Earl The Cat

''Use Earl to relieve your Office headaches. Recommended adult dose should not '' ''exceed 8 hours per day. ''

-Microsoft Office description for Earl.

Earl The Cat is a character that was made by Microsoft and released in 1997 for Microsoft Office 97, and remade as a Microsoft Agent character some years later.

Description
Earl is a blue anthropomorphic cat that has some resemblance with Bubsy the Bobcat.

Animations
Unlike other Office assistants, Earl had cartoony and wacky animations, probably inspired by old cartoons like Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry.

Versions
2 versions of Earl have been released, one of them didn't use Microsoft Agent technology.

1997 version
The original Earl was released in 1997 for Microsoft Office 97. There's no difference between this version and the next one, except that it didn't use Microsoft Agent technology.

Microsoft Agent version
This version was presumably made by Microsoft, and it had the exact animations from the previous one.

Animation list

 * Appear
 * Begging
 * ByeBye
 * Champion
 * Confused
 * Crying
 * Disappear
 * Dying
 * Fighting
 * IdiotUser
 * Idle(blink)
 * Idle(Hacky Head)
 * Idle(Pogo)
 * Idle(scratch)
 * Idle(sniffs himself)
 * Idle(tailwag)
 * Idle(turns body to screen)
 * Idle(turns head to screen)
 * Indifferent
 * MazMove
 * MazMove(old)
 * MazMoveReturn
 * Nervous
 * Pogo
 * RestPose
 * Scared
 * Scratch
 * Shocked
 * Sniffs
 * Tailwag
 * Thinking1
 * ThumbsUp
 * Waiting
 * WaitingLong
 * Winning

Trivia

 * He is the second character made by Microsoft that is based in a cat, along with Scribble and Links.