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* ''Series/MyWorldAndWelcomeToIt'': In "A Friend of the Earth," John's new neighbor Paul Morton [[ShoeSlap throws a shoe out the window when he hears caterwauling felines]] attracted by the sound of John's rusty gate. His aim must be very bad, because it ends up in Lydia's room.

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%% * The WesternAnimation/BettyBoop cartoon "Not Now."

* In ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} Lasagna Party'', the "Cat's Band" mini-game involves Garfield, Nermal, Odie (a dog), and Arlene playing musical instruments on a fence. Garfield is on trumpet, Nermal is on drums, Odie is on triangle, and Arlene is on guitar. This mini-game is a music-based one, where the player [[SimonSaysMiniGame must press the right button at the right time to score points]].

Alleycats invariably spend their evenings singing opera while standing on top of a wooden fence or a roof-top. Usually they perform solos, although coordinated choruses and sodden barbershop renditions of "How Dry I Am" are not unknown. A female cat (complete with [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics a ribbon or bow]]) may or may not be seen nearby, the coy recipient of the serenade.

Compare ThatPoorCat. The TropeNamer is the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheCatConcerto'' -- which isn't an example, since the cat in it isn't singing but playing classical piano. Completely unrelated to ''VideoGame/TailConcerto'', which is a videogame.

!!Examples

Compare ThatPoorCat. The TropeNamer is the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheCatConcerto''-- which isn't an example, since the cat in it isn't singing but playing classical piano. Completely unrelated to ''VideoGame/TailConcerto'', which is a videogame.

!!Examples:

For what it's worth, midnight yowling from RealLife alley cats generally means they're ''[[NoisyNature fighting]]'' or ''[[CallingYourOrgasms mating]]'', not "entertaining".

* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' (vol. 1) #182 The Man of Steel turned into [[https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-slAxaZspk98/VC_gAtKrPhI/AAAAAAAA-qg/RUG1nY6BCCI/s1600/Reign548.jpg "Super-Cool Cat"...]]

* One ''ComicStrip/FootrotFlats'' strip depicted Horse singing rather loudly on a fence... until Wal Footrot silences him with a gumboot.
* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} will often perform atop fences, though he prefers standup comedy, perhaps because any musical interlude gets him the VaudevilleHook.
* Quite a few ''ComicStrip/{{Heathcliff}}'' strips.
* ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'': Lampshaded in the narration of one strip, wherein the full moon [[FurryReminder irresistibly compels Krazy to sing]], and he's pelted with a rolling-pin, a shoe, a clock, an iron and finally...[[ForegoneConclusion no points for guessing]].

* Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' is an obvious example. It has 10 full minutes involving a full house, accompanied by wild music and drug-induced background color. They do it again at the very end.

* In ''Literature/PeterNoTail (1981)'', The titular cat develops a crush on Maya/[[DubNameChange Molly]] Creamnose, who loves singing. Måns, realizing Maya's owners hate cat howling, tells Peter that Maya loves singing, expecting Maya's owners to [[CatsHateWater spray Peter with a hose later]] when he goes to sing to Maya. Luckily for Peter, Maya almost immediately warns him, but also invites him inside, so it is Måns ends up soaked instead.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheReluctantWerewolf'', the Hunch Bunch do this, in full cat-costumes, to keep Shaggy from being well-rested for the big race. They are promptly pelted with boots thrown by Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}. "Doggon kitty-cats!"

* The temporarily-talking cat from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/MovingPictures'' was possibly referencing this trope when he commented that whenever he's been in love, people throw old boots at him.
* Pufftail from ''Literature/{{Stray}}'' considers his cat yowling to be beautiful singing. He's spent many nights courting [[ReallyGetsAround numerous females]] with his voice. In contrast, human singing is obnoxious noise.
* Tailchaser from ''Literature/TailchasersSong'' is a part of the Meeting Wall Clan. They meet at the Meeting Wall on Meeting Night and listen to Bristlejaw, an elderly Master Old-Singer, tell the oral traditions of cats. It's a time where cats socialize and learn about their history. A Master Old-Singer is an important role in cat society as they help pass on traditions to future generations.

** One night, Green Eyes and Tore-his-ear sing a beautiful duet. After some time, Green Eyes had kittens...
** Once Blue Eyes sang alone in the wood when he felt alone and abandooned, when in fact his human went searching for him.
** Blue Eyes celebrates his glorious victory over a mean, evil tom-cat called Yellow by singing a quiet a song when he saved little Kiki from him. Kiki carefully listens to his performance.
* In the novel ''Twig'', Old Girl, a cat who hangs around Twig's apartment, gives these kinds of concerts every night. When the Queen of Fairyland visits, Twig employs Old Girl to put on a special concert for her. The queen sits through the concert, far too polite to disparage it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'', alley cats are seen to do this in order to eat the food thrown at them.

* "The Pussy Cat Song," sung by Patty Andrews and Bob Crosby.
* "Love Cats" by Music/TheCure features guitars imitating cats meowing.

* The entire point of "Stray Cat Strut" by (surprise, surprise) The ''Music/StrayCats''.

* Fiddler and Keys of ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'', {{invoked|Trope}} by their owners who wanted musical cats.

* The WesternAnimation/BettyBoop cartoon "Not Now."

* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}, though he prefers standup comedy, perhaps because any musical interlude gets him the VaudevilleHook.

* Played for horror in ''Animation/TheCatPiano'', where all the singing cats are taken away from the city by a deranged human who uses them as part of his hellish "cat piano". Arranged according to the natural sound of their voices, with the touch of a note, a sharpened nail impaled each cat's tail, causing them to shriek out in pain. The idea of a cat piano is OlderThanTheyThink and attributed to various famous sadists from human history.

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* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}, though he prefers standup comedy, perhaps because any musical interlude gets him the VaudevilleHook.
* One ''ComicStrip/FootrotFlats'' strip depicted Horse singing rather loudly on a fence... until Wal Footrot silences him with a gumboot.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldGetsReal'', Shecky, Waldo, and Bonita perform a Cat Concerto of sorts through stand-up comedy and song and dance, much to the annoyance of nearby apartment residents, who throw the cats food in an attempt to shut them up.

* The temporarily-talking cat from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Moving Pictures'' was possibly referencing this trope when he commented that whenever he's been in love, people throw old boots at him.
* In the novel ''Twig'', Old Girl, a cat who hangs around Twig's apartment, gives these kinds of concerts every night. When the Queen of Fairyland visits, Twig employs Old Girl to put on a special concert for her. The queen sits through the concert, far too polite to disparage it.

* The ''Literature/WarriorCats'' book ''Thunder Rising'' contains a bonus story at the back that shows how one character came to the forest. It begins with Ripple and all the other cats of the park yowling together to greet the morning.

* Tailchaser from ''Literature/TailchasersSong'' is a part of the Meeting Wall Clan. They meet at the Meeting Wall on Meeting Night and listen to Bristlejaw, an elderly Master Old-Singer, tell the oral traditions of cats. It's a time where cats socialize and learn about their history. A Master Old-Singer is an important role in cat society as they help pass on traditions to future generations.
* Pufftail from ''Literature/{{Stray}}'' considers his cat yowling to be beautiful singing. He's spent many nights courting [[ReallyGetsAround numerous females]] with his voice. In contrast, human singing is obnoxious noise.

* Gioacchino Rossini's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vt-LyL_wqI Duetto buffo di due gatti]]''[[note]]"Comic duet for two cats"[[/note]] is made of this trope. Many a version has the singers [[PassiveAggressiveKombat acting catty]] to each other.

* The entire point of "Stray Cat Strut" by (surprise, surprise) The ''Music/StrayCats''.

* ''TabletopGame/KillDrLucky'' has a Failure card wherein the doctor's cat starts yowling, which is more upsetting than whst the doctor did to warrant being murdered.

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' had Garfield doing comedy routines on a wooden fence, and occasionally being upstaged by Odie. This is also a RunningGag in the print version.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'', alley cats are seen to do this in order to eat the food thrown at them.
* Played for horror in ''Animation/TheCatPiano'', where all the singing cats are taken away from the city by a deranged human who uses them as part of his hellish "cat piano". Arranged according to the natural sound of their voices, with the touch of a note, a sharpened nail impaled each cat's tail, causing them to shriek out in pain. The idea of a cat piano is OlderThanTheyThink and attributed to various famous sadists from human history.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': The episode "I Was a Teenage Gary" ends with Gary, plus a transformed [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward, meowing "Blow the Man Down" on a fence. Patrick throws a boot in annoyance, knocking Squidward off.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', a mouse with a penis growing out of its back interrupts a chase scene to do a solo on top of a fence.
* In one of the earliest examples, the ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' cartoon "Forty Winks" begins with Felix conducting four of his buddies in a loud performance. Of course, a guy in a house throws things at them.
* While ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' is watching Stinky, Stinky sings on a fence with other riff-raff cats from the neighborhood, while holding up [[DrunkOnMilk a carton of milk.]]
* The WesternAnimation/BettyBoop cartoon "Not Now."
* The 1929 WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse short ''The Karnival Kid'' has Mickey serenading Minnie by playing guitar while two cats sing "Sweet Adeline". They even bring in a fence to complete the effect.
* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': In "Sunspot's Night Out", Sunspot participates in a neighborhood animal choir with some alley cats and Mitchell's dog Cody. They howl "Ode to Joy".

* In ''Garfield Gets Real'', Shecky, Waldo, and Bonita perform a Cat Concerto of sorts through stand-up comedy and song and dance, much to the annoyance of nearby apartment residents, who throw the cats food in an attempt to shut them up.

* The 1929 WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse short ''The Karnival Kid'' has Mickey serenading Minnie by playing guitar while two cats sing "Sweet Adeline". They even being in a fence to complete the effect,

** Literal example in Oscar winner "Cat Concerto," where Tom's attempts to perform Liszt at the piano is disrupted by Jerry.

For what it's worth, midnight yowling from RealLife alley cats generally means they're ''fighting'' or ''[[CallingYourOrgasms mating]]'', not "entertaining".

The cat is likely to be treated as a DreadfulMusician, since feline yowling corresponds to really bad human singing. Of course, for RuleOfFunny points, the concert is just as likely to be sophisticated {{Opera}} or {{Jazz}}. Performances usually end with [[ProducePelting a thrown shoe or piece of trash]] and a bellowed "[[BigShutUp shaddup]]" from somewhere off screen.

For what it's worth, midnight yowling from RealLife alley cats generally means they're ''fighting'' or ''mating'', not "entertaining".

* In ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'', alley cats are seen to do this in order to eat the food thrown at them.