Top Cat: Top Cat Falls in Love
ABC
November 8, 1961
Cartoon, Sitcom
DVD
B-
I didn't mention it before, but this was one of the "adult cartoons" of the JFK era, that is, like The Flintstones, it aired in prime-time (and in black & white so no one could see the unnatural feline fur colors like blue and pink). Still, it's jarring and a little racy that there is a sequence where TC wanders into the "Maternity Ward Waiting Area" and talks about babes when the expectant fathers are talking about babies, and the farcical misunderstanding goes on for several minutes. He is "in love" with a nurse who ends up marrying a doctor from her hometown, and she's voiced by Gigi Perreau, then a fairly well-known French film actress. (She'd turn up as Greg Brady's American teacher nine years later.) But it's Jean Vander Pyl, moonlighting from The Flintstones, whose voice as a nameless Nurse is going to be more familiar now.
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