Hoagy's Alley

Hoagy's Alley
Continent	North America
Country	United States
State	New York
City	New York City
First appearance	TC: "The $1,000,000 Derby" (1961)
Scoob!
Jellystone!

Hoagy's Alley is a location in the Top Cat animated television series. It is generally located in New York City and is the residence of Top Cat. This location is also part of Officer Dibble's patrol beat.

Hoagy's Alley has been relocated a few times without explanation, the biggest of all mysteries is in the television movie movie Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats, where the alley was instead situated in the Los Angeles area, which is also where it appears in the theatrical movie Scoob! It has also cropped up in Townsville, the hometown of the Powerpuff Girls in The Powerpuff Girls TV series, and Jellystone, where the majority of the Hanna-Barbera universe had been reimagined to life together in the TV series Jellystone!

Description

Hoagy's Alley is a small location situated in a Manhattan city block in between several buildings. Although its exact location is unknown, it is part of the 13th Precinct where Officer Dibble works in. The place is guarded by white fences, and generally decorated with trash cans and telephone poles. It is notable for being extremely dirty at times, occasionally being littered with garbage as a result of the little maintenance given by Top Cat and his gang.

The location is also where Top Cat lives, acting as both his home (consisting primarily of a trash can he sleeps in) and a hangout spot for his gang. It houses a telephone call box on a pole, which Top Cat frequently uses (namely for prank calling) despite it being made for the police only.

In Scoob!, it was a small alley behind the Takomoto Bowl.

Appearances

TV series

• Top Cat
  • 1.1 "The $1,000,000 Derby"
  • 1.2 "The Missing Heir"
  • 1.3 "Hawaii, Here We Come"
  • 1.4 "Top Cat Falls in Love"
  • 1.5 "The Violin Player"
  • 1.6 "The Unscratchables"
  • 1.7 "All That Jazz"
  • 1.8 "Choo Choo's Romance"
  • 1.9 "A Visit from Mother"
  • 1.10 "Rafeefleas"
  • 1.11 "Sergeant Top Cat"
  • 1.12 "Naked Town"
  • 1.13 "The Maharajah of Pookajee"
  • 1.14 "The Long Hot Winter"
  • 1.15 "The Tycoon"
  • 1.16 "The Grand Tour"
  • 1.17 "Space Monkey"
  • 1.18 "T.C. Minds the Baby"
  • 1.19 "The Golden Fleecing"
  • 1.20 "The Case of the Missing Anteater"
  • 1.21 "Farewell, Mr. Dibble"
  • 1.22 "The Late T.C."
  • 1.23 "Choo Choo Goes Ga Ga"
  • 1.24 "King for a Day"
  • 1.25 "Dibble Breaks the Record"
  • 1.26 "The Con Men"
  • 1.27 "Dibble's Birthday"
  • 1.28 "Dibble Sings Again"
  • 1.29 "Griswald"
  • 1.30 "Dibble's Double"
• The Powerpuff Girls
  • 3.8B "Catastrophe"
• Jellystone!
  • 1.8 "Cats Do Dance"
  • 1.13 "DNA, A-OK!"
  • 1.19 "A Fish Sticky Situation"
  • 1.34 "Boo Boo and Benny: Little Buddy Trouble"
  • 1.36 "Jailcation"
  • 1.40 "Sweet Dreams"
  • 2.3 "Cindy vs. Noodle Arms"
  • 2.5 "Lotions 11"

Movies

• Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
• Top Cat: The Movie
• Top Cat Begins
• Scoob!

Shorts

• "Top Cat"

Comics

• Top Cat (Dell Comics)
• Top Cat (Gold Key Comics)
• Top Cat (Charlton Comics)
• Cartoon Network Presents
  • Issue #1B: "Alley Oops!"
  • Issue #3A: "The Twiddle Method"
• Scooby-Doo! Team-Up
  • Issue #29: "Reigning Cats and Dogs"

Behind the scenes

• In Top Cat: The Movie, it is spelled "Hoagie's Alley."

In popular culture

• In "Episode Two" (series two) of the Dead Ringers radio sketch program, Nick Russ presents Cartoon Crimewatch that reports on Top Cat victimizing the passerby that walked through Hoagy's Alley. Top Cat was using the stupid Brain (mistakenly called "Brains") to swindle money for a fake charity for stupid cats. He gets an old lady's watch, which he gives to Benny to fence, but he takes it literally. Officer Dibble comes onto the scene, but is distracted by a phone call from the sergeant who wants him back at the station, which disappoints Dibble because he would rather stay on TV, breaking the fourth wall. Interestingly, this gag followed a crime report of Yogi Bear.