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A 1970 American animated feature film produced and released by [[Disney|Walt Disney Productions]].
▲"[[Gay Paree|Paris]], [[The Edwardian Era|1910]]. The [[Uncle Pennybags|fabulously wealthy]] retired opera singer Madame Adelaide Bonfamille has decided to [[Pet Heir|leave her entire fortune to her high-society pet cats]]. Her butler, Edgar, wanting the fortune for himself, drugs the felines with sleeping pills and abandons them in the French countryside... the night after the will was made... [[Sarcasm Mode|which isn't the least bit suspicious]].
▲"Unlike cats in the real world, classy Duchess and her three kittens decide to make their way back home with the help of streetwise alley cat Thomas O'Malley. Along the way, he takes them to hang out with his alley cat friends, who treat the pets to some anachronistic jazz music (accompanied by even more anachronistic [[The Sixties|psychedelic graphics]]). No prizes for guessing the ending: Duchess hooks up with Thomas O'Malley, and Edgar gets what's coming to him courtesy of the alley cats."
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* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: Yes, they did have motorcycles in 1910. They were invented in [[Older Than They Think|1885]]. Likewise, the [[Le Metropolitain|Métro 1]] opened in 1900.
** [[Anachronism Stew]]: On the other hand, swing music and a ''hippie'' cat in 1910.
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** Possibly the dogs and their owners [[Wild Mass Guessing|immigrated from Louisiana]]?
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]:
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'''O'Malley:''' Waldo?
'''Amelia:''' Yes, he's our uncle. }}
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: The father of the kittens is never seen or mentioned, although they express hope that O'Malley will take up the job {{spoiler|which he does}}.
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* [[Disney Acid Sequence]]: Both uses of "Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat".
* [[Disney Animated Canon]]: Depending on how you look at it, this film is either the last of Disney's "Golden Era", or the beginning of their Dark Age. It was the last movie Walt personally green-lit before his death, but the first he never worked on directly (''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'' was the last film he produced).
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* [[Expy]]/[[Pigeonholed Voice Actor]]: O'Malley has a similar personality (and the same voice actor, Phil Harris) as Baloo from ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]''. Harris would play another, even more blatant, expy of Baloo as Little John in ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]''.
** The Geese sisters Abigail and Amelia are based on the "Pigeon Sisters" from ''[[The Odd Couple]]'' movie and are voiced by the same actresses, who went on to voice Maid Marian and Lady Cluck in ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]''.
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* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: Marie is getting a disproportionate amount of attention in Japan, and is more frequently featured in the Disneyland Tokyo. The reason why? Japanese love kittens..
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Seriously, have you ever paid attention to the lyrics of Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat?
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** Don't forget that one of the characters (Uncle Waldo) is implied to be completely drunk in his debut scene. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] during this scene:
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'''O'Malley:''' *looking disgusted* Basted? He's been ''marinated'' in it.
'''Waldo:''' [[Comically Missing the Point|Dreadful! Being British, I would've preferred sherry.]] }}
** The scene with a sleepy Napoleon and Lafayette and a back-scratching Edgar is fairly full of innuendo.
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* [[Musicalis Interruptus]]: Near the end when Roquefort is trying to crack the lock on trunk holding the cats.
* [[Mysterious Animal Senses]]: Just from sound, Napoleon can tell what size and shape shoes Edgar is wearing (though colour? That's just ridiculous), and can also identify a one-wheeled haystack.
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'''Lafayette:''' What color are they?
'''Napoleon:''' Why, they're bla-[[Lampshade Hanging|now how would I know that?]] }}
** And they ARE black...
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* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Bill Thompson as the ''hilariously'' drunk Uncle Waldo.
** Even the main characters comment on it. "I like Uncle Waldo." "Yes, especially when he's 'marinated.'"
*** Unfortunately, this was also Bill Thompson's final role in an animated film, due to him dying of a heart attack a few months later.
** More of a two-scene wonder, but Napoleon and Lafayette steal the show whenever they appear. Their southern accents and hilarious dynamic helps a lot.
* [[Overly Long Name]]: Thomas O'Malley's full name is Abraham De Lacey Gi-u-sep-pe Casey Thomas O'Malley. He introduces himself with an [["I Am" Song]] based on the name.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Duchess:
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** He later calls himself "J. Thomas O'Malley", so it's possible the [[Overly Long Name]] is just something he made for the song.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: O'Malley.
* [[Parent with New Paramour]]: Duchess and Thomas.
* [[Parental Bonus]]: Most young children won't catch the pun on "aristocrats," but their parents will.
** Also, O'Malley calling his buddies swingers and Shun Gon saying Berlioz "blew it". ''Yeah''...
* [[Pet Heir]]
* [[Pun-Based Title]]: Let me guess...they're cats from the upper class?
* [[Railroad Tracks of Doom]]: Over an insecure bridge, no less. Between ending up in the locomotive's plow and the fast-flowing river below, the cats choose the river.
* [[Sarcasm Mode]]: Although O'Malley's compliments of Duchess seem fairly genuine, the way he lathers the geese seems to be dripping with sarcasm.
* [[Say My Name]]: O'Malley learns Marie's name solely due to [[
* [[Shout-Out]]: The kitten Berlioz is [[wikipedia:Hector Berlioz|learning to play piano]], while his brother Toulouse is [[wikipedia:Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|a painter]].
** This isn't [[101 Dalmatians|the first]] animated Disney film to feature a moving van in the climax. In fact, they even simply used the exact same van for the one the cats use to dispose Edgar at the end of the film!
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* [[Talking Animal]]: To be specific, [[Animal Talk|translated animal]].
* [[Tempting Fate]]: "You're going to Timbuktu if it's the last thing I do!" Guess who ends up going there instead!
** "It's not exactly the Ritz but it's peaceful and quiet an-" Cue the lights turned on and Scat Cat and the gang playing music. That being said, Duchess and the kittens do end up joining the fun, so it's not bad at all.
* [[That's All Folks]]: The dogs at the end of the film.
* [[That Was Not a Dream]]: Toulouse wakes up while being kidnapped. He somehow gets back to sleep, and when he wakes up again, he dismisses the events as a dream at first.
** It happened to Madame, too, although her dream probably didn't show Edgar committing the deed, or she'd have suspected him.
* [[Theme Naming]]: Toulouse, Berlioz, Napoleon, LaFayette...
* [[Those Two Guys|Those Two Dogs]]: Napoleon and
* [[What Song Was This Again?]]: "Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat" becomes ''Every cat is a musician'' in the Greek version, "Everyone wants to play some Jazz" in the Italian version, and "Cats need lots of music" in the German version.
* [[White and Grey Morality]]: The protagonists are a family of good cats. The antagonist is a greedy butler who, on the other hand, probably served faithfully Madame Bonfamille the whole life and he arguably had rights to the inehritance.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Animated Films]]
▲[[Category:Disney Animated Canon]]
[[Category:Films of the 1970s]]
[[Category:Animal Title Index]]
▲[[Category:The Aristocats]]
[[Category:Disney]]
[[Category:Western Animation of the 1970s]]
[[Category:Western Animation]]
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