Funny / That Darn Cat!

• Mrs. MacDougall sees Canoe going into the house with Patty.
  Mrs. MacDougall: [to her husband] Right into the house! She and the Henderson boy; the two of them!
  Mr. MacDougall: Why shouldn't he go in the house? He's been hanging around there ever since he was old enough to wave bye-bye.
• The film's title appears in an amusing way: a dog chases D.C., gets stuck in a fence, and barks angrily at the cat as he escapes. The words "That Darn Cat!" appear in front of the dog as if that's what it's saying.
• When Zeke tries to photograph DC and record his paw prints, he gets scratched and covered in inky paw prints, causing Zeke to press an index card to his forehead to record the print.
• DC goes running off the second he hears Gregory talking about having a duck hanging on his porch, steals the duck, and gets chased by Gregory. Patti may well have been right about him.
  Zeke: He can't understand what I'm saying, can he?
  Patti: Not everything, of course. He's just a cat. But mostly everything.
• The scene where DC steps in front of the movie projector and the ticket collector chases him over several car roofs.
• When Kelso wears a radio transmitter linked to DC's collar so he can hear whatever the cat hears. First thing that happens after DC leaves the house is that he walks right by a backfiring motorcycle. Cut to Kelso yelping in pain and trying to pull the headset off his ear.
• Mr. MacDougall getting revenge on his wife while she's out looking over the neighbourhood fences in an effort to discover what's going on.
  Mr. MacDougall: [on the phone] Hello, police? I'd like to report a prowler dressed like an old woman. He's running around peeking over fences and through windows; no telling what he's up to. And tell your men to be careful; he's dangerous!
  • When Mrs. MacDougall is being arrested as a suspected male prowler in drag, courtesy of her husband's "tip" to the police:
  Policeman: Listen, buddy, I won't tell you how to do your job, but take my advice, wear another disguise! You ain't got the face for it!
  • At the end of the film, Mrs. MacDougall, who was arrested earlier, is driven back to her house by the police.
  Mrs. MacDougall: [to the policeman] You might as well wait for me, it'll save time; I'm going in that house to murder someone! [to her husband] Oh, dear? Come out and take your medicine like a man!
  [cut to Mr. MacDougall escaping through the back door]
• When Canoe is following Patti, he tries to quickly and smoothly hop a fence to take a short cut. He lands on a trampoline that he couldn't see from the other side, and bounces himself right into a backyard pool.
• Also, Canoe getting stuck in a garage door. The next day Ingrid reads about it in the papers.
  Ingrid: [to Patti] Well! Would you like to see how your gentleman friend spends his weekends?
  [cut to a newspaper with the headline "Police Rescue Youth Trapped in Garage Door"]

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