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2	Political Animals is a four-part series by Tony Bagley, broadcast by [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] in August/September 2012. Each episode is a fifteen-minute monologue from the perspective of a Downing Street cat: Wilberforce (1973-87), Humphrey (1989-97), Sybil (2007-08), and Larry (2011-present).
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4	'''NB:''' Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office is a real-life official title, and all the cats in the series have really held the position. There has always been a mouser at 10 Downing Street (the British Prime Minister's office and home) since the 16th Century.
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7	!!''Political Animals'' contains examples of:
8	* DoubleEntendre:
9	-->'''Humphrey:''' Some of you got your swords out once too often, of course. Including [[UsefulNotes/JohnMajor dear John,]] our [[SleazyPolitician esteemed Prime Minister.]]
10	* FoeRomanceSubtext: Humphrey's ''probably'' joking when he talks about his forbidden love for Cherie Blair.
11	-->'''Humphrey:''' Cherie, darling, I'm being horrid to you only because deep down... I'm crazy about you. Ours is a love that dare not speak its name.
12	* HateAtFirstSight: Name-checked verbatim by Humphrey, describing his relationship with Cherie.
13	* TheIngenue: Sibyl, who is shocked by the pace of life in London and the loose morals of cats living there.
14	* IntellectualAnimal: Not all the cats would be considered intelligent by human standards, but they are portrayed as bright enough for autobiographical monologues. Other animals, such as dogs, are just normal animals.
15	* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces
16	-->'''Humphrey:''' [[ThirdPersonPerson Humphrey the Lothario]] uses transient sexual gratification as a balm to help him forget the deep well of loneliness inside him. What he's really looking for is love.
17	* MeanBoss: UsefulNotes/GordonBrown, as overheard by Sibyl.
18	* NarrativeProfanityFilter: See TWordEuphemism.
19	* NearlyNormalAnimal: All the cats are of the Largely Normal Animal subtype, having human thought processes that they can express to the audience but not to in-universe humans.
20	* TWordEuphemism: Humphrey substitutes 'effing' into Creator/AlastairCampbell's ClusterFBomb rants.
21	-->"Alastair calls the hack an effing c-word, ending in 'ing' and followed by the c-word without the 'ing,' and tells him he's banned from his next two effing c-word - with the 'ing' - press briefings."
22	* UnreliableNarrator: Sometimes the cats misunderstand human affairs, and sometimes they just couldn't care less.
23	* ViceCity: London, according to Sybil.

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