Choo Choo

Choo Choo
Species	Cat
Gender	Male
Member of	Yogi's Gang
Affiliation	Top Cat Benny the Ball Brain Spook Fancy Fancy Officer Dibble
Sister(s)	Chugga Chugga
First appearance	TC: "The $1,000,000 Derby" (1961)
Played by	Marvin Kaplan (1961-90) Tom Kenny (2000-02) Jason Harris (2013-15) Jenny Lorenzo (2021)
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Fender Bender 500
Top Cat: The Movie
File:TCB Choo Choo.png Top Cat Begins
Jellystone!

Choo Choo, nicknamed "Chooch" by Top Cat and his gang, is an anthropomorphic cat and a main character in the Top Cat television series. His voice was originated by Marvin Kaplan.

In the Max reboot series Jellystone!, Choo Choo is a girl and voiced by Jenny Lorenzo.

Character description

Choo Choo is a tall, pink cat with an angular face. He has slanted eyes and a peach snout. His tail is fluffy and has black tip at the end. Choo Choo also wears is a white turtleneck sweater with long sleeves. He also speaks in a soft Brooklyn accent.

At his core, Chooch is an enthusiastic follower of Top Cat's gang. One unique trait is that he exhibits a sensitive, child-like compassion towards the gang, and shows great lengths to support his leader. Despite his loyalty towards Top Cat, he usually jumps to conclusions and is very unaware of his eccentric motives. He is also a hopelessly romantic, often showing anxiety whenever he tries to go on a date, and even has his own insecurities when doubting on his potential mates, who are either too rich, famous, pretty, or all of the above for him. Although Choo Choo is generally a nice person, he has shown sarcasm at some points, and isn't completely immune to anger; probably the most outspoken about his frustrations, if not T.C.

As mentioned above, Choo Choo is a girl in Jellystone!, who shares a similar personality with her original incarnation, but is depicted as more outgoing and intelligent. She also has a thicker accent.

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"
• Fender Bender 500
• The Powerpuff Girls
  • 3.8B "Catastrophe" (no lines)
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
• Jellystone!
  • 1.1 "Yogi's Tummy Trouble" (no lines)
  • 1.2 "Gorilla in Our Midst"
  • 1.7 "Must Be Jelly" (no lines)
  • 1.8 "Cats Do Dance"
  • 1.9 "VIP Baby You Know Me" (no lines)
  • 1.11 "Mr. Flabby Dabby Wabby Jabby" (no lines)
  • 1.13 "DNA, A-OK!"
  • 1.14 "Face of the Town!" (no lines)
  • 1.18 "Jelly Wrestle Rumble!" (no lines)
  • 1.19 "A Fish Sticky Situation"
  • 1.20 "A Town Video: Welcome to Jellystone" (no lines)
  • 1.21 "Spell Book" (no lines)
  • 1.23 "Baby Shenanigans" (no lines)
  • 1.24 "Bleep!" (no lines)
  • 1.25 "Yogi's Mid-Life Crisis"
  • 1.27 "The Sea Monster of Jellystone Cove" (no lines)
  • 1.28 "Business" (no lines)
  • 1.32 "The Brave Little Daddy" (no lines)
  • 1.35 "The Box Thief" (no lines)
  • 1.36 "Jailcation"
  • 1.38 "Augie's Baby" (no lines)
  • 1.39 "Heroes and Capes" (no lines)
  • 1.40 "Sweet Dreams" (no lines)
  • 2.1 "Meet the Jetsons" (no lines)
  • 2.2 "Disco Fever" (no lines)
  • 2.3 "Cindy vs. Noodle Arms" (no lines)
  • 2.4 "Hot Guys, Cold Turkey" (no lines)
  • 2.5 "Lotions 11"
  • 2.6 "LAFF Games" (no lines)
  • 2.8 "Girl, You My Friend!" (no lines)
  • 2.12 "Mummy Knows Best" (no lines)
  • 2.14 "Space Con" (no lines)
  • 2.17 "Epic Rager" (no lines)

Movies

• Yogi's Ark Lark (no lines)
• Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
• Top Cat: The Movie
• Top Cat Begins

Specials

• Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (no lines)

Shorts

• Halifax commercial (no lines)

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" (no lines)
• Scooby-Doo! Team-Up
  • Issue #29: "Reigning Cats and Dogs"
• Adam Strange/Future Quest Special
  • Issue #1B: "Out of the Alley" (no lines)

Video games

• Top Cat Starring in Beverly Hills Cats

Gallery

Main article: Choo Choo/Gallery

Behind the scenes

• Choo Choo bares some design similarities to Fibber Fox from Yakky Doodle, as they both have the same head shape and sweaters.
• In the Spanish dub, Choo Choo is called Chucho and speaks in a Yucatecan accent, an accent spoken by people in the Yucatan state of Mexico.
  • For Jellystone!, Chucho is renamed Cuchis yet still speaks in a Yucatecan accent.
• Some promotional art of Choo Choo mistakenly shows him with a white-tipped tail instead of a black-tipped tail.
• In 2015, Choo Choo surfaced as a meme on social media platforms such as Tumblr. A photo of the episode "Dibble Sings Again" was photoshopped into various images, and clips and images of the character were highlighted by many users.

In popular culture

• The scene from "Naked Town," in which Top Cat, his gang, and Dibble are sitting on the curb outside the Ajax warehouse is being watched by Mike in the 1984 film Sixteen Candles.
• In "Episode Three" (series 7) of the BBC Radio 4 sketch program Dead Ringers, BBC News' Michael Burke interviews Officer Dibble after Top Cat has him removed from his beat under the Cartoon Animal Bill of Rights Act, only because Officer Dibble had Top Cat arrested for using his phone, but T.C. had him suspended on suspicious entrapment, and putting a wire on Choo Choo.

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