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On this gameshow, they asked, "Who was the author of Old Possums
Book Of Practical Cats? T.S. Eliot". He said it inspired the
hit musical of Cats (thanks, Holly "Cassandra"!).
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It was around Christmas, so the family let a homeless man stay for
a while. Simon was hanging up lights in the house with the guy, and
told him, "I love New York. Have you ever seen Cats, the
musical?" The man said no. Simon continues, "You know, they're not
real cats?" Then later on into the show, Simon says, "You know
Cats was based on a book of poems?" Thanks, Miskapheles!
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Barbarbra Walters is auditioning for a show, and I think she's
singing something from "Chorus Line" or "42nd Street". The director
says to her, "Okay, that's enough". Then Barbarbra says, "Oh, I can
do something from Cats!", and she starts pawing the air
(thanks, Zoe!).
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On the Fourth of July, they were showing the fireworks display in
Washington D.C., and they were playing songs. They played "The
Jellicle Ball" (thanks, CHRBroadway!).
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They toured the Winter Garden Theater and talked about Cats
and its final performance. One of their anchorwomen, I think her name
is Shawn Harrison, got to put on the Bombalurina makeup, and "The
Jellicle Ball" was playing in the background the whole time (thanks,
Ozzie!)!
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They had Stockard Channing (Rizzo from "Grease"), and they showed a
clip of her in some movie (I din't catch the title) where she said to
some guy, "I know you wanted to be in the movie version of "Cats"!"
Thanks, Zoe!
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In one episode from this late-80's sitcom about an alien who lives
with a "nice, normal family", Willie and Kate (the parents) talk
about seeing "Cats". ALF, the smart cracking alien who comes from a
planet where cats are considered dinner instead of a house pet, tries
to coax them into taking him with them so he can go backstage and eat
the actors (thanks, Matt!).
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The people are trying to do a movie, but their director can't do it,
so they're looking for a different one. The lady says "What about
so-and-so?" and the person who came to tell them the director can't
make it says "Didn't you hear? He left to go direct the South America
production of Cats." One of the guys then says "Yeah? What did
the South Americans do wrong?" Thanks, Razzle!
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It goes something like this:
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John Fugelsang: Yeah, I was in CATS once.
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Daisy Fuentes: Really? I don't believe you.
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John: Yeah, yeah, I was! I went to go see it, and I had to go to the
bathroom. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it . . . and, uh . . . wandered onstage.
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Daisy: [Laughs]
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John: Yeah, yeah. The Rum Tum Tugger beat the cr*p out of me.
_____Thanks, Froster!
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There's a commercial for Cats on the taped version (thanks,
Coventina & Tail Kinker!).
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I don't know the exact title of this video. I saw it on PBS, and it's
a concert of ALW songs in celebration of his fiftieth birthday.
Anyway, "Memory" is one of the songs that Elaine Paige sings (thanks,
Ozzie!).
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A psychic is talking to a demon and she asks him if he would like to
return to his own dimension. His response? "Are you kidding? I'd
rather sit through a junior high production of Cats." Thanks,
Valdez515!
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I love cartoons, but this was an accidental channel surf and stop. On
Angela [FOX Family], her class were going on a nature hike without
Nanette (a snooty classmate of Angela's). In a conversation with
Gordy, she says, "Gordy, could anything better happen on this
wonderful day?" Gordy replies, "Seeing the final show of Cats?" Thanks, The Schizophrenic Cat!
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In one cartoon, "Andy Loud Webby" recruits the Warner Brothers (and
the Warner Sister) to star in his new musical, "Cats of Phantom
Boulevard", after he fires his star (a Glenn Close look-alike) for
singing off-key. Wakko Warner sings a parody of "Memory", and other
ALW musicals are also made fun of (but in a very hilarious way).
Thanks, Matt!
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Sir John Mills (Asparagus/Gus) is the chairman (thanks, Bradley!).
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An exchange student from France transferrs to Tommy's (the werewolf)
school. Her name is Carol but like the fact that he's a werewolf,
she's a werecat. At the end of the show, Tommy is reading a postcard
Carol sent him after she left. Quote: "And she sent me a postcard
from New York. She said that she had joined some Broadway musical
about cats. I can't remember the name, though." Thanks, Blaze!
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It's a children's TV show over here in England. They had one show
where Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer performed (from the London Cast)
as well as Mistoffelees I think it was. One of their female
presenters, Konnie Huq showed how they do their makeup by getting her
face done like Demeter. She also showed some of the costumes
(thanks, Bomby!).
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Robert Bowfinger (Steve Martin), a failing movie director, is sitting
in his office listening to the messages on his answering machine.
One, from an actress who worked for him, says, "I'm sorry, Bowfinger,
but I'm going to England to be in Cats. It's a small role, but
I'll do well in it." Thanks, Jemima Mistoffelees!
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My friend spotted a Cats mentioning, and he said someone named
'Jerry Mungo' not being able to play football. It could just
be a coincidence . . . or not (thanks, Kalliroscope!).
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There was a Betty Buckley (original Broadway Grizabella) biography
(thanks, Bombalurina!).
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On Monday, November 1st -- They told Betty Buckley's life story and she
performed some songs from her Broadway show's, how she got the part
for Cats and other things about the show. Then she sang
"Memory".
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On Wednesday, November 3rd -- They showed the making of Chicago about
the production done in London (when this was I do not know). Near
the end as a group of people were walking through a hallway into a
room, hanging on the wall in the back of the room is a framed poster
for Cats. Also they showed ALW attending opening night.
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On Thursday, November 4th -- They are going to have Elaine Page's
story. I hope they tell about her part in CATS, and maybe she'll
sing "Memory".
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Thanks for all these sightings, Norman!
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This is a show on Nickelodeon. Griffen and a couple of his friends
were trying to persuade Caitlin to allow them to put on a play she
wrote for a class recently. Griffen made the comment, "No one comes
to our plays . . . not after last year's production of
Cats!" Thanks, Powder!
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Caroline's next door neighbor is a character from Cats.
However, this isn't sure on whether it's true or not (thanks,
Sarah!).
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Caroline's friend, Annie, who is in Cats, is being audited by
the IRS. She's in deep trouble until she finds out her auditer,
Jimmy Callahan, has always wanted to be in the play. She bargins
with him - if he lets her off scott-free, she'll get him an audition
for Cats! Of course she can't really do this, so she forces
some of her friends to pose as the play's director and producer.
Jimmy is played by the wonderful David Hyde Pierce (Niles on
Frasier). Thanks, SideShow Lew!
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Annie's music teacher comes to NY to see Annie in Cats. But Annie
isn't in the show anymore, so Caroline comes up with a plan of using
an old Playbill with Annie's name in it, figuring the teacher will
never know (because you "can't tell one Cat from another" *L*) As a
side note, one of their friends stays to watch the show, and is
pretty mad, because he swore he'd never sit through Cats; but in the
end, he loves the show (and is decked out in Cats attire and wants
his picture taken with a Cats poster :-) At the end, the teacher
doesn't notice Annie isn't with the show anymore, and Annie realizes
she misses the show, so she re-auditions and gets back in the
show (thanks, Nebula!).
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One of Carol's neighboors dances in Cats and prances around the
building, mimcking a real cat and when asked she said, "My producer
says that after 16,000 preformances, I'm getting a bit stale." Later
on in the show, she has her leg in the air and licking her knee and
Richard says "I know you're going to use that pose after you get out
of Cats." Thanks, Rubyfire!
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Caroline is getting married and Annie is her maid-of-honor.
Caroline's friends are talking about Annie and one of them makes a
comment something like, "So she's in Cats . . . she goes on
stage and meows a couple of times." Annie is later seen with
Caroline wearing her "Cats" jacket (thanks, Connie!).
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Annie was a dancer and a long-term Cats member in the show.
I believe that she played the part of Bombalurina (thanks, Morning
Wolf!).
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Annie got the night off from Cats and let her understudy go on
for her. Charlie got Annie's suspicion up that her understudy was
trying to steal her part, so Annie ran to the theatre. She screamed
at her understudy backstage, but it turned out Lindsey's (the
understudy) parents were actually there. After Annie left, Lindsey's
parents asked, "So when do you think you can get rid of her?"
Lindsey said, "Easter, tops!" Thanks, Bombalurtina!
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In this one show on the Cartoon Network, there's this Russian guy and
he's reporting to his boss that he saw talking dogs. His boss
replied, "I don't care if they were singing dogs! I don't care if
they were singing the theme from Cats!" Thanks, Dwayne!
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These dogs are driving on a road shooting something out of a car and
they blow up a billboard advertising Cats (thanks, Dwayne!).
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The dog, Fergus, is digging a hole to put a time capsule in when
Cuddles the cat walks up. Cuddles asks, "Can I put a cat artifact in
your time capsule?" Fergus asks what it is, and Cuddles answers, "My
special 10th anniversary edition of the hit Broadway musical CATS on
DVD!" Cuddles begins to belt out "Memory" when Fergus relents and
puts in his time capsule (thanks, Alegria!).
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At the diner everyone goes to, there's sometimes a small Cats
poster in the back (thanks, Yvelle!).
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They said, "Do you have any acting backrounds" and Cher answered, "I
saw Cats three times." Thanks, Munkustrap5!
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They had a broadcast about how Broadway has changed over the years,
and they talked about Cats! They showed clips of the final
production and at the end they said, "Perhaps Broadway needs another
Cats." Thanks, Corina!
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This was a Visa commercial. A lady who looks like Bebe Neuwirth when
she was in Chicago starts singing "I Got Rhythm". Then all
these people come out dancing, and all of the sudden two Cats
come out from the left and right! The one on the right was Misto, I
don't know who the left one was! Then at the end, Misto's pops up
holding a Visa card with the cutest look on his face (thanks,
Casio!)!
This was a commercial for the Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat video. Some guy says, "If your family loved Cats,
then you'll love Andrew Lloyd Webbwer's Joseph and The Amazing
Technicolor Dream Coat." Thanks, Fleckenfell!
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It was his sidekick Andy Richter's last day, so to pay tribute to
him, they put on a song and dance number. The dance number is full of
characters all from Broadway plays like Annie and The
Phantom of the Opera, but who is the first you see? Two dancers
from Cats dancing in front (who look a lot like Mungojerrie
and Rumpleteazer!). Thanks, Raiya13!
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The programme Counterpoint is a general knowledge music quiz. It's
on the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), that I heard last
year. The presenter asked a Cats question: In the 1981 ALW
musical Cats, which cat is described as "magical?" The answer
is, of course, Mr. Mistoffelees (thanks, Yi-Peng!).
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There is a part in a dance studio and there is a Cats poster
hanging on the wall (thanks, Marzi!).
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In an episode of Comedy Central's "The Critic", Jay gets in an
argument with his mother. He feels bad, because all around him are
examples of "mother and child." One of these examples is a big
billboard with the CATS logo, and next to it is a smaller billboard
with "Kittens" with a smaller version of the CATS logo (thanks,
Bellenine!).
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Jay's son my a float for a school parade. He made a float of a horse
and the front falls off and all that's left is the butt, and it
caught of fire. Jay shouts out, "It could hit an important building!"
The float runs inside the Cats theatre and blows up. Jay says,
"It's not a big loss." How dare them (thanks, MunkustrapALW!)!
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They're driving through New York City, and I caught sight of a Cats
sign over the Winter Garden Theatre (thanks, Kalliroscope!).
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This is kind of like Jake Hanna but a little different. See, Steve
and his wife were just on a talk show, and as they were walking around
New York, they pasted the Wintergarden Theater and Cats was
playing there (thanks, GermnMisto!).
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Jon Stewart is interviewing Joley Fisher. He started saying nonsense
stuff, and then he shouts, "Jellicle Cat!" I thought that was pretty
funny (thanks, Nebula!)
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It had a little report on Cats closing. It was pretty funny -
Jon Stewart was describing the show, and he said that it was about
political cats, skeptical cats . . . he went on to name every type of
cat that is said in the Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats song. He
also showed a clip of Jennyanydots (thanks, Atominya!).
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At the end of the show when they show credits, to the left the
characters are dressed as someone else. Mr. O' Neil was dressed as
the Rum Tum Tugger.
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He was talking about Andrew Lloyd Webber buying several theatres in
New York. It showed him at a press conference as they were talking,
with several Cats behind him. You could plainly see Jacob Brent
behind him. They then said that people thought and proved Andrew was
copying music from an opera. They said they had "proof". They first
played the opera. Then they would play a "sample of Rum Tum Tugger".
They played the same opera, only with cats meowing (thanks,
Mistoffelees!).
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Daria's father, Jake, was talking to himself about his past high
school experience in musicals. He said aloud, "I could write songs
for Cats! I could write songs for dogs . . . !"
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Chole was talking to a couple of her poodles about her music and she
says there will be no pop or rock and roll here (because she only
likes opera) and of course nothing from Cats because they were dogs
(thanks, Jason!).
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Mary Jo's children are upset because she won't let them spend the
night with their father because it's a school night. When she goes
upstairs to talk to them there is a CATS poster in her daughters room
(thanks, Tigress!).
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On this documentry on America, they do a segment on New York. And
they mention Broadway and show the billbopard signs of Les Mis and
Cats (thanks, Rubyfire!).
