#mungojerry

[ellieloves2draw]

i was in the car for seven hours today ✌️

id under the cut because its so long orz

(ID: pencil sketches of the various cats from “cats: the musical”. the cats all have a more detailed drawing of their eyes next to them.

mr. mistoffelees is wearing a black tie tuxedo with tails and a bowtie. his sclera are black and the tip of his tail is white.

rum tum tugger is wearing a leopard print jumpsuit with a v-neck and a fur collar. he’s also wearing chaps. he has striped fur and eyeshadow.

bustopher jones is wearing a black tie tuxedo with a cravat, cummerbund, spats, and monocle. he has folded ears.

macavity is wearing a pinstripe suit with aggressively peaked lapels, spats, and a top hat. he’s holding a decorative cane. his sclera are black.

skimbleshanks is wearing a low-cut vest, a white collard shirt with billowing sleeves, puffed pants, and a conductor’s hat. his whiskers are styled into a long, curled mustache.

growltiger is wearing a short captain’s jacket. belts, an eyepatch, puffed pants, and pirate boots. he has a snaggletooth jutting from his bottom jaw and bushy eyebrows..

jennyanydots is wearing a fringe muumuu studded with pearls and a nursemaid hat.

old deuteronomy is wearing a loose robe and a low-cut vest. he’s resting on a cane.

grizzabella is wearing an open-shoulder robe with a fur lining. the edges of the robe are tattered and moth-eaten.

gus is wearing a pageboy hat and a simple suit. he’s leaning heavily on a cane. his fur is grown in the shape of a bushy mustache.

jemima is wearing a simple low-cut sleeveless dress and no shoes.

griddlebone is wearing a white dress with puffed shoulders and thin sleeves, a pearl necklace, and a large white hat with a feather plume.

victoria is wearing a short, simple low-cut dress and ballet shoes.

mungojerry and rumpleteazer are both wearing plaid slacks and black suspenders. mungojerry’s eyes are slightly narrower than rumpleteazer’s.

munkustrap is wearing a large suit jacket and grey slacks. end ID.)

[dealilcats]

Italian Mungo and Rumple have some of my favourite lines in both shows. Long post ahead.

The 2009 rancia production added variation to the "then the family would say" line.

First it's "la famiglia chiederà: qual è stato dei due?",

"the family'll ask, which one was it?"

Then it's "la famiglia griderà: quale gatto sarà?"

"the family'll yell out: which cat could it be?" ("Which was which cat" line)

I love that this family gets progressively more exasperated.

At the very start, they enter singing "Acrobati, clown, più svelti di Fregoli, fantasisti del Gran Varietà"

"Acrobats, clowns, swifter than Fregoli, comedians of the best Variety*"

Fregoli was a quick change comedian. Similar to the Sistina Dante line, they changed it from explicit to implicit meaning.

*Gran Varietà was a comedy radio show, which would better translate to Great Variety, but I put "best" in so the translation would flow better.

"Mangojerry e Zampalesta, ma che coppia quei due! Non sbagliano un colpo! / E a volte diresti, che fatalità!"

"Mungojerry and Rumpleteazer, what a couple they are! They make no mistakes! And some of the time you would say, what a tragedy!"

What a tragedy, indeed. I love that subtle change.

"o erano in due, quei combinaguai?"

"Or were they together, those two troublemakers?"

I have a whole rant about this, but this post is long enough. Just know that yes, they're saying troublemakers, but it has the same vibe as "whippersnappers".

Sistina stays more faithful to the poem, and translates "ognuno poi dirà, son quei gatti misa!"

"then everyone'll say, I think it was those cats!"

The reason it stands out to me is that it uses "misa". It means more or less "I think", I guess it's similar to the way Shakespeare used methinks (based on google which says it means "it seems to me").

And more!

"A noi stare in giro ci piace un bel po'!"

"Us, we do rather like roaming about"

Other people have explained this better than I ever could, and this is a post about cats, not grammar, so I'll just simplify it: "a noi ci" is a heavily used phrase that is technically grammatically incorrect, and I absolutely adore that they put it in.

"siamo proprio bravi!"

"we're so good"

Need I say more? Additionally, this is the line they sing when Rumple finds the 50 euro bill.

"non siamo fissi ma un po' precari"

"we have no regular occupation - we are somewhat precarious"

What makes this line is the delivery. Ragozzino says it with such irreverence that it sounds like he's telling a joke (as if saying "we're cats, what did you expect?" Skimble would beg to differ, but I digress)

"Sui ricchi vassoi, la grazia di Dio!"

"on those gorgeous platters, the blessings of God!"

(the lines about dinner) "La grazia di Dio" is an expression that is used, again, mostly informally, as an exclamation. One might say "c'era pure la grazia di Dio" to say there was great abundance, even more than necessary. It can imply a certain disdain, criticizing greed, though not always.

This isn't even all I have to say about these songs. Somebody help me.

[terpsichoracle]

put that thing back in your mouth

mungojerry looks like his favorite game is cops & robbers

all art is good art even art i am unhappy with

ALL ART IS GOOD ART blah blah

the fact that i never ACTUALLY advanced past rough sketches is hindering me but BY GOD will i figure this shit out

if kids could do it in 2002 without youtube i sure as fuck can do it now

[mysticalcats]

pekes and pollicles trouble makers

[where-does-the-heart-lie]

I love this stupid little musical 🙂‍↕️ (from the Cats (1998) Musical btw)

My fav cat is Rum Tum Tugger :D

[skapediem]

fuck it unironic cats (2019) fanart

[awliette]

Pile o’ Jellicles

Bonus:

[nonbinary-arsonists]

guess what musical i just watched

[korybing]

I just realized I never posted the CATS zine I made back in 2020! I've had the CATS brainrot since like uhhhhhhh 1998? I know all the deep CATS lore.

[fishsouffle]

Probably not gonna continue drawing them like this but it’s alright for a first attempt.

[soh-da-meatball]

Baby’s first zine participation!! It was an absolute honour to be invited on as guest artist and been given the chance to work with some of the community’s most talented creatives in the @namingofcatszine ! This was definitely one of if not the most ambitious pieces I’ve ever attempted over the course of a few months in 2023 but I wanted to push myself out of my comfort zone and create something I can truly be proud of. Thank you so much to all the mods, artists, writers for their incredible efforts and of course the unwavering support of the Cats community for making this happen 🫶 it has been an amazing experience from the beginning until the end 🥹

[delphic-oracle-cat]

I hereby dub them the calico critters

[margo-mania]

Currently all the lineless style cats fanarts

I didn't intend for this to become a series but I'm pretty happy that it did. Some of the pieces mirror/reference each other bc I wanted them too (tugger and bomba being the big one, grizabella and jemima are going to mirror each other two bc of the show)

I've had so much fun doing this honestly dancing is my absolute favourite kind of poses to draw 🩷

[mysticalcats]

If you’re still taking requests, either tumble and pounce being silly little skater dudes, or mungojerrie being a junkyard pest to munkustrap <333

that part in pekes and pollicles when mungo fucks up the one line he has in the play

[etchif]

They're a notorious couple of cats!

[king-gansey-boy]

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