as he finds himself ever more isolated finally gives in and gets a cat from his housekeeper's daughter, who picks up abandoned cats. So he relents and gives in, getting a piebald cat like the one above.

Within a week after getting the cat he starts studying its every move, getting ever more comfortable to having it in his life. In fact, he gets so comfortable that his son is unnerved in a subsequent visit when he sees his Dad walking around with the cat draped over his shoulders, "Frieda-style".

BTW, there's more to that cat than meets the eye... 