Crazy Cat Lady: Difference between revisions

''On seeing our neighbor’s cat-haunt,''

''Saying: "Something's addled in a woman who accommodates''

 

{{quote|''"So instead of having children, I'm going to get more cats!"''|'''Kathleen''', ''[[Loading Ready Run]]''}}

 

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* A "Got Milk?" ad featured an old lady with a house full of cats discovering she was out of milk. She mixed up a batch of non-dairy creamer. "Just like milk!" The cats hate it. The last thing we see is one of the cats closing the blinds...

* A Geico commercial had the Gecko and spokesperson visiting customers, in this case an older lady. The spokesman asks what she feeds her cats; cut to a shot of the Gecko surrounded by cats and looking very nervous as she says, "I usually like to feed them fresh food." The pair are then shown back at the office with the Gecko's arm in a little sling.

* "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130920125720/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VObFc64OnEk When you pay too much for cable], you throw things. When you throw things, people think you have anger issues. When people think you have anger issues, your schedule clears up. When your schedule clears up, you grow a scraggly beard. When you grow a scraggly beard, *man picks up stray cat* [[Insane Troll Logic|you start taking in stray animals]]. And when you start taking in stray animals, you can't stop taking in stray animals. Stop taking in stray animals!"

 

* Orochimaru from ''[[Naruto]]'' is the definitive Crazy Snake Man.

* ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'' featured a Crazy Reptile Man (an actor who bought a basilisk) as well as humorous Nutty Poodle Gangster.

* Cathy, or "Cat-chan" from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh Ze Xal]]'', although only in middle school, has a horde of cats and is definitely crazy, [[Stalker with a Crush|mostly for Yuma]]. She also wears her hair up to look like cat ears and can communicate with her cats through hisses and purrs.

 

* A 1955 issue of ''Superman's Pal, [[Jimmy Olsen]]'' features a wealthy Crazy Cat Lady who owns 49 felines and rewards Jimmy with a million dollars after he rescues one of them.

* [[DC Comics]] series ''Armageddon 2001'' was a series of "what if" stories picturing the fates that were going to befall various DC superheroes as the world was turning into a dystopia. One of the stories shows super heroine Ice as a crazy cat lady.

* Felicia Hardy in ''[[Spider-Man]] Noir'' is a reclusive nightclub owner who not only owns many cats, but takes them to work! Her club's called "The Black Cat" and the waitresses are dressed in [[Catgirl]] fetish gear, as well. After {{spoiler|being disfigured by the Crime Master}}, she becomes a total shut-in who never leaves the house, never has any visitors besides her doorman Lippy, and does little but care for her cats.

 

* The bird lady from ''[[Mary Poppins]]''.

* The Crazy Squirrel Lady from ''[[Rat Race]]''. Though she seems to want to get rid of them. If you don't buy a squirrel, she gives you directions off a cliff.

* The fiendish Mrs. Deagle from [[Gremlins]] has no problem with cruelty to ''dogs'' (she threatens Billy's with a ride in her spin dryer at high heat for breaking a yard decoration), but when we see her home life it turns out her house is full of cats. And since she's a greedy old hag, she has [[Theme Naming|given them all names like "Kopec" and "Dollar Bill"]].

 

* The old lady that Alex kills in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' lives in a home surrounded by fifty or more cats. (After he is imprisoned, the government sells all of his stuff. Why? To pay for the upkeep of the cats.)

** And Lady Sybil Vimes has her dragons.

{{quote|'''Sybil:''' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Good boys.]]}}

* The young adult novel ''Jacob Have I Loved'' has a cat lady who's portrayed as mildly dotty. When she ends up in the hospital, the main characters must decide what to do with all of her cats. They consider drowning them, even going so far as to throw them all in sacks and take them out in a boat, but in the end can't go through with it. The solution they finally come up with is to drug the ([[Cats Are Mean|rather vicious]]) cats with opiates so they seem meek and compliant, and convince several of the local residents that adopting a cat is a good idea.

 

* There is a ''[[CSI]]'' episode ("Cat's in the Cradle") where a murdered crazy cat lady is partially eaten by her cats.

* There was an episode of ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]'' with a bird lady who believed that people are reincarnated as birds, and that one parakeet in particular was her late husband.

* In ''[[The Closer]]'', Brenda lives in fear of turning into one of these and, after her cat ([[Your Tomcat Is Pregnant|who she thought was male]]) has kittens, she wonders how she became one of those single women with too many cats.

 

 

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* ''[[In Nomine]]'' sourcebook Liber Servitorum includes an old woman who seems to be a crazy cat lady. She is, in fact, a servant of an angel who inhabits her cats.

 

* Aaron Henne's play [https://web.archive.org/web/20120103040306/http://www.originalworksonline.com/kingcat.htm King Cat Calico Finally Flies Free!] is a [[Black Comedy]] that uses crazy-cat-ladiness as a lens upon the modern world.

 

* You can get a Crazy Cat Lady action figure. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090207092912/http://mcphee.com/items/11377.html No, really].

 

* The ''[[Touhou]]'' series has Satori Komeiji, who lives alone in a [[Fire and Brimstone Hell|huge underground palace]] with an army of crows and cats. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that her ability to read minds means that she tends to attract a lot of animals who can't otherwise communicate with her. She's actually rather friendly, but has a habit of [[Psychic Powers|responding to what people are thinking rather than what they're saying]], which causes people to avoid her. Some of her fans [[media:Crazy Cat Satori.png|have done]] up [[Memetic Mutation|gag-art poking fun at this fact]].

* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' one room in the Altamira hotel is ''teeming'' with ginger cats; it also contains one eccentric elderly man who says odd things when you talk to him.

* Edna Strickland in Telltale Games' ''[[Back to The Future|Back to the Future: The Game]]''. [[From Nobody to Nightmare|She becomes worse.]]

 

* ''[[Drowtales]]'': Mel'anarch is another example of a younger character fitting this trope, replacing cats with spiders, including a giant one {{spoiler|that she had a child with}}.

* Natalie of ''[[Fur Will Fly]]'' has has cats, [http://www.jadephoenix.org/fwf/comics/index.php?date=furwillfly67.jpg lots] and [http://www.jadephoenix.org/fwf/comics/index.php?date=furwillfly20030212.jpg lots] of cats, despite being a cat herself. She's also quite energetic, so one could argue that she's a twofer of this trope.

** Also helps that she's one of the last two humans on Earth.

 

* In a recent episode of ''[[The Guild]]'' its shown that Vork keeps dozens of birds in his home. He apparently uses them for food (since he is unemployed and only barely gets by on his dead grandfather's benefit checks).

* Katherine, of ''[[Manwhores]]'' is an unusual version of this trope in that she is in her 20's and doesn't actually own any cats (being allergic.) This doesn't stop her from filling her house with cat posters, cat models, and cat movies filling her house—in addition to demanding to play with a cat toy to, um, get frisky.

So she walks around outside talking to these cats going "Hello my babies. How are you today? You are such a pretty little baby" - meanwhile the cats have established a 20 foot buffer zone around her, which they maintain any time she walks closer. They remain close to her, but they fear her. }}

 

* There's a recurring Crazy Cat Lady character in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', seen up above. If somebody approaches her house, she greets them with incomprehensible screams and thrown cats. Her real name is Eleanor Abernathy, and according to the episode "Springfield Up," she used to be a successful doctor and lawyer—until she suffered mental burnout around age 32, turned to alcohol, and sought emotional solace in her pet cats.

* ''[[Kids Next Door]]'' has a Crazy Cat Lady as a recurring villain. She can even make her cats gather around her to cause [[Make My Monster Grow]] on herself!

* Gayle from ''[[Bob's Burgers]]''. She doesn't seem to know much about cats.

 

* [[Truth in Television]] as anyone who's watched a lot of animal rescue shows like ''[[Animal Planet Heroes]]'' can tell you. It's called [[wikipedia:Animal hoarding|Animal hoarding]] and many consider it a mental health issue. There's [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09_10_catcoat.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin one theory] regarding the parasite ''Toxoplasma gondii'' which reproduces only in cat intestines which may mean some people who are attracted to cats (specifically the smell of cat pee) have this parasite, making them more like to be eaten by cats if they die.

* Karen Kuykendall, the artist behind the [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2916419&pagenumber=4#post347671346 The Tarot of the Cat People] was (naturally) a Crazy Cat Lady, with the added horror bonus of dying of a heart attack and her body being partially devoured by her own pets.