The side you lick
They finally shut up.
Synopsis
Under the mixing desk, in the cat's stash, there is a record with no printed label. The label is stuck on, and it is licked.
Plot
While that side plays, the cat can be understood. It lasts as long as the side: twenty two minutes, on a clock running from the first minute. And the early way out is shown before it matters: you have to laugh for real, and in there nobody feels like it. One place: inside the groove. A pink plain that breathes, the horizon made of fur, where everything is the size it is for a cat: a chair is a mountain and a human hand is a building that moves on its own.
Tag
After the credits, a secondary character from this episode, later and somewhere else.
Regulo is left alone on the pink plain in the enormous jacket, walking a slow circle with his hands lost inside the sleeves. He has the white shoelace tied round his wrist over the sleeve, the knot pulled tight and the ends frayed, and he sits down where they had been sitting.
Trivia and continuity
The cat talks for the whole episode, in a calm human voice with no cartoon in it at all, and nobody in frame finds that strange. That same voice is the one he uses throughout Leche Cortada. They come down remembering almost nothing of what he said. One sentence.
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The cat