Top CatOh this is ridiculous. What am I doing? Sending children to do a man's job. Here, Benny, hold my hat.
A character in Top Cat
Voiced by Arnold Stang
Top Cat · 56 quotes
Most-quoted character in Top Cat: in 49 of its 56 quotes
Most scenes with: Choo-Choo (18), Benny the Ball (18), Spook (13)
Top CatOh this is ridiculous. What am I doing? Sending children to do a man's job. Here, Benny, hold my hat.
Top CatWell, it finally happened. We finally landed a million-dollar deal. Only instead of making it, we OWE it!
Top CatI feel sick... sick... sick... sick sick sick sick sick!
[the diamond goes under a steamroller]
Top Cat[calling the driver] Hold it, hold it...! [a crunchy crush is heard] Oh, no! [He presents the fragments of the diamond to the jeweller] Look at it this way, Mr. Stiffany: it saves you the cost of a cutter! Just think of all these sparkling jewels, ready to capture the hearts of young ladies... Here you are with my compliments, and, ah, forget the reward... [Mr Stiffany bursts into tears]
Top CatIt's got to be here, fellas, it's got to be here! Keep looking... and keep digging!
[the anteater is eating the gang's belongings, including a banana, an apple, and Top Cat's watch.]
Top CatThe verdict is unanimous. No pets! Especially not ones with ten-foot tongues!
Top Cat[impersonating Dibble] Hi, Sarge. What're you doin' besides warming the chair? Sure it's Dibble. Who else would tolerate your incompetence?
Top CatBenny is the last of the all-day suckers, that's what. He has just been baited, bagged, buncoed, conned, heisted and flimflammed!
Top CatI better shake him before he kills himself!
Top Cat[first lines] Alright, you guys, settle down. With a little luck, they may never find out we're aboard. We can sleep here every night, mingle with passengers during the day. Benny can slip us some food from the dining room. We'll have a ball. Okay, Spook, what was in that suitcase?
Currency, like, various denominations, like, money.
Top CatLike, money? Wow, it is money! By the law of finders-keepers, we are rich.
[Benny is startled by a knocking from his bags]
Top CatHey, Benny! Open the trunk, Benny, and let us out!
[Benny opens his trunk and finds the whole gang stuffed inside]
Well, for goodness sakes! You're all packed in like sardines!
Top CatSshhh, Benny, not so loud. We're traveling incognito, you get what I mean?
Is that better than tourist class?
Top CatStep right up, folks. This is it, the big time in the big top where for a slight fee you'll see right before your very eyes the most daring, unbelievable high trapeze act ever attempted. I call your attention to stage right for the start of this death-defying act.
Uh, nobody said anything about defying no death to me.
Top CatThis brave performer will swing across the street, catch his partner and swing back, all without a net.
Now he tells me.
Top CatOkay, maestro, if you please.
Right. [plays drumroll]
Hey, what's that crowd doing in the alley? Top Cat must be up to something.
The least T.C. could have done was let us rehearse this once.
500 alleys in New York, and I gotta have one with a nut in it. [Brain catches him] What in the.
Top CatOfficer Dibble! Excuse me, folks. I gotta go water the elephants.
I'm ready, Brain! [sees Brain holding Officer Dibble] Officer Dibble, what are you doing here? Everybody wants to get in the act.
Brain, I'm warning you. Put me down or I'll run you in.
Uh, Okay. [drops Office Dibble as he lands on the trash can]
It wasn't much, but he sure is game.
That did it. Now I'm really sore. Old Dibble is on the warpath. And when I find that Top Cat, the feathers are gonna fly!
Top CatWrap a towel around your head, Benny.
Is it alright to wear Turkish towel if I'm an Indian?
Top CatSure, Dibble won't know the difference. The closest he's ever come to royalty was once when he had a pair of kings playing poker. [laughs]
Top CatGeronimo.
Now why'd he do that? He knows he can't swim.
Top CatHey. Just a minute, what's with all this Jazz jazz?
That's A.T. Jazz to you, man.
Top CatWhat's the A.T. stand for?
All That.
Top CatThat figures. Listen, pal, you're the one who don't get it. Me and the chick have a regular thing going, see?
Sorry, chum, but that's all over. I'm in, you're out. Here's your posies [puts flowers in T.C's hands] and here's your chocolates [puts the chocolate box on T.C's head] . The box, that is.
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