The incorect words, heard on the more modern re-recorded soundtrack on CDs/videos since the 80s, is pure guesswork - and wrong. "close friends get to call at TC, providing it's with invitee." Instead I'm certain that the original, correct words are: "close friends get to call him T.C., providing it's with dignity." The most important debate is about the commonly-misheard lines after "close friends get to call.".Ĭontrary to modern mythology, the words are NOT (I maintain): probably for everyone concerned. ) - Oliver P. Gone away? Oh no, I can never leave the Wikipedia. :) Well, I keep trying to, temporarily at least, because I have so much work to do, but then I keep finding myself coming back. Oliver, I thought you had gone away! (Not that I would have wished for that, you understand.) I wonder if anyone is personally acquainted with the lyricist? JTDirl, perhaps? Deb 19:37 (UTC)
(Has no-one found that songbook yet? Well, really, what can be of greater import in the Wikipedia than a definitive answer to this question?) - Oliver P. May I venture to suggest that the use of the adjective "intellectual" (as in "intellectual close friends") is intended to be ironic? Deb 17:55 (UTC)Īh, but is this anything more than your own personal conjecture? If not, then I'm afraid that it is not a strong enough argument to counter the divine proclamation of the Google god. Oliver and Someone else have been taking the lyrics a little too literally. Once the world is distracted by this song, nobody will oppose me as I take control of the entire planet. And so is my flatmate since I mentioned it to him. See what you've started, TK!!! I hadn't heard the melody or even thought of it for nearly 2 decades until you changed your name. After all, who is to say the chorus fully understood the mythic import of the words of the immortal bard? Does no library have a copy of the tome in question? - Someone else 00:02 (UTC) Do you think Jimbo Wales would consider it a worthwhile investment? Deb 23:41 (UTC) I think it would be better to rely on the written word than on the chorus's diction. Tuf-Kat I think the only way to resolve this issue is for us to purchase a copy of the "Cartoon Tunes Songbook", available from KIDiddles Online Store at $9.95. Only on Wikipedia does such a conversation occur. Once this is decided, this talk page should be memorialized somewhere, as it's hilarious. In a song which is almost in its entirety a paean to the greatness of Top Cat, it would seem strange to me if it were attributing this quality to his friends (whose subordinate position to Top Cat is an integral part of the social system in this cartoon), rather than to him. The verse starts by proclaiming his great character - namely, the fact that he is "effectual" - and I interpreted the verse as continuing in the same vein, by also proclaiming that he is "intellectual". Deb 23:25 (UTC) Hmm, I always interpreted it as being a song about a cat who is intellectual. So it's got to be "whose", regardless of what the illiterate web sites thrown up by Google suggest. Someone else 23:14 (UTC)Īaah, I'm too young to have seen it, so I didn't realize there are multiple interpretations of the staggering work of genius that is this theme song! Tuf-Kat Hey, come on now, don't let me down, this is important! If you listen to the chorus singing it, you'll hear how "close friends" runs straight on from "intellectual", making it clear that they are one and the same.
As I recall, they were blithering idiots!) This may be one of the imponderable questions of the ages. (Depends on if you think TC or his friends were intellectual. I think the top is what was intended, but the musical accompaniment makes the latter seem a possibility. Whose intellectual close friends get to call him TC, providing its with dignity. Should this be: Top Cat: The most effectual.Ĭlose friends get to Call him TC, Providing its with dignity (I think) Tuf-Kat Depends on the parsing. It should be whose as who's is a contraction of who is, which doesn't make sense in this context. "top cat" "whose intellectual" (2 matches)Īnyone have any more reliable source for which one is correct.? - Oliver P."top cat" "who's intellectual" (about 41 matches).Okay, sorry, I bowed down to the Google god on that one. "Who's intellectual / Close friends." or "Whose intellectual/ Close friends." I don't see any break in the episode air-dates, and IMDb and TV.com list the show as having just 1 season.ĬOrrected. 10 Second Right hand and second in command?.
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