Top Cat (character)

This article is about the main title character. For the TV series, see Top Cat (TV series). For other uses, see Top Cat.

Top Cat
Top Cat in "Hawaii, Here We Come."
Species	Cat
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Benny the Ball Brain Spook Choo Choo Fancy Fancy Officer Dibble Yogi's Gang Yogi's Treasure Hunters Batman Superman
First appearance	TC: "The $1,000,000 Derby" (1961)
Played by	Arnold Stang (1961-90) Daws Butler (1972) Tom Kenny (2000-02) Jason Harris (2011, 2015, 2016) Thomas Lennon (2021)
Top Cat: The Movie
Top Cat Begins
Wacky Races
Adam Strange/Future Quest Special
Jellystone!

Top Cat, often abbreviated to T.C., is an anthropomorphic cat and the smooth-talking main title character of the Top Cat animated television series. His voice was originated by Arnold Stang, using a similar Phil Silvers impression to Daws Butler.

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"
• Yogi's Treasure Hunt
• The Powerpuff Girls
  • 3.8B "Catastrophe" (no lines)
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
  • 3.10 "Mindless"
  • 4.17 "The Death of Harvey"
• Wacky Races
  • 1.14 "Off Track" (no lines)
  • 2.22 "Super Wacky" (painting)
• Jellystone!
  • 1.1A "Yogi's Tummy Trouble"
  • 1.1B "Gorilla in Our Midst" (no lines)
  • 1.4A "Must Be Jelly" (no lines)
  • 1.4B "Cats Do Dance"
  • 1.6A "Mr. Flabby Dabby Wabby Jabby"
  • 1.6B "Ice Ice Daddy" (no lines)
  • 1.7A "DNA, A-OK!"
  • 1.7B "Face of the Town!" (no lines)
  • 1.9A "Gotta Kiss Them All" (no lines)
  • 1.10A "A Fish Sticky Situation"

Movies

• Yogi's Ark Lark
• Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
• Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (poster)
• Top Cat: The Movie
• Top Cat Begins
• SCOOB! (mentioned)

Specials

• Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (no lines)
• The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo

Shorts

• Halifax's "Top Cat" commercial

Comics

• Top Cat (Dell Comics)
• Top Cat (Gold Key Comics)
• Top Cat (Charlton Comics)
• Scooby-Doo! Team-Up
  • #29 "Reigning Cats and Dogs"
• Adam Strange/Future Quest Special
  • #1B "Out of the Alley"
• Superman/Top Cat Special
  • #1A "...The Kalien Among Us"

Video games

• Hanna-Barbera's Turbo Toons

Biography

Harvey Birdman Represents

In the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Mindless," Top Cat crashes at Harvey's place after being neutered. He was arrested for money laundering just outside Harvey's house.

Gallery

Main article: Top Cat (character)/Gallery

Behind the Scenes

• Top Cat bares some similarities to Hokey Wolf, who came the same year in 1961, because both create schemes to get what they want and both have similar voices, despite them being voiced by two different people.
  • Although interestingly enough, Daws Butler represented the voice of Top Cat in the TV movie Yogi's Ark Lark, pilot of the Yogi's Gang TV series, as Arnold Stang wasn't available at the time. Since Daws was using a similar-sounding voice to Hokey, Hokey had no dialogue in the film, and this issue could have also been the main reason Top Cat didn't appear for the series.
• According to a 1982 calendar, he was born on May 29.
• On British merchandising, he's called "Boss Cat" instead of "Top Cat" because of a popular British cat food with the same name as "Top Cat" during the time.
• Top Cat is very popular in Mexico under the name "Don Gato y su pandilla" (Mr Cat and his Gang), so much so that both Top Cat: The Movie and Top Cat Begins were produced by Mexican animation companies and was distributed by Warner Bros. Mexico.

In popular culture

• In The Simpsons episode "The Day The Violence Died", Roger Myers Jr says that animation has always plagiarizes existing properties and without Srgt Blinko from The Phill Silvers Show, we wouldn't have Top Cat (which is true btw).