Best Lines About Cats

It's summer, so I watched That Darn Cat again--the real version with Dean Jones and Hayley Mills.

It has fantastic lines about cats:

1. "Oh, it's nothing," Agent Kelso says about being scratched. "It's probably just an artery."

2. "We shall proceed with the paw-printing!"

3. "How do you follow a cat? They go through fences and culverts. They climb trees and phone poles."

I love this line. The FBI agent who delivers it is so matter-of-fact. Not, "Are you crazy?!" Just a poetic description of cat behavior. It is followed by an equally poetic response: "Wither he goest, you will go."

4. Patty to Kelso, "You can save the hypocrisy. He knows you don't like him." 

5. To Kelso's protest, "He certainly can't understand what I'm  saying, can he?" Patty responds, "Not everything, of course. He's just a cat. Mostly everything."  

6. The hilarious scene where Kelso temporarily thinks DC is speaking to him through the radio. "Be patient...Say that again? Let's just try and pull ourselves together."

7.  "I'm sorry but the cat's going out now. I've got to follow."

8.  Irritated Ingrid: "That cat's about as helpless as the U.S. Marine Corps." (In the books, the older sister is DC's protector and apologist.)

9. Patty about DC: "He's really diabolically clever."

10. Villain: "The cat's bugged."

11. Kelso, trying to explain away the bug: "What is he going to be dragging home next?!"

12. And of course, DC trips the villain down the stairs. "That darn cat!"