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[[File:crazy-cat-lady.jpg|link=The Simpsons (animation)|frame| Meet Eleanor Abernathy: once [[The Medic|M.D.]], once [[Hello, Attorney!|A.A.L.]], now
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* ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067991/ Willard]'' and his rats.
* Madame from ''[[The Aristocats]]'' becomes one after waking up in the middle of the night and discovering that her cats have been kidnapped by her evil butler while she is still sleeping and leaving them all for dead in the French countryside.
* Although technically disqualified because he hoards so many ''different'' species, Raoul from ''[[UHF]]'''s "Raoul's Wild Kingdom" segments deserves honorary
** He qualifies based on the number of poodles he sacrifices out the window in teaching them to fly. They make a pile about 8 feet high easily filling the trope, at least until they all die.
* Taken to a truly disturbing degree in ''[[Good Neighbours]]'': {{spoiler|Louise}} loves all cats to an extreme degree and is rather socially awkward and distant... and is also {{spoiler|a sociopathic murderer.}}
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** Considering that all those cats were outdoor/strays to begin with, you have to wonder why the hell he didn't just put them outside when he left town.
* In ''[[Harriet the Spy]]'', one of Harriet's spy targets is a very seclusive man with some twenty cats. He's constantly attempting to avoid Animal Control, who have him pegged as a hoarder. By the end of the book, they catch him and take the cats away. He's despondent... until the last time we see him, when [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|he's started over with one little kitten.]]
* [[Stephen Colbert]]'s book ''I Am America! (And So Can You!)'' includes a short article written by a
* Jonathan of ''[[Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell]]'' encounters an extreme
* Gösta in ''[[Let the Right One In]]'', the book and the movie. In his case the cat hoarding most likely ended up {{spoiler|[[Evil-Detecting Dog|saving his life.]] }}
* Bagabond in the ''[[Wild Cards]]'' series has a telepathic link with all the animals in Manhattan but most especially cats.
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* In ''The Bad Place'', by [[Dean Koontz]], most of the main characters belong to the same [[Dysfunctional Family]]: their grandparents are [[Brother-Sister Incest|brother and sister]], their parent is a hermaphrodite who managed to impregnate herself several times. Two sisters in the youngest generation are identical twins who share a telepathic link with each other, as well as with any animal of their choice. They surround themselves with a flock of cats that they are permanently linked to.
* In one of the [[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Jeeves and Wooster]] stories, it becomes necessary to make Sir Roderick Glossop believe that Bertie is insane. One of the methods by which this is accomplished is to make it look like he's some sort of Crazy Cat Gentleman.
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* 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 one episode of the ''[[The Flash]]'' live-action TV series, The Trickster, when given a chance to find out, goes on a rant about how he doesn't ''care'' who's behind the [[Flash]]'s mask, because he's just some guy, who will end up alone living alone with a lot of cats.
* An episode of ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'' features Robert
* The first episode of ''[[A Touch of Frost]]'' features a
* This is doubtlessly the future of Angela in the US version of ''[[The Office]]''.
* There's a crazy cat lady in the neighbourhood in ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' Randy also dates a cat hobbyist, who realizes she's slipping into the mold, after Randy points out she treats him like a cat.
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* In ''[[Grandma's House|Grandmas House]]'', Simon appears to be a male version:
{{quote|"The cat didn't make me any less lonely. It just became a mascot for my loneliness."}}
* In ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' the cast once went to a bed and breakfast ran by a
* In the ''[[Friends]]'' episode "The One Where Mr Heckles Dies", Chandler worries that he's going to end up alone and imagines his future self as a "Crazy Snake Man".
* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' episode "The Zazzy Substitution", Sheldon deals with a falling out with Amy by adopting lots and lots of cats.
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== Video Games ==
* 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:
* 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.
** The Crazy Cat Old Man is a recurring [[Continuity Cameo]] in the Tales series. He's in just about every game as a sort of an [[Easter Egg]].
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*** Also, her cats FUCKING HURT.
* In ''[[Harvester]]'', there's the Crazy '''Wasp''' Lady complete with long creepy rant about how the wasps' ability to sting again and again is reminiscent of multiple orgasm...
* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' it's [[The Hypnotoad|the cats are the ones adopting the dwarves]]. As a result, Dwarves [[media:
* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic|KOTOR 2]]'', in the restored content there is a deranged padawin living in the ruins of an old temple who raises and trains Laigrek (large cockroaches) to kill any trespassers or treasure-hunters on sight. Noble characters can dissuade her while Villains can kill or corrupt her.
* ''[[Farmville]]'' has a series of ribbons called ''Cat Lady'' which are awarded by brushing your cats enough times.
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== Web Original ==
* 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
* In ''[[Cracked.com]]'':
** Parodied by Christina H., whose column is called "Let Me Tell You About My Cats."
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== Western Animation ==
* There's a recurring
* ''[[Kids Next Door]]'' has a
* There's Hatty MacDoogal, a crazy cat lady on ''[[Futurama]]'' who tends to carry a cat around with her and calls anything she doesn't know the word for a "kajigger" or a "whatchacallit".
* Rhino's owner in ''[[Bolt]]'' is a crazy hamster lady.
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