Top Cat

I don't know what to say, the monkeys won't do!

And I also don't know what to say about those

crazy producers from the Geek Cop Radio Network!

They're driving me crazy! for Tooncast. Hold

on, hold on. And the reason why Kevin isn't here

is because I'm not sure if he's actually going

to be in episode 91 or not. He may be. He may

not be. I'm not sure. He hasn't let me know yet.

So yeah, we got another iTunes review as of February

1st, 2011 on the U .S. side. It's a four -star

review. the title of the review is keep the personal

life out of it okay by Grimalkin J yeah nice

name dude um here's what he says are he she it

whatever i don't know um i really enjoyed this

podcast it's well researched interesting i love

the history behind the cartoons how they fit

into the history of the animation and history

in general I really enjoy hearing each one of

you talk about what your least and most favorite

characters are. I would have given it five stars,

except for two reasons. One, Steve, stop cutting

people off. I understand you're the facilitator,

you're the host, and it's your podcast. Damn

it, you can swear up a storm if you want to.

But it's like shifting subjects without a clutch

into tracks from the whole show. There's times

when you're reading from a script, and when you're

not very excited about it, we can tell. Dude,

first of all, my name's Mike. Steve Megatron

has only been on six episodes out of a hundred

of tune cast So get your damn facts straight

That's right get your facts straight before you

go on and comment Number two Tara is she the

producers girlfriend or something? No, she's

not good. You can take oh my god Okay, when you

sent me this let me just say this Normally, I

don't let little stupid things like this bug

me, but it got kind of personal which really

pissed me off Yes, first of all. No, I'm not

his girlfriend Number two, I'm not a dit. Hold

on. Let's get to that one. But yeah, no, she's

not any of our girlfriends I'm from Canada, buddy.

I don't know these people in real life. I know

them just strictly through Skype and on the internet.

I met them. I met Kevin through BehindTheVoiceActors

.com and then I got in touch with him and joined

Telecast. That is how I ended up on this site.

I'm not their girlfriend. We're just friends.

And he goes on to further say and this is where

the the personal stock and it's like I find it

very funny that His title of his review is keep

the personal life out of it yet. He makes a personal

attack on someone It's good to have a female

geek respect perspective. Yes, however her valley

girl accent and size really really get on my

nerves Her best performance was when she left

voicemail. She has a good voice when she reads

It's clear easy to understand but otherwise she

comes across as a dits and she If she would tone

down the accent, not talk so fast, or at least

prepare her statements, I think she'd be a lot

better. She hasn't shown any geek cred yet, just

a lot of opinions, which is alright for a position,

I suppose. I don't have an accent. I guess maybe

for you, because I'm from Canada, it sounds like

I have an accent, but I don't. So I don't know

how you want me to tone down my accent, because

I don't have one. Number two, I'm not a ditz.

I am a second year broadcasting and film college

student. I am in a program that a lot of people

apply to. And only about 50 of us made it into

first year. I am in my fourth semester of the

program right now, and I am still in the program

with very good marks and a very high academic

standing. My program is very demanding, and it

requires me to prepare a lot of written things

for TV, radio, and film. I do not appreciate

someone attacking me personally when one, they

do not know me in real life, they only know me

through the podcast, and they have no right to

call me a ditz or a valley girl. If you would

actually listen to some of the things I had to

say, you would understand that I am not a ditz,

I am not a valley girl. So watch your damn mouth

before you start attacking someone. Because honestly

buddy, from what I read from your comment, you

do not know our podcast, you do not know us,

so you have no right to go and comment. Your

comment lacked... any sense whatsoever. It absolutely

made no sense because you don't even know the

name of the host's name. You called him Steve.

It's actually Mike. And if you actually went

on the site, you would see TFG1 Mike, not Steve

Megatron. Steve Megatron has his own podcast.

And he is actually one of the... Co -creators.

Co -creators of the GeekCast network. So clearly

you do not know our network. So therefore you

have no right to be commenting on iTunes or anything

for that matter. Another point I want to make

across that you said, that I sigh and that, and

again, with the accent, I don't really understand

where that's coming from and I prepare everything

before the show. I know everything that we talk

about inside and out. I am a true geek. I know

almost all of the Disney cartoons. I know a lot

of cartoons from the 80s and the 90s and recently.

I also know a lot of movies, which makes sense

because I'm a broadcasting and film student.

So therefore I have vast knowledge of all these

things. You calling me out on that did not respect

that, did not appreciate it. Next time you're

going to go and comment on one of our podcasts,

do everyone a favor. Go to our website, go listen

to some of our podcasts, and then come up with

a decision. Don't just go and blatantly bash

someone and attack them personally, especially

when you're going to write your post as, keep

the personal stuff out of it. You just contradicted

yourself there. I really hope you realize that.

I'm going to kind of throw what you said back

in your face. I really hope I'm speaking clearly

and concisely enough for you to understand. And

I hope my accent isn't disrupting you. And I

hope I'm not sighing way too much for you. I

really hate to get on your nerves as you put

it. And if this was a video, I would be air quoting

you right now. Honestly, it's pathetic what you

said. and hopefully this my response to you doesn't

get on your nerves either but if it does I really

don't care because you got on my nerves so I

guess now we're even but no I do have to say

that Tara came in one episode you come in on

was it episode 82 right where I can cast yeah

yeah Tara came in on episode 82 which was our

Cinderella spotlight on the Cinderella films,

okay? Before that, she had done a couple episodes

of Telecast, and she was just getting used to

Kevin, myself, Steve, whoever else that's worked

with her on our network. You know, we were all

getting used to each other, and you know, there's

a learning curve here, people. I mean, if you

go back and you listen to the first, I don't

know, 10, 12 episodes of Tunecast, Not all of

those episodes are the best episodes whatsoever.

I mean, we try our best and we're on a learning

curve. I mean, I, Tunecast started almost two

years ago. This podcast has been going two years

strong and yes, there are episodes that are gonna

have audio glitches. There are episodes that

are gonna have this, that, you know, the thing.

We try our best to make the best product as possible.

As far as Tara goes, she's brand new to our network.

You know, she's, she's learning just like we

learn, so. You know, and as far as, and I'm just

totally reading into this and I don't give a

shit at this point. His title says keep the personal

life out of it. The other thing that that could

probably mean is because he thought you were

one of our girlfriends and what the hell does

that matter? I know for a fact of two podcasts

that I listen to, Married to Movies and Date

Night at the Movies. One, Married to Movies is

a podcast over on Earth2 .net which is a married

couple. Reviewing movies date night at the movies

is a podcast over at gadget gurus network Which

is a couple in a relationship doing? movies,

so what does it matter if you know You know any

of us I mean hell Steve's wife can make an appearance

in one of the podcasts not saying that's gonna

happen But you know what I mean, what does it

matter to you? What relationship? the hosts have.

I mean, yes, we're all friends, but, you know,

uh, anyway, whatever. Um, so yeah, now that that's

out of the way, do you have anything else you'd

like to say before we move on? I just, if I ever

came across as a valley girl or a ditz, I apologize.

I'm just talking the way I normally talk. This

is how I talk in everyday life. And I've been

told by professionals in the industry that I

have a very good voice for radio and TV. So I

think I'm going to listen to them more than I'm

going to listen to this ignoramus who clearly

doesn't know what he's talking about. Yes. And

we will be moving on to episode 91, Top Cat,

which Tara has never seen. The most effectual

top cat Whose intellectual close friends get

to call him TC Providing his repignity Top cat

The indisputable leader of the gang He's the

boss and he's the whip and he's the number one

bit And he's the most hip -top top cat Hello

and welcome to episode 91 of Tooncast brought

to you by the Geekcast Radio Network. I'm your

host, GM Mike and today returning from parts

unknown driving the Knight 4000 is Dion. Dion

the music man, hello sir. How are you? I don't

know if I want the Knight 4000, I think I'd take

the original. I put that in there specifically

for you. Oh dear, night 4000 indeed. This red

actually kind of suits me, I kind of like it.

Uh, uh, yes, uh, Dion has not been on the show

since episode six. Um, without getting too personal,

where the hell have you been? Dude, I've been,

uh, man, it's, it's just been crazy. I've actually

been wanting to come back to these podcasts and

I have been wanting to get with you. It's just,

you know, life seems to take its toll and you're

right. I somehow, I somehow do go to parts unknown.

I do need to come back and help you guys out.

I really do because I missed a lot of this yeah

We've got and I've kind I haven't made like an

official announcement post on geek cast radio

comm yet, but we've we've got I had been teasing

it for a number of episodes here on turn cast

and I've kind of we've kind of already announced

it that coming in November of this year We'll

be Tooncast's successor, which is Tooncast Beyond,

which will focus on all of the cartoons from

the year 2000 to whenever now is. So that way

we'll be doing current cartoons. But we'll also

have episodes in there, I'm calling them DeLorean

time episodes. And that way we can go back to

any cartoons that we missed here in Tooncast

proper. But at this point, Tooncast has already

written itself in the history books because this

is episode 91. Good that means that in the other

podcast you'll have to cover the powerpuff girls

We already did that was episode 38. Well, I mean

you'll like have to revisit it or something.

Oh, no Uh, yeah, so, uh, yeah, but Tooncast is

pretty much, it's pretty much done. Everyone

who's supposed to be, like all the other hosts

that are supposed to be on the last seven episodes,

uh, episodes 93 through 99 are already set in

stone, um, and all that stuff. Episode 100 will

air June 1st, 2011, which is our two -year anniversary,

uh, and that'll be it. So it's, it's pretty much

written our, written itself. We just finished

up the Disney animation spotlight. And, uh, yeah.

That was a good set. Yeah. It was a very good

set. Yeah, I wish we had started differently

with it. I wish I had had more of a plan because

the first part of the spotlight was episodes

28 through 34 where we covered Sleeping Beauty,

Snow White, Oliver and Company, Sword in the

Stone, Jungle Book, Aladdin. Did you cover Cinderella?

Yeah. That's episode 82. Yeah. But the first

part of it was kind of like starting off like

the most, you know, most popular ones way back

in the day, like Sleeping Beauty and Snow White,

and then the rest of it in that first part was

mine and Kevin's, we each picked two favorite

movies, which his were Jungle Book and Aladdin,

mine were Oliver and Company and Sword and the

Stone. When we came back to the spotlight for

Part two, episodes 81 through 90 pretty much

go in theatrical release year order. So we started

with Pinocchio and we ended with Lion King. Now

there are some that aren't in there because obviously

it's only a nine, 10 episode spotlight that we'll

get to. We're actually gonna have a whole, Tooncast

Beyond, we're gonna have seasons instead of just

episodes. So it'll be season one, episode one,

season two, episode... Think 31 is when episode

season 2 starts so I mean the episode numberings

will still be 1 through 50 1 through however

many But we're just gonna break it up into season

so there'll be a whole season in tune cast beyond

for the rest of the Disney films Mm -hmm that

we didn't get to cover in this spotlight here,

so But yes today. We're going to be talking about

that hip cat top cat Crazy crazy crazy top cat

Yes, getting into the history lesson here, Top

Cat is a Hanna -Barbera primetime animated television

series which ran from September 27th, 1961 to

April 18th, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on

ABC Network. Reruns are played on Cartoon Network's

classic animation network, Boomerang. So general

memories of top cat sir, what do you remember

watching this cartoon? Let's see top cat probably

one of the interesting Cats, you know cats to

be he's kind of the I Guess you could say the

the Garfield before Garfield ever existed Because

he would do crazy things, you know, just just

insane he and his gang were always You know getting

getting into schemes. It seems like And he was

very, of course, hip and he was very just out

there. And let's see, I think probably he had

he he had his funny moments. That was the thing

about Topcat was he had his funny moments. He

and Officer Dibble always had this love hate

relationship with each other. Yeah. So, you know,

that was the funny part was that he and Officer

Dibble had a love hate relationship. Yeah. So.

Uh, for me, I was watching a few episodes today

on YouTube, which finding episodes on YouTube,

which we'll get to a little bit later, is kind

of... They're scarce. Yeah, they're kind of hit

or miss, but we'll get to that a little bit later.

But when I was watching some episodes earlier

today on YouTube, I watched the one where Benny

wins this raffle thing or whatever to go to Hawaii.

Ah, yes! They all sneak aboard on the boat. It's

the one with the old lady that's actually the

man who counterfeits $5 bills. I was watching

that one and I was watching the beginning of

it when Benny comes walking up and he's humming

a few Hawaiian songs and he rings Top Cat's doorbell

on his trash can and then he starts banging on

the trash can. And then he opens the lid and

says, Top Cat. And Top Cat pops up. And for some

reason, it reminds me of Oscar the Grouch. Because

Oscar the Grouch lives in a trash can. And Top

Cat sleeps in a trash can. So those little things.

So that's what it reminds me of. I love. This

is probably one of my favorite Hannah Barbera

cartoons to watch because the adventures weren't

just your everyday thing. It was, like you said,

it's Top Cat and the gang doing all kinds of

different schemes. They always seem to get in

trouble no matter what. They seem not to be able

to bail themselves out until the end of the show.

And then they find something else to get in trouble

with, but you don't see that. Yeah, exactly.

Exactly, and it's just it was just so fun, and

I love all of the characters in this cartoon

Just amazing getting into the characters and

the voice actors here I'm gonna kind of go down

the line here Starting with Benny the ball Benny

is top cat's right -hand man He is short innocent

chubby naive and cute a blue -collared cat with

white sweater that fastens with a single button

at his neck uh... and then he is the one that

uh... c uh... the gang relationship between benny

and top cat is based on devoted friendship between

them example of the links to which top cat will

go to help benny is illiterate by the episode

a visit from mother in which top cat arranges

for benny to appear to be the mayor of new york

city but uh... that's the kind of mystery from

talking about yes exactly what did you think

of uh... of benny Benny was very comical. Yeah,

I think that Just just the stuff, you know, Benny

was very comical Benny I would say Probably well

besides Benny Choo Choo also provided comic relief.

I think all of them provided comic relief Yeah,

they can all did Benny sometimes did funnier

things than the rest of the cast Yeah, I noticed

it was kind of a group effort on the comedy bits

because you have each each Each part of the gang

to do different stuff Wasn't you chew the one

that was no no fancy fancy. Yeah fancy was the

one that always was going after the lady. Yeah

Which was just so well for him not normally no

it didn't And I gotta say looking at Looking

at the voice cast for this one the only One I

recognize the only two that I reckon three What?

Well, I cuz I was reading down the list as I

was going along the only three that I really

recognize on here is Paul freeze he was various

voices in four different episodes uh... gene

vander paul who was fee fee and uh... don messick

was patrolman and patrolman prowler and a few

other voices but like for the same days that

was a voice god for hannah barbara if you ask

no I know, we've praised Mr. Messick enough.

Not enough, but we've praised him plenty of time

in the past. But as far as the overall voice

cast, for Top Cat, Arnold Stang, I have no idea

who that is. I have no idea who that is. All

of these voices for the main characters, none

of them I recognize whatsoever. You got Arnold

Stang. Which role did he... Top Cat. Okay. Uh,

Maurice Gosfield played Benny. Leo DeLion played

Spook. Alan Jenkins played Officer Dibble. Uh,

Marvin Kaplan played Choo Choo. Uh, John Stevenson,

who I kinda recognize his name. Game sounds familiar

from somewhere. Yeah, he played Fancy. Um, what

else has he done in? Oh, let's see. He's done

a number of things. He was a showroom announcer

in Flintstones and Viva Rock Vegas. He's done

a number of stuff for like Scooby Doo and Johnny

Bravo. Wow. He was Mr. Slate and Johnny Bravo.

Wow. Yeah, let's see. Oh, he was Mr. Slate in

Flintstones. Okay. Yeah, I know this guy. Yeah,

he was the voice of Mr. Slate. But I mean, just

looking at, you know, just looking at his name

under the Top Cat listing here on IMDb, I didn't

recognize him off the top of my head, so. But

yeah, very, very, very cool. Well, didn't she,

if this is the same person, I'm thinking of Jean

Vanderhal, was she Wilma? That was Wilma? Yeah.

Yeah, that's why I recognize her name. Nobody

knew who she was as a voice actor. At the time,

you mean? Yeah. I don't think anyone really knew

who she was until the Flintstones started. Yeah,

that's probably true. And then when she got famous

enough for that role, you know, of course then

Top Cat probably came along and she started doing

that. Yeah, I think she's she's done a lot of

Flint's blue done a lot of Wilma I think for

the majority of the long haul of that show so

Getting back into the characters Choo Choo aka

Chooch is the enthusiastic and devoted to Top

Cat even when he's clueless as to what he's doing

He's a pink cat with white long -sleeve turtleneck

shirt and is the tallest of the alley gang and

he's so and he's so New York Yeah, never notice

that yeah, it's just What's going on TC? Yep,

it's actually good impression And watch it enough

I know I know Yeah And then you have the brain

and I don't mean the brain as in mr. Maurice

Lamar's I mean brain as in the cat brain rain

appears to be Become an henchman to top cat contrary

to his name which appears to have been given

ingester sarcasm brain is the dim -witted member

of the alley gang an orange cat with purple t

-shirt and black line Brain is notorious for

being unable to keep a secret and for his stuttering

He also seems to be in charge of the group's

money, which they rarely have Very very funny

brain has some interesting moments in some of

the episodes Then you have Fancy Fancy who also

appears to be a common henchman to Top Cat He

is laid -back sweet -talking and is regularly

seen chatting up the ladies before leaving them

when hearing the dustbin lid call Brown cat with

a white scarf here resembles spook in appearance

And his voice is provided by John Stevenson.

Oh, and the character was based on Cary Grant.

That's kind of cool. Oh, that's neat. It's very

interesting. And Spook rarely speaks in the episodes,

but when he does, a torrent of likes are used.

And similar to Fancy, Fancy is demeanor and appearance.

The sweet talking cat whose vernacular is based

on that of a beatnik. He's a pool shark with

a green fur and torn black tie. And then you've

got the, you know, Top Cat, who is the yellow

cat with the little, I guess, I don't think it's

a sweater vest, but it's some sort of vest that

he's got. Yeah, it's a type of vest that he's

got on. Yeah, yeah. Top Cat is the leader. He's

the schemer. He's the one that will take all

the credit for everything, whether he came up

with the idea or not. And then Officer Dibble

is the NYPD policeman whose beat includes the

alley, though he usually resents the gang's presence

in the alley. There are times when he respects

and loves them. He wants Top Cat to clean up

the alley and to stay off his telephone, and

is sometimes called variations of his name by

Top Cat, such as Dabble, Drabble, Dribble, and

Dribble, and so on. Who is your favorite character

out of the bunch here? There's too many. Because

they're all funny. I would probably say, I think

I'd have two. Benny and probably Choo Choo because

they just seem to, in my mind, they seem to stand

out more, I think. I'm gonna cheat and say them

all. I'm gonna cheat and say I like all of them.

Well, you've got you after a while you do like

all of them because you're like, okay this is

You know at first you don't think it'll work.

But then you know, I mean if you if you run for

almost Two years or a little over that you're

doing pretty good. Mm -hmm Yeah, they're just

a really great lovable bunch There's a bunch

of cameos apparently in one episode At the right

end of bottom of a comic book that that top cat

is reading there's a yogi bear and huckleberry

hound comic In another episode we've got a Statues

are modeled after Fred Flintstone and Barney

rubble. So we've got new stones from them. Yeah

In a visit from Mother, episode El Cabong, Quickdraw

McGraw alter ego is seen singing in the background.

That's interesting. Oh wow. In one of the episodes

of another Hanna -Barbera production, The Powerpuff

Girls, Top Cat can be briefly seen in the background

before the end shot. That's disturbing. It's

funny Wow Yes, and getting into some behind -the

-scenes Stuff here as far as some history stuff

on top cat It was originally broadcast on Wednesdays

at 8 30 to 9 p .m Eastern time talk at was co

-sponsored by Kellogg's and Bristol Myers uh...

the central character top cat called tc by two

close friends probing it's with dignity uh...

lyrics of the theme song says the leader of the

gang of new york city alley cats fancy fancy

spook banning the ball and the brain and choo

-choo uh... top cat and his gang were inspired

by characters from the popular situation comedy

you'll never get rich later called the phil silver

show it has also been said that the bowery boys

influenced the show as well uh... Let's see here.

Even Arnold Stang's voicing of Top Cat strongly

resembled Phil Silver's voice. Another possible

source material was Hokey Wolf, a segment on

the Huggleberry Hound show, which also had parallels

to the Phil Silver show. So that's very interesting.

Outside of Hannah and Barbera, as far as some

of the credits, Actually, there's only one one

of the Kim kin implant so outside of Hannah and

Barbara That's pretty much all we have listed

for that. Yeah Now This is gonna be kind of different

for the actual show because there isn't I couldn't

find like a real even a short plot synopsis so

basically what I did for the actual show I just

found a list of all the different episodes. Did

you happen to maybe look on Wikipedia or something

like that? Yes, that's where I looked for it

and it didn't have it. That's where I get all

the information is Wikipedia and it did have

an actual plot synopsis. I mean the plot synopsis

is fairly easy for the show. It's Top Cat and

the Gang having their adventures in New York

City while trying to outwit Dibble. How crazy

can you get? Yeah, exactly. The first episode

that aired September 27, 1961, Hawaii Here We

Come, Benny wins a trip to Hawaii on a ship.

This leads to Top Cat and the rest of the gang

joining him on his trip by stowing away. I mean,

it's those types of adventures that they have.

And for the, I think it was, what are these,

seven minute cartoons would you say? I think.

No, because if they were if they were 30 if it

was on originally from 830 to 9 I'd say they

were at least about 30 minutes Really yeah now

unless they I Think it was like a 30 -minute

program that had several yeah Because when I've

seen them on boomerang, I've only seen one episode

Hmm that that could be it. Well, I guess people

are gonna have to write in or call into the voicemail

line. Let us know Yeah, let us know because I'm

honestly I think it I'm thinking it was one cartoon

obviously they had just commercials spliced in

if they had to pay the advertisers, but Yeah,

I'm thinking that they were just it was just

one 30 minute cartoon per person per show Yeah

Here's what IMDB has for it, as far as story

line goes, which I kind of already brought this

up, but... Set in the Isles, New York City, Top

Cat tells the story of a gang of low -life cats

with their charismatic leader. Top Cat, with

the ability of mischief, Top Cat will always

try to get rich gambling to eat for free or to

play jokes on someone. But he is always being

watched by Officer Dibble, who is very strict

and fierce with them. In fact, is a friend to

all of them. Um, and yeah, it doesn't really

have that much detail. Um, as far as some trivia

stuff, there's only a couple of them. Uh, let's

see. The show was a parody of Phil Silver's show.

We already said that. Character Branding the

Ball was voiced by Maurice Gosfield. He also

played Private Duane Doberman on the Phil Silver

show. Oh wow, that's interesting. It was produced

in color but broadcast in black and white during

the original ABC run of the show. An Officer

Double's wife was frequently mentioned but never

shown. Very, very interesting. That is interesting.

It was produced in color but shown in black and

white. Yeah, because nowadays we see the color

additions. I gotta say, I remember watching several

different episodes for this, but one of my favorite

episodes is the one where Officer Dibble goes

and gets a record he's been waiting for from

the music store. It's of this violinist playing.

Yeah, and Benny has This beat -up old violin

and some record producers driving down the street

and what they're hearing is The record from officer

dibbles apartment, but no one knows this and

but what they're seeing is Benny playing the

violin That's my favorite one. I love that one.

That one's funny. Yeah, that was such a cool

cool episode very cool and Getting into the music

segment, much like all of the majority of the

other Hanna Barbera shows, the series music was

done by Hoyt Curtin. I love this theme song.

This theme song was amazing. It was very, very

cool. And the story that it depicts as the animation

is going along is cool as well. Yep. It was just

awesome. Let's see, getting into the legacy segment

here. There are DVDs. There's actually, for the

USA, the box set Complete Series was released

with all 30 episodes in December of 2004. So

Top Cat the Complete Series is out on DVD. It

has features. Commentary on various episodes

back to hoagie's alley the making of top cat

retrospective featurette Interviews cool cats

interview alley top cat sing -along production

sketches Storyboards and TV spot top cat Kellogg's

commercials us release only And then it was released

in volumes over in the UK Almost like we got

the whole thing first before they did oh, yeah

Yes Be very very cool to to get Get that DVD

set because I don't actually have it at this

point. I didn't even know I didn't know it was

on DVD Yeah, it is You know As far as some other

appearances and Hannah Barbera related shows

top cats theme is featured in the Flintstones

episode surfing Fred when Barney and Betty discover

that Jimmy Darroch is, in fact, not a lifeguard.

Officer Dibble makes a cameo appearance in the

Flintstones episode, Time Machine, as a policeman

in the future. In 1985, Top Cat appeared in Yogi's

Treasure Hunt. Top Cat and his gang appeared

in Yogi's Ark Lark. In 1987, he appeared in Top

Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats, part of the Hannah

Barbera Superstars 10 film series. In the Fenderbender

500 segment of Wake, Rattle and Roll. 1991, Top

Cat was a teenage cat, but he still lived in

a trash can on NBC's Yo Yogi, voiced by Artie

Johnson. Top Cat was seen in the Curtain Network

rap in 1995. For some weird reason, he showed

up in Duck Dodger's episode, Canine Quarry. Top

Cat was amongst the poached characters on the

alien hunter's ship. That's funny. That's cool.

Let's see. Top Cat and his gang appeared in the

Harvey Birdman, attorney -at -law episode, mindless

with Top Cat and Choo Choo, voiced by Tom Kenny.

Bending the Ball, voiced by Maurice LaMarche

and Fancy Fancy, voiced by Chris Edgerly. The

Brain has no dialogue and Spook is nowhere to

be seen. That episode, Harvey, Birdman, takes

Topcat and his gang home. Topcat gets sued for

bookmaking and running illegal gambling service

out of Harvey's home. And a sentence to probation.

Let's see, Top Cat was seen briefly driving a

motorcycle in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

episode, Cheesy Go -Go. That's kind of interesting.

And as I said before, Top Cat, Benny, and Brain

made cameo appearance at the end of the Powerpuff

Girls episode, Cat -Tastrophe. They can be seen

at the bottom left corner of the screen. Note,

instead of his hat, Top Cat has a splat of slime

on his head. Okay! Uh, Top Cat and Benny appeared

in the My Life as a Teenage Robot episode toying

with Jenny. They can be seen at the checkout

desk when Jenny is looking at the Jenny's toys.

Uh, let's see. In the Futurama episode, that

darn cat's picture of Top Cat is seen. Top Cat

made a cameo appearance in Wow Wow Wobuzzy. I

didn't... what the rhyme of the hell. Um... Never

even heard of that, but alright. Yeah, never

heard of that either, so... The gang's adventures

continued off screen in comic books as Dell,

which became Gold Key, published 31 issues from

1961 to 70. Charlton Comics published 20 more

issues from 1970 to 73 in Mexico. I can't even

pronounce that. They basically featured him in

a comic in 1968. There's a little golden book

and Dura Books have both produced hardcover children's

books starring Top Cat. Wow, this is taking me

back actually. There was a Viewmaster. TC and

Friends appeared on three Viewmaster reels in

1962. These were titled Metal for Meddling, Zoo

Operation, and No Catfishing. Oh god, that's

hilarious. I miss Viewmasters. The original TV

soundtrack was released by Colpix Records in

1962 consisting of slightly edited versions of

the Unscratchables and Top Cat Falls in Love.

In 1965, Hanna -Berbera Records released LP titled

Robin Hood starring Top Cat. TC and the gang

were pictured as married men. On the cover, songs

included Top Cat, M .O .N .E .Y., Dibble, Robin

Hood, and Buddies. It was re -released in 77

on Columbia Records' special products label.

This thing has been broadcast everywhere. I think

it's been on USA, if I remember right. Yep. Let's

see. Television syndication from 1970 to 1993.

It was featured on USA Cartoon Express, NBC,

ABC, Cartoon Network, Kids WB, and Boomerang.

My big note was on Kids WB. Yep from 90 97 in

2001. Oh Yep, it's very funny For those of you

who are Canadian listeners Top Cat was among

the first programs aired on CTV the country's

first private television network Commence broadcasts

on October 1961 so a gay Canada Let's see here

as far as a I'm trying to think here. Oh, let's

see it was also Released in the UK is boss cat.

I don't know why they had okay Yeah, and the

UK the show was first aired on BBC television

now called BBC one but renamed Boss Cat shortly

after it premiered in 1962 because Top Cat was

also the name of a brand of cat food. Oh, lovely.

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stuff So I know this has kind of been a short

episode but Dion what are your final thoughts

memories on top cat my memories of top cat Final

thoughts on Top Cat? It was a very funny show.

It was well put together. The characters had

funny adventures that you could just sit and

laugh at and you know you can actually watch

this cartoon like if you're growing up or something

you could watch it with your kids and you don't

have to worry about all the violence. There really

isn't any. But you know it was very funny very

tongue -in -cheek if you act Mike if you know

TFG if you actually notice It was very tongue

-in -cheek back then. Oh, yeah And that's what

made this cartoon. So funny was that a lot of

tongue -in -cheek moments went into this You

got you know a lot of the good you've got some

very good voice actors and actresses doing Characters

even if you've met even if you've never heard

of them Oh, yeah, the voices were amazing in

this show. Yeah, I mean so, you know that that's

those are those are my greatest memories I'm

glad that they've put this out on DVD now I have

to get it because I didn't know it was out there

but you know, that's That's really good that

they that they're trying to I think it's the

whole the final thought is this They're trying

to bring back old school cartoons. You know,

if it's if they're put on DVD releases. Oh, yeah.

Because, well, let's face it, some of the new

cartoons, they suck. But, you know, it's it's

really and I'm not knocking new cartoons. I want

people to understand that. But I don't want.

TFG getting hate mail all this person said, you

know, Dion said the new cartoon suck Oh, I didn't

say all of them do I just some of them do 90

% of them Yeah, you know 90 % of them do so you've

got 10 % that are good and that's a really low

number The point, you know back, you know, I

digress because I know I'm getting off topic

here, but the whole Top Cat Show Just all together,

very good memories, very funny stuff, very good

tongue -in -cheek moments. The whole family can

sit around and watch this. And if you're, say,

in your 50s or something like that, or 60s even,

you can actually tell your kids, look, this is

what I grew up with when I was your age. And

everybody can sit around and just watch it, even

if it is on a DVD. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. I would

agree. The voice cast is amazing even though

we don't recognize a lot of their names. Just

the characters that just have amazing, amazing

voices. The theme song was great. The interactions

between the gang and Dibble were great as well.

Just all those zany, wacky adventures they went

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