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The Cat Came Back

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The Cat Came Back	label	The Cat Came Back
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The Cat Came Back	comment	The Cat Came Back is a 1988 Animated Short set to the tune of the 1893 comic song "The Cat Came Back" by Harry S. Miller, both illustrating that trope. The short, directed by Cordell Barker for Richard Condie and the National Film Board of Canada, features the hapless "Old Mr. Johnson" and his escalating but fruitless attempts to rid himself of a cat.It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short and has gone on to win dozens more. Johnson and the cat appeared in two adverts for Hula Hoops, with Johnson still trying (and failing) to get rid of the cat.Not to be confused with The Cat Returns.You can watch it, and you'll keep coming back...
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The Cat Came Back / int_10e86d8e	type	Memento MacGuffin
The Cat Came Back / int_10e86d8e	comment	Memento Macguffin: Johnson's original reason for throwing the cat out was because it broke the rattle he had since he was a child. This was made apparent by the sounds of its insides spilling across the floor.
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The Cat Came Back / int_158adc2e	type	Cute Clumsy Creature
The Cat Came Back / int_158adc2e	comment	Cute Clumsy Creature: Every time the cat comes back, Mr. Johnson's house is trashed a little more.
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The Cat Came Back / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Cat Came Back / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: The beginning line "One little cat, how hard could it be?" made it pretty obvious how things would go. Then one of the final verses "The old man knew it couldn't get any worse". Guess what?
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The Cat Came Back / int_1f0f3d6f	type	Cute Kitten
The Cat Came Back / int_1f0f3d6f	comment	Cute Kitten: Mr. Johnson thinks the cat is this at first. He's proven wrong very quickly.
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The Cat Came Back / int_226f6129	type	Line Boil
The Cat Came Back / int_226f6129	comment	Line Boil: The animation is a sterling example of the "line boil" style, most visible in the wobbly lines used to draw Mr. Johnson (which get more wobbly as his failed attempts to get rid of the cat cause Sanity Slippage).
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The Cat Came Back / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Cat Came Back / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The Played for Laughs Cruel Twist Ending mentioned above is one of the most morbidly hilarious examples in fiction.
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The Cat Came Back / int_337ef720	type	Ghostly Animals
The Cat Came Back / int_337ef720	comment	Ghostly Animals: The short ends with the death of the cat at the hands of Mr. Johnson. Afterwards, nine cat spirits emerge from the body and continue tormenting Johnson's spirit.
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The Cat Came Back / int_36eea50b	type	Drowning Unwanted Pets
The Cat Came Back / int_36eea50b	comment	Drowning Unwanted Pets: One of the ways Mr. Johnson tries (and fails) to get rid of the cat. But then you notice more bags at the bottom of the river...
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The Cat Came Back / int_3dc1e273	type	Not Enough to Bury
The Cat Came Back / int_3dc1e273	comment	Not Enough to Bury: Not only is this averted from the song it's derived from, but Mr. Johnson's intact corpse ends up crushing the cat.
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The Cat Came Back / int_3e2c9d95	type	Rock Bottom
The Cat Came Back / int_3e2c9d95	comment	Rock Bottom: If the lyrics include "it couldn't get any worse," it definitely qualifies.
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The Cat Came Back / int_41a48472	type	Bat Out of Hell
The Cat Came Back / int_41a48472	comment	Bat Out of Hell: Some follow Johnson out of a mine, one even cracking his window as it splats against it.
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The Cat Came Back / int_475d592d	type	You Dirty Rat!
The Cat Came Back / int_475d592d	comment	You Dirty Rat!: They force their unwelcome attentions on Johnson when he falls down a mine shaft.
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The Cat Came Back / int_476d2edb	type	Snakes Are Sinister
The Cat Came Back / int_476d2edb	comment	Snakes Are Sinister: Johnson encounters some of these in the mine shaft he fell into.
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The Cat Came Back / int_4a8c4e5f	type	Big "WHAT?!"
The Cat Came Back / int_4a8c4e5f	comment	Big "WHAT?!": Mr. Johnson gives a rather impressive one when answering the door in the beginning.
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The Cat Came Back / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
The Cat Came Back / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: Mr. Johnson becomes this as the cartoon, and his escalating suffering at the cat's paws, progresses.
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The Cat Came Back / int_4da296fc	type	All Cloth Unravels
The Cat Came Back / int_4da296fc	comment	All Cloth Unravels: The cat pulls on a thread, completely unraveling the rug and all the curtains.
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The Cat Came Back / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Cat Came Back / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Not only does Mr. Johnson get killed off at the end by blowing up his own house, but then the cat gets crushed to death when his dead body falls on top of it and now the cat's nine ghosts will continue to torment the ghost of Mr. Johnson for all eternity.
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The Cat Came Back / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Cat Came Back / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: At first. Mr. Johnson initially wants to get rid of the cat because it knocked a baby rattle out of his hand and broke it (like that wouldn't happen when playing with a cat?). His efforts become a bit more understandable as the cat becomes more destructive - though considering how the cat didn't really do anything legitimately bad before being tossed out, it's possible that it is getting some retribution of its own in its actions, resulting in an escalating cycle between the two participants. However, his initial reason for wanting to get rid of the cat may be justified, at least to him, in that it's implied that the baby rattle was a keepsake from Mr. Johnson's own babyhood and was therefore sentimentally valuable to him.
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The Cat Came Back / int_534bc834	type	Escalating War
The Cat Came Back / int_534bc834	comment	Escalating War: As the short continues, Mr. Johnson's attempts to get rid of the cat get more and more over-the-top, and the cat does more and more damage to Mr. Johnson's house in retaliation.
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The Cat Came Back / int_5cd8680b	type	Doorstop Baby
The Cat Came Back / int_5cd8680b	comment	Doorstop Baby: Or rather, Doorstop Kitten.
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The Cat Came Back / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
The Cat Came Back / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: When Mr. Johnson tries to blow the cat up, he accidentally lights his hair instead of his fuse, causing him to run around in a panic before crashing into the dynamite. His hair acts like an actual fuse as the dynamite blows up when it reaches the end.
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The Cat Came Back / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Cat Came Back / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: As his attempts to get rid of the cat fail, Mr. Johnson continually grows insane, culminating with him trying to blow the little curse up!
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The Cat Came Back / int_6fed1f70	type	The Thing That Would Not Leave
The Cat Came Back / int_6fed1f70	comment	The Thing That Would Not Leave: The titular cat, of course.
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The Cat Came Back / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Cat Came Back / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Taken to insane extremes. Simply put, getting rid of the cat is not an option.
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The Cat Came Back / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
The Cat Came Back / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: Mr. Johnson placing the cat on top of a bundle of dynamite big enough to reach the roof of his home, and subsequently blows the house and him to smithereens. The song states it as such:
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The Cat Came Back / int_74828aea	type	Killer Rabbit
The Cat Came Back / int_74828aea	comment	Killer Rabbit: The cat, of course, whose destructive powers just grow and grow as the cartoon proceeds.
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The Cat Came Back / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
The Cat Came Back / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: When Mr. Johnson sees the cow tied to the railway tracks, he blurts out, "What the fff—?" and is cut off by the cow mooing.
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The Cat Came Back / int_7cca3964	type	Matchlight Danger Revelation
The Cat Came Back / int_7cca3964	comment	Matchlight Danger Revelation: Happens while Mr. Johnson is stuck in the mine. Unhelpfully blown out by the aforesaid danger.
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The Cat Came Back / int_80d55f20	type	Cuteness Proximity
The Cat Came Back / int_80d55f20	comment	Cuteness Proximity: Johnson's reaction when he first finds the cat. It doesn't last long.
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The Cat Came Back / int_87021519	type	Ghost Reunion Ending
The Cat Came Back / int_87021519	comment	Ghost Reunion Ending: After numerous attempts to dispose of an unwanted cat, Mr. Johnson fills his house with explosives, then sets them off, killing himself in the process. His ghost returns to laugh at the cat, which can no longer torment him... until his dead body falls on the cat, killing it. Nine numbered feline ghosts appear, and chase the man's ghost, screaming in horror, into the sky.
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The Cat Came Back / int_872b9e12	type	Chained to a Railway
The Cat Came Back / int_872b9e12	comment	Chained to a Railway: Mr. Johnson drives a handcar over no fewer than seven (if not more) women and a cow, before derailing on a beetle (which subsequently divides neatly in two).
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The Cat Came Back / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Cat Came Back / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: After his first attempt, Mr. Johnson returns home covered in prickly burrs. A brief Velcro sound effect plays as he pulls off each, but when he pulls one off his tongue, the sound just keeps going... because it's actually the sound of the cat shredding his curtains.
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The Cat Came Back / int_89838bc2	type	Land, Sea, Sky
The Cat Came Back / int_89838bc2	comment	Land, Sea, Sky: Three of Mr. Johnson's attempts to get rid of the cat follow this theme: he tried to abandon it in the woods, drop it to the bottom of the sea, and send it off in a hot air ballon.
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The Cat Came Back / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Cat Came Back / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Mr. Johnson is implied to be a Serial Killer of animals, as the river is filled with bags exactly like the one he used to throw the cat in there. If this is true, his self-inflicted hell is more than deserved.
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The Cat Came Back / int_9fd18130	type	Animals Hate Him
The Cat Came Back / int_9fd18130	comment	Animals Hate Him: Extremely evident; not only is there the cat, but a cow, several hundred rats, and a freaking beetle all serve to make sure Mr. Johnson never gets rid of that cat.
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The Cat Came Back / int_a18042f1	type	Left the Background Music On
The Cat Came Back / int_a18042f1	comment	Left the Background Music On: The opening notes of the cartoon are revealed to have been Mr. Johnson practicing on the tuba.
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The Cat Came Back / int_a3f1531b	type	Standard Snippet
The Cat Came Back / int_a3f1531b	comment	Standard Snippet: When Johnson heads out to the boat, the "Sailors' Hornpipe" briefly plays, and when he stands in it, "Anchors Aweigh."
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The Cat Came Back / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
The Cat Came Back / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: Played for Laughs when Mr. Johnson's attempt to blow up the cat at the end leads to not only his own death, but that of the cat as well, dooming his ghost to be chased off screaming into the distance by all nine of its lives.
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The Cat Came Back / int_a5e77a67	type	The Cat Came Back
The Cat Came Back / int_a5e77a67	comment	The Cat Came Back: Every time Mr. Johnson tries to get rid of the cat, he returns home to find it destroying everything it can get its paws on, its destructive tendencies growing with each unsuccessful attempt to get rid of it.
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The Cat Came Back / int_a6cbef9a	type	Joker Immunity
The Cat Came Back / int_a6cbef9a	comment	Joker Immunity: No matter what Johnson does, the cat comes back...
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The Cat Came Back / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Cat Came Back / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Downplayed and Played for Laughs. Mr. Johnson will be pestered by the cat for all eternity, but it's a self-inflicted hell. It's only this because he just can't seem to get used to the thing.
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The Cat Came Back / int_abdf7d09	type	Weirdness Censor
The Cat Came Back / int_abdf7d09	comment	Weirdness Censor: Played straight and subverted when Mr. Johnson takes the cat for a ride into the mountains on a train trolley. Along the way, he runs over or passes several women tied to the train tracks, unfazed. But when he spots a cow tied to the tracks...
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The Cat Came Back / int_aceca6cc	type	Light Equals Hope
The Cat Came Back / int_aceca6cc	comment	Light Equals Hope: Mr. Johnson takes a railway handcar into the Canadian mountains in his fourth ploy to get rid of the cat. He derails after hitting a beetle on the tracks and tumbles down a mine's air shaft into utter darkness. Played for Laughs as he lights a match to assess his situation, and sees hundreds of rats staring back at him. One rat blows out the match, just before a Gory Discretion Shot. Mr. Johnson survives, though thoroughly nibbled.
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The Cat Came Back / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Cat Came Back / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Mr. Johnson experiences this several times, most notably when surrounded by rats in the mine, and later in the end when he realizes that the cat will always come back, even in death.
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The Cat Came Back / int_b9b7191f	type	The Film of the Song
The Cat Came Back / int_b9b7191f	comment	The Film of the Song: That song that plays over the short? It dates back to 1893!
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The Cat Came Back / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Cat Came Back / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Mr. Johnson comes very close to delivering one when he approaches the cow tied to the railway track and exclaims "What the ffff...?"
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The Cat Came Back / int_c0e891c1	type	Winged Soul Flies Off at Death
The Cat Came Back / int_c0e891c1	comment	Winged Soul Flies Off at Death: Followed by nine other winged souls.
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The Cat Came Back / int_c25f7913	type	By the Lights of Their Eyes
The Cat Came Back / int_c25f7913	comment	By the Lights of Their Eyes: That small blinking pair of eyes next to Johnson in the dark mine is not the cat. Neither are any of the hundreds of others that appear.
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The Cat Came Back / int_c97314e3	type	Eat the Camera
The Cat Came Back / int_c97314e3	comment	Eat the Camera: While Mr. Johsnon is on the runaway minecart.
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The Cat Came Back / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
The Cat Came Back / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: Ah, what a cute little kitten!
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The Cat Came Back / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
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The Cat Came Back / int_e4f5affb	comment	The Chew Toy: Poor old Mr. Johnson.
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The Cat Came Back / int_f1a15f4b	comment	But even after all that, when Johnson thought in death he would finally no longer have to deal with the cat, his corpse crushes the cat. And his ghost ends up getting joined by the ghosts of all nine of the cat's lives.
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The Cat Came Back / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Johnson blows the house up, sending him flying into the air and killing him. Now a ghost, he joyfully mocks the cat, now that he has escaped from its irritating presence, when his own plummeting body smashes the cat dead — leaving nine little cat ghosts to follow him through eternity.
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