The Aristocats

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Ha -cha -cha -cha -cha! For the first time on

Special Edition DVD, Walt Disney's jazzy classic,

The Aristocats! Meow! Meet a wealthy duchess

and her three adorable kittens. Why should you

beef her? Cause I'm a lady, that's why. You're

not a lady. You're nothing but a sister! They've

been catnapped. They're gone! By a greedy butler,

out to steal their fortune. What's gonna happen

to us? Now, it's up to O'Malley, the Streetwise

Alley Cat, to save the day. Yeah. As he and his

friends help Duchess and her kittens find their

way home. Charge! Lay some skin on me, scat cat.

This is outrageous and crazy. Fire! With bonus

features including an all -new virtual kitten

game and a newly rediscovered song. Everybody

wants to be a cat. Hello and welcome to the 88th

episode of Tooncast brought to you by the GeekCast

Radio Network. I, Rose, D .O .G. and Mike. And

today I'm joined once again by Kevin Ogimisolo

Thompson. Hello. And making her return is the

rising star, Tara. Hello. Hey. How's it going?

Everything's going good, thanks. How are you?

Pretty good, pretty good. That's not convincing.

Oh, shit. Cheer up, Mike. Shut the hell up. I'm

going to inject you with a five -hour energy

drink. Oh, no. Do they make a five -hour sleep

drink? Because I would take that. Not before

you're done with the podcast. No, I meant after

this hour. No sleeping through the podcast. Oh,

please. I'm sure you've slept through a few episodes.

Only the Star Wars one. That has nothing to do

with Tooncast, but anyway. That's true. Today

we're going to be going back into the Disney

Vault and talking about Aristocats. Yes we are.

The Aristocats. I don't think it really matters

what character Phil Harris ever voices. I see

nothing but Baloo every time I hear his voice.

But we'll get to that. Anything else we need

to bring up? Shut up, Kevin. No, nothing else

we need to bring up except for that Mike hasn't

seen the movie in its entirety. I have too! Shut

the hell up! Skipped multiple - Did not, shut

up. Go in the history lesson already, you asshole.

Alright, for those of you that actually may want

to watch the entire movie, the Aristocats is

an animated feature. Obviously it's produced

by Walt Disney, and it was made in 1970 and it

is number 20 out of the Walt Disney animated

classic series. It is based on a story by Tom

McGowan and Tom Rowe and revolves around a family

of aristocratic cats and how an alley cat acquaintance

helps them after a butler has kidnapped them

to gain his mistress's fortune. and obviously

the title is a pun on the word aristocrat. The

film is noted for being the very last film to

be approved by Walt Disney himself as he died

in late 1966 before the film was actually released

and garnered positive reviews and was a box office

success. It is also the last Disney film to end

with the words a Walt Disney production as it

would be changed to Walt Disney Productions to

appear under the end logo. So there's a little

bit of trivia right off the bat. So, Tara, what

do you remember about Arista Cats? What I remember

about this movie is the humor. Yeah. A lot of

humor and it was cute. I thought the cats were

cute. I thought the storyline was really engaging

and the characters were really memorable. That's

basically what I remember. Yeah, I remember,

you know, I've always been a bigger fan of cats

than dogs because dogs are stupid. But anyway,

that's another story. But no, I actually don't

remember this one a whole lot from my childhood.

I remember liking it when I was a kid. But I

honestly couldn't have told you a lot about the

plot until I rewatched it and then it all came

flooding back. But I definitely remember the

music. I remember some of the main characters.

And it was just, like you said, it was a fun,

cute movie. I just, I don't know, I remember

good things about it from my childhood. So Mike,

oh wait, you've never seen it before. The whole

time I was watching this, I was like, oh, it's

101 Dalmatians with a plot that doesn't involve

puppy fur. I was like, holy crap, the villain

wants the millions. He wants to get rid of the

animals. Yeah, it's 101 Dalmatians for cats.

Lovely. That takes place in France. Oh god. It's

not really a 101 Dalmatian. No, 101 Dalmatians

is ten times better, but anyway. No, it's not.

Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Yes, it is.

But anyway. It's a completely different story,

though. Whatever. You're missing the whole part

about the heuristic. It might be a completely

different story. It might be said in a completely

different place, but it's the same overall premise.

Of course. A person wants employers millions.

gets rid of cats to do so 101 Dalmatian person

wants puppies for fur and she's gonna eventually

kill the puppies. You're killing puppies, you're

killing kittens, it's the same damn thing. In

101 Dalmatians, there's a whole storyline about

the difference between aristocratic society and

alley cat society and the love story and how

you separate that and go home to your owner compared

to living out on the streets. It doesn't even

talk anything about the two different societies

mixing and meshing, so it's not really the same

story. It has parts that are the same, but it's

completely different story yeah the overall premise

is the same let's just agree on one thing both

have cases of animal cruelty yes they both have

similar parts but it's not all the same story

it's basically the same premise in both films

no sorry when it comes to the animals when it

comes to the animals outside of the fact they

don't you know outside of the fact that You know,

what was his name? Edgar doesn't want the cat

fur. I mean, it's the same thing. They're both...

Cruella and Edgar should get fucking married

for Christ's sake. They both want to kill animals.

Yep. Giving them sleeping pills? That's why they

titled it that, because the whole story was supposed

to be more about the aristocratic society mixing

and meshing with street society. I mean, yes,

it has some plot parts that are the same, but

it's not the major premise. Yeah. Sorry, Mike.

Moving right along. Yes. I mean come on the butler

puts like a whole bottle of sleeping pills in

their food. This one is a little more violent

Yeah When I saw that I'm like no, I'm like no

don't do that First for some strange reason when

I saw that whole scene First thing that popped

into my head was um oh What's his name from office

space? Don't watch that show What's his name?

What's his name? Milton, at the very end of the

movie, I'm going to put Strict Night in the guacamole.

I remember that. Yes. That's hilarious. Yes.

What else do we want to say about this movie

before we go on to the characters? We'll get

into stuff as we go. It has some great characters,

though. Oh, yes. Alley Cat. Love him. Yeah, Thomas

O'Malley is just... so cool in this movie. Like,

if you could be Thomas O'Malley, you would. Like,

he is just the essence of cool. And obviously,

like Mike mentioned before, he is played by Phil

Harris, who did Baloo and who did... Little John

in Robin Hood, who's just a great voice actor.

I mean, he uses the same voice in all his roles,

but it's just such a great voice. So he's the

main character. Then you have Duchess, who is,

I don't really like Ava Gabor that much, but

she's a voice of Duchess. And then you have the

three little cats, Toulouse, Marie, and Berlioz,

who their voice actors are not important because

they'd never voice anything again. Then you have

Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, who's played by Hermione

Badly. She was in Mary Poppins and a couple other

things for Disney. Not a whole lot in animation

except for this, but she did a lot of more stuff

in live action. And her butler, Edgar, and her

lawyer, George Huckwort. I don't remember if

that's how you say his last name or not, but

those are the main characters as far as the cats

and then the humans involved with it and then

we obviously have some pretty cool and some pretty

annoying mixture of side characters. Mostly annoying.

Well, I love Roquefort, the mouse. Yeah, I like

his voice. Well, Sterling Holloway is a genius.

He's probably one of the most famous Disney voice

actors of all time, and he's excellent. You have

the horse, who is actually Ruth Buzzy, who does

a lot more animated series, not so much movies

after this. You have a couple geniuses, also

voice actors, Pat Butchram as Napoleon and George

Lindsay as Lafayette. George Lindsay was Trigger

in Robin Hood. And, you know, I love those two

as they play off each other because they have

two phenomenal voices. Then the annoying characters

for me are the three geese, Abigail, Amelia,

and Gabble, and Uncle Waldo. Even though Uncle

Waldo is voiced by Bill Thompson, who's pretty

good, I just, I don't know, I don't care for

the geese at all. I don't care for the part of

the movie that they're in. So I could do without

them and then you have the cat band or the scat

cat and shung on hit cat Peppo and Billy boss

who Wow, throw Ravens craft Lord Tim Hudson Paul

Winchell and scat man crothers. Oh, yeah And

then Peter Rennaday played a few small parts

too, but uh Tara, which characters do you like

the most the characters? I like the most I love

Thomas O'Malley Yeah, I also love one of the

kittens. It's the one with the blue bowtie Yeah,

the funniest part with him is when the sister

is like, I'm a lady, that's why I go first. And

he's like, you're not a lady, you're nothing

but a sister. That was the funniest thing ever.

And yeah, just those are two of my favorite characters.

I don't really care for the sister very much.

I don't know why. I don't know if she's just

a little too, I mean, obviously she's supposed

to be a aristocratic and whatnot, but yeah, I

like Toulouse. I even like Berlioz a little bit

better, but I think both of the male kittens

are pretty funny. Mm -hmm. Yeah, the boys. You

know what I just realized? The two children's

sisters, the one from this and the one from Lady

and the Tramp 2, you don't like. Yeah. I don't

know. It's something about those sisters. Yeah.

But, no, I like Napoleon the Lafayette. I think

they're pretty cool. Like I said, I could do

without the geese. And the cat, the band of cats,

some of them I like and some of them I don't

like. Was there any, or Mike, you didn't say

anything about which character is your favorite

or which ones you liked? Probably has to be Thomas

O'Malley, the alley cat, just because, I mean,

I like the, I like the, his little, I guess,

band of merry cats or whatever. But, scat cats

gang. Yeah. Yeah, there you go. Is that right?

I think that's what they call it. Yeah, that's

true. I didn't catch that until you... I caught

it when I was watching it, but I was like, it

didn't click in my head. And I was like, oh yeah,

that's interesting. Why is jazz in a cat outfit?

Jazz in a cat outfit singing jazz. That's epic.

You know what, Kev? I have to agree with you

about the comment you made about the geese. I

hated them. Yeah, they were just annoying. I

mean, I guess Uncle Waldo was funny for maybe

a second, but I was just like, somebody shoot

those geese. He's drunk. He's the drunk guy.

I like how they don't hide it at all either.

The geese for me are kind of like the fairies,

or not the fairies, the mermaids from Peter Pan.

They're just total ancillary characters that

are so unnecessary. Yeah, no, I yeah, I just

didn't like him at all their whole scene like

that is one scene in the movie that I wouldn't

mind skipping if I watch it again because I'm

just like I Seriously, there's much animal cruelty

as it is in this movie. Why couldn't we have

just shot the geese? It's hunting season Yeah,

put one more scene with Napoleon and Lafayette

the dogs or put one more scene with scat cats

gang and then take the geese out It's duck hunt

Yeah, that's hilarious. I will say at first when

I saw Napoleon and what's the other dog's name?

Lafayette. Napoleon and Lafayette. When I first

saw Napoleon, I thought it was another, not ripoff,

but another port over from trustee's model. But

it's not. At first, when I first saw it, I thought

it was. But I like Napoleon and Lafayette. They're

kind of cool, and it kind of brings in the same

thing that you had in 101 with having animals

that have ranks and stuff. Right. And Napoleon

is the same voice actor that did Chief from Fox

and the Hound. Oh, interesting. So it's kind

of a similar type of role, I guess. But yeah,

I just love those two voice actors. And when

they're together with most of those scenes, I

just thought it worked really well. Yeah. George

Lindsay as Lafayette and as Trigger are both

two great roles for him. Did you hear Thirl Ravenscroft

as the deep sounding cat? Did anybody pick that

out? Yep. I was like, that guy is deep sounding.

That has to be Ravenscroft. Yeah. That's a, I

think, hasn't he passed away since? Yeah. That

would be a soundbite or an interview I would

have loved to have had. Oh yeah. That would have

been so awesome to talk to Thirl Ravenscroft.

Yeah, him and Candy Candido were just so deep

voiced, it was ridiculous. And without even having

the scene, it seemed like it was effortlessly.

The other voice actor I want to bring up, I know

I mentioned him again, but I thought Paul Winchell

was phenomenal as Shungan. He didn't have very

many lines, but he sounded completely like that

character, like you picture that character to

sound. And I'm a big Paul Winchell fan anyway,

so I had to mention him again. You know what?

Most of the voice cast did a really good job.

They fit their characters. Yeah, like I said,

I don't care for Ava Gabor, but it's not because

she did a bad job. It's just because I don't

care for her voice. Yeah. But she still did a

fine job playing that part. Phil Harris did an

awesome job as Thomas. I love Phil Harris. Yeah.

I don't think anyone else can put a resume that

has three major Disney characters as much as

he can. Oh, yeah. Like Little John, Baloo, and

Thomas O'Malley. Not many people can put, you

know, something that can match that up. Nope.

Didn't you put another one, though? Wasn't there...

I seek to remember, he's done a lot of Disney

characters. Yeah, he was, um... Oh, let me think

real quick for a second. He was also, uh... Well,

he was a character in Rock -A -Doodle, but that's

something different. These were his only three

main Disney roles. Yeah. He might have been some,

like... additional voices in something that never

got credited. Yeah. But hey, if those are going

to be the only three Disney roles you get. Oh

yeah. Why not? Exactly. You're immortalized forever.

That's right. Yeah, so I mean, I think we're

all in agreement that Thomas Lomale is probably

the best character and the geese are the worst

characters. Yeah, pretty much, yeah. And the

rest is kind of a mixture of, you know, different

levels. It's like meh. Yeah. That's what I said

in the very beginning, meh. Yeah, but you said

it about the whole movie, jerk. Anyway, yeah.

I would have said if I was on the 101 Dalmatians

record. Whatever. It's not our fault you had

other things to do. Yeah, I know. Show must go

on. Showbiz. Yes. Getting into some behind the

scenes segment here really quick. This film was

the last one to be approved by Walt Disney himself

and the first one produced after his death in

1966. The film took four years to produce and

a budget of four million dollars. Five of Disney's

legendary nine old men worked on it including

the Disney crew that had been working at 25 years

on average. So they had a lot of experience when

they went to this one. Oh yeah. Oh you can tell.

Yeah just a little bit as far as the the animation

and stuff like that since we're in that segment.

I will say that that is one thing that kind of

bugged me a little bit about this movie. I know

it's the same similar animation as is on multiple

other Disney films, but I didn't like the fact

that on this one more than any other ones you

could, for me it was almost distracting being

able to see the amount of, I don't know what

you want to call it, the pencil lines or the

actual drawing marks. And I know you probably

can see those in other Disney movies, but I never

have noticed it as much as I do with Aristocats.

Yeah, I don't know if anyone knows what I'm talking

about, but you can like I yeah, I saw that too

Especially on the humans faces and in their hair

like in the very first scene when it's madam

and I think it's with the lawyer the lawyer yeah

all the the drawing lines everywhere and I don't

know. For some reason, it was distracting for

me on this one. I especially noticed the drawing

lines when two men, Edgar and the lawyer, were

interacting when the lawyer first shows up. Yeah.

I'm sure Superfan Ken can give us some information

as to why that might have been in this one more

than other ones. Maybe they were using a little

different technique. I don't know. You mean Kevin,

not Ken? Yeah. I was confusing our usual... Ustream

fan with our... I mean, Ken might know, because

we are broadcasting this video at Ustream. Ken

Curry might know about the drawing lines, but

the super fan is Kevin Cooper. That's right.

But yeah, that's the only thing I really had

as far as animation -wise. I mean, obviously,

the milestone as far as the last Disney, actual

Walt Disney film, I guess. So that's kind of,

you know, momentous. Why don't you give us the

getting into the actual show? Why don't you give

us the five -minute plot here Kevin and then

Terry can take some of the trivia? Okay, I'll

try to do it in less than five minutes with that

but yeah basically in the beginning of the movie

you have the news of the cats inheriting the

fortune of Madame instead of Edgar that goes

the cats first and then after the cats are gone

then it goes to Edgar so Edgar comes up with

the idea that he is going to poison the cats

basically so he gives them sleeping pills and

takes them on a motorcycle ride to basically

dispose of them and And that's when we're introduced

to Napoleon and Lafayette the dogs, and they

kind of have an interaction with Edgar there,

which, to make a long story short, leaves the

cat stranded outside, where they run into the

character of Thomas O'Malley, the alley cat,

which I'm not going to say his whole name at

this point, but anyway. They run into Thomas

O'Malley and you know, they have the interaction

he and Duchess are falling for each other He's

not basically at the beginning not so keen on

the idea that she has kids and we basically have

a long -running story line here where Eventually,

he wants to be with Duchess etc. But Duchess

says that she can't because she needs to go home

to Madame because you know, she can't leave her

alone because the cats is all she had so Meanwhile,

we meet the geese, we meet some other characters,

etc. And then back at the house, the butler and

Roquefort have a scene together where Roquefort

finds out that the butler is bad and he basically

devotes the rest of his role in the movie to

helping the cats. Then we go back to Thomas O'Malley

and Duchess and the kittens and they meet the

scat cat gang which leads us to another song

and basically another scene where... Thomas O'Malley

is willing to be the cat's father, but Dutchess

refuses him again. And then they return to the

house where Madame lives. And the butler has

one last chance to get rid of him. He puts him

in a package to send to Timbuktu. Along with

Nermal. Along with Nermal. I've never actually

seen this work, but apparently it does in this

movie. And the robofort gets the scat cat gang

to come help out and Basically, the moral of

the story is that the butler gets put in the

package and sent to Timbuktu. So then the cats

move in Madame welcomes Thomas O'Malley into

the family and everybody lives happily ever after

the end The problem I have with this movie lies

within the plot Every time I've seen a VHS cover

or a DVD cover or a poster for this film, it

shows Duchess and Thomas together with the kittens.

So I always thought, and the one cat, the orange

cat, kind of looks like Thomas, so I always,

I, what? Toulouse. Whatever. It's a French name,

I'm not fucking pronouncing it. That's a name,

I was just helping out. Yeah. They look, not

exactly alike, but... To lose looks similar to

Thomas and at first I always thought that he

was the father of the kittens So that's my big

issue with the whole plot is that your issues

that one of the kittens looks like Thomas O'Malley

No, my issue is the fact that It's not really

with the actual plot. It's more with Disney They

market this with having Thomas and Duchess and

the kittens on the cover of everything But yet

we don't meet Thomas until Edgar Throws them

off the bridge like you know the penguins parents

didn't Batman returns I Don't have any problems

with the plot of this one. Yeah, do I I? Just

the only thing I had an issue with was just Edgar

Edgar was a little bit He is one of the I didn't

say this before we were talking about the characters

But he is one of the most like unassuming Disney

villains of all time. Oh, yeah Like you would

not if you just saw a picture of all the characters

and someone said point out the villain I don't

think anyone could. He doesn't look like it.

Yeah, I don't even know who you would pick out

as a villain just based on looks because none

of them look like they're villains. Yeah, exactly.

No one ever suspects the butler, right? Right,

the butler did it, darn it. But yeah, it always

takes me back that he's the bad guy. I'm like,

what? Really? I kind of, I don't know. I kind

of got the impression that he was before... Like

right when he started listening in on the conversation

with the lawyer and and what's her name? Yeah

But I didn't really get it until obviously She

says that the cats come first and then the butler

Obviously you get it from that point on but the

lawyer actually looks more evil than him at times

Not when he starts singing and dancing and stuff,

but like at the first time you see the lawyer

He looks almost more evil. So you think something's

up with the lawyer? Yeah You know, and then he's

like, needing help to get up the stairs, but

then he can dance fine. I don't know, he's a

crazy character, but at first if you had to pick,

I think you would pick the lawyer as the bad

guy. Definitely. But yeah, I don't know, I thought

the plot was pretty good. I mean, I'll give you,

before we get into the trivia, I'll give you

my two favorite scenes. My first favorite scene

is easy because it's when Thomas O'Malley is

first introduced and he has his song. because

that's probably one of my favorite songs in the

film, and I just think it's cool that he's just

kind of strutting his stuff and walking around

and, you know, being Mr. Cool Guy. But I also

love, there's a scene where, um... Roquefort

has just gotten the scat cat gang and he tells

them that the kittens and the cats are in trouble

and the gang starts taking off and then Roquefort

is slower and smaller so he's behind them and

it looks like he's chasing them and they go by

that guy that's sitting out in a little cafe

or whatever and he's drinking and he sees the

mouse chasing the cats and he's like what the

heck and he pours out all his alcohol. That's

hilarious. I love that scene. Those are my favorite

scenes. I don't know if any of you guys have

any favorite scenes or not. I like when the two

brother cats interrupt Marie in the piano lesson

in the beginning when they go off key and all

that with the piano and the paint gets on the

piano and stuff like that. I like that. I also

like the introduction of Thomas O'Malley. Again,

for some strange reason, every time I hear Phil

Harris' voice, more so when he's playing animal

characters. It's kind of hard to imagine Little

John in a Baloo suit. Anybody have a guess what

my least favorite scene is? Yes! Sarah, what

about you? What are some scenes that you like

in this one? I like those. I also goes back to

the piano scene more so with the painting when

one of the brothers is painting and he makes

a drawing of Edgar. Yeah. That was so cute. The

two brothers are just hilarious. I mean... when

she's just trying to do her piano lesson and

they're fooling around. She's all going to be

proper and they're like, screw that. Yeah, we're

not proper. One other thing I didn't necessarily

care for a lot is when Toulouse would try to

hiss. Because I've never seen a cat that spits

when they hiss. And he always like spit, like

there was liquid coming from his mouth. I know.

I'm like, that is nasty. That's nasty. Yeah.

Yeah, that was really funny for me. He would,

you know, he'd try and hiss like, you know, a

wild cat, and I'd be like, what are you trying

to do, buddy? Yeah, I mean, I liked that the

fur was standing on end and that he would, like,

you know, get all, like, his back would arch,

but then I'm like, why is he spitting? Yeah,

I've seen a cat hiss, and when cats hiss, they

don't spit. No, not at all. They show their teeth,

and that's it. Yeah, he would be growling, if

anything. He wouldn't be, uh... We're not growling,

but he'd be like hissing, you know? He'd be like,

ehhhh. They hiss sometimes, so. That's a little

bit of a flaw there. NitroStreak in the chat

says it's a kitten thing because they're not

adults yet, so they don't know how to hiss properly

just yet. Well, that, kind of, but I've had kittens

and I've had kittens that have hissed and they've

never spit, so... Maybe it's just not in every

kitten thing, but I've had multiple multiple

kittens because I'm a cat person and I've never

seen them spit when they hiss. They don't make

as much noise as the adult ones and they don't

have the growling effect and they don't do it

quite right, but I've never seen one spit. He's

trying to be an adult. Can't blame it. That's

my one problem, I guess, with the movie. Getting

into some trivia, Tara, why don't you take some

of the trivia points here? Sure thing. So first

up, we got the character of Scat Cat was designed

to be voiced by Louis Armstrong. The character's

look was modeled after Armstrong, the way he

played his trumpet, his roly -poly physique,

right down to the prominent gap between his teeth.

However, at the last moment, for unknown reasons,

Armstrong quit the film without recording a single

line. His replacement, Scatman Crothers, was

directed to pretend you're a... Satchmo. Satchmo.

Satchmo Louis Armstrong. Satchmo. Louis Armstrong

would have been great, but I love Scanlan Carther's

too, so it's not like it's a bad replacement.

But Louis Armstrong was the man. So that would

have been cool if he would have done some lines

in this one. That would have been awesome. And

then next, we got the Sherman Brothers, Richard

M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, whose father

wrote the big Chevalier hit, Living in the Sunlight,

Loving in the Moonlight. Talk Maurice Chevalier

out of retirement to sing the title song. Yeah,

and Maurice Chevalier is like one of the most

famous French actors from back in like the 30s

and whatnot. He was in the movie Can Can and

Gigi and a bunch of stuff. So yeah, they talked

him out of retirement and they actually talk

about that on one of the special features on

the DVD. He has a pretty cool voice at the beginning

of the film. Yeah, it's a very, very good voice.

And then also Eva Gabor and Pat... We're both

starring together in the TV series Green Acres

while recording voices for this animated film.

So they must have known each other pretty well

then. And this was originally intended as a two

-part live -action installment of the TV series

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color in 1954.

That would have been very strange. I'm actually

glad that didn't happen. Yeah, me too. I'm gonna

put it together as a movie. Otherwise, it would

have been like, uh, Cinderella 3. Yeah. Hey!

Let's not go there. Cinderella 3 was good. It's

Cinderella 2 that's bad. Get it right, dumbass.

Yeah, Cinderella 2, man. It's not dumb. It's

smart. Dumbass. Not a dumbass. Dumbass. Oh, we

got Thomas O'Malley's full name. Give it to us.

Oh, yeah. I got a mouthful here. Thomas O'Malley's

full name is Abraham de Lacey. Goose up. Casey

Thomas O'Malley. He says it in the song and the

kids actually call him it a couple times. It's

kind of funny. I can't pronounce that. And the

character of Uncle Waldo the English Goose was

the last role of voice actor Bill Thompson who

died from a heart attack at age 58 shortly after

the film was released. And this was Ruth Buzzi's

first feature film. And the Goose sisters, Abigail

and Amelia, are voiced by Carol Shelley and Monica

Evans, who played the equally chatty Pigeon Sisters,

Cecilia and Gwendolyn in the movie TV series

and original Broadway production of Neil Simon's

The Odd Couple in 1968. They also provide the

voice of Maid Marian and Lady Cluck in Disney's

Robin Hood from 1973. Yes. So this is like the

changing of an era. We have Walt Disney being

done, Bill Thompson who's probably like the second

most prolific Disney male voice actor being done.

Then we have Ruth Buzzy starting and it's almost

like a shifting of the guards here. Very interesting

little trivia. Yeah, but no Mickey Mouse's and

no Castle Thunder. No hidden Mickeys. There's

nowhere really in the film to put a hidden Mickey.

Oh sure, they could have somehow. I'm sure they

could have come up with something. I don't outright

hate the film, but it's not one of my Disney

favorites at all. This is not a movie that I

can put in for enjoyment whatsoever, but at the

same time I don't outright hate it. Tell me you

hated it before you'd ever seen it. No, I didn't.

That's not what I said. Okay, you said you weren't

going to like it. You know what? This film wasn't

that bad. Like it wasn't. I sat through it and

I enjoyed it and I had a few laughs. I'm not

saying I'm going to put it in like my top five

Disney movies of all time or anything, but it's

better than some of the crap. Oh, definitely.

Definitely. It's a lot better than some of the

other stuff that we've seen Disney throw out

there. I don't know, 101 and Robin Hood give

it a run for its money. Robin Hood's definitely...

Robin Hood's way better than this. 101 is on

the same level. No, no it's not. 101 is way better

than this. Anyways, so yeah, moving on to the

music segment. There is a soundtrack for this,

surprisingly. Six songs are on the soundtrack.

Only Thomas O'Malley, Cat... O'Malley the Alley

Cat is on the purple disc and Everybody Wants

to Be a Cat on the orange disc for Disney. Classic

Disney, 60 years of musical magic. And on Disney

Greatest Hits, this includes Everybody Wants

to Be a Cat on the red disc. Yeah, but there's

some great songs in this one. I love everybody.

Everybody wants to be a cat. And then the Thomas

O'Malley Cat. You know, I don't necessarily love

the Scales and Arpeggios song, but it's a good,

cute song for the little kittens. And I like

the Aristocats opening theme. It's not like one

of my favorite songs, but I just like hearing

Marie Chevalier saying that in his French accent

and whatnot. So, you know, I don't necessarily,

she never felt alone. I don't necessarily care

for that much, but the rest of them, you know,

they're not like Aladdin songs or, you know,

Lion King songs or stuff like that, but they're

pretty darn good. I just felt, and Kevin and

I talked about this in episode 86, The songs

for Robin Hood fit the movie. The songs for 101

Dalmatians fit that movie. I just felt when I

watched this, it's like, oh, hey, we're going

to break into song now. Yay. Well, but it is

written into the plot because, number one, when

the kittens are singing, it's supposed to show

that they're aristocratic and that the one's

doing art and they're training in music and stuff

like that. So that one is kind of necessary.

Yeah. And you have a group of people called the

Scat Band, so they're allowed to bust into song

whenever they want to. I mean, I can see how

it seems like it's kind of like bust, you know,

just all of a sudden having a musical number

a little bit more than in Robin Hood, but it

still kind of fits the plot. But Thomas O'Malley

Cat is a pretty smooth transition and everybody

wants to be a cat, I think. I don't know. I just

like that song a lot, I guess. That's my favorite

song in the whole movie. Yeah. And there was

another song that was supposed to be on the,

well not necessarily supposed to be on the movie,

but that was written for the movie. It's also,

this is probably the best part of the DVD is

the special feature that it kind of talks about

it. And it's actually the writer of the song.

He goes into what was the purpose of the song

and how it was going to fit in and it was supposed

to be split into two different parts and they

actually show which parts and they actually have

a recording of the voice of Madame Hermione Badly.

They have a recording of her so they actually

show or play that while they show the storyboards

of what was supposed to happen. So it's kind

of a neat little feature on the DVD that you

can look for. Not a great song but it's just

kind of interesting. It's very interesting. If

you're a huge fan of the film, why not? Go check

it out. Too many songs can ruin a movie. This

one was right on that borderline for me. Yeah,

it had a little too much. It was boring. Compared

to Robin Hood, which was absolutely perfect.

Yeah, Robin Hood was immaculate. This was just

meh. And for those of you that are obviously

not with us live on Ustream, just for your information,

Mike is greatly outnumbered in the Aristocats.

I don't care. I don't care, damn it. Everybody

agrees with me, just for the record. I don't

give a shit. That's what I gotta say to you,

ass -hats right there, ass -hats. He's calling

all the people on YouTube ass -hats. No, specifically

you, Kevin. Oh good, I thought you were calling

me an ass -hat. No, no, no, just Kevin. I'm fine

with that. So, getting into the legacy segment

for the release, The Aristocats was re -released

to theaters on December 19th, 1980 and April

10th, 1987. It was released on VHS in Europe

on January 1st, 1990. It was first released on

VHS in North America in the Masterpiece Collection

Series on April 24th, 1996. Wow, it took them

that long to put it on VHS in the new year. Oh,

wow. Wow. and DVD on April 4th, 2000 in the gold

classic collection line. The Aristocats had its

gold collection disc quietly discontinued in

2006. A new single disc special edition DVD previously

announced as a two disc set was released on February

5th, 2008. You know, based on the reviews we've

been giving the Rotten Tomatoes lately, the Rotten

Tomatoes got a 67%, which is actually higher

than Robin Hood got. Fuck you, Rotten Tomatoes!

It just proves it's better than the 101. Anyway,

while this is rather low for Disney... This has

nothing to do with the 101. It still classifies

it as fresh. Of the reviews, 12 gave it fresh

and only 6 gave it rotten. This is based on,

and then they had 497 as far as like the user

reviews, it gets 81%. And Snoop Dogg gave it

a positive review as well. I'm not sure why that's

relevant. I don't know either. But we're giving

you that information. Snoop Dogg likes Aristocats

and his name is Snoop Dogg, so that just proves

it's not a dog -cat thing. Anyways, there was

supposed to be a direct -to -video sequel. The

Aristocats 2 was supposed to be a direct -to

-video sequel to this film. It was scheduled

to be released in 2007, but the production was

cancelled in early 2006 after Disney acquired

Pixar and cancelled all projects not related

to consumer product lines. But apparently Mike

has fallen off the face of the earth. No, I haven't

Flipping the you stream people off because they

want to send me fucking snow I don't think so

because you flip them off and they were mad because

they're your audience. Oh, we have tons of snow

here in Toronto right now You can keep it. Yeah,

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I don't know if we've got any voicemails for

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I'm going first dammit final thoughts on aristocats.

It's okay It's it's a nice little film. It's

not my cup of tea though at all 101 Dalmatians

is easily better than this. Robin Hood is most

definitely better than this. Hell, Lady and the

Tramp is most definitely better than this. Obviously,

Mike's opinions are not all of our opinions.

That's for sure. Not even close. So my final

thoughts. Like I said, I don't know. This is

just a fun movie It's not something that I would

watch over and over again, but it's something

I enjoy watching every so often I love a couple

of the songs. I love Thomas O'Malley as a character

It's just a fun fun movie for me I you know I'm

not gonna put it in my top five or top ten list

or whatever of all -time Disney movies But I

definitely am gonna put it ahead of 101 Dalmatians

You have to agree with you guys 100 % agree.

It's not a bad film and it's enjoyable for the

most part. You won't stab your eyes out when

you watch this film. That's reserved for Snow

White and the Seven Midgets. I didn't have too

many issues with the film. If you're interested,

go watch it. If not, you're not missing anything.

You know what, the people that listen to this

through iTunes and through whatever podcasting

client, they're going to be so lost with half

of the stuff that we've talked about. That's

right. It's nothing to do with the movie. Just

know that they're all agreeing with me. Yeah,

it doesn't matter. This has probably been the

best Ustream audience I've had ever. They want

us to put a disclaimer on all future episodes

that your opinion is not the official opinion

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nicely, children. Alright, so Kevin, did you

give your final thoughts? Yep, we both did. Okay,

I wasn't sure. We've gotten so far off topic.

I didn't want to forget anybody. Yeah. That'd

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star. Until next time. God, that was such a train

wreck. But at least they all know that Aristocats

is better than 101 Dalmatians now. Old Mallie

the Alley Cat, I've got that wonderlust. Gotta

walk the scene. Gotta kick up highway dust. Feel

the grass that's green. Gotta strut them city

streets, showing off my E -clat. Yeah! Tell them

my friends of the social elite. Or some cute

cat I happen to meet Dad I'm... Abraham de Lacey,

Giuseppe Casey, Thomas O'Malley O'Malley the

Alley Cat Everybody wants to be a cat Because

a cat's the only cat Who knows where it's at

Tell me everybody's picking up on that feline

beat Cause everything else is obsolete. Strictly

high button shoes. A square with a horn makes

you wish you weren't born. Every time he plays.

But with a square in the act, you can set music

back. Through the game and days of jub jub jub

jub boozin'. I've heard some corny birds who

tried to sing. Still the cat's the only cat.

Who knows how to swing? Who wants to take a long

head cake and stuff like that? When everybody

wants to be a cat.