best Claude Cat cartoon

[Matthew Hunter]

Which is your favorite Claude Cat cartoon?
-Matthew

[lislebartman]

My vote is for "Two's A Crowd." I always hated seeing this one edited for network TV. Claude blowing up the furnace by using a plunger is hilarious! Besides, Claude does come out ahead in the end, getting the last, er...bark!

Runner-up - "Feline Frame-Up"

[Matthew Hunter]

I myself voted for "Feline Frameup". It is possibly my favorite Warner cartoon, period. It's a classic, it's so true of cats and dogs, and it's just plain funny...every time I watch this one I laugh! Claude is a great character.
-Matthew

[NickM]

Well, seeing how that Claude Cat is my avatar (wink wink), I would have to vote for "Cheese Chasers" as my favorite.

I think that this cartoon is an example of just how weird your usual dog/cat/mice cartoon can actually get...

And the ending is just classic...

"IT JUST DON'T ADD UP!!!!!!!!"

But remember what Claude said in that ending

"Wait Wait! You've gotta massacre me!"

My second favorite would be "Mouse Wreckers", I love that one merely for the upside-down room gag and the sideways pictures in the windows.

Poor Claude... but I love him still anyway!

NickM

[Sveven Dvorking]

I like that cartoon for many reasons.

[Jack]

I had chosen "The Hypo Chondri-cat." That cartoon really shows off Claude's unstable nature. It's also really funny and incredibly well done. I also love Claude's dream sequence. Too bad CN's print has that annoying safety print deterioration.

Claude has always been a favorite character of mine, him and the other black cat from Jones cartoons (even though they are really the same character, just a different design). He's a sympathetic cat character, that is very rare in cartoons. He's a little more like the cat I own (but then again, my cat is wierd). It's just nice to see cartoons where the cat isn't a bad guy...


Jack:D

[robtadrian]

Hypo-Chondriacat....the ending is one of my
favorites and strangely reminds me of the last
scene in Badlands...

[Sveven Dvorking]

Even though I voted for something else, I guess I could say "The Hypo-Chondri Cat" is a good cartoon. It has the funny dream sequence and all the jokes about Claude's 'death'.

The downside of the dream idea is that it was probably inspired by *******. (you fill in the blank)

[Jack]

The downside of the dream idea is that it was probably inspired by *******. (you fill in the blank)
I couldn't guess what inspired it, at first I thought "Disney," but that doesn't have enough letters.

Empty minds want to know...

Jack:confused:

[Matt Yorston]

It was a hard choice but I voted for "Cheese Chasers", an interesting cartoon done by Jones using the same basic premise as Freleng's "Life With Feathers" (the initial Sylvester cartoon, no less!) but extending it even further by getting the dog involved. Also, there are great animation takes (particularly by the bulldog) and I love the scene where Claude temporarily goes mad (after being clobbered on the foot by a hammer) and eats the mice anyway (accompanied by a wicked laugh and paws rubbing together) until he remembers something's not quite right and spits them out again.

As mentioned above, it was a hard choice because I also love "Feline Frame-Up". I guess I'll choose it for runner-up. I love the cartoon because of its great gags (fake snow in July, Marc Anthony sending Claude to hit the ceiling by stomping on a strategically placed floorboard) and set-up (with the bulldog gone, Claude's got it made... almost). To top things off, there's a great Stalling score, one of his best, IMHO (love the little "nyah-nyah-nyah-NYAH-nyah violins as Claude makes faces at Marc Anthony) as well as the da-DAH-da-DAH-dah-dah-dah as Claude starts to sign the confession after waving the white flag.

[Sveven Dvorking]

Originally posted by Jack

I couldn't guess what inspired it, at first I thought "Disney," but that doesn't have enough letters.

Empty minds want to know...

Jack:confused:

I was thinking "alcohol". It seems way too trippy.