Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 df Thomas O`Malley: Humans don`t really worry too much about their pets.
Thomas O`Malley: Boy! Your eyes *are* like sapphires.
Marie: Ladies don`t start fights, but they can finish them!
Duchess: Berlioz, come back here. Haven`t you forgotten something, darling?
Berlioz the Kitten: Thank you, Miss Frou-Frou, for letting me ride on your back.
Frou-Frou the Carriage-Horse: You`re quite welcome, young man.
[Berlioz turns to his mama]
Berlioz the Kitten: How was that, Mama?
Duchess: Very good, darling. That was very nice.
Berlioz the Kitten: We were just practicing biting and clawing.
Duchess: Aristocats do not practice biting and clawing, and things like that. It`s just horrible.
Toulouse the Orange Kitten: But someday, we might meet a tough alley cat.
Edgar: Morning, Frou-Frou, my pretty steed.
[whispers]
Edgar: Can you keep a secret?
[out loud]
Edgar: Of course you can.
[chuckles]
Edgar: I`ve some news straight from the horse`s mouth. If you`ll pardon the expression, of course.
Lafayette: Okay, let`s charge!
Napoleon: Wait a minute. I`m the leader! I`m the one that says when we go.
[pause]
Napoleon: Here we go. Charge!
Uncle Waldo: It`s outrageous! Why, you won`t believe what they tried to do to your poor Uncle Waldo. Look! Look at this!
[reading from menu of Le Petit Cafe]
Uncle Waldo: "Prime Country Goose A la Provencale, stuffed with chestnuts"...? "And basted in white wine." Hic!
Thomas O`Malley: Basted? He`s been marinated in it.
Uncle Waldo: Dreadful! Being British, I would`ve preferred sherry.
Napoleon: It`s a motorcycle. Two cylinder. Chain drive. One squeaky wheel, on the front, it sounds like. Now you go for the tires, and I`ll go right for the seat of the problem.
Lafayette: How come you always grab the tender part for yourself?
Napoleon: `Cause I outrank you, that`s why. Now, stop beatin` your gums and sound the attack.
[Lafayette barks]
Napoleon: No, that`s mess call.
Lafayette: Made a mess of it, huh?
Napoleon: You can be replaced, you know.
[Berlioz has been scared by a frog]
Duchess: Oh, darling. That`s only a little frog, my love.
Berlioz the Kitten: But he had a mouth like a "hippolotamus."
Thomas O`Malley: Why, your eyes are like sapphires sparkling so bright. They make the morning radiant and light.
Marie: How romantic.
Berlioz the Kitten: Sissy stuff.
Duchess: Oh, c`est tres jolie, monsieur. Very poetic. But it is not quite Shakespeare.
Thomas O`Malley: `Course not. That`s pure O`Malley, baby. Right off the cuff. Yeah. I got a million of `em.
Napoleon: Lafayette! Lafayette, listen.
Lafayette: Oh, shucks, Napoleon. That ain`t nothin` more but a little ol` cricket bug.
Napoleon: It`s squeaky shoes approachin`.
Lafayette: Oh, cricket bugs don`t wear shoes.
Napoleon: Hush your mouth! Let`s see. They`re Oxford shoes, size nine and a half. Hole in the left sole, it sounds like.
Lafayette: What color are they?
Napoleon: Why, they`re black... Ah, now how would I know that?
Marie: Me first! Me first!
Toulouse the Orange Kitten: Why should you be first?
Marie: Because I`m a lady. That`s why.
Toulouse the Orange Kitten: Oh, you`re not a lady.
Berlioz the Kitten: You`re nothing but a sister!
Duchess: Thomas, this is Amelia and Abigail Gabble.
Thomas O`Malley: Yeah, honey. Get those two web-footed lifeguards out of here.
Duchess: Now, now, Thomas.
Thomas O`Malley: Okay. Okay, baby.
[to the geese]
Thomas O`Malley: Hiya, chicks.
[Abigail and Amelia Gabble laugh]
Abigail Gabble: We`re not chickens. We`re geese.
Thomas O`Malley: [sarcastically] No. I thought you were swans.
Georges Hautecourt: Come on, Edgar. Last one upstairs is a nincompoop.
Edgar: Could we take the elevator this time, sir?
Georges Hautecourt: That birdcage? Poppycock! Elevators are for old people. Whoops!
[Hautecourt almost falls back, Edgar catches him]
Edgar: May I give you a hand, sir?
Georges Hautecourt: You wouldn`t have an extra foot, would you, Edgar?
Abigail Gabble: Amelia, if I walk any further, I`ll get flat feet.
Amelia Gabble: Abigail, we were born with flat feet.
Thomas O`Malley: That`s quite a family. Come to think of it, O`Malley, you`re not a cat, you`re a rat. Right? Right.
Scat Cat: [singing] Everybody wants to be a cat / Because a cat`s the only cat who knows where it`s at.
Thomas O`Malley: Tell me! Everyone is picking up on that feline beat / `Cause everything else is obsolete.
Scat Cat: Strictly high-buttoned shoes.
Scat Cat: What`s a little swinger like you doing on our side of town?
Roquefort the Mouse: Please! I was sent for help, by a cat.
Scat Cat: Why that`s outrageous! It`s crazy!
[cats laugh]
Roquefort the Mouse: But honest! He said just to mention his name.
Russian Cat: So, start mentioning name, rodent.
Roquefort the Mouse: Now, don`t rush me, fellas. His name is... O`Toole.
Scat Cat: I don`t dig him. Strike one.
Roquefort the Mouse: O`Brian?
Scat Cat: Strike two.
Roquefort the Mouse: You believe me, don`t you?
English Cat: Keep guessing, Mousey.
Roquefort the Mouse: What was it? O`... Grady?
Scat Cat: Mousey, you`ve just struck out. Any last words?
Roquefort the Mouse: Oh, why did I ever listen to that O`Malley cat?
Scat Cat: O`Malley? Hold it, guys! This little guy`s on the level!
Georges Hautecourt: [Trips and almost falls] Whoops! Not as spry as I was when I was eighty.
Marie: [Sitting on the piano] I`m ready, Maestro.
[Berlioz slides on the keys, and Marie`s tail is pinched]
Marie: Ow! Mama, he did it again!
Berlioz the Kitten: Tattletale.
Duchess: Monsieur O`Malley, you could have lost your life.
Thomas O`Malley: So I have a few to spare. Nothing.
Thomas O`Malley: First, to make the magic begin, you wiggle your nose, and you tickle your chin. Now close your eyes, and cross your heart, and presto! - breakfast, à la carte.
[last lines]
Lafayette: Hey, Napoleon. That sounds like the end.
Napoleon: Wait a minute. I`m the leader, I say when it`s the end.
[the title "The End" bumps into Napoleon`s head]
Napoleon: It`s the end.
Thomas O`Malley: Aloha, auf Wiedersehen, bon soir, sayonara, and all those good bye things, baby.
Amelia Gabble: I am Amelia Gabble. And this is my sister.
Abigail Gabble: Abigail Gabble.
Amelia Gabble: We`re twin sisters.
Abigail Gabble: In fact, you could say we`re related.
Chinese Cat: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Egg foo young / Fortune cookie always wrong. Oh, that a hot one!
Napoleon: Now the squeaking has stopped.
Lafayette: I still say it was a little ol` cricket bug.
Napoleon: Wait a minute. I`m the leader. I decide what it was.
[pause]
Napoleon: It was a little ol` cricket bug.
[Edgar is listening in on Madame discussing her will]
Madame Adelaide Bonfamille: As you know, I have no living relatives, and I want my cats to be well taken care of. And who can do that better than my faithful servant, Edgar?
Georges Hautecourt: Edgar? Adelaide, you mean you`re giving your vast fortune to Edgar?All your stocks and bonds, this-this mansion, your country chateau, your jewels and gems...?
Madame Adelaide Bonfamille: No, no, no, George. To my cats.
Georges Hautecourt: To your cats?
Edgar: [gasping] Cats?
Madame Adelaide Bonfamille: Yes. I just wish for the cats to inherit first. Then at the end of their life span, the entire estate reverts to Edgar.
Edgar: Cats inherit first, and I come after the cats! After I... oh. It`s not fair!
[Stands up, hits head on intercom]
Edgar: Ooh! I mean, each cat will live about twelve years, I can`t wait... and each cat has nine lives! That`s four times twelve, times nine... No, it`s less than that. Anyway, that`s more than I`ll ever live. I`ll be gone! No, oh, no. They`ll be gone. I`ll think of a way. After all, there are millions of reasons why I should. All of them dollars. Millions. Those cats have got to go!
Abigail Gabble: Your husband is very charming and very handsome.
Thomas O`Malley: Well, actually, I`m not exactly her husband.
Amelia Gabble: Exactly? Either you are or you`re not.
Thomas O`Malley: All right. I`m not.
Abigail Gabble, Amelia Gabble: Oh?
Amelia Gabble: How scandalous.
Abigail Gabble: Indeed
Amelia Gabble: He`s quite posively a reprobate.
Abigail Gabble: A roue.
Amelia Gabble: His eyes are too close together.
Abigail Gabble: Very shifty, too.
Amelia Gabble: And did you notice that crooked smile?
Abigail Gabble: His chin is very weak, too.
Amelia Gabble: Obviously a philanderer who triffles with unsuspecting women`s hearts.
Marie: How romantic.
Napoleon: [listening] You`re not gonna believe this, but it`s a one wheel hay stack!
Chinese Cat: Oh boy, fellas! Let`s rock the joint!
Russian Cat: Ha, ha! Groovy cats!
Scat Cat: Here you go, small fry. Blow it.
[Berlioz blows hard on a trumpet playing a very sour note]
Chinese Cat: Boy, he blew it!
[chuckles]
Italian Cat: But he was close.
Chinese Cat: Shang-hai Hong Kong egg fu yung! Fortune cookie always wrong!
Trivia
The character of Scat Cat was designed to be voiced by Louis Armstrong. The character`s look was modeled after Armstrong - the way he played his trumpet, his roly-poly physique, right down to the prominent gap between his teeth. However, at the last moment, for unknown reasons, Armstong quit the film without recording a single line. His replacement, Scatman Crothers, was directed to "Pretend you`re Satchmo."
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# The Sherman Brothers (Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman), whose father wrote the big Chevaliar hit "Living in the Sunlight, Loving in the Moonlight", talked Maurice Chevalier out of retirement to sing the title song.
The last animated feature to be approved by Walt Disney and the studio`s first animated feature to be completed after his death.
Eva Gabor and Pat Buttram were both starring together in the TV series "Green Acres" (1965) while recording voices for this animated film.
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# The English geese Amelia and Abigail Gabble are played by Carole Shelley and Monica Evans. They played another set of bird-themed English sisters - the Pigeon sisters - in The Odd Couple (1968).
This was originally intended as a two-part, live-action installment of the TV series "Disneyland" (1954).
Thomas O`Malley`s full name is Abraham De Lacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O`Malley.
Two vehicles from One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) reappear in the film: the Bad`uns Truck and the Moving Van.
The character of Uncle Waldo, the English goose, was the last role of voice actor Bill Thompson, who died from a heart attack at age 58, shortly after the film was released.
Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice of Russian Cat, was for many years the voice of Kellogg`s Tony the Tiger.
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