For some reason I also decided that Kitty should start wearing glasses, and would be the sort that pulls them out when she needs them. (There’s a pun because “megane” means glasses in Japanese.)
The “squint-pull maneuver” was a thing from the Colbert Report which I think even at the time when the comic went up was obscure even to fans of the show, because it’s kind of in the nature of things that with a topical comedy show some bits fade with time.