The Mask is the seventh episode of season four, and the fourty-sixth episode total. It is the second two-part episode of the series. It originally aired on October 18th, 2002.
Plot Outline
A masked woman with a mysterious past comes to the farm and attacks Courage. Fearing the safety of his owners, Courage must repair the root of her problems so she can leave.
Plot
It's just a normal day for Courage until a masked woman comes and hurts him and Muriel invites her to dinner and the masked woman tells Muriel, Eustace, and Courage learns of her past. After the dinner, the masked woman attacks him and one night, Courage finds a toy mouse which is a reminder of Bunny. Courage comes to the Diner and learns from Charlie the Mouse that Mad Dog has Bunny in his apartment. By the meantime, Courage's owners are worried where Courage is. Courage soons finds Bunny and Bunny does not want to go with him until Courage shows her the mouse and that creates a trust and Courage takes out Mad Dog's henchmen and Bunny and Courage escapes from the apartment and Courage tells Bunny to go but when Mad Dog pursues Bunny and Courage is able to defeat him and Bunny and Kitty give Courage a thank you and the next day, Courage returns only to hear from Muriel that Eustace now wears the mask.
Trivia
- First appearance of Kitty, Bunny, and Mad Dog.
- The second two-parter, after The Tower of Dr. Zalost.
- Kitty's mask is an oversized homage to the 80's anime by Osamu Tezuka "Bagi: Monster of Mighty Nature", in which an intelligent genetically modified panther dressed in a trenchcoat and porcelain mask as a disquise while searching japan seeking her childhood owner, the son of the geneticist who created and killed her mother, and many other modified animals.