# Can anyone ID this cartoon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2002, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-cartoon/121554 "2002-07-30T17:14:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flowers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4bbf92/32.png) [@flowers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flowers)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-cartoon/121554/1 "2002-07-30T17:14:11Z")
Approximately 15 years ago, I saw a short cartoon with a man who was being bothered by a cat. There was a little song that went with it that went something like this: “The cat came back the very next day, the little yellow cat just wouldn’t stay away”. I think it ended with the man blowing up the cat & himself, & even them he couldn’t get away from it because they both became angels floating up to heaven. (At least that’s how I remember it ending). Does anyone know what this is, & is it available on the anywhere on the web?😕 ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-cartoon/121554/2 "2002-07-30T17:29:27Z")
The Cat Came Back. [Cat](http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s178kids.html) ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-cartoon/121554/3 "2002-07-30T18:15:34Z")
I saw that cartoon on Cartoon Network. It was some special about cartoons from Canada. ---
**Author:** ![flowers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4bbf92/32.png) [@flowers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flowers)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-cartoon/121554/4 "2002-07-30T23:48:22Z")
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-cartoon/121554/5 "2002-07-31T02:24:03Z")
I wish I could take credit for this but, Google did all the work. I’m very glad you’re happy **flowers**. I’ve never seen this cartoon but, you can bet it’s on my list now. ---
**Author:** ![Sparrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Sparrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparrow)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-cartoon/121554/6 "2002-08-01T12:36:48Z")
Thanks Honey, I’d been looking for two of the cartoons on that list for years: The Cat Came Back and Cinderella Penguin. Now I have two others I’m trying to track downand prove they’re not just a figment of my imagination. I think possibly they may be Canadian too as I think I saw them around the first time as the others. In the first a there’s a little Caryatid (greek statue of a woman used in place of a pillar to hold up a building). It starts out with three of them and then time and weather and earthquakes destroy the other two and she’s desperately trying to hold up the building on her own. Very funny and sweet. In the second there’s a pair of desk lamps, one big and one small, like a mother and baby. I don’t remember much about what happens but the little one is so cute jumping all around the desk! ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-cartoon/121554/7 "2002-08-01T13:38:00Z")
> [@](#): > > In the second there’s a pair of desk lamps, one big and one small, like a mother and baby. I don’t remember much about what happens but the little one is so cute jumping all around the desk! This one is called [Luxo Jr.](http://www.pixar.com/shorts/ljr/) and was created by Pixar, the company who did the _Toy Story_ films (among others). It shows why Pixar’s movies are head and shoulders above so many other animated films – because they really understand the process of character animation. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-cartoon/121554/8 "2002-08-01T13:54:16Z")
Ah, [Richard Condie!](http://www.awn.com/condie/index.html) The Canadian genius behind “The Big Snit” and “The Cat Came Back”. As for [Cinderella Penguin](http://cmm.nfb.ca/E/titleinfo/index.epl?id=13580&recherche=simple&coll=onf), that’s by [Janet Perlman](http://www.nfb.ca/e/highlights/janet_perlman.html), another fine Canuck contribution to the world of graphic arts. ---
**Author:** ![okielady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/fbc32d/32.png) [@okielady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/okielady)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-cartoon/121554/9 "2002-08-03T03:50:21Z")
I remember that cartoon! The cat came back the very next day The cat came back, thought he was a goner But the cat came back, just wouldn’t stay away… Or something like that. Awesome! ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-cartoon/121554/10 "2002-08-03T04:45:27Z")
There is a video with each of these cartoons on it, as well as about a dozen others. \ (I really was) It’s called \* The world’s Greatest Animation, \* and has Academy Award ™ winners from 1978 to 1990. It was released by Expanded Entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-cartoon/121554/11 "2002-08-03T05:39:43Z")
I am here just to mention that the greek statue one is called _A GREEK TRAGEDY_, by Nicole van Goethem ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-cartoon/121554/12 "2002-08-03T06:12:22Z")
[http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/c030.html](http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/c030.html) I think I know that cat. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-cartoon/121554/13 "2002-08-03T16:11:12Z")
_The Cat Came Back_, the song, was originally written in 1893 as a minstrel song. Many people have made up their own lyrics over the years (new verses were a popular submission to the original 1970s version of PBS’s _ZOOM_ program), and of course, many things have been based on it, including the aforementioned 1988 short from the National Film Board of Canada (nominated for an Academy Award, but lost to Pixar’s _Tin Toy_-what can you do? The other nominee that year was _Technological Threat_, a unique computer animated short which involves a Tex-Avery style wolf who is nervous that he’ll lose his job, as one by one, his co-workers are replaced by robots.) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-cartoon/121554/14 "2002-08-03T16:15:13Z")
I can see why the song was so popular-it’s a simple gag (man hates cat, cat must be killed, stupid _$&@_%\* cat just won’t _DIE!!!_), and you can do anything with it!