History WesternAnimation / HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats

* HeyItsThatVoice: The Voice of Heathcliff was done by voice legend Mel Blanc, who was known for his roles in the Looney Tunes and Hanna Barbera.

[[caption-width-right:320:The main cast. Heathcliff's the cat with the big shiny nose.]]

Heathcliff is an streetwise orange house cat with thin black stripes. The Catillac Cats are a gang of alley cats run by Riff Raff. Together, they prowl the streets of Westfinster and get in trouble. (Though other than in the closing credits, Heathcliff and Riff Raff never actually met...)

[[caption-width-right:320:The main cast.]]

* IWantMyJetpack: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the episode "House of the Future", an unofficial {{remake}} of a ''WesternAnimation/MGM'' short. When are ''we'' going to get an animatronic kitchen where a meal is automatically prepared for us with just pressing a button?

** Bush, the sheepdog who guarded the music store where Cleo lived, ButtMonkey to RiffRaff.

* MelBlanc: Heathcliff was his final major role.

** Bush, the sheepdog who guarded the music store where Cleo lived.

* FurryConfusion: Just in case the issue wasn't confused enough by some animals being the same height as the ''humans'' and all the non-anthro cats, dogs and other animals running around, a {{Flashback}} in "Debutante Ball" shows Cleo and her friend Muffy as non-anthro kittens... with Cleo still sporting her full head of blonde hair.

** Wordsworth spends the entirety of "Debutante Ball" "exhausted from listening to rock-n-roll nonstop for a week straight".

** Roxane from "Kitten Around" is another straight example.

* IWantMyJetpack: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the episode "House of the Future", an unofficial {{remake}} of a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short. When are ''we'' going to get an animatronic kitchen where a meal is automatically prepared for us with just pressing a button?

* MomentKiller: Whenever Riff Raff and Cleo tried to get some alone time or go on vacation together, Hector and the other cats would try to tag along and interrupt.

* WouldntHitAGirl: In the episode "Terrible Tammy'", Tammy, a female cat who's trying to bully Heathcliff and take over his territory, uses this ploy on him so he couldn't hit Tammy because his honor would be tarnished. He does not want to fight her, but he doesn't back down from Tammy, either. His girlfriend, '''''Sonja''''', doesn't have any qualms about giving Tammy a full-scale CurbStompBattle!

* CreatorBacklash / OldShame: Although this show is often looked back with fondness and nostalgia for those who grew up in the 80s and early 90s, most of the people who ''worked'' on this show don't have very nice memories of it. JohnKricfalusi considered the show as just another mediocre 80s series. Scott Shaw found DiC too disorganized, one writer talked about ExecutiveMeddling from Japanese animation producers (they opposed wacky cartoonish gags), Chuck Lorre (''TwoAndAHalfMen'') hated cartoons and found this show beneath him. Eddie Fitzgerald (''TinyToonAdventures'') has absolutely ''no recollection'' of ever working on this series at all!

* CreatorBacklash / OldShame: Although this show is often looked back with fondness and nostalgia for those who grew up in the 80s and early 90s, most of the people who ''worked'' on this show don't have very nice memories of it. JohnKricfalusi considered the show as just "another" mediocre 80s series. Scott Shaw found DiC too disorganized, one writer talked about ExecutiveMeddling from Japanese animation producers (they opposed wacky cartoonish gags), Chuck Lorre (''TwoAndAHalfMen'') hated cartoons and found this show beneath him. Eddie Fitzgerald (''TinyToonAdventures'') has absolutely ''no recollection'' of ever working on this series at all!

* CreatorBacklash / OldShame: Although this show is often looked back with fondness and nostalgia for those who grew up in the 80s and early 90s, most of the people who ''worked'' on this show don't have very nice memories of it. People like Scott Shaw found DiC too disorganized, one writer talked about ExecutiveMeddling from Japanese animation producers (they opposed wacky cartoonish gags), Chuck Lorre (''TwoAndAHalfMen'') hated cartoons and found this show beneath him. Eddie Fitzgerald (''TinyToonAdventures'') has absolutely ''no recollection'' of ever working on this series at all!

* CreatorBacklash / OldShame: Although this show is often looked back with fondness and nostalgia for those who grew up in the 80s and early 90s, most of the people who ''worked'' on this show don't have very nice memories of it. People like Scott Shaw found DiC too disorganized, one writer talked about ExecutiveMeddling from Japanese animation producers (they opposed wacky cartoonish gags), Chuck Lorre (''TwoAndAHalfMen'') hated cartoons and found this show beneath him. Eddie Fitzgerald (''TinyToonsAdventures'') has absolutely ''no recollection'' of ever working on this series at all!

** In "Space Cats" Riff Raff says: I'll show him S.O.B! seems that the censors were in a coma... dont believe? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32658cINs4k
skip to 6:24

** The premise of "Kitten Around": Riff Raff convinces Cleo to "go steady" in a scene that plays out like a marriage proposal (lacking only a ring); he then immediately starts seeing new girl Roxy behind her back. See WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids on the [[YMMV/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats YMMV page]]. [[invoked]]

* IWantMyJetpack: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the episode "House of the Future", an unofficial {{remake}} of a LooneyTunes short. When are ''we'' going to get an animatronic kitchen where a meal is automatically prepared for us with just pressing a button?

* AffectionateParody: "Monstro vs. the Wolf Hound" sends up 1930s horror movies, complete with Riff Raff as a MadScientist, Wordsworth as TheIgor, Mungo as {{Frankenstein}} and Leroy as TheWolfMan.
* AllJustADream: The endings of [[spoiler: "Monstro vs. the Wolf Hound" and "Prehysteric Riff Raff".]]

** The premise of "Kitten Around": Riff Raff convinces Cleo to "go steady" in a scene that plays out like a marriage proposal (lacking only a ring); he then immediately starts seeing new girl Roxy behind her back. See WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids on the [[YMMV/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats YMMV page]].

* IWantMyJetPack: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the episode "House of the Future", an unofficial {{remake}} of a LooneyTunes short. When are ''we'' going to get an animatronic kitchen where a meal is automatically prepared for us with just pressing a button?

* TheMovie: Its more like a ClipShow.

** The premise of "Kitten Around": Riff Raff convinces Cleo to "go steady" in a scene that plays out like a marriage proposal (lacking only a ring); he then immediately starts seeing new girl Roxy behind her back. See WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids below.

* WouldntHitAGirl: In the episode "''Terrible Tammy''", Tammy, a female cat who's trying to bully Heathcliff and take over his territory, uses this ploy on him so he couldn't hit Tammy because his honor would be tarnished. He does not want to fight her, but he doesn't back down from Tammy, either. His girlfriend, '''''Sonja''''', doesn't have any qualms about giving Tammy a full-scale CurbStompBattle!

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbIbsy8LOr4 this clip,]] and [[DrinkingGame take a shot]] every time you notice something that shouldn't be shown to a small child.
* [=~Wouldn't Hit A Girl~=]: In the episode "''Terrible Tammy''", Tammy, a female cat who's trying to bully Heathcliff and take over his territory, uses this ploy on him so he couldn't hit Tammy because his honor would be tarnished. He does not want to fight her, but he doesn't back down from Tammy, either. His girlfriend, '''''Sonja''''', doesn't have any qualms about giving Tammy a full-scale CurbStompBattle!

* WalkThisWay: Wordsworth (as TheIgor) keeps saying this in "Monstro vs. the Wolf Hound", but [[SubvertedTrope no one takes him up on it.]]
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbIbsy8LOr4 this clip,]] and [[DrinkingGame take a shot]] every time you notice something that shouldn't be shown to a small child.

* {{Expy}}: Arguably, Riff Raff was one of these to Heathcliff, even though they shared the same show. Could be why the two only "met"/interacted in the credits...
** In an episode where Heathcliff is boxing, Riff Raff can be seen among the audience.
** Heathcliff is a gluttonous orange and black cat, much like {{Garfield}}.
*** Actually, Heathcliff was around long before Garfield. If anything, [[MakesSenseInContext the latter is an expy of the former]].

* SphereEyes: Heathcliff.