I am at Purdue and posting will be light as I haz talks to give. But here, via alert reader Pyers, is a drawing from Archibald The Psychotic Housecats Den of Insanity (sic) Facebook page.
How many of these cats can you recognize (name ’em below)? I’d offer a book to the first person who got them all right, but I don’t know them all. You’ll have to settle for a warm handshake. (Click to enlarge.)
did they all actually have names? I know the one near batman was the cat from Pepe le Peu, but I don’t recall her ever having a name.
I think I know over half of them, but I’ll not saying any more.
and after re-reading that, I realize how badly I need to sleep… I knew I was tired, but wow.
and, yes, the kitty does have a name.. I just looked it up 🙂
I recognize a good number, but not all, and some I recognize but don’t know the names.
Cheshire Cat
Felix
Top Hat Cat(? not sure name this one)
Itchy (or is it Scratchy?)
Snowball
Tom
Nermal
Puss in Boots
Stimpy
Sylvester
Simon’s
Bucky
Pepe’s Love Interest (she have a name?)
Bill
Kitten on the bulldog (does it have a name?)
Hello Kitty (doll)
Garfield
A couple from Disney that I don’t know the names
I’ve seen the orange one looking out the window, and the one vegging on the back of the couch, but can’t name either.
The orange one playing with the yarn, as well as the grey one holding the hello kitty doll are tickling my memory, but can’t place them.
I’m not sure who the purple one with electronics, the floating white one (Krypton have a feline counterpart?), or the one staring at batman are.
That’s Mad Cat napping beneath Felix (and holding the Hello Kitty doll) and Krazy Kat above him (I think), probably waiting for a brick…
I thought about Krazy Kat too, but shouldn’t she be blue? It’d be easier if the tail were visible.
I thought that was Lucifer from Cinderella napping with the doll below Felix…
Oh, I see it now. Still, I think he looks like Lucifer.
I’m going to stick with Mad Cat
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The cat staring at Batman is Horse, from the classic New Zealand comic strip Footrot Flats by Murray Ball. Horse is a farm cat, as hard as they come. See here: http://www.backtotheeighties.net/images/horse-from-footrot-flats1.jpg
Horse was awesome, Footrot Flats was the best cartoon of all time.
Top Hat Cat is actually Top Cat.
Boss cat
Ah…
“In 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 then-popular British brand of cat food.”
The theme song and dialogue didn’t change, however!
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Close friends get to call him T.C.
Where’s Hobbes? and Tigger?
Isn’t that Hobbes on the extreme left, facing the wall?
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No, that appears to be Krazy Kat. These are all Felis catus, no tigers allowed.
I only recognize a few: Garfield, Felix, Tom, Bill the Cat (Bloom County), Itchy (the cartoon on the Simpsons), Sylvester, Bucky (from Get Fuzzy), Penelope Pussycat (chased by Pepe le Pew, and I don’t know if the cat in the lower left is supposed to be Heathcliff.
I think that it’s supposed to be Top Cat.
Top Cat, to be sure. One of my favorite cartoons from my childhood.
This might spoil some of the fun, but here’s the original, by *caanantheartboy on deviantART, with more answers/guesses in the comments there.
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Thnaks for finding out that. I couldn’t find the original and I would have liked to give a correct attribution.
Google Image search is your friend!
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UPDATE: Caanan has listed all the cats on his deviantART page.
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“Horse” from Footrot Flats in the top right hand corner. You’d have to come from New Zealand to know that, of course.
Or Australia. 🙂
yeah, I was wonder where hobbes, tigger, and hello kitty were…
Is that Azrael (sp?) from the Smurfs near the window getting in a fight?
Yes! That’s who it is, I knew it looked familiar.
Well, Hobbes and Tigger aren’t housecats, nor is Ragland T. Tiger.
But where’s Courageous Cat?
I get to see you at Purdue tomorrow – woohoo!!!
Can anyone come?
I don’t see Itchy anywhere in the cartoon. I do see the Simpsons’ cat Snowball II scratching the couch. Or it could be Snowball V, they look exactly the same.
On the cat tree in back above Bucky
I call shenanigans on Itchy being there. If you squint, the outline sort of matches, but Itchy has never been depicted sleeping like a cat, and his tongue isn’t sticking out. It’s a stretch, and a lame one, if that’s what the artist intended.
Itchy’s never been depicted in Selina Kyle’s apartment before, either…
(But please feel free to leave your criticism on the artist’s page on deviantART!)
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I concede it is Itchy. The pose threw me the first time, too. But it isn’t Itchy, it’s Scratchy. Itchy is the mouse. So I was wrong on two counts.
So much for knowing my Simpsons trivia.
@ Andrew : D’oh! I should have caught that.
@ eryops : I apologise; I was too harsh.
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I always thought “Snowball II” was quite a funny gag, for the name of a dark-colored cat. You can just picture the previous white cat.
As a bonus, Lisa’s poem:
I had a cat named Snowball.
She died, she died!
Mom said she was sleeping.
She lied, she lied!
Why oh why is my cat dead?
Couldn’t that Chrysler hit me instead?
I had a hamster named Snuffy.
He died.
My wife says Selina is petting Figero from Pinocchio.
What, no Fritz the Cat?
I don’t see Fritz.
He’s out getting up to no good.
Or in Selina’s bedroom?
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Or joining the bunnies in the bathtub.
Where are Jean Tom and Musette? And Pink Panther?
* Jaune Tom and Mewsette!
PP is genus Panthera.
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Wow, Horse the mean looking spotty cat on top of the scratching post is so obscure. Then I see the artist is an Ausie. Cool.
No. He’s a Kiwi, and Horse is a tough farm cat from NZ. The cartoonist is Murray Ball (IIRC).
I got about ten of them, but I’m terrible with names.
No Bagpuss!? Or Jess, for that matter.
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At Purrr-due or in Purrr-dah?!
The grey cat in front of Simon’s cat sleeping in the red cushion…is that Tom in Tom in Jerry? You could see a broken mouse near its face
I believe it is Tom.
That’s Thomas O’Malley from the Aristocats
& Marie!
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It’s not complete without Fat Freddy’s Cat.
Or a pair of Siamese, if you please!
I just realized that Mr. Jinx is missing.
I hate meeces to pieces!
As a friend of Garfield’s owner, Jon, once put it so astutely, why bother naming anything that doesn’t come when it’s called?
I have no idea who most of them are, but as long as I see Krazy Kat I’m happy!
I see from Top counter-clockwise:
Catwoman
The Cheshire Cat
Bill the Cat
Felix the Cat
Top Cat
Snowball II
Sylvester
Puss in Boots
Tom from “Tom & Jerry”
Simon’s Cat
Garfield
I recognize the cat on the back of the sofa, but do not know it’s name.
As I was scolling down I saw the comment about the cat from “Pepe le Pew”, which I hadn’t noticed before, so it doesn’t count. Her name is Penelope Pussycat, though (“Come back, ma cherie!”).
And is the stuffed cat on the scratching post supposed to be Hobbes?
Now to look at the rest of the responses.
Ah, per the artist, it is not Hobbes. Sad to say, as a Disney fan, I can never keep the cats straight. All good fun.
I printed out a large copy for Kink’s room.
Nowhere close to getting them all, but, without looking at everyone else’s comments: Garfield, Nermal (Garfield’s sidekick, not sure if that’s exactly right), Hobbes, Sylvester, Tom, Bill the Cat, Cheshire, Simon’s Cat, Scratchy, Fifi and, of course, Cat Woman… I think that’s as far as I can get.
Oh, and I just noticed Heathcliff!
Ack! Pthttt! It’s Bill!
Wow – some looks familiar but it was so long ago that I forget their names. Well, at least I still remember Top Cat. Matt Groening has 2 cats in there – snowball from The Simpsons and one whose name I can’t remember from Life is Hell.
So cool! Love it!