Once inside, he boasts about his new cellphone, showing off his ringtone ("The Kitty Bobo Kool Kustom Ringer Song"), but refuses to reveal its provenance.

Paul and Monkey Carl can't go, so Maggie drags Kitty Bobo into the theater, annoyed at his obsession with his new phone.

The next morning, while on his bike, Kitty Bobo calls Maggie, who tells him to stop talking about his cellphone and makes plans to meet up with him later that day.

[2][3] Kaliher graduated from the California Institute of the Arts and was hired by Cartoon Network to work as a storyboard artist on Dexter's Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls.

In years prior to making the pilot, she had started a nonprofit organization for helping adopted children locate their biological parents.

[4] The character of Kitty Bobo had also been featured a comic strip by Dunn titled Kimchi Girl, which had been published in Korean Quarterly since its inception in 1997.

[2] In a retrospective review of the show, Amid Amidi of the animation entertainment blog Cartoon Brew wrote that, relative to pilots produced by the network, Kitty Bobo had "some potential".

[8] Also writing retrospectively, Adam Finley of AOL TV, stated that, while "not side-splitting by any means," the pilot contained a few comedic elements.

[9] A storyboard for the second episode had been fully produced and completed in 2002, and it was ordered by Cartoon Network itself; in its plot Kitty Bobo is kicked out of his home and moves in with Monkey Carl (he proves to be a poor guest).

[4] Dunn divorced Kaliher in 2005 and moved to the East Coast along with her daughter to work as creative director for a 3D pharmaceutical studio in Baltimore.

[6] In fall of 2005, Kaliher pitched to Walt Disney Television Animation a pilot's revised version, with the characters a bit younger.

Dunn returned in August 2010 to her hometown of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to start her own animation and graphic-design company named Dunnamic.