The Wildest Scene In ‘Cats’ Just Got Way Wilder Thanks To The Descriptive Video Service Feature

Listen, I don’t think it’s so much of a stretch to suggest that Cats brought a great curse upon the world.

Think about it. Tom Hooper’s adaptation of the big budget Andrew Lloyd Webber musical hit us late last year, and literally nothing has been right since then. We’ve had waves of bushfires, Bernie Sanders dropping out of the democratic race, and a deadly pandemic that has forced us all inside. Shit has sucked, is what I’m saying, and it’s all the fault of Cats.

And because true horrors never really leave, it seems like we are not done with the film and its CGI fur technology yet, either. Yep, one of the ugliest scenes in one of the ugliest films ever made is back to haunt us.

As you may have remembered, Cats contains a moment where the feline performed by Rebel Wilson lays back and watches some tap-dancing cockroaches with human faces strut their stuff, eventually chomping down on a few. It was a fever dream then, and it’s a fever dream now.

But somehow, the scene gets only crazier when some poor sap has to explain it out loud as it’s happening.

See, the Cats blu-ray comes with a “descriptive video service” track, in which a calm-voiced narrator explains what’s going on in the film for those with visual impairment.

It’s… I mean, just see for yourself:

Ok, new best thing on the Cats blu ray: the "descriptive video service" track, wherein someone was given the LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE task of verbally explaining what is happening on-screen in Cats in real-time. pic.twitter.com/bUGioSzytq

— Carter McKendry (@cmckendry) April 16, 2020

How much more of this film will our culture be able to take? Who knows, but between this new meme and the calls for a release of the “butthole cut” of the film, we shouldn’t expect to be free of this horror any time soon.