Grab that Saturday morning vibe right here on th' IoF©, with Top Cat©! Today, in the first-ever episode, TC and th' gang go to Hawaii - with hilarious consequences!
Everybody, now!
Top Cat [be-doodle-doodle-uh-dip - Ed.] the most effectual
Top Cat [be-doodle-doodle-uh-dip - Ed.] whose intellectual
Top Cat [be-doodle-doodle-uh-dip - Ed.] whose intellectual
Close friends get to call him T.C.
Providing it's with dignity
Top Cat
The indisputable leader of the gang
He's the boss, he's the pip
He's the championship
He's the most tip top
Top Cat
Yes he's the chief, he's the king
But above everything
He's the most tip top
Top Cat
Providing it's with dignity
Top Cat
The indisputable leader of the gang
He's the boss, he's the pip
He's the championship
He's the most tip top
Top Cat
Yes he's the chief, he's the king
But above everything
He's the most tip top
Top Cat
This post funded in part by The Maurice Gosfield Appreciation Society, Pasadena, CA
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I might have failed to purchase several tins of Top Cat food had it not been for the judicious legal action that saw this legendary cartoon retitled for the UK market as 'Sgt Bilko's Feline Pack'
ReplyDeleteNone of the US 4/5g© will understand this (prove me wrong!)
DeleteThis US guy doesn't understand shit, but did Did Phil Silvers do the voice?
DeleteWrong show, I know, but "heavens to Murgatroyd!" (sp?)
No, but Maurice Gosfield (who apparently thought he was something of a star and ladies' man) voiced Benny the Ball.
DeleteIf my faulty memory serves me well for just this one time, there was a similarly named food and the BBC was claiming the name of the show violated the anti advertising policy in effect at that time. If only I could remember things that I could monetize. Where did I leave my keys?!?
DeleteTop Cat's voice is actually actor Arnold Stang, imitating Phil Silvers.
DeleteI knew I recognised him from somewhere - he's one of the gas station owners in It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (where he shares a scene with Phil Silvers).
DeleteThis is frustrating - I can't open the link-
Delete"Doberman was played by Maurice Gosfield, a man of limited intelligence and even more limited acting ability, who had a habit of breaking wind at -"
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/doberman
Arnold (the consummate "nebbish") is also wonderful as "Sparrow" in 'The Man with the Golden Arm'.
DeleteThis place is gold
DeleteI've already registered as Pretty Dem Clueless on matters of TV. I like animation, and it doesn't have to be Pixar or Disney for me to enjoy it. But "Sgt. Bilko's Feline Pack" is beyond my ability to interpret. What say the rest of us?
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I guess you'd've had to watch it firsthand. Made sense to me . . . --Muzak McM.
DeleteTop Cat (retitled 'Boss Cat' over here in the UK to avoid IP infringement) was pretty obviously Phil Silvers' Bilko show recast as East Coast alleycats with Officer Dibble standing in for the Colonel
DeleteWhy don't they make cartoon theme songs like this any more? Kids nowadays . . . just don't want to put in the work, I tells ya. --Muzak McMusics
ReplyDeletethat opening theme to Johnny Quest is pure gold
DeleteI didn't know it was Mexican?
DeleteStop That Pigeon
DeleteI've been dyin' to ask...did you go to Harvard with Henry Cabot Henhouse III?
Deletepmac went to Gubmint Collidge.
DeleteMAURICE missed out on a best selling book by not publishing his fan letters. i'll bet they were fascinating. almost as fascinating as Maurice himself.
ReplyDeleteMy dad loved this show. made him laugh out loud. Magic moments...
ReplyDeleteHanna-Barbera cartoons had lovability built in. And they had a hip look and style that eluded Disney (*shudder*).
DeleteTop Cat was my number one fave. I always identified with Brains. Still do, in fact.
ReplyDeleteI think I remember that Top Cat actually started out as a prime time TV show back in the day cuz it too cool for Saturday mornings.
ReplyDeleteAt 52, I think I'm too young to appreciate what you all are drooling over...
ReplyDelete~ Jon in Cali
GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
DeleteIt was like Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, He-Man, and G.I. Joe...kids culture.... only it was funnier, and had less product placement, and we couldn't buy t-shirts and action figures.
DeleteI wonder if TC and his moggy mates ever recreated my fave Bilko episode concerned with the platoon forming a choir to escape the brutal mid-West winter by competing in Florida?
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