Cat wants lid to be closed

August 28, 2011 10:53 AM

Lid Cat Needs All Lids To Be Closed, a cat video with a surprising twist!!
posted by The Devil Tesla (30 comments total)

Silly cat, OCD is for humans.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 10:57 AM on August 28, 2011 [6 favorites]

Is the twist that a giant plastic snake didn't shoot out of the hole? Because that's what I was expecting.
posted by iamkimiam at 11:01 AM on August 28, 2011 [2 favorites]

The cat didn't want the lid to be closed. He wanted to play.
posted by Obscure Reference at 11:04 AM on August 28, 2011 [16 favorites]

Sleepy kitty wakes up!
posted by ericb at 11:11 AM on August 28, 2011 [2 favorites]

What was that the lid of? Was smoke coming out of it?
posted by alby at 11:19 AM on August 28, 2011 [2 favorites]

I think it's more like "Playing at Contrary Cat is Playing at Contrary"
posted by bleep at 11:35 AM on August 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

I am still waiting for the surprising twist
posted by drdarknuss at 11:35 AM on August 28, 2011 [7 favorites]

It's where the giant plastic snake lives and breathes. Or so I thought.
posted by iamkimiam at 11:35 AM on August 28, 2011

I think it's a humidifier.
posted by deludingmyself at 11:35 AM on August 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

First, that cat does not want all lids to be closed; that cat wants control of that lid. This is a less global and more all-encompassing desired than you had led us to believe.

Second, I thought the cat was sitting on a paper shredder, and I had a horrified anticipation of what the "twist" was. I am glad to see that I was wrong.
posted by GenjiandProust at 11:35 AM on August 28, 2011 [12 favorites]

Bugs: Duck season!
Daffy: Rabbit season!
Bugs: Duck season!
Daffy: Rabbit season!
Bugs: Duck season!
Daffy: Rabbit season!
Bugs: Rabbit season!
Daffy: Duck season!
posted by scalefree at 11:42 AM on August 28, 2011 [33 favorites]

FIRE!
posted by lemuring at 11:44 AM on August 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

The twist is the cat is genuinely self aware. Check out the look he gives the cameraman at the end, he is like "good,now leave it closed, I told you I didn't want you messing with my humidifier, you know how my sinuses get"
posted by Ad hominem at 11:45 AM on August 28, 2011 [20 favorites]

Was smoke coming out of it?

Humidifier/ steam, I believe.
posted by yerfatma at 11:46 AM on August 28, 2011

Shiro vs the Chair

Part 2
posted by homunculus at 12:20 PM on August 28, 2011 [4 favorites]

I am still waiting for the surprising twist

The twist is that, once the lid was closed, the cat OPENED IT OMG
posted by The Devil Tesla at 12:41 PM on August 28, 2011 [4 favorites]

NO WAY!

(also, at about that same time, a man in a gorilla suit walks by the camera. It's nuts.)
posted by iamkimiam at 12:54 PM on August 28, 2011 [7 favorites]

He who fights with lid-openers must take care lest he thereby become a lid-opener. If you gaze for long into an opened humidifier lid, the open humidifier lid gazes also into you.
posted by Ian A.T. at 1:01 PM on August 28, 2011 [20 favorites]

Shiro vs the Chair

That cat looks like a Gremlin. Its name should be Gizmo.
posted by Redfield at 1:08 PM on August 28, 2011

Would love to see a battle between that cat and this cat or this cat. Would all the containers end up open or closed?
posted by jocelmeow at 2:01 PM on August 28, 2011 [3 favorites]

Reminds me of the useless machine.
posted by brenton at 3:18 PM on August 28, 2011 [5 favorites]

'One day, I will have gathered everything I need: the plastic bag, the chlorine-based cleaning products, the length of tube, the mixing flask with rubber stopper. And on that day, I will end you, like this!'

*poke*
posted by obiwanwasabi at 4:17 PM on August 28, 2011

It's still more entertaining than "Jersey Shore".
posted by mrbarrett.com at 4:23 PM on August 28, 2011 [9 favorites]

The lid stays SHUT.
The lid stays SHUT.
The lid stays SHUT.
[etc.]
Oh dang, did it die?
Sniff sniff.
Chewy edge. Aha.
Oooh, steeam, cool.
Hey, what are you looking at??
posted by Namlit at 5:11 PM on August 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

Kitty chan kawaii-yo!
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 6:53 PM on August 28, 2011

It's still more entertaining than "Jersey Shore".

Not entirely understanding why I can't favorite this five times.
posted by halfbuckaroo at 8:01 PM on August 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

Jocelmeow's posted video of a cat opening lids to get to cat food remind me of this cat I had once who learned how to open doors by turning the knob with her paws. She also repurposed household objects as tools (for example she used to knock down a yardstick that hung on the kitchen wall and swipe it under the fridge to retrieve lost toys). I did not train her to do those things.

I think the only reason cats haven't taken over the world yet is that running the world would cut too much into nap time.
posted by BlueJae at 8:28 PM on August 28, 2011 [4 favorites]

It's also because they have not yet figured out how to isolate and destroy all sources of distracting bits of stringys.
posted by elizardbits at 9:48 PM on August 28, 2011 [4 favorites]

It the comments it says that it's a "stove" or in non Japanese English... a space heater.
posted by sleepytako at 12:37 AM on August 29, 2011

Would love to see a battle between that cat and this cat or this cat.

That second one is (very nearly) called Mi-go. It wants all brain cylinders to remain closed.
posted by emmtee at 2:09 AM on August 29, 2011