A character in Top Cat
Voiced by Maurice Gosfield
Top Cat · 56 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Top Cat: in 20 of its 56 quotes
Most scenes with: Top Cat (18), Choo-Choo (8), Spook (8)
[Benny is startled by a knocking from his bags]
Hey, Benny! Open the trunk, Benny, and let us out!
[Benny opens his trunk and finds the whole gang stuffed inside]
BennyWell, for goodness sakes! You're all packed in like sardines!
Sshhh, Benny, not so loud. We're traveling incognito, you get what I mean?
BennyIs that better than tourist class?
Step 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.
This brave performer will swing across the street, catch his partner and swing back, all without a net.
Now he tells me.
Okay, maestro, if you please.
BennyRight. [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.
Officer 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!
Wrap a towel around your head, Benny.
BennyIs it alright to wear Turkish towel if I'm an Indian?
Sure, 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]
Geronimo.
BennyNow why'd he do that? He knows he can't swim.
[TC gets the horse on the S.S. Africa, which departs for its namesake]
Benny[tearfully waving goodbye] He was a good horse, a real nice horse. And he so loved to have his picture taken... and I don't even have one of him.
There, there, Benny, it's all right. That horse is out of here and we're in the clear. And it's all for the best. Your horsey will be all right in Africa, meeting its distant relatives like zebras, camels, llamas... OH NO!
[the horse climbs on port, having jumped ship and swum back]
I tell ya that Dibble will never learn to be firm with the sergeant. Dib just hasn't the knack. The savoir-faire. The stiff upper lip.
BennyHe's not like you, T.C.
Thanks, Benny.
BennyYou got plenty of lip.
[Cue laughter from Choo Choo.]
It's called, um... if you'll pardon the term. "Naked Town."
BennyOooooh, what he said!
Don't encourage him, Benny.
T.C's sure been in there, uh, a long time.
BennyYeah. I'm hungry.
He's on his fifth pizza.
It's his sixth. But, who counts?
Benny[walking through the snowy alley and wearing a hawker box] Step right up, folks! Who's next? Only five cents apiece, and they're going fast! Step right up and form a line, folks! Hey, T.C.? This is your last chance!
[looking out of his trash can] Look, Benny, can't you see I'm busy freezing? What are you doing out in weather like this anyway? And what's my last chance?
BennyYour last chance to buy a frozen Fudgsicle!
Sorry, try me next summer. [Slams lid, then looks out again] Frozen Fudgsicle? What are you, some kind of a nut or something? Benny, I realize you never finished kindergarten, but certainly you know that nobody sells frozen Fudgsicles in the winter.
BennyThat's just it, T.C. No competition. I'll clean up! [lick's Top Cat's toes]
[laughs] TICKLE SPOT!
[Dibble reads the note found with the baby]
Okay, Dibble, you satisfied?
Alright, so he was abandoned and you found him. Now hand him over!
But Dib, we were going to adopt the kid ourselves!
Are you kidding? YOU guys?
BennyWe'll take care of him, honest! Chooch knows how to handle diapers!
Oh, sure, pal. And what are you going to teach him, roulette?
We could take him to night school and put him through some courses...
Sorry, fellas. There's laws about recovering lost property and abandoned kids come under that heading.
[poking Dibble] But...
We take the kid in and find him a new home.
[poking Dibble] But...
Furthermore, before you can adopt a baby you have to be shown as a legal hardworking citizen, with a regular fixed income!
Oh, boy...
[loudly] Now will you cut out the stalling and give me the kid?
[the baby starts crying much to Benny and Choo Choo's horror]
BennyNow you did it, now you woke up Charlie.
Charlie?
We named him you Officer Dibble.
Yeah, Dib. We figured you might want to be the kid's godfather.
No kiddin'. That's real nice, you guys. But the baby's got to be taken in. It's regulations. [walks off] Come on, let's go.
[leaning against the fence] Okay, Benny. Dibble's gotta make his pinch for the day. At it might as well be someone he can handle. Give him the baby.
Gee, I wish I could be tough and hard like T.C. He's got nerves of steel. Nothing upsets him.
Yeah, he's one real cool cat, man.
Hey, Benny...
BennyYeah, T.C.?
[weeping softly] You got a hanky I can borrow?
BennySure, T.C. Here.
[to the amazement of the gang, Top Cat wipes his face on the handkerchief]
Well? What's the matter with you guys? Haven't you ever seen anyone with something in his eye before?
[offscreen] Sure we did, T.C. But not you.
Please, this is no time for jokes Chooch. We're being packed off to the clink. [takes out some of the coins from the treasure chest] Hey. Hey, it does look like real money.
BennyGreat. Now we'll be booked on a counterfeiting rap.
[angry] Er, Benny...
BennyYes T.C.?
I have one question. What do you do for an encore? Sheesh.
Benny[feebly] I'm sorry, Top Cat.
BennyThis is it, T.C. Honeydew and her folks live up on the fourth floor.
Alright, Benny. Now you go on up and tell them we'll join them shortly. Brain and Fancy, you stay outside. We'll signal out of the window if we need more money.
Where will we get it? You took all we had.
Fake it, boy. Fake it. Spook and Choo-Choo, we've got to play poker like we've never played before.
Crazy.
Got'cha, coach.
Now then, do you boys remember the time I told you about in Philly a couple of years ago?
Where you ran into those army guys?
And you played poker, like, for two days?
You're remembering. And I came home and taught the game to you.
[gasps] You don't mean.....?
Not Acey-Deucy under my shoesy?
The very same.
But T.C. That game ain't honest.
Yeah and besides, like, could we get away with it?
Fellas, do you know where we are? Cape, and get this, Canaveral!
Canaveral?
BennyYou mean where they... "whoosh!"
Uh-huh!
And get this: they "whoosh!" with us in the "whoosh!"-ster!
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