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"The last cat you'll ever need." |
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The only Mad Dog Productions product still available, Earl
the Dead Cat has been hanging around doing nothing since 1985. A flat,
understuffed toy cat with X's for eyes, Earl comes with a humorous death certificate
listing all the reasons a dead cat is better than a live one. Well, a lot of
them anyway. For one, he doesn't need a messy litterbox or eat smelly cat food.
He doesn't wake you up in the morning by sitting on your nose and mistaking it for
a catnip mouse. And he doesn't scratch when the kids swing him around by his tail.
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They love
him!
They really love him!
Earl was on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson twice. He was in the Weekly World
News. Twice. Poison sent him to radio stations to publicize their album
"Look What the Cat Dragged In". And people still fondly remember when New
York City radio personality Vin Scelsa kept his audience up to date on Earl's welfare,
culminating in his daughter Kate baking him in the oven. Mmmmm....Earl a la Kate.
Click here to
see a big copy of the death certificate! |
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Wanna buy Earl The Dead Cat? |
Believe it or not, you can still get one. Or two. Or a million. Well,
if you don't mind waiting for them to be made.
[This is the place!]
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Earl was a movie star!
It turns out a company called Bizzarre Arts made a short movie called "How to Hit Your
Head" which features Earl the Dead Cat, but it hasn't come to a
theater near us so we haven't had the privilege of seeing it.
Released
in April 1995
Starring Nick Crait
With TJ Borden, Laura Wheeler. and Clinton C. Christian
Written by Nick Crait and Kenneth Armstrong
Directed by Kenneth Armstrong
Bizzarre Arts says "How To Hit Your Head was a true breakthrough film for
Bizzarre Arts project, mostly because it had REAL ACTORS in it! Yayy! It was based on a D+
winning essay by Nick Crait, which detailed very exotic ways to inflict skull fractures
upon yourself. The end product, to say the least, kind of sucked. It wasn't long enough
for a run on cable access, (also not funny enough) so it was screened for a few people and
then quietly laid to rest behind the couch." Obviously Earl didn't have a big
enough role.Trying to recoup their losses, they actually
tried to sell Earl in a garage prop auction, but he didn't sell.
Earl was a photo model!
At one time the office walls were covered with photos of Earl-- stuffed
toys playing ring toss with Earl, cats who slept on Earl, hot air balloons shaped like
Earl. But that was then and this is almost the new millennium. But two photos
of Earl have actually shown up on the web. And one one sent in. |
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Shadow-Marie
with Earl. Is she drooling? |
Earl with friend (girlfriend?) Spike
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Steve
Tannehill poses with Earl |
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Earl on NPR with Michael Feldman's Whad
'Ya Know? in Carbondale, IL |
Earl is friends with Cleo
and Evinrude |
Earl with Jean-Luc
Ming the Merciless |
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Earl The Dead Cat is a registered trademark of Mad Dog Productions,Inc.
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