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Top Cat

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116 feature instances
70 referencing feature instances

Top Cat	type	TVTItem
Top Cat	label	Top Cat
Top Cat	page	TopCat
Top Cat	comment	Hanna-Barbera produced this Animated Series for ABC in 1961. Unlike the studio's earlier series, Top Cat was set in the midst of New York City. Even before the first episode was broadcast, Bill Hanna knew that Top Cat was going to be popular.Top Cat is a Lovable Rogue who leads his gang of alley cats through one Zany Scheme after another, keeping the cats ahead of Officer Charlie Dibble, the local beat cop. The series took a page from The Phil Silvers Show, with "T.C." (as his gang called him) based on Phil Silvers' Sgt. Ernie Bilko. Maurice Gosfield, who played Pvt. Doberman on The Phil Silvers Show, provided the voice of Benny the Ball.In the late 1980s, Arnold Stang reprised his Top Cat role in the syndicated series Yogi's Treasure Hunt and the Made-for-TV Movie Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (part of the "Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10" series). In 1990, T.C. and Choo-Choo had an entry in the Fender Bender 500 segment of Wake Rattle And Roll. Top Cat and his gang have also appeared on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.A Flash animated Top Cat movie with CGI backgrounds has been released in 2011 in Mexico, where the show has been especially popular in the past decades where it's known as Don Gato y Su Pandilla (Don Gato and His Gang). A prequel was made which uses CGI entirely and released in 2015. The cast also appears as recurring characters on the 2021 HBO Max animated series Jellystone!.
Top Cat	fetched	2024-02-23T19:01:48Z
Top Cat	parsed	2024-02-23T19:01:48Z
Top Cat	processingComment	Dropped link to FiniansRainbow: Not a Feature - ITEM
Top Cat	processingComment	Dropped link to TheCon: Not a Feature - ITEM
Top Cat	processingComment	Dropped link to TheFlintstones: Not a Feature - ITEM
Top Cat	isPartOf	DBTropes
Top Cat / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Top Cat / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Fancy's voice is basically Cary Grant.
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Top Cat / int_1282bf4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_1282bf4f
Top Cat / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
Top Cat / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Officer Dibble, an honest cop who regularly opposes the gang's schemes to earn money in dishonest ways.
Top Cat / int_1501e2dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Top Cat / int_1501e2dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_1501e2dd
Top Cat / int_18151657	type	Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony
Top Cat / int_18151657	comment	Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony: In "A Visit From Mother", in which Benny's mother shows up, she attempts to "christen" a ship by whacking it with the bottle, but whacks Officer Dibble instead. Later, when she cuts the ribbon to "open" a bridge, a similar incident happens to Dibble.
Top Cat / int_18151657	featureApplicability	1.0
Top Cat / int_18151657	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_18151657
Top Cat / int_182f59f9	type	On One Condition
Top Cat / int_182f59f9	comment	On One Condition: In "The Missing Heir", a rich person's disappeared cat had a deadline to reappear or else the butler would get the inheritance. Benny was mistaken for the missing cat, turning him into the target of the butler's ire. The real cat then appeared and got the money despite having missed the deadline. The viewers were left to assume that it was because it was the butler who caused the disappearance in the first place.
Top Cat / int_182f59f9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_182f59f9
Top Cat / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Top Cat / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Top Cat is hinted to be this to his gang.
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Top Cat / int_19d06ef7	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_19d06ef7
Top Cat / int_19dcd4bc	type	Sand in My Eyes
Top Cat / int_19dcd4bc	comment	Sand In My Eyes: Happens in "T.C. Minds the Baby" when the gang adopts an abandoned baby, only to have to give him back when the mother reclaims him.
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Top Cat / int_19dcd4bc	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_19dcd4bc
Top Cat / int_1d3bc993	type	Mistaken for Special Guest
Top Cat / int_1d3bc993	comment	Mistaken for Special Guest: "The Maharajah of Pookajee" has a maharajah with a habit of giving out rubies, who's going to be staying in town at a fancy hotel. Top Cat, on learning of this, has the gang disguise themselves with the aid of some towels and a bag of fake rubies so they can get past Dibble, who's guarding the hotel entrance, then look for the maharajah and get some real rubies. In the hotel lobby, though, the receptionist mistakes T.C. for the real maharajah, so T.C. goes along with the charade and gets to stay in a luxury suite. Amusingly enough, when the real maharajah shows up, Top Cat ends up mistaking the real deal for another impostor.
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Top Cat / int_1d3d3704	type	Meddlesome Patrolman
Top Cat / int_1d3d3704	comment	Meddlesome Patrolman: Officer Dibble provides the trope picture, always trying to interfere in the gang's plans to earn money through underhanded means.
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Top Cat / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
Top Cat / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: The main cast, a gang of cats who speak perfect English.
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Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_1f14978d
Top Cat / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Top Cat / int_224c9aef	comment	Laugh Track: Like other Hanna-Barbera prime-time cartoons of the time, the show sports one. The Mexican dub removed it, however.
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Top Cat / int_2256c48a	type	Wraparound Background
Top Cat / int_2256c48a	comment	Wraparound Background: Well, this is Hanna-Barbera, after all.
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Top Cat / int_231e8193	type	Mistaken Identity
Top Cat / int_231e8193	comment	Mistaken Identity: Benny is subject to a few of these, such as being mistaken for the heir to a fortune in "The Missing Heir".
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Top Cat / int_233b20c9	type	Door Judo
Top Cat / int_233b20c9	comment	Door Judo: "Hawaii — Here We Come" has Benny go on a cruise, prompting the rest of the gang to tag along. At several points, Officer Dribble, the ship's captain, and a counterfeit artist try to barge into the cabin... only to end up running right off the ship, having to cling (unsuccessfully) to the side of the hull.
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Top Cat / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
Top Cat / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: The dimmest member of T.C.'s gang is named Brain. The Latin American Spanish dub managed to make it more hilarious by renaming him "Demostenes", after the Greek philosopher.
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Top Cat / int_257ff2e7	type	Maintain the Lie
Top Cat / int_257ff2e7	comment	Maintain the Lie: In the episode "A Visit from Mother", Benny the Ball has told his mother that he's the mayor, so when she visits, T.C. and the gang arrange a mayoral reception.
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Top Cat / int_26e749fc	type	Garbage Hideout
Top Cat / int_26e749fc	comment	Garbage Hideout: T.C. lives in a garbage can. It may be squalor, but with his method of thinking and conniving, it's practically a mansion.
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Top Cat / int_29429eec	type	Community-Threatening Construction
Top Cat / int_29429eec	comment	Community-Threatening Construction: T.C. and the gang guest-star in a crossover comic with Scooby-Doo, "Reigning Cats and Dogs", in which the villains are a pair of realtors who aren't actually doing anything illegal, but they're jerkasses who don't care about the people whose lives they're ruining with their plans. T.C. and the gang, along with Officer Dibble, work together to stop their plan.
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Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_29429eec
Top Cat / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Top Cat / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: Brain is not very smart. In the comics, however, he's just as intelligent as his name implies.
Top Cat / int_295087bf	featureApplicability	1.0
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Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_295087bf
Top Cat / int_2fcd835a	type	Handbag of Hurt
Top Cat / int_2fcd835a	comment	Handbag of Hurt: In one episode, a female cat sends Fancy-Fancy flying with her handbag.
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Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_2fcd835a
Top Cat / int_32db0e4c	type	Ring Around the Collar
Top Cat / int_32db0e4c	comment	Ring Around the Collar: As typical of the Hanna-Barbera output, the character designs make use of this trick, which is why the cats wear clothing.
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Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_32db0e4c
Top Cat / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
Top Cat / int_34889673	comment	In "King for a Day", Top Cat and the gang appear on the titular game show, which is basically a Gender Flipped Queen for a Day.
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Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_34889673
Top Cat / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
Top Cat / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Though not the laziest bum in the box, T.C. tends to rely on the others to do the manual work while he does the mental work.
Top Cat / int_355007c3	featureApplicability	1.0
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Top Cat / int_37001209	type	Annoying Patient
Top Cat / int_37001209	comment	Annoying Patient: In the episode "The Late T.C.", Dibble overhears part of a conversation between Top Cat and a doctor and mistakenly believes Top Cat is dying. T.C. takes advantage of this to make Dibble bring him food, throw him parties, etc.
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Top Cat / int_3842ff26	type	Short-Lived Leadership
Top Cat / int_3842ff26	comment	Short-Lived Leadership: In "All That Jazz", the new cat in town, A.T. (All That) Jazz, takes over the pool hall, steals Top Cat's girlfriend, sways the gang, and gets on Dibble's good side by cleaning up the alley. This sparks a contest between Jazz and T.C., each trying to trick the other into getting out of town. When a movie producer shows up at the alley, offering T.C. a part in a Hollywood film, he assumes it's another trick, as does Jazz. Benny accepts the offer and is cast in the starring role in "The Thing from the Alley." He leaves for Hollywood in a limo, accompanied by T.C. and the gang in the guise of Benny's manager, valet, vocal coach, tailor and chauffeur. Jazz consoles himself with the thought that at least the alley is now his. Not long after, Dibble catches Jazz using the police phone. He declares that Jazz is "just as bad as Top Cat" and makes Jazz and his buddy Beau keep the alley clean for thirty days.
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Top Cat / int_389b0e	type	Title Theme Tune
Top Cat / int_389b0e	comment	Title Theme Tune: "Top Cat, the most effectual Top Cat".
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Top Cat / int_3c51db1c	type	Zany Scheme
Top Cat / int_3c51db1c	comment	Zany Scheme: The gang is always concocting these to try and get cash through various dishonest methods.
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Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_3c51db1c
Top Cat / int_42a62962	type	Title Scream
Top Cat / int_42a62962	comment	Title Scream: As the intro goes:
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Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_42a62962
Top Cat / int_4540f0b9	type	Mistaken for Dying
Top Cat / int_4540f0b9	comment	Mistaken for Dying: "The Late T.C." has Officer Dibble mishear a conversation between T.C. and a doctor about a broken clock and think T.C. only has one week to live. After a few more misunderstandings, T.C. figured out the situation and tries to take advantage of it. Of course Dibble eventually finds out and gets quite angry at this development.
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Top Cat / int_45e1402f	type	Denial of Animality
Top Cat / int_45e1402f	comment	Denial of Animality: In "Dibble Sings Again", TC leaves one of his gang as collateral for a loan. The lender is perplexed: "A human collateral?" Then again, the only time in the entire series when the gang actually behave like cats is in "The Long Hot Winter", where they spend the winter at Dibble's, and they all jump into the only bed, crowding Dibble out and pushing him onto the floor: anyone with a cat knows what THAT's like. The episode "The Million Dollar Derby" has this line.
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Top Cat / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Top Cat / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: T.C. (who is very close to his friends despite his sarcastic attitude) and Officer Dibble.
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Top Cat / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Top Cat / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Dibble and sometimes Benny.
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Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_47fea76b
Top Cat / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
Top Cat / int_4b9a8e96	comment	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: T.C. and the gang guest-star in "Reigning Cats and Dogs", a crossover comic with Scooby-Doo, in which a developer says dressing up as a ghost is the first thing they teach at realtor school. Ironically, neither of the two developers in that story pull the trick. The first two ghosts are Top Cat's gang trying to keep Officer Dibble from catching Top Cat's illegal gambling scheme, and the other ghost is Officer Dibble using a Scarecrow Solution to prevent the developers from destroying a suburb.
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Top Cat / int_4efe80e1	type	Lazy Bum
Top Cat / int_4efe80e1	comment	Lazy Bum: The entire gang. Proudly so. They even simultaneously shriek in horror when Dibble suggests they find jobs.
Top Cat / int_4efe80e1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_4efe80e1
Top Cat / int_551c5085	type	It's a Wonderful Plot
Top Cat / int_551c5085	comment	It's a Wonderful Plot: Issue #16 of Cartoon Network Presents features the story "It's a Wonderful Strife", in which both T.C. and Officer Dibble, tired of putting up with each other, wish they'd never come to the city. The both of them are then shown alternate realities by their guardian angels, played respectively by Huckleberry Hound and Snagglepuss. Huck shows T.C. that, without guidance from a crafty leader, his gang has to resort to crime for sustenance, and Snagglepuss shows Dibble that if he never became a police officer, T.C. would be an anarchist bossing around the entire police force.
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Top Cat / int_56d0b84c	type	Buffoonish Tomcat
Top Cat / int_56d0b84c	comment	Buffoonish Tomcat: Brain, in stark contrast to most of the rest of the gang.
Top Cat / int_56d0b84c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_56d0b84c
Top Cat / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
Top Cat / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Averted — Top Cat may be a con artist, but he's also a pretty decent guy, as demonstrated in "The Con Men" where he helped an immigrant hot dog vendor who had been conned (unbeknownst to the vendor) by another pair of swindlers (although he was planning on scamming him himself...)
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Top Cat / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Top Cat / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: T.C. and Dibble. The former will always find a way to humiliate the latter, while the latter is deliriously happy at every opportunity to arrest T.C. But they'd give their lives for each other just as quickly.
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Top Cat / int_5b0a14b1	type	Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change
Top Cat / int_5b0a14b1	comment	Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change: The Brazilian dub changes the original New York City setting to Brazil's federal capital of BrasÃlia.
Top Cat / int_5b0a14b1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Top Cat / int_5b88d4c4	type	A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted
Top Cat / int_5b88d4c4	comment	A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: Episodes feature this happening a few times. The most notable one is "The Tycoon", where a millionaire gives Benny a check to give to T.C for one million dollars after he finds out how rough the gang has it. When the merchants' association finds out, T.C and the gang are treated like royalty. In the end, it all goes away because Top Cat, who didn't give Benny a chance to explain about the million dollars, tore up the check. To be fair, Top Cat thought that Benny had been tricked into accepting a ticket for a 25 cent raffle, so he didn't know any better.
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Top Cat / int_5bc2106	type	Your Costume Needs Work
Top Cat / int_5bc2106	comment	In "The Maharajah of Pookajee", a maharajah with a habit of handing out rubies is going to be staying in town at a fancy hotel. T.C. impersonates him, with the help of a bag of glass beads. Later, T.C. ends up running into the real maharajah, but assumes he's just another impostor pulling the same scam and ends up throwing the bag of "fake" rubies the maharajah gives him into the bay.
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Top Cat / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Top Cat / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Fancy-Fancy, in a PG-rated sort of way.
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Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_5e2e55e4
Top Cat / int_61e3b6ae	type	It's a Small World, After All
Top Cat / int_61e3b6ae	comment	It's a Small World, After All: In the episode "Rafeefleas", T.C. plans an all-you-can-eat pizza binge for him and his pals but picks the wrong pizza shop to do it:
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Top Cat / int_67b9dd47	type	Repeating So the Audience Can Hear
Top Cat / int_67b9dd47	comment	Repeating So the Audience Can Hear: Officer Dibble, every time he speaks to his superiors (or someone else) over the phone.
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Top Cat / int_6b353f78	type	Only Known by Initials
Top Cat / int_6b353f78	comment	Only Known by Initials: Top Cat is often (but not always) known as T.C. (though according to the theme song, it's reserved for close friends).
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Top Cat / int_6b960f3b	type	Advertising-Only Continuity
Top Cat / int_6b960f3b	comment	Advertising-Only Continuity: In a Corn Flakes ad, Top Cat appears behind a wooden fence, eyeing a police officer conversing on a telephone, carrying a grocery bag with a box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes. As the officer hangs up, he turns to see Top Cat standing on a box, positioning his hands in the shape of a screen as if he is a film director. Top Cat woos the officer with promises of fame. Meanwhile, a cat appears with a makeshift fishing rod made of a broom. Three more cats appear, solidifying the illusion of a film production set. One of the cats slaps the officer with an enormous powdering pad, creating an explosive poof of makeup. Top Cat reaches through the makeup cloud and snatches the box of cereal and holds it as if still filming for the make-believe camera. Top Cat asks if the officer likes Corn Flakes, and the officer says, "I do!" Top Cat says "Cut!" Thanking the officer for his participation in the commercial, Top Cat walks away, and the officer thanks Top Cat, and walks away with his grocery bag, then shakes his head and snaps to, realizing his box of cereal is missing. The group of cats now sit at a table next to the fence, enjoying bowls of Kellogg's Corn Flakes. The police officer walks up to table, grabs the box of cereal, placing it back in his grocery bag, and asks Top Cat if he is being paid for this "commercial." The powder makeup cat returns, slapping powder on the officer, leaving another cloud looming upon the officer's head. Top Cat yet again reaches into the makeup cloud and takes the box from the officer, walking away.
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Top Cat / int_6c275297	type	The Fettered
Top Cat / int_6c275297	comment	The Fettered: Officer Dibble. He's passionately devoted to his duty, even when his duty causes him great grief and makes him the butt of all jokes.
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Top Cat / int_6c81c95	type	True Art Is Incomprehensible
Top Cat / int_6c81c95	comment	True Art Is Incomprehensible: T.C. exploits this as one of his get-rick-quick schemes. He sees a modern-art painting hailed as a masterpiece, so he ties a paintbrush to a turtle's tail, lets the turtle wander over a sheet, and passes the result off as the work of a great artist.
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Top Cat / int_6d0b942	type	Unexplained Accent
Top Cat / int_6d0b942	comment	Unexplained Accent: The Mexican dub became famous due to the use of different Mexican accents for each of the cats. Probably one of the reasons behind its broad popularity in Latin America.
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Top Cat / int_6d6b8aa	type	Human Ladder
Top Cat / int_6d6b8aa	comment	Human Ladder: In the episode "The Late T.C.", Top Cat tries to watch a ball game at Yankee Stadium by having his gang stand on top of each other so he can peek over the fence.
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Top Cat / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Top Cat / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: The Mexican dub excelled at giving these to main characters and one-shots. The original version was more straightforward.
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Top Cat / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Top Cat / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Benny's voice actor had previously starred in The Phil Silvers Show as Private Duane Doberman, and was fittingly voiced by Doberman himself, Maurice Gosfield.
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Top Cat / int_6ed6a3ff	type	Apes in Space
Top Cat / int_6ed6a3ff	comment	Apes in Space: In the "Space Monkey" episode, the feline heroes help a monkey astronaut by sending his rocket into his home Africa.
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Top Cat / int_6fed1f70	type	The Thing That Would Not Leave
Top Cat / int_6fed1f70	comment	The Thing That Would Not Leave: "The Long Hot Winter" in a nutshell. With the city covered in snow, the gang needs a warm place to stay for the winter. With Dibble's wife out of town, Top Cat gets the idea to crash at his place by exploiting an obscure law and Dibble's need to look good to his boss. Despite Dibble's best efforts to get out of this, T.C. and the gang spend four months living in his apartment.
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Top Cat / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Top Cat / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: In "Top Cat Falls in Love", Top Cat faked an illness so he could be waited on by a Hospital Hottie, but once she went away to get married and he was left with a much less pleasant nurse he got out of her care by making her think the Christmas decorations around his room (in Summer) are only in her head.
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Top Cat / int_76a5eaf8	type	Spotlight-Stealing Squad
Top Cat / int_76a5eaf8	comment	Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Benny had four episodes dedicated solely to him, and there were several more episodes where something he did got the ball rolling. Not to mention that in Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats, he got the spotlight again.
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Top Cat / int_7a54c458	type	Mock Millionaire
Top Cat / int_7a54c458	comment	Mock Millionaire: In "The Con Men", T.C. pretended to be a Texan millionaire to out-con a couple of con artists who had tricked an immigrant hot dog vendor (who T.C. was apparently going to con himself) into investing in some worthless stock. In "The Maharajah of Pookajee", a maharajah with a habit of handing out rubies is going to be staying in town at a fancy hotel. T.C. impersonates him, with the help of a bag of glass beads. Later, T.C. ends up running into the real maharajah, but assumes he's just another impostor pulling the same scam and ends up throwing the bag of "fake" rubies the maharajah gives him into the bay.
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Top Cat / int_7ac1f1e5	type	Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist
Top Cat / int_7ac1f1e5	comment	Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: Officer Dibble, who's generally pretty good at his job, friendly with the people on his beat, and has more than once arrested some genuinely dangerous crooks single-handed and under gunfire. He just can't get the better of Top Cat... most of the time. He also has a soft spot a mile wide for T.C. and tends to get along with him just fine if he's behaving himself. At his most officious, Dibble only wants to book him on legitimate charges to win the battle of wits.
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Top Cat / int_7b20b8d2	type	Alternative Foreign Theme Song
Top Cat / int_7b20b8d2	comment	Alternative Foreign Theme Song: The Sri Lanka dub has a completely different theme created by Titus Thotawatte.
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Top Cat / int_7b83b928	type	Xylophone Gag
Top Cat / int_7b83b928	comment	Xylophone Gag: Used in the episode "The Missing Heir" in an attempt to kill Benny via a rigged xylophone set to explode when he hits a certain note, only the tune used is "While Strolling Through The Park One Day".
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Top Cat / int_7c889239	type	Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal
Top Cat / int_7c889239	comment	Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: The episode "A Visit from Mother" features Penelope Jean Brook-Ball, also known as Mrs. Ball, Benny the Ball's mother. In contrast to her son's Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal status, she wears a hat, dress and Victorian-era styled boots.
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Top Cat / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Top Cat / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: In "Choo-Choo's Romance", while trying to help Choo-Choo woo a lady cat, TC ends up drawing pistols at high noon with the lady's actual boyfriend. Of course, he rigs the duel beforehand and has Benny replace everyone's bullets with blanks, and then he feigns a fatal injury so his "Heroic Sacrifice" would get him back into everyone's good graces. Turns out, though, that Benny didn't have time to switch out the bullets, at which point T.C. stares at the bullethole going through the middle of his hat and faints dead away.
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Top Cat / int_7ea2a915	type	Animation Bump
Top Cat / int_7ea2a915	comment	Animation Bump: Most of the series is in the typical Hanna-Barbera limited animation style — except the opening and closing title animation, which although still limited seems to have had more care and attention lavished on it. It was not the only H-B show of the era whose intro was more fluidly animated than the main show; those of Huckleberry Hound and Quick Draw McGraw were as well, along with their interstitial segments.
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Top Cat / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Top Cat / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the episode "The Tycoon", a millionaire in search of a needy person to receive a million dollars from him learned from Benny how badly off the gang was, so he wrote out a check to Top Cat. As a result, when all the merchants found out, Top Cat and his bunch were treated like royalty. But in the end, they lost everything again because Top Cat tore up the check, thinking it was for a 25-cent raffle.
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Top Cat / int_7fdf7db6	type	Princess for a Day
Top Cat / int_7fdf7db6	comment	Princess for a Day: In "A Visit From Mother", the gang rally round to convince Benny the Ball's mother that he's Mayor of New York, just like he said in his letters home.
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Top Cat / int_8084141a	type	Out-of-Context Eavesdropping
Top Cat / int_8084141a	comment	Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: In "The Late T.C.", Dibble overheard Top Cat's doctor saying the ticker was shot when TC tried to pay with a clock, and thought Top Cat was dying. Also, Dibble overheard the Chief talking about getting rid of the old wrecks (the worn out police cars) and thought he was going to be laid off.
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Top Cat / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Top Cat / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In "Farewell, Mr. Dibble", Officer Dibble is replaced by an even stricter police officer, who is so zealous that he is drawing public complaints to his superior for being excessive. To get rid of him, T.C. convinces said officer that the city's mayor is Cha-cha Charlie, a gangster wanted by police for extortion, smuggling and leading a dance school without permission.
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Top Cat / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Top Cat / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: T.C. is only this in the loosest sense of the term. He runs a street gang of cats and constantly schemes to get rich, but he rarely does anything evil.
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Top Cat / int_8a295a48	type	Cool Cat
Top Cat / int_8a295a48	comment	Cool Cat: Top Cat and company, particularly Spook.
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Top Cat / int_927d9def	type	Scarecrow Solution
Top Cat / int_927d9def	comment	Scarecrow Solution: T.C. and the gang guest-star in "Reigning Cats and Dogs", a crossover comic with Scooby-Doo, in which two realtors are doing a project that threatens the local suburbs. Since what they're doing isn't illegal, no matter how despicable they are, Officer Dibble pulls the Bedsheet Ghost trick to get rid of them. It takes some time to convince them it's a real ghost since Top Cat had previously tried the trick to keep his illegal gambling operation a secret and dressing up as a ghost is the first thing they teach at realtor school and, when they're finally convinced, they flee not in fear of the ghost itself but of how unprofitable the land they want becomes because of it.
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Top Cat / int_92b9e234	type	Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal
Top Cat / int_92b9e234	comment	Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Spook and Fancy, who only wear ties or collars.
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Top Cat / int_963acdd6	type	Real Vehicle Reveal
Top Cat / int_963acdd6	comment	Real Vehicle Reveal: In the opening credits, Top Cat appears to be riding in the back of a limousine. However, as the car turns a corner, it is revealed he is actually riding on the fender.
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Top Cat / int_9716b4f7	type	Finish Dialogue in Unison
Top Cat / int_9716b4f7	comment	Finish Dialogue in Unison: The episode "Rafeefleas" has Choo Choo explaining to T.C. what Benny the Ball was doing at the museum:
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Top Cat / int_975fe61e	type	Sleep Mask
Top Cat / int_975fe61e	comment	Sleep Mask: T.C. dons one before going to sleep in his trash can, as seen in the closing credits.
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Top Cat / int_97af4479	type	Ill-Timed Sneeze
Top Cat / int_97af4479	comment	Ill-Timed Sneeze: Dibble sneezes while disguising himself as a statue when a curator dusts his face (curator says "Gesundheit"), Choo-Choo gives the gang away when they are hiding from gangsters (T.C. stops him with the finger trick, but then lets go) and Benny sneezes thrice in the show: first time he explodes a barrel, second time he explodes a safe and the third time he explodes a building.
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Top Cat / int_9a692ae9	type	13 Is Unlucky
Top Cat / int_9a692ae9	comment	13 Is Unlucky: The episode "Rafeefleas" has T.C. collecting money for a pizza from the gang (as part of a scheme to get free pizzas for each of them), and Brain has thirteen cents.
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Top Cat / int_9ad6ea63	type	Depth Deception
Top Cat / int_9ad6ea63	comment	Depth Deception: Twice in the opening credits — first, Top Cat can be seen riding in a limo, only for it to turn and reveal he's actually riding on the fender. Soon after, he's seen apparently sitting at a table on a restaurant's patio, only for the next bit to show he's actually sitting on a box on the other side of a hedge next to the table.
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Top Cat / int_a236dd4c	type	Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
Top Cat / int_a236dd4c	comment	Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Four of the gang wear tops — Top Cat (who wears a vest), Benny (who wears a shirt), Choo Choo (who wears a white sweater) and Brain (who also wears a shirt) — but no pants.
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Top Cat / int_a431b0e6	type	The Butler Did It
Top Cat / int_a431b0e6	comment	The Butler Did It: "The Missing Heir" features butler Chutney trying to do in Benny in order to obtain a fortune that Benny's mistakenly believed to be an heir to.
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Top Cat / int_a6fa41b	type	Recycled Premise
Top Cat / int_a6fa41b	comment	Recycled Premise: T.C. and the gang's trying to put numerous schemes over on Officer Dibble is reminiscent of The Phil Silvers Show, with Maurice Gosfield appearing on The Phil Silvers Show as Private Doberman and on Top Cat as Benny the Ball.
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Top Cat / int_a73c667a	type	Captivity Harmonica
Top Cat / int_a73c667a	comment	Captivity Harmonica: Lampshaded in one episode. The gang is tricked into robbing a warehouse, and are sent to prison. Choo-Choo whips a harmonica from hammerspace, and begins playing it. When T.C. questions it, Chooch explains, "They always play harmonicas in prison movies", upon which T.C. reminds him that This Is Reality.
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Top Cat / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Top Cat / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Officer Dibble. Top Cat can make him look like a moron, but Dibble proves himself a very brave, competent cop whenever facing a seriously dangerous criminal; he actually gets into gunfights with bank robbers and other delinquents, usually arresting them in the end.
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Top Cat / int_b0ad6a1e	type	Wrestler in All of Us
Top Cat / int_b0ad6a1e	comment	Wrestler in All of Us: In one episode, Benny the Ball demonstrates what he would do to some guy using a garbage can as a model. He performs an airplane spin and is readying to do "the ol' bodyslam" (He names the move!), but he loses his balance and hilarity ensues.
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Top Cat / int_b3e3b9af	type	Playing Cyrano
Top Cat / int_b3e3b9af	comment	Playing Cyrano: Top Cat does it for Choo-Choo in "Choo-Choo's Romance". As usual with this plan, it does not end well, partly because of the lady cat's jealous boyfriend.
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Top Cat / int_b72e2255	type	Stray Animal Story
Top Cat / int_b72e2255	comment	Stray Animal Story: The main characters are a gang of Funny Animal stray cats.
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Top Cat / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
Top Cat / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: In Britain there was once a Top Cat brand of cat food. This led to The BBC changing Top Cat to Boss Cat up to the late '80s. Seeing as they only changed the show's title, and not its theme song, or the lead character's name, it was rather a token gesture. The show was called by its proper title by the '90s.
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Top Cat / int_b9fd7929	type	Morality Chain
Top Cat / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: On a few occasions, T.C. is seen willing to go a little too far in his schemes, but the rest of the gang will object and convince him otherwise.
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Top Cat / int_bb36c953	type	Sliding Scale of Animal Cast
Top Cat / int_bb36c953	comment	Sliding Scale of Animal Cast: Type 7 (Equally Human and Animal Cast) — Mr. Dibble the human character is as important a character as the cat characters are.
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Top Cat / int_bba8939	type	Cats Are Snarkers
Top Cat / int_bba8939	comment	Cats Are Snarkers: T.C.
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Top Cat / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
Top Cat / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: The series is set in New York City, where the gang has their alley.
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Top Cat / int_bf996668	type	Sliding Scale of Continuity
Top Cat / int_bf996668	comment	Sliding Scale of Continuity: Closer to 1 than to 2 — no real continuity, but it never really contradicts itself.
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Top Cat / int_c067b082	type	Black Bead Eyes
Top Cat / int_c067b082	comment	Black Bead Eyes: Benny. Also Dibble in the show, but he gained sclerae in modern depictions, as seen above.
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Top Cat / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Top Cat / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: T.C. and the gang, who've always got one another's backs and refuse to abandon one another.
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Top Cat / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Top Cat / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: T.C. is a master at these, even when they devolve into Xanatos Speed Chess. When his plans go terribly wrong, Top Cat never ends up worse than when he started, and someone, whether Officer Dibble or one of his gang, always comes out better off.
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Top Cat / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Top Cat / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Lots. In "Farewell, Mr. Dibble", Top Cat paraphrases Finian's Rainbow. In "Rafeefleas", the cats sneak into a museum and see statues of Fred and Barney. Choo-Choo even says that he's seen the statues on television, but he can't remember where. In "King for a Day", Top Cat and the gang appear on the titular game show, which is basically a Gender Flipped Queen for a Day.
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Top Cat / int_cdde1503	type	Gesundheit
Top Cat / int_cdde1503	comment	Gesundheit: Variant in the episode "Space Monkey", where Top Cat and his gang help Eek-Eek, a chimp from a space program, to escape and get home. Later on, when talking to Officer Dibble who's none the wiser about their scheme, they are delivered a crate of bananas and a letter signed by Eek-Eek.
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Top Cat / int_d013cd12	type	Lovable Rogue
Top Cat / int_d013cd12	comment	Lovable Rogue: Top Cat and his gang, of course. They're always out to get cash to get rich and afford food, but they're really nice guys at heart who don't hurt anyone except other scammers.
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Top Cat / int_d28eb9e1	type	Serial Romeo
Top Cat / int_d28eb9e1	comment	Serial Romeo: Choo-Choo. Poor guy.
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Top Cat / int_d4c98786	type	Writing Around Trademarks
Top Cat / int_d4c98786	comment	Writing Around Trademarks: The show was renamed "Boss Cat" in the United Kingdom since "Top Cat" was already used there by a then-popular brand of cat food and the show was broadcast on The BBC, which frowns upon the mention of trademarks. However, this applied only to textual mentions of the title in the opening and closing credits: a rather jarring and noticeable edit was carried on both to remove said mentions, with a title card using the revised name being inserted after the opening credits. The theme song and the dialog still mentioned "Top Cat", which led to the show being known as "Top Cat" by UK audiences anyway. By 1999, the cat food brand had been discontinued, making the point of the rename moot: the title was reverted to "Top Cat".
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Top Cat / int_db27d520	type	Amazing Technicolor Wildlife
Top Cat / int_db27d520	comment	Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: The cats have interesting fur colors (T.C. is bright yellow, Benny is indigo, Choo-Choo is pink, Fancy-Fancy is cinnamon brown, Spook is olive-green and Brain is orange).
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Top Cat / int_e0c44755	type	Half Hour Comedy
Top Cat / int_e0c44755	comment	Half-Hour Comedy: An animated example.
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Top Cat / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Top Cat / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: Benny the Ball is implied to be this in "Rafeefleas" when Choo Choo tells T.C. that Benny was at the museum:
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Top Cat / int_e2a41c3b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Top Cat / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Top Cat / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Brain. As T.C. says of his intelligence (or lack thereof) in Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats, "He's a terminal twit."
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Top Cat / int_e2d457	featureConfidence	1.0
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Top Cat / int_e4bb68b8	type	The Charmer
Top Cat / int_e4bb68b8	comment	The Charmer: T.C., big time.
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Top Cat / int_e4bb68b8	featureConfidence	1.0
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Top Cat / int_e8f16dc2	type	Automobile Opening
Top Cat / int_e8f16dc2	comment	Automobile Opening: In the opening of the show, T.C. is seen presumably being driven in a limousine. When the limousine turns around, we see he's actually riding on its rear fender.
Top Cat / int_e8f16dc2	featureApplicability	1.0
Top Cat / int_e8f16dc2	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_e8f16dc2
Top Cat / int_eb99df21	type	Funny Animal
Top Cat / int_eb99df21	comment	Funny Animal: T.C. and the gang straddle the line between Funny Animal and Civilized Animal. They wear clothes and can communicate with humans in English, but are otherwise function and are treated as members of their respective species.
Top Cat / int_eb99df21	featureApplicability	1.0
Top Cat / int_eb99df21	featureConfidence	1.0
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Top Cat / int_eb9bc4b6	type	Violin Scam
Top Cat / int_eb9bc4b6	comment	Violin Scam: An amusing variation happened in "The Con Men", when a pair of con artists trick an immigrant hot dog vendor from the neighborhood into buying worthless stocks in a floundering Nova Scotia oil company. T.C. then tricks the scammers into thinking he's a Texan millionaire. While they are meeting in his "office" (the alley, only spruced up), T.C. leaves for a moment only for the "teletype" (the output of which actually comes from Benny hiding under a table with a typewriter) to state that the well struck oil and the value of the shares skyrocketed. The scammers then rush to the hot dog vendor and buy back the shares at triple the price. In other words T.C. managed to pull the violin scam for a worthless item the marks had previously owned!
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Top Cat / int_eb9bc4b6	featureConfidence	1.0
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Top Cat / int_edeafb2e	type	Malicious Misnaming
Top Cat / int_edeafb2e	comment	Malicious Misnaming: A running gag on the show was Top Cat calling Dibble Dribble. However, it was more in a cheeky teasing sort of way, rather than malicious. This was carried over in the Mexican dub, where "Oficial Matute" would sometimes be referred to as either "Patute" or "Matate", depending on the episode.
Top Cat / int_edeafb2e	featureApplicability	1.0
Top Cat / int_edeafb2e	featureConfidence	1.0
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Top Cat / int_ee0d29b6	type	Coin-on-a-String Trick
Top Cat / int_ee0d29b6	comment	Coin-on-a-String Trick: Seen in the opening credits, with T.C. snatching the coin back from a doorman after he's tipped him.
Top Cat / int_ee0d29b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Top Cat / int_ee0d29b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_ee0d29b6
Top Cat / int_eea921b7	type	Late to the Punchline
Top Cat / int_eea921b7	comment	Late to the Punchline: Getting the core joke of the series really required an understanding of period American street culture and of the likes of Damon Runyon. A lot of kids probably only understood that it was a show about a street gang full of colorful hoods some years later.
Top Cat / int_eea921b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Top Cat / int_eea921b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_eea921b7
Top Cat / int_f27ec906	type	Identical Stranger
Top Cat / int_f27ec906	comment	Identical Stranger: In the episode "The Missing Heir", when reading the heir's physical description in the newspaper, the cast realizes that Benny matches that description perfectly. Unsurprisingly, by the end, it's revealed Benny is not the heir, but the real one is near identical, outside of a birthmark on his foot (the matching birthmark on Benny turning out to actually be a piece of chewing gum).
Top Cat / int_f27ec906	featureApplicability	1.0
Top Cat / int_f27ec906	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_f27ec906
Top Cat / int_f61cddc9	type	Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!
Top Cat / int_f61cddc9	comment	Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: The cats are treated on par with humans and they behave like humans. No one thinks twice of a bipedal cat talking to a human.
Top Cat / int_f61cddc9	featureApplicability	1.0
Top Cat / int_f61cddc9	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_f61cddc9
Top Cat / int_fd7267dd	type	Master of Disguise
Top Cat / int_fd7267dd	comment	Master of Disguise: "Dibble's Double" has a criminal who can do this, and used his talent to disguise himself as Officer Dibble.
Top Cat / int_fd7267dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Top Cat / int_fd7267dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_fd7267dd
Top Cat / int_fda1a026	type	Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics
Top Cat / int_fda1a026	comment	Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics: In the episode "Rafeefleas", Spook ends a billiards game by shooting all the remaining balls in all the pockets in one shot.
Top Cat / int_fda1a026	featureApplicability	1.0
Top Cat / int_fda1a026	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Cat	hasFeature	Top Cat / int_fda1a026
Top Cat / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Top Cat / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Dibble's repeated failures in "The Long Hot Winter" drive him to tears and thinking he should just quit his job. Top Cat feels so bad for him that he confesses to having had an overdue library book for a few months and figures that's gotta at least be a misdemeanor. He is promptly arrested.
Top Cat / int_ff7f34c5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Top Cat / int_ffb1df90	type	Perpetual Poverty
Top Cat / int_ffb1df90	comment	Perpetual Poverty: Top Cat uses conniving and hucksterism to keep his gang fed in an otherwise impoverished organization.
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Top Cat / int_name	type	ItemName
Top Cat / int_name	comment
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Top Cat / int_name	itemName	Top Cat

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Western Animation / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Top Cat
Top Cat	hasFeature	Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Advertising-Only Continuity / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Annoying Patient / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Apes in Space / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Automobile Opening / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Baby Name Trend Killer / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Bad Guys Play Pool / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Balloon Belly / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Bizarre and Improbable Golf Game / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Buffoonish Tomcat / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Coin-on-a-String Trick / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Denial of Animality / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Domestic-Only Cartoon / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Feline Fiction / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Finish Dialogue in Unison / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Furry Denial / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Garbage Hideout / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Gesundheit / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Get-Rich-Quick Scheme / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Half Hour Comedy / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Handbag of Hurt / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Hero Antagonist / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Human Ladder / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Identical Stranger / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	It's a Small World, After All / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Like Is, Like, a Comma / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Lovable Rogue / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Maintain the Lie / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Master of Disguise / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Meddlesome Patrolman / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Mistaken for Dying / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Mistaken for Special Guest / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Mock Millionaire / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Only Known by Initials / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Out-of-Context Eavesdropping / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Perpetual Poverty / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Playing Cyrano / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Poison Mushroom / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Princess for a Day / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Real Vehicle Reveal / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Reckless Gun Usage / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Recycled Premise / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Sand in My Eyes / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Seamless Spontaneous Lie / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Sleep Mask / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Animal Cast / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Animal Communication / int_94a7832d
Sliding Scale Of Western Animation Obscurity	seeAlso	Top Cat
Top Cat	hasFeature	Speech Impediment / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Stray Animal Story / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist / int_94a7832d
The Dark Age of Animation	seeAlso	Top Cat
Top Cat	hasFeature	The Runt at the End / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	13 Is Unlucky / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Title Scream / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Trash-Can Band / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Unexplained Accent / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Unintentional Period Piece / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Violin Scam / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Went to the Great X in the Sky / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Wrestler in All of Us / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Writing Around Trademarks / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Xylophone Gag / int_94a7832d
Top Cat	hasFeature	Late to the Punchline / int_94a7832d

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