Buffoonish Tomcat

Feline buffoonery at its finest!

Felines are typically associated with femininity, coolness, elegance, cuteness, arrogance and smug appearances, laziness, villainy and hostility, dignity, and grace, but a lot of male cartoon cats can be quite clownish or buffoonish instead. This trope is based on the fact that cats, especially tomcats (as females aren't a common choice for slapstick) are more often portrayed in cartoons/media as tough, cool, streetwise, clever, charming, crafty, cunning, belligerent or even mean, marginally buffoonish, typically clumsy, and/or oversexed than elegant, graceful, and dignified.

This can be considered partly a result of early cartoons heavily relying on Heroic Dog, and Nice Mice, thus making the cats the villainous fall guys to make the former look better. A Follow the Leader vibe from shows like Tom and Jerry or the Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird shorts are probably another influence with both cats being seen as the Western Animation feline equivalent of clowns. This trope could also be used to invert the behaviors of a typical cat and dog duo from shows like Ren & Stimpy being a prime example of how inverting a smart cat and dumb dog duo can be presented instead by having a smart dog (as Dogs Are Mean) paired with a stupid cat (being the Cats Are Dumb) being the exception personality-wise, or this trope would just show how making a feline character the more foolish, comical or goofier one when around other characters, group(s) of cats or the scenario of a show, short or film can be done humorously.

Sometimes this trope can be also used for rooting for a cat in a show with talking mice, they have to be less of a predator than the other cats. So it's really a case of Designated Villain/Defector from Decadence. And other times, this trope is used for presenting cats as playful, foolish, and humorously exaggerated characters. For instance, these cats may be drawn with big, bulbous, clownlike noses that are often red in color or are given silly voices and with the comedic dialog to enhance how goofy and humorous they can be.

There was a period in animation history when cats were the generic fall-guy animal and having a clownish bad guy with this trope in cartoons when some cats can also go hand & hand with being irritable, villainous or just comically mean-spirited cats at the same time, although it is starting to become a Dead Horse Trope now when there are some buffoonish cats that are later on depicted as friendly to be around, and also pleasant or even kindhearted in a goofy way because of how they can be portrayed as the cat being rooted for as the protagonist or are less of a predator.

This trope can apply to any species of cat, including tigers, lions, but this exceptional trope usually applies to housecats. Leonine examples are often portrayed this way to subvert or play with their regal, noble image.

Contrast Cool Cat and Cats Are Superior for obvious reasons. Relating to Men Are Generic, Women Are Special, Women Are Wiser, and Men Are Uncultured. Also compare and contrast with Cats Are Lazy (Where cats can be portrayed as dumb when lazy, yet those kinds of cats that are portrayed as common, everyday cats being listless rather than being goofy, comedy-based cats like the buffoonish ones are.)

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Fairy Tail: Happy is Natsu's winged cat sidekick who often engages in Snark-to-Snark Combat with his friends, especially Lucy, and is often a source of comic relief, mainly as The Gadfly, but occasionally due to Amusing Injuries.
• Pokémon: The Series: Team Rocket's Meowth is another anime example. He grew up as a stray Pokémon in the streets, and as a member of Team Rocket, he's the show's biggest Butt-Monkey.
• Space☆Dandy: Meow is a rare anime variant of this trope. Also, he's an alien and rather prone to Amusing Injuries instead of being an utterly goofy cat.

Comic Strips

• Bloom County: Bill the Cat is The Unintelligible at best. Normally, he's portrayed as clueless and stupid while being a massive Cloudcuckoolander, the beneficiary of notoriety he doesn't deserve.
• Garfield: While he is a snarky Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist at best and a Fat Bastard at worst, whenever Garfield is courting a female — usually Arlene — he seems to lose half his IQ. Aside from this, his buffoonish moments are the only times he's written specifically as a tomcat being comedic rather than a generic feline.
• Get Fuzzy: Bucky Katt is an epic example of breathless ignorance and feline nastiness, sometimes serving as a richly-deserved Butt-Monkey. Neither he nor any of the cats in the strip come off well. In contrast, dogs seem to have a range of intelligence in the strip, even the unwitting Satchel.
• Krazy Kat is either a straight example or a rare female example as his/her gender is ambiguous.

Films — Animation

• In An American Tail, the male cats all fit the Cats Are Mean trope except for the directly averted cat, Tiger; who is the poster boy for this trope that is a Cloudcuckoolander, Minion with an F in Evil, and comical Cowardly Lion that can be quite the Butt-Monkey/Iron Butt Monkey type and is the Fat Comic Relief in the sequel Fievel Goes West, in which he was able to show how skilled and competent he can be for all of his goofiness and buffoonery and is played by the late Dom De Luise.
• Zig-zagged in The Aristocats. Alley cat Thomas O'Malley may not be as refined as the sophisticated, well-bred society cat Duchess, but that doesn't stop him from being smooth and he's certainly streetwise. On the other hand, there are also several moments where he's the butt of the joke.
• The main character, Fritz the Cat from the film: Fritz the Cat, but this was probably Justified because all of the characters are goofy and have their moments of silliness.
• The Great Mouse Detective: Ratigan's pet cat is a Rare Female Example and used as his personal executioner, but because of her pudginess and slapstick depiction comes off as a gender swap of this trope, especially in her bout with Toby.
• The Lion King II: Simba's Pride: Nuka is an inept doofus with zero self-confidence and has a clumsy streak. While trying to ignite a blaze in the Pride Lands, he manages to set the grass surrounding him on fire. He's a rare, tragic example of this trope.
• Open Season: Roger is a Turkish Van who's the Kindhearted Simpleton of the cats and is quite a goofball, having tons of crackbrained habits such as his foolery, having spacey appearances with tons of quirks, and is occasionally prone to slapstick jokes due to him being an Extreme Doormat Sycophantic Servant to Stanley and the group he's friends with that involve Fifi, for example in Open Season 2, in a scene with Fifi and his gang encounter Boog's friends is a prime example while Roger was still unaware overall; he was a literal doormat for Fifi's introduction to Boog's friends and there are also other examples that show his moments of buffoonery usually when his absurdities ensue. Roger is still loyal to his friends, is kindhearted and friendly towards others.
• Pinocchio: Gideon is a mute, dim and pretty clumsy character similar to Dopey of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs fame. While he is presented as a goofy character most of the time, he goes on the more Beware the Silly Ones side of this trope when he can be a skinny brute when he gets Honest John's hat off his face by hitting him with a mallet being his answer to everything, showing how not so harmless he also is out of his foolery.
• Ratatoing had the fat cat named Palo. While a horrid mockbuster.. this dumb cat, in particular, had a Tom and Jerry style of chasing their prey and having buffoonish defeats/backfires when Marcel meets Palo and before his Heel–Face Turn, Palo was also given an amusing running animation while being the buffoonish and harmless one against Marcel.
• Robin Hood (1973): Prince John is an incredibly dumb and foolish Manchild of a king that is heartless and very inept at his sadistic plans.

Films — Live-Action

• Garfield: Nermal was hit with Flanderization when turning into this trope in the films, while downplayed and unremarkable overall. He went from being an innocently cute, gullible kitten in the comics and was turned into Garfield's dimwitted best friend in the films, for better or for worse.
  • Garfield in the first movie had him being prone to slapstick humor or taking physical abuse that was occasionally Played for Laughs.
• Stuart Little: Snowbell and Monty have their moments providing some comic relief by moments of silly, humorous dialogue and both of them having their slapstick-based moments, Snowbell having more of the conflict-induced situations, or even situations that would have Stuart outsmart Snowbell in the first movie with an obvious homage to Tom and Jerry when Monty met Stuart or just having Snowbell being comical in general.
  • Meanwhile, Snowbell's friend Monty usually has some scenes with him providing tons of comedic relief by his ditzy moments when his silliness ensues like him laughing a lot in ''Stuart Little 1'' when slowly realizing that Stuart lives with Snowbell and finds it hilarious {just enough to the point that Stuart starts to find Monty's ditziness amusing} and Monty himself was also having a short Non-Sequitur Fallacy in Stuart Little 2 when thrown out of a restaurant, to then have a moment of laughing a lot about Snowbell's comment about how fearful he is with learning about what the falcon does to its victims as if he thought Snowbell told a side joke for example. Monty also had a moment of his ditzy demeanor in Stuart Little 3 where Monty thought monkeys lived in the American wilderness.

Literature

• Felidae: Inverted in the book (and film) in which the main characters are intelligent male cats. This becomes a plot point as it allows Francis to realize why Claudandus is committing the murders.
• The Master and Margarita: Behemoth is a demon cat who's part of Satan's retinue. He's a Butt-Monkey who often makes an ass of himself and annoys the others with his commentary (he's constantly being told to shut up). Even a mere mortal like Margarita can punish him without consequence, pinching his ears when he butts into a conversation.
• The Muddle-Headed Wombat: Tabby is vain and neurotic and frequently the victim of slapstick disasters inadvertently brought about by Wombat.
• Warrior Cats: This is both averted and used at the same time. Male Clan cats are normal cats, but the male kittypets however tend to be a lot more goofy and friendly. The latter likely occurs because male kittypets are usually neutered.

Live-Action TV

• Red Dwarf: Cat is an extremely vain and irresponsible humanoid who evolved from a cat.

Video Games

• Bubsy: Bubsy The Bobcat is clownish, quite buffoonish, accident-prone and an slapsticky Butt-Monkey in the 2D games who was full of cat puns, being excessively talkative, was known as an annoying character, and was senseless in his 'sense of humor' in every game.
  • However, he became a blithering klutz to an extreme Iron Butt Monkey/The Chew Toy status in his 3D title who is still senseless in his badly-done style of jokes and goes overboard with them; yet still incredibly slapstick-prone when his clumsiness was better shown in the level completion cutscenes, some idle animations, and countless death animations of him being this as this was what brought some memetic value from one out of those death animations and was the notably good highlights of the game.
    • Since the series had begun, Bubsy was always an Idiot Hero, as the series continued after the infamous 3D game killed the franchise for over a decade, his character since The Woolies Strike Back had a clear direction with being characterized by his voice clips and was seen to be this naive, dumb little bobcat who thinks he's the coolest cat around who tries to show how "awesome" he is with taking any chances of doing something cool to show it off to anyone or tell someone anything awesome about himself or tries to make himself seem awesome & charismatic towards others by how he thinks. Yet, it always comes to the fact that Bubsy is so lame and pathetic that it is comical.
• Earthworm Jim: The muscle-bound, humanoid cats from the games (and in the cartoon) are a bunch of Dumb Muscles that are henchmen and serve a highly intelligent, villainous goldfish named Bob the Killer Goldfish. Having Number Four being one of the many dimwitted cats that carries Bob's fishbowl as his appearance.
• Sonic the Hedgehog: Big the Cat is as buffoonish as they come, though he's not usually the one for slapstick, albeit rare for being prone to slapstick or humor in general. The female Blaze is much more dignified and intelligent (though she still falls to occasional Slapstick moments).
• The cat from Stray has his moments, such as his reaction to wearing the backpack the first time (he slumps over onto his side, then walks around like a great weight is crushing him for the next several minutes) or how B-12 outright states that his best quality is breaking things.
• Stay Tooned!: Fiddle is a friendly black and white cartoon cat that is constantly followed by bad luck and antagonized by various pranksters. Overall Fiddle clearly takes inspiration from many classic cartoon cats. The game's plot has all the cartoon characters escape from the TV into the real world, with Fiddle being the only cartoon character that doesn't antagonize the player.

Web Original

• In general, the entire LOLCats phenomenon could be considered a modern incarnation of this trope. See also, The Internet Is for Cats.

Web Videos

• In general, those searches based on compilations of clumsy cats, "hilarious cat fails" videos or those "funniest cat" related videos (even those universally known cat videos like this one that was originally known for being the funniest cat videos on the web) you can easily find on YouTube can be also considered a modern embodiment of this trope, for better or for worse. Check out The Internet Is for Cats.
• I'm a Stupid Cat! is a classic, jolly, upbeat, lighthearted, and catchy song made by Mike Polk Jr. that has lyrics in a verbally abusive yet amusing, humorous way (if having swears in there) that relate to his cat's usual behavior and persona that can be best described as what it is like to be a Fun Personified, happily goofy, somewhat spacey & slow-witted, preoccupied in a joyful way, and cheerfully oblivious cat in everyday life.
• Maru the Cat is a Japanese tomcat who got his fame due to his playful and goofy tricks posted on YouTube. At one point, Maru's YouTube channel was the 8th Most Subscribed channel and 11th Most Viewed YouTube channel of all time in Japan. As of 2016, he had won a Guinness world record because of this.
• The titular character in Simon's Cat is often this. He frequently gets himself into trouble with his antics, especially when trying to bully the kitten or hunt birds.

Western Animation

• The Amazing World of Gumball: The title character is the modern, younger version of this trope in most of the first season, he was very dumb, naive, slapstick-prone and very overconfident. From the second season on, while Gumball does get smarter and tends to be more towards the Cats Are Snarkers trope, but he is still very accident-prone, can lack some common-sense (comically or not) because of his impressionable nature/youth or just his naivety, and is perfectly capable of making an ass of himself. All of this contrasts with his mom Nicole, the only other cat in the show who is hyper-competent and a badass.
• Bonkers: The titular Bonkers D. Bobcat is an utter mess of being clownishly ditzy, massively clumsy, & cartoonish.
• The Brak Show: Brak is an teenage Alien Cat that is incredibly buffoonish and is a Kindhearted Simpleton who is very eccentric, optimistic, and very chipper.
  • Also Brak resulted in this in later adaptations such as Cartoon Planet and Space Ghost Coast to Coast because he was given a more slapstick-prone, lovable and funnier demeanor from his villainous and intelligent counterpart in Space Ghost. A segment on Cartoon Planet gives the explanation that the unknown circumstances that spared him from his canonical death by Piranhamite swarm left him an idiot.
    Zorak: Brak, how did you survive that swarm?
    Brak: I-I don't know, it's all a blur! I musta fallen asleep and when I woke up I was stupid!
• Bunnicula: Patches the Weredude is a slow-witted, fun-loving, and forgetful Half-Human Hybrid that evolved from a cat and still acts like one despite his human transformation.
• Catscratch: Waffle is a dimwitted, goofy, bit of a dingbat, and quite oddball & a goofball who is yet kindhearted cat who is also an Iron Butt Monkey due to him sharing his friends' Butt-Monkey status in the slapstick mayhem, he is also the innocent ding-cat of the trio.
• Classic Disney Shorts: Louie the mountain lion was a very buffoonish, goofy, dorky if determined, graceful most of the time, a bit of a thinker, can be rough, tough, grumpy & quite ferocious to Donald and others, yet still a pretty clownish feline whenever he was in a Goofy short, or a Donald Duck short.
• Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats:
  • Riff Raff is somewhat on the averted or zigzagged side of this since he isn't exactly dumb, but just a loser who's smart in general and has his moments and history of screwups whenever normal or being mean-spirited at his worst since he's an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist overall.
  • The portly, tall, muscular cat Mungo, however, would easily count as more of an evident Dumb Muscle Gentle Giant version of this trope due to him just being a kindhearted if dimwitted character who is gentle but is pretty clumsy with being gentle towards his friends.
• Herman and Katnip: Katnip was inspired by Tom of Tom and Jerry with having Tom's clownish and buffoonish Butt-Monkey status. Unlike Tom, however, Katnip was a cat who never once won against Herman, while there were some exceptions, he never won against others like Buzzy however. While Herman was intended to be a heroic mouse, many viewers considered Herman's attacks on Katnip to be rather sadistic and lacking in anything humorous. When Katnip is paired with Buzzy when attempting to consume him to get some rest or from advice from a book he read on solving his problems, Buzzy always finds a way to defeat him in either old-fashioned cartoony ways or not, this is all due to Katnip himself being the cat's-paw when clumsily gullible for Buzzy's deceptions and is also too oafish to live in the process.
• The Itchy & Scratchy Show: Scratchy is invariably portrayed as a simple, kindhearted, slapstick-prone if somewhat buffoonish, silly, comically self-destructive and easily defeated fellow who's usually minding his own business and is perfectly friendly to mice (unlike Tom and Katnip), but the psychotic and sociopathic mouse, Itchy, invariably gets him killed For the Evulz. Itchy invariably succeeds in torturing and killing Scratchy due to his gullibility or how easy to torture Scratchy is when Scratchy has a similar style of sharing Tom's clumsiness and incompetence, but more gory and bloody — and only in some cartoons did Scratchy bite back.
• Looney Tunes:
  • Sylvester the Cat. Even in cartoons where he's not chasing prey — there are three examples where he's trapped with Porky Pig in an abandoned hotel full of murderous mice, and they're the aggressors from start to finish — he's still portrayed as a buffoon overall. Along with Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester is seen as a failure most often in classic Looney Tunes shorts, even when he's in the right. Sylvester was only vindicated once, in a Porky Pig cartoon. He also dies more often than any other cast member.
  • Minor Looney Tunes character Claude Cat, who is seen as both persecuted and persecuting, was played as an inept, anxiety-ridden loser.
  • A "big cat" example: Pete Puma. He's as dumb as an ox and has a goofy voice to match. When he asks Bugs Bunny if he can have two lumps in his tea, Bugs gives him two lumps on his head with a mallet — more than once, in fact, and Pete even gives himself more lumps on the head when Bugs offers to give him another.
  • The two cats in Bob Clampett's last Tweety cartoon, "Gruesome Twosome". One of them is chubby & dopey; the other is a somewhat brighter fellow complete with Jimmy Durante's voice and schnoz. Babbott and Catstello (especially Catstello), are the antagonists from Tweety's 1942 debut, and they also fit this trope entirely.
  • Many male cats are portrayed this way in Looney Tunes shorts, including the aforementioned Catstello from the first Tweety cartoon, the lion from "Roman Legion Hare", Conrad Cat from "Conrad the Sailor", and the tall, strong and fat, and gap-toothed Benny along with his friend he is incredibly loyal to, George, and Heathcliff from "Cheese Chasers; Dough Ray Me-ow".
  • In a Looney Tunes cartoon starring Elmer Fudd and Sylvester, there is a rare buffoonish female cat. Penelope Pussycat was the first female version of this trope, with several cartoons showing her as an clumsy and unlucky cat from the start. She invariably takes on a skunk disguise, sometimes unwittingly. Things get worse once Pepé Le Pew sees her; she's reduced to a state of panic and often ends up suffering all sorts of slapstick abuse in her frantic attempts to escape Pepe's attention.
• Miraculous Ladybug plays with the trope. Adrien "becomes" a flirtatious, irresponsible Butt-Monkey when he activates the Cat Miraculous (incidentally gaining ears and a tail), but this is because he sees superhero duties as an emotional outlet, not because the Miraculous itself changes his personality. During several Heroic BSoDs, he transforms and retains his normal, repressed personality.
• Motormouse and Autocat: Autocat is The Smart Guy and is also a Fat Comic Relief that graduated from the Wile E. Coyote school of planning and failing in buffoonish styles, this is seen in his vain attempts to catch Motormouse and would fail in countless, cartoony ways when he comes up the wise, witty or comedic dialogue when setting up his traps, his slapstick-prone nature is the result of Epic Fails. But at the end of the day, Motormouse would always gives Autocat a lift home, help him out when he's in trouble, and/or just let him be.
• Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinks: Mr. Jinks is essentially a dumbed-down version of Tom from Tom and Jerry. In fact, some of the episodes in this series are recycled stories from the earlier show.
• A forgotten 1941 short by Official Films called Playing The Pied Piper, an anthropomorphic cartoony take of The Pied Piper of Hamelin that features an un-named, pot-bellied yet tall fully-dressed black-furred cat who was goofy, quite harmless, notably uneducated & can't spell yet can still play his flute perfectly before it broke funnily enough, and is quite the schlepper when searching in the attic even after reading a book for catching mice. He is also easy to deceive, very clown-like, and extremely clumsy when he's always falling from the scuttle door as the running gag, and is such to the point that he is sometimes aware of this & can still stumble into the scuttle door, while he forgets about where the scuttle door was when focusing on capturing the mouse and gets defeated by falling through four apartment floors when easily fooled by the mouse he was trying to capture as the ending of the short has him in his defeated state, giving Simple-Minded Wisdom to the viewer. This cat has a Simpleton Voice to match his clownish nature (whose voice was done by Mel Blanc and shows a familiar use with how Mel Blanc would later on voice Beaky Buzzard).
  • This cat is also prone to lots of slapstick because of not only being insanely klutzy and slow-witted, however, this also comes from him being effortlessly outsmarted by that mouse he talked to with being skulled with a cartoonish mallet when in the dark and when he was slow with his reflexes on spotting the mouse he just captured as an example of this and he seems to be presented like an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain throughout the short due to how easily dupable and durable he is.
• Punkin' Puss and Mushmouse: Punkin' Puss fits the incompetent, ignorant hillbilly stereotype by how much he can lack in common-sense, can be quite the mean one towards Mushmouse while an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist and still a buffoon overall.
• The Ren & Stimpy Show: Stimpy is dumb, very buffoonish, and a goofball, he was a part of the direct inversion of the Cat/Dog Dichotomy with the Cats Are Mean & Dogs Are Dumb tropes seen above.
• TaleSpin:
  • Somewhat Subverted with Wildcat. Despite being not that bright and a childlike thinking feline, he is extremely competent at mechanics for Baloo and Higher for Hire that makes him seem more of the Genius Ditz version of this trope or would have kind of a feline resemblance to Ernest P. Worrell.
  • Douglas Benson, the One-Shot Character in "Louie's Last Stand" is an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain version of this trope. He is an overzealous employee of Shere Khan who wanted to purchase Louie's bar only to be mocked for it. When he decides to take drastic measures it usually resorts to a lot of slapstick happening to him and continuously being laughed at. His defeat is even a Humiliation Conga where, after being blown up, a seagull even laughs at him.
• Tiny Toon Adventures: Furrball is this sometimes when lacking common-sense, although, he is a kitten overall and is usually unlucky. Example: a mishap with malfunctioning 3-D glasses and glue results in a What a Drag situation when he tries to remove them.
• Tom and Jerry:
  • Tom is usually on the losing end of the titular rivalry in buffoonish and cartoony ways, though a few cartoons have him win, and he was temporarily suave in some cartoons. Though in general, he's still a comical Chew Toy due to his famously clumsy streak and comical stupidity he can present at times.
  • Meathead is seen as the more simpleminded cat as his name implies, and was a cat who went from being temporarily selfish and utterly dull-witted while being just as addlebrained as Tom in the original shorts, but now in the The Tom and Jerry Show (2014) while he can be prone to slapstick at times, he is portrayed as a lucky, good-natured and goofy cat who is very oblivious but friendly to others compared to the more irritable Tom and mean-spirited Butch as examples.
  • In the original shorts, in appearances where Meathead is absent, an orange cat named Lightning is usually portrayed as the most dim-witted of the recurring alley-cats.
  • Many male cats in several shorts were portrayed this way in sharing Tom's Butt-Monkey style of being prone to slapstick-humor, sometimes during Tom's antics (e.g Butch or the orange cat named Lightning being prime examples) or when around Jerry's cousin Muscles Mouse as examples of this.
  • Butch has his moments in earlier shorts like how Tom would also share a similar defeat when characterized by humor when Tom is currently trying to get the better of him by tricking Butch into having a foolish appearance or when Spike starts beating up Butch along with the all the other alley-cats for being jerky towards him.
  • Clyde from Tom & Jerry Kids is an tall and obese, strong yet klutzy, and a dimwitted but openhearted dummy who is extremely friendly, somewhat cooperative and caring towards the titular, youthful kitten Tom (if quite clumsy with being gentle while Tom was born with durability) who finds him annoying because of his unintentional clumsiness.
• Top Cat: Averted with Top Cat and his gang in general, but the ironically named Brain fits this trope to a tee by how much he is the ditziest and the slowest thinking cat of the gang who is also the occasional Genius Ditz, quite a goofball and the one that tends to give the dumbest or silliest answers to Top Cat. He is averted as the smart one in the comic books, however.
• The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat: Roscoe is a Patrick Star from Season 1-type of character (but more archetypal, less remarkable and not given a plot focused on his character), he is basically a tall and fat orange cat who is the village-idiot who seems to be very childlike, sometimes accident-prone, and can be prone to slapstick from time to time.
• Underdog: Klondike Kat from his segments is pretty buffoonish, klutzy, bumbling, has a goofy voice to match his bumbling nature, and somewhat resembles an earlier, feline version of Hong Kong Phooey (just without stuff like the kung fu theme, Phooey's ego/witty dialogue, or his hypercompetent sidekick), although, Klondike is unusually the good guy against a scheming mouse.

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