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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats

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47 feature instances
37 referencing feature instances

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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats	label	Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats	comment	Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats is a 1988 Made-for-TV Movie, created as a part of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 series.In the film, Top Cat and his alley cat pals are scamming people as usual, when Benny suddenly becomes the beneficiary to a recently-deceased billionaire, Gertrude Vandergelt. With her only surviving family member missing, Benny stands to inherit the fortune, while her butler and his dog scheme their way to ensure they take control of the estate instead.The movie is ostensibly a combination of two episodes of the series, "The Missing Heir" and "The Golden Fleecing".
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats	processingComment	Dropped link to Annie: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: When Top Cat is playing pool and sinks all of the balls blindfolded, the gang asks him how he did it. Top Cat then pulls out a picture of someone he claims to be his "teacher", whom the gang recognizes as "Minnesota Cats".note In this case, he's likely a reference to the real-life pool player who started using "Minnesota Fats" as a nickname, and not the original character from The Hustler.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_182f59f9	type	On One Condition
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_182f59f9	comment	On One Condition: With the disappearance of Mrs. Vandergelt's niece Amy Vandergelt, Benny is the next in line for the inheritance (Mrs. Vandergelt had other relatives but despised them all for unspecified reasons). Provided that Amy didn't return and nothing bad happened to Benny in the next 48 hours, he'd get the inheritance. If something happened to him, the butler would get the money (and naturally spends the rest of the film trying to bump Benny off, or at least ensure he won't be at the estate at the proper time). In this case, Benny never feels comfortable with his newfound potential wealth because he knows Amy was ahead of him to inherit, and when he and the gang find her by sheer chance, he immediately gives up his inheritance to her. (Of course, then it turns out Mrs. Vandergelt isn't really dead.)
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: To get to the Vandergelt mansion, the gang hitches a ride on the back of a tourist bus that's showing people all the fancy houses and people of Beverly Hills. While passing through the neighborhood, Fred Flintstone, Wilma Flintstone, and Dino can be seen in one yard, and Barney and Betty Rubble are in the next yard over.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_1bf94a24	type	The Movie
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_1bf94a24	comment	The Movie: The first full-length film to feature the cast, released as part of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 series.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_1d3bc993	type	Mistaken for Special Guest
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_1d3bc993	comment	Mistaken for Special Guest: When Kitty Glitter shows up at the Vandergelt mansion for a blind date with T.C., due to a mishap, she ends up taking Brain out instead (who, admittedly, tries to tell her he's not T.C. but gets cut off), not realizing the error until Snerdly finally manages to get a hold of her.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: One scene reveals Snerdly has a mechanical hand (covered by his usual butler's glove), which he's seen using all of once to smack a stone wall, leaving his handprint (and then causing a piece of the wall to hit him on the head, resulting in a Cranial Eruption).
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: The dog Ratsputin, befitting his name and breed (Russian wolfhound), tends to add "-ski" to the end of most of his words.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_2a6bf668	type	Inadequate Inheritor
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_2a6bf668	comment	Inadequate Inheritor: The will reading reveals that Gertrude Vandergelt left her entire fortune to her niece because she hates her other relatives. No reason for this hatred has ever been mentioned, but given their negative reaction to learning someone else was inheriting instead of them, it's not surprising.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_3437ee2c	type	Inheritance Murder
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_3437ee2c	comment	Inheritance Murder: Attempted by Snerdly, who keeps trying to kill Benny so he'll inherit instead. Also subverted by the fact that he simply arranged for Amy Vandergelt (who was first in line, ahead of Benny) to be kept away from the mansion and unaware of her aunt's death, rather than trying to kill her, and later on he resorts to simply keeping Benny away from the mansion until the time limit is past, which comes far closer to succeeding than any of his other attempts.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_43b67361	type	Have We Met?
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_43b67361	comment	Have We Met?: Late in the film, the gang ends up in a car wash while trying to evade a dogcatcher; Benny recognizes the car wash girl, asking "Haven't I seen you somewhere before?" and another of the gang calling it one of the oldest lines in the book. In this case though, Benny's right — the girl is Amy Vandergelt, niece of Gertrude Vandergelt and the rightful heir to her fortune, and he recognized her from her portrait, which was hanging on the mansion's wall.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_45d74260	comment	Speech-Impaired Animal: The dog Ratsputin speaks entirely in a thick growly voice (though none of the characters seem to have any issue understanding him).
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_47325888	type	Latex Perfection
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_47325888	comment	Latex Perfection: Snerdly provides Benny with a dog mask, which fools both Brain (not that that's too hard) and a dogcatcher into thinking he's a real dog. Gertrude Vandergelt disguises herself as her male lawyer, wearing a rubber mask to hide her identity. Until she suddenly starts speaking in her normal voice after the gang and Amy return to the mansion, nobody is able to tell it's a disguise.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: At the will reading, Benny learns he must wait for 48 hours before he can inherit a fortune. Should anything happen to him during that time, the evil butler and his dog would get it. Subverted in that the urgency doesn't start until 24 hours have passed and Snerdly sets a plan into motion that nearly works. Also subverted in that the original heiress returned and the benefactress faked her death to trick the butler into revealing his true colors.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_4cacfcc3	type	Honey Trap
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_4cacfcc3	comment	Honey Trap: Kitty Glitter is contacted by Snerdly in order to serve this role to distract T.C. and draw him away from Benny, whom he's protecting from Snerdly's thinly-disguised murder attempts. Unlike most cases, she isn't actually evil (and doesn't seem to realize that Snerdly is up to no good) — she's just told that T.C. is rich and immediately comes to try and win his heart.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_566f1565	comment	10-Minute Retirement: At the start of the film, Dibble gets the news that his retirement has been approved. He soon gets another job as a security guard for the Vandergelt mansion, and by the end of the film, he's gone back to working for the police of his own free will (he doesn't explain how, saying only "Now that I've got my old job back").
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_5e2c927c	type	Heroic Canines, Villainous Felines
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_5e2c927c	comment	Heroic Canines, Villainous Felines: Inverted — most of the main characters are cats, but the villain's sidekick is an evil dog.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_66f59ad	type	Balloonacy
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_66f59ad	comment	Balloonacy: After Benny's been trapped in a sauna and sweated enough to reduce himself to the size of an action figure, T.C. inflates him with a bicycle pump, causing him to lift off and go flying until Snerdly shoots him down (fortunately, it's only a graze).
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: Snerdly regularly lets out an evil "Mwah-hah-hah" whenever he's plotting.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_7b7f1657	type	Canine Companion
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_7b7f1657	comment	Canine Companion: An evil variation in Ratsputin, a Russian wolfhound who's loyal to his master Snerdly and is almost never seen apart from him.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_8bc4a55d	type	Went to the Great X in the Sky
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_8bc4a55d	comment	Went to the Great X in the Sky: Late in the film, T.C. and the gang regretfully inform the niece of Gertrude Vandergelt that her aunt has "gone to the great country club in the sky".
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_8cd96e6c	type	Nasal Trauma
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_8cd96e6c	comment	Nasal Trauma: When Ratsputin the dog is watching the gang through a set of holes in Amy Vandergelt's portrait, his nose also causes the portrait to bulge out. Unfortunately for him, T.C. sees this and unknowingly smacks him in the schnoz while flattening it out.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Snerdly's final attempt to rid himself of Benny is disguising him as a dog and having him send to the pound. When that fails and he tries to escape using the disguise, he ends off getting send to the pound instead.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_9d39440e	type	Right-Hand Attack Dog
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_9d39440e	comment	Right-Hand Attack Dog: Evil Butler Snerdly has a right-hand hound named Ratsputin, who's just as eager to off Benny as his master.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_a431b0e6	type	The Butler Did It
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_a431b0e6	comment	The Butler Did It: Gertrude Vandergelt's butler Snerdly, third in line in her will, tries to do in Benny (who's second in line) and has also manipulated Amy Vandergelt into never visiting her aunt Gertrude and working at a car wash, keeping her from learning of her aunt's "death" and that she's the primary heir. T.C. actually dismisses him as a threat at first, saying it's an old cliche and that the butler never does it anymore, but eventually comes to realize that Snerdly really is a villain.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: In the end, Top Cat and his pals are back to being penniless and Officer Dibble comes out of retirement.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_a7ca682e	type	Kitchen Sink Included
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_a7ca682e	comment	Kitchen Sink Included: Humorously subverted, then played straight, in a scene where Top Cat and his gang are having a wild party and their neighbors respond by throwing a bunch of junk at them to get them to be quiet. Fancy then remarks that the neighbors have thrown everything but the kitchen sink; the next object dropped is a grand piano. T.C. yells, "What's the matter with you up there?! He said, 'kitchen sink'!", with predictable results.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If not for the butler's plans to get rid of Benny and inherit Mrs. Vandergelt's fortune, Top Cat and his gang wouldn't have found her missing niece.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: At one point, while suggesting a way to get rid of Benny, Ratsputin pulls out a flail and starts giving it a few twirls... but ends up wrapping himself up in its chain.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_bd1faab9	type	Accidental Hero
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_bd1faab9	comment	Accidental Hero: At one point, Snerdly puts a very, very hot dressing on a salad and plans for Benny to eat it and die. When Brain insists on taking it and serving it himself, he promptly falls into the pool with the bowl, saving Benny's life.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_c49d8da4	type	Portrait Painting Peephole
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_c49d8da4	comment	Portrait Painting Peephole: In one scene, Ratsputin the dog can be seen watching the gang through a set of holes in Amy Vandergelt's portrait.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_c57a6051	type	If I Do Not Return
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_c57a6051	comment	If I Do Not Return: Used during the scene where they rescue Benny from the dog pound, but argue over who gets to go:
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_c59c953e	type	You Just Ruined the Shot
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_c59c953e	comment	You Just Ruined the Shot: During the climax of the film, Snerdly (who's wearing a dog mask) and Ratsputin are running down the street, only to nearly get run over and jump out of the way... and then a man yells at them, revealing he's shooting a movie and the two (whom he's apparently mistaken for actors) were supposed to get hit by the car, not avoid it. He then calls for a retake, only for the dogcatcher from earlier to show up and take the pair into custody.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Amy Vandergelt is believed to be an orphan, and frequently sings short songs about "tomorrow." Top Cat is profiled on Lifestyles of the Rich and Furry with host Lester Pester.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_c772e7c5	type	Rags to Riches
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: The events of the film are precisely this to Benny, and the trope even gets name-dropped at one point:
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_c895136c	type	Legacy Vessel Naming
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_c895136c	comment	Legacy Vessel Naming: At one point, Benny is given an inflatable inner tube named Titanic II by the butler so he can float in the pool. Benny has the feeling he's heard that name before... naturally, Snerdly's planning to shoot it out from under him with a harpoon gun.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_d4e9de59	type	Dreadful Musician
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_d4e9de59	comment	Dreadful Musician: Amy Vandergelt has a habit of singing variations on "Tomorrow" from Annie, but her singing is physically painful to Top Cat and the rest of the gang. Worse, she doesn't seem to realize it.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_dd53c52b	type	Crushing Handshake
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_dd53c52b	comment	Crushing Handshake: At the start of the film, T.C.'s latest scam involves the gang posing as "Alley Scouts", who do good deeds for rewards. He starts off by using a fan to blow a man's hat off his head, then pretends to have found it. The man, who sees right through him, responds by "thanking" him with a bone-crushing handshake before telling him to get lost.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: In one scene, Choo Choo suggests drawing straws to decide who goes up the ladder to rescue Benny. Brain, not understanding the concept, literally draws one on a pad of paper.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_e2d457	comment	Snerdly provides Benny with a dog mask, which fools both Brain (not that that's too hard) and a dogcatcher into thinking he's a real dog.
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: The plot of the film revolves around Benny being heir to the wealthy and recently deceased Gertrude Vandergelt. She turns up alive and well at the end, disguised as her lawyer, much to evil butler Snerdly's shock — he even saw her in the coffin, as indicated by his line "I went to your funeral!", and Gertrude's explaining that she hired a body double.
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