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* OutlivedItsCreator: Faber & Faber unexpectedly turned it into a franchise in 2018 when they decided Eliot's proposed companion volume with the dog poems should exist after all, and comissioned Christopeher Reid to write ''Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs''.

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* OutlivedItsCreator: Faber & Faber unexpectedly turned it into a franchise in 2018 when they decided Eliot's proposed companion volume with the dog poems should exist after all, and comissioned Christopeher Christopher Reid to write ''Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs''.

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* ReferencedBy: English folk rock band Mungo Jerry, best known for their OneHitWonder "In The Summertime," took their name from "Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer."

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* ReferencedBy: OutlivedItsCreator: Faber & Faber unexpectedly turned it into a franchise in 2018 when they decided Eliot's proposed companion volume with the dog poems should exist after all, and comissioned Christopeher Reid to write ''Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs''.
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English folk rock band Mungo Jerry, best known for their OneHitWonder "In The Summertime," took their name from "Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer.""
** English novelty song band Bombalurina, known for their TwoHitWonder covers of "Seven Little Girls" and "Itsy-Bitsy Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini", likewise took their name from "The Naming of Cats".
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I know they changed the spelling a bit, but it's still Mungo, not Mongo.


* ReferencedBy: English folk rock band Mongo Jerry, best known for their OneHitWonder "In The Summertime," took their name from "Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer."

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* ReferencedBy: English folk rock band Mongo Mungo Jerry, best known for their OneHitWonder "In The Summertime," took their name from "Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer."
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** Some time before Andrew Lloyd Webber got the green light to do ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'', Disney approached T.S. Elliot's estate about doing an AnimatedAdaptation of the book, but were turned down because Elliot's family were afraid it would turn out too much like ''[[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Winnie The Pooh]].''

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** Some time before Andrew Lloyd Webber got the green light to do ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'', Disney approached T.S. Elliot's estate about doing an AnimatedAdaptation of the book, but were turned down because Elliot's family were afraid didn't want it would to turn out too much like ''[[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Winnie The Pooh]].''

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* ReferencedBy: English folk band Mongo Jerry, best known for their OneHitWonder "In The Summertime," took their name from "Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer."
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally planned (and marketed) as ''Mr Eliot's Book of Jellicle Cats and Pollicle Dogs as [[DirectLineToTheAuthor Recounted to Him]] by the Man in White Spats'', with a storyline running through the poems that would end with Jellicles, Pollicles and Man in White Spats all ascending to the Heaviside layer, before Eliot apparently decided mixing cat poems and dog poems was a mistake (although the Pollicles still get a mention in one poem). Some elements of this would be used as the plot of ''Cats''.

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* ReferencedBy: English folk rock band Mongo Jerry, best known for their OneHitWonder "In The Summertime," took their name from "Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer."
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Originally planned (and marketed) as ''Mr Eliot's Book of Jellicle Cats and Pollicle Dogs as [[DirectLineToTheAuthor Recounted to Him]] by the Man in White Spats'', with a storyline running through the poems that would end with Jellicles, Pollicles and Man in White Spats all ascending to the Heaviside layer, before Eliot apparently decided mixing cat poems and dog poems was a mistake (although the Pollicles still get a mention in one poem). Some elements of this would be used as the plot of ''Cats''.


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** Some time before Andrew Lloyd Webber got the green light to do ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'', Disney approached T.S. Elliot's estate about doing an AnimatedAdaptation of the book, but were turned down because Elliot's family were afraid it would turn out too much like ''[[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Winnie The Pooh]].''
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** Grizabella the Glamour Cat originated in a poem Elliot wrote for the book, but was never actually published due to being "too sad for children".
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* ReferencedBy: English folk band Mongo Jerry, best known for their OneHitWonder "In The Summertime," took their name from "Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer."
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally planned (and marketed) as ''Mr Eliot's Book of Jellicle Cats and Pollicle Dogs as [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis Recounted to Him]] by the Man in White Spats'', with a storyline running through the poems that would end with Jellicles, Pollicles and Man in White Spats all ascending to the Heaviside layer, before Eliot apparently decided mixing cat poems and dog poems was a mistake (although the Pollicles still get a mention in one poem). Some elements of this would be used as the plot of ''Cats''.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally planned (and marketed) as ''Mr Eliot's Book of Jellicle Cats and Pollicle Dogs as [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis [[DirectLineToTheAuthor Recounted to Him]] by the Man in White Spats'', with a storyline running through the poems that would end with Jellicles, Pollicles and Man in White Spats all ascending to the Heaviside layer, before Eliot apparently decided mixing cat poems and dog poems was a mistake (although the Pollicles still get a mention in one poem). Some elements of this would be used as the plot of ''Cats''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally planned (and marketed) as ''Mr Eliot's Book of Jellicle Cats and Pollicle Dogs as [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis Recounted to Him]] by the Man in White Spats'', with a storyline running through the poems that would end with Jellicles, Pollicles and Man in White Spats all ascending to the Heaviside layer, before Eliot apparently decided mixing cat poems and dog poems was a mistake (although the Pollicles still get a mention in one poem). Some elements of this would be used as the plot of ''Cats''.
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