![]() ![]() ![]() My heart always sank a little when it was cartoon time and the smarmy French sex pest that was Pepe appeared. The Lady Cat Who Always Got White Paint on Her, Making Her Look Like a Skunk, in Pepe Le Pew Cartoons (AKA Penelope) I completely loved it, but I was always waiting for some sadness or tragedy to occur, especially toward the end. Calvin and Hobbes continually made me tense as a young reader. In fact, he was an inert stuffed toy for long periods, which I always thought was terribly sad. Yes, I’m including big cartoon cats on this list, although Hobbes’ tigerness wasn’t called into action very often. And Bill was used to make fun of Donald Trump way back in the late 1980s. In his time, despite the perpetual catatonic state, he was a televangelist, a cult leader, and beau of both Socks the Cat and Princess Diana. ![]() He gets extra points for being the frontman and lead electric tongue in heavy metal combo Billy and the Boingers (previously Deathtongue). This occasionally dead, noncommunicative (apart from the odd “Ack!'”) feline lover and icon is the anti-Garfield. There was something about the world-weary tone of actor Lorenzo Music that summed up life and cats perfectly - though it was a shame Garfield was never as mean in the cartoons as he was in the newspaper comic strips. You may have to select a menu option or click a button.I much prefer the clunky Saturday morning cartoon version rather than the Bill Murray-voiced CGI movie reboot.
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