Top Cat (TV Series)

T.C. Minds the Baby (1962)

Maurice Gosfield: Benny the Ball

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Quotes 

• Top Cat : What's the name we'll give to our new member?

  Choo Choo : How about Tom?

  Fancy-Fancy : How about Dick?

  Spook : How about Harry?

  Benny the Ball : Let's call him Charlie after our friend Officer Dibble.

  Brain : Charlie what?

  Top Cat : Charlie what? Oh, boy, I see we got a statistician here. Just Charlie, all right?

• [Dibble reads the note found with the baby] 

  Officer Dibble : Okay, so he was abandoned and you found him. Now hand him over!

  Top Cat : But Dib, we were going to adopt the kid ourselves!

  Officer Dibble : Are you kidding? YOU guys?

  Benny the Ball : We'll take care of him, honest! Chooch knows how to handle diapers!

  Officer Dibble : Oh, sure, pal. And what are you going to teach him, roulette?

  Brain : We could take him to night school and put him through some courses...

  Officer Dibble : Sorry, fellas. There's laws about recovering lost property and abandoned kids come under that heading.

  Top Cat : [poking Dibble]  But...

  Officer Dibble : We take the kid in and find him a new home.

  Top Cat : [poking Dibble]  But...

  Officer Dibble : Furthermore, before you can adopt a baby you have to be shown as a legal hardworking citizen, with a regular fixed income!

  Top Cat : Oh, boy...

  Officer Dibble : Now will you cut out the stalling and give me the kid?

• Choo Choo : Gee, I wish I could be tough and hard like T.C. He's got nerves of steel. Nothing upsets him.

  Spook : Yeah, he's one real cool cat, man...

  Top Cat : Hey, Benny...

  Benny the Ball : Yeah, T.C.?

  Top Cat : [weeping softly]  You got a hanky I can borrow?

  Benny the Ball : Sure, T.C. Here.

  [to the amazement of the gang, Top Cat wipes his face on the handkerchief] 

  Top Cat : Well? What's the matter with you guys? Haven't you ever seen anyone with something in his eye before?

  Choo Choo : Sure we did, T.C. But not you.

• Top Cat : What is it with you guys? Have you all flipped over a baby? The world is full of babies!

  Benny the Ball : Yeah, but we found this one, T.C.!

• Benny the Ball : I was an orphan once.

  Top Cat : So what do ya want, a medal or something?