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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?
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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 had a long funny story written about him!
"This
is a true story about the adventures of Earl the Dead Cat TM.
It follows his origins, rescue, resurrection, and rebirth, and
it chronicles his struggle to find his true purr-pose in life..."
Read the whole
story here!
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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Uh-oh!
Earl now stars in his own little animated picture
show. Some people think this is how he died. (HINT: It's
only a recreation. Do not try this at home. At work,
sure. But not at home.)
[Here's
your chance to see it for yourself!] |
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Earl The Dead Cat is a registered trademark of Mad Dog
Productions,Inc.
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