The old Felix the Cat cartoons from the 1920s/30s were really good - and just a touch (?) surreal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxailD4Ofq4

I love him! (Took me ages to get an image of him to appear!)

Puss in boots from the Shrek films;

And Top Cat - only *30* episodes were made - can't believe that.

I loved TC and his gang; I used to race home from school when he was on - was it Tuesday teatimes?

Will try to get a YouTube of the Top Cat theme. There must be one.







PS Tried to get a picture of the whole gang in the alley, but couldn't. I think they are all copyright protected.

We can't forget this pair;

Nor can we forget Sylvester and Tweety.

Or my favourite, Tigger

I seem to remember that TC had a voice very like Phil Silvers although it may not have been him, does anyone know?

Yes - TC was based entirely on Bilko, they even had a version of Dobermann called Benny in it.

Gran wrote:

I seem to remember that TC had a voice very like Phil Silvers although it may not have been him, does anyone know?

More details here, Gran:

http://www.toonopedia.com/topcat.htm

(Please note Benny's correct name is Benny the Ball).

I was surprised to read this in the article: "Top Cat never did become one of Hanna-Barbera's superstars, and is today the least well-remembered of their 1960s prime-time animated sitcoms."

Surely not? Top Cat was a great favourite with just about everyone I knew/know.

But these two must be the best - if nastiest - cartoon cats ever? (1955)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdDla0QW844

Just checked out who wrote the song - it was Peggy Lee. She sang it, too - did the voices for both cats. She does a great purrrrr (and yiss)!

Love the web address!

Thanks Temp. I loved the teeth joke by the way and I can still remember Peggy Lee singing that song.

Garfield is now into his 30's;

Prepare for the Catpocolypse;

What a clever add Trike!

It is ID. There is another one where the Cravendale cats have a secret bunker and are brainwashing milkmen. Not yet on youtube that I can see.

T.

It is there after all;

I hope those two are not royal moggies, ID.

Aren't all cats royal, or at least think they are? Here's the cat's dream

He was a lion in a previous incarnation.

You would be surprised at who gets reincarnated as a cat;

Does anyone remember Cat, the cat from "Breakfast at Tiffany's"? Holly Golightly named him Cat so she wouldn't get too attached to him:


Holly Golightly: He's all right! Aren't you, cat? Poor cat! Poor slob! Poor slob without a name! The way I see it I haven't got the right to give him one. We don't belong to each other. We just took up one day by the river. I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.

Holly Golightly: I'm like cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us. We don't even belong to each other.


Back in a sec with a picture of Cat.

Mustn't forget -

Temperance wrote:

I hope those two are not royal moggies, ID.

Nah Temp, they've got their tops firmly on, these are well raised girls.

These poor cats do not look impressed, and who can blame them?.........