Brain is a character in Top Cat. He was voiced by Leo De Lyon.
About Brain
Brain is an orange cat sporting a purple shirt with a black band at the bottom. He usually has a deadpan or tired expression on his face, with half-lidded eyes and straight, sometimes downturned, lips. His eyes are occasionally crossed. His muzzle is tan and is much rounder in comparison to the other cats, and he seems to have an overbite. His cheeks hold three, sometimes four, strands of fur directed downwards. He is also often slouching.
Brain seems rather dim-witted and slow, often not understanding the commands given to him. In "All That Jazz", Jazz asks Brain where Top Cat is going with his luggage, and Brain answers that he cannot tell him about the diamonds in "Diambodi", revealing the secret T.C. told him not to share. He also seems to have slurred speech and slowness in speaking. In "T.C. Minds the Baby", it is implied that he is in charge of the group's money.
Brain is not always incompetent, however. In "The Maharajah of Pookajee", he asks on the case the hotel manager of Sherry Plaza finds out the gang is not the real maharajah. In "Naked Town", Top Cat asks if they had forgotten something, and Brain answers Officer Dibble. In "Griswald", Brain suggests Top Cat send Griswald to Alaska as a way to get rid of him. In "Dibble's Double", when Al the Actor and Officer Dibble are identical in appearance, Brain suggests taking them both to the police, to which T.C. adds the idea of leaving them both free.
Brain also seems to love peanuts. In "The $1,000,000 Derby", when Spook and Fancy-Fancy are selling peanuts, he is dressed up as a peanut. In "Top Cat Falls in Love", Brain offers Benny some peanut brittle. In "The Tycoon", he asks Top Cat if peanut butter is a good addition to caviar.
Living up to his name, Brain is quite intelligent in the comics. He is a skilled alchemist, mathematician, and a rocket scientist. He is also very knowledgeable in many things, winning a game show similar to Jeopardy! as well as pretending to be an electronic brain that people would give a quarter to ask a question and get an answer.
Appearances
TV Series
- Top Cat (1961–1962)
- The Powerpuff Girls – "Catastrophe" (2000)
- Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law – "Mindless" (2005)
- Jellystone! (2021–present)
Films and Specials
- Yogi's Ark Lark (1972)
- Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (1988)
- A Yabba-Dabba-Doo Celebration! (cameo) (1989)
- Top Cat: The Movie (2011)
- Top Cat Begins (2015)
Shorts
- The Royal Bank of Scotland commercials - "Current Accounts", "Deposit Accounts" (1983)
- Halifax commercial (2016)
Books
- Top Cat (Big Golden Book)
- Top Cat (Little Golden Book)
- Top Cat (Top Top Tales)
- Top Cat Candidate for Mayor
Comics
See list of Top Cat comics
Music
Video Games
Trivia
- The voice actor for Brain, Leo de Lyon, also voices Spook.
- In "The Violin Player", "The Missing Heir", "Griswald", and several comics, he struggles reading a wristwatch.
- In Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats, Top Cat states that at one point, Brain had applied to and had been rejected from the Marines.
- He likes to wear makeup occasionally, as in Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats, the Robin Hood LP Record, and in one of the comics.
Quotes
- "They could take it out of my bag. Uh, a dollar a week, it'll only take a million weeks." --The $1,000,000 Derby
- "Does peanut butter go good with caviar?" --To Top Cat, The Tycoon
- "Hap–py new year, Officer Dibble!" --The Long Hot Winter
Gallery
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