History WesternAnimation / TheCatPiano

* IncrediblyLamePun: [[spoiler:When the city starts to ban playing music in public due to the string of kidnappings, a shot of a mother cat pulling her child away from the window is overlaid with the line "All music forbidden, keep your lullabies hidden, and your A and E ''minors'' off the street after dark."]]

''The Cat Piano'' is a 2009 Australian animated short film (running about eight minutes) about a New York-style city inhabited by anthropomorphic cats. The narration, written by Eddie White in the style of 1950s beat poetry and read by Nick Cave, describes the plight of a lonely writer who falls in love with a beautiful singer. The mass abduction of all the singing cats and the resulting mass hysteria causes the town to fall apart. After struggling with despair, the writer sets out to rescue his beloved.

* NoMusicAllowed: [[spoiler:After numerous cat singers are mysteriously kidnapped, the city bans all music and musical instruments to protect everyone. The ban is lifted after the singers are rescued from the mad human keeping them in his cat piano.]]

* NoMusicAllowed: [[spoiler:After numerous cat singers are mysteriously kidnapped, the city bans all music and musical instruments.]]

* NightmareFace: [[spoiler: The human. A LightningReveal shows him grinning maniacally towards the camera when the cats finally see him.]]

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Sort of. Descriptions, drafts and suggestions on what to use the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Piano cat piano]] for has appeared many times in different records, but there is no evidence that it has ever been built.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The poem does this occasionally with lines such as, "parlours paraded purring glamorous songstresses," and at one point, the poet describes the cat piano as a "harpsichord of harm."