I’m posting this question by a friend on another forum because the SDMB is good for this sort of trivia:
In the later series of Buffy, Willow has a print of an orange cat on her wall.
It’s def hanging when she lives in the summers house.
What is it?
The orange cat?
It’s not a picture of Miss Kitty Fantastico, since she had different colouring.
Totally obscure, so I can see how no one would recognize it, but I bet it’s this guy.
Kidding, kidding. You don’t have a screenshot, do you? I’m trying to find one. Or can you tell me a specific episode to look at when I get home?
ETA:
If it’s a cartoon of a cat versus a photograph of one, is there any particular reason to assume the cat “is” anyone, or has any significance beyond decoration?
Heh. No, not Garfield. It’s not me asking, but a friend; I just thought Dopers would appreciate the challenge. I’ll ask her. But I think it was just in a couple of episodes.
Buffy aired from 1997 to 2003; I don’t think Willow was shown living in the Summers house until the beginning of Season 6 after Buffy died, to take care of Dawn, so that would put it at late 2001 through early 2003. The Harry Potter books came out starting in 1997, so it’s certainly *possible *for Crookshanks to be the inspiration for the cat.
Of course, the idea of a cat as a witch’s familiar didn’t originate with Rowling, and Willow certainly had an established fondness for cats, having had one as a pet.
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Anyway, when that happens just put your cursor in your browsers address bar (and don’t forget the all-important lime in the coconut thing) and hit enter/click ‘go’/whatever works with your browser. Page should load. If not, drink more.
I cropped the screenshot down to just the relevant bit and hosted it here. (Looking through the rest of the screenshots, I couldn’t find anything better–also, wow, I’d forgotten how much happened in that episode.)
Especially in combination with the other pieces, it looks like just generic “art” to me–the kind of stuff the set dressers would pull out of a warehouse based on what kind of character they’re decorating for. Tried a reverse image search with TinyEye, but nothing turned up.
It does actually look familiar to me, but that’s possibly because I’ve seen that episode so often. I thought it might be from the Jetsons or something else set in space, but the Jetsons didn’t have a cat.