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Terrible Tammy is the second part of the 30th episode of the first season of Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats.

Synopsis[]

A new cat in town attempts to overthrow Heathcliff from the position of the neighborhood's leader. Problem is... the new cat is not only a girl, but she has no problems beating up the boys!

Plot[]

Heathcliff was about to get with Marcy for the usual play-date, but he spots her with her friends around a baby carriage. Upon approaching them, he manages to get sidelined by a new cat in the town called Tammy, who immediately insults him, calling him "furball". Marcy takes Heathcliff from the carriage, and she departs with her friends and Tammy, leaving Heathcliff stunned.

Shortly later, Heathcliff is sleeping on a tree close to his house, but Tammy approaches him from the rooftop. Heathcliff wakes up when the branch he was sleeping on gets pulled. While attempting to reason with Tammy, she releases the branch, causing Heathcliff to fly in the air, and land into the chimney. He lands inside the fireplace, witnessed by both Iggy and his grandfather. The latter states that he thought that cats always land on their feet. Heathcliff simply stands up, walks out of the house, and dusts the ashes from himself.

Tammy then manages to make him look bad in front of Hector, Wordsworth, and Mungo by accusing the orange tabby of picking a fight with her. Heathcliff's friends keep cracking jokes about him, which breaks Heathcliff's morale. after he leaves, Tammy then approaches the trio and shuts them up by slamming lids over the trash cans occupied by them, to which she announces that she runs the neighborhood now, and admits that she has great joy in beating up boys.

Heathcliff attempts to steal a fish from Mr. Schultz's shop, but gets thwarted by Tammy, who stops Heathcliff, and robs him of the fish he obtained. While declaring revenge, the orange tabby remembers Hector mocking him, but winds up getting caught by Mr. Schultz, who is claiming for the stolen fish. Tammy also intercepts the milk bottle Heathcliff planned to snatch from the Milkman, using a manhole as both a hideout and a trap. Heathcliff falls into the manhole, and gets hit by Tammy so hard, he flies upward, and lands in Iggy's bike basket. Young Nutmeg openly tells Heathcliff he thought cats always land on their feet.

Tammy reaches the peak of her treachery in interrupting Heathciff's date with Sonja, where she pretends that Heathcliff was in love with her, while Sonja witnesses the scene. Sonja breaks up with Heathcliff in a fit of anger. Tammy keeps annoying Heathcliff about the relationship she has broken up. While he was initially willing to beat up Tammy, Heathcliff gives up, and walks away, due to his honor and reputation. Tammy calls him out, runs up to him, and kicks him hard from behind, making him soar through the air for the third time in the episode. Heathcliff lands in Spike's lawn, and the bulldog repeats the quote Iggy and his grandfather said about cats landing on their feet, which then infuriates the orange tabby. He chases Spike into his doghouse, beats him up inside of it, causing Spike to sail in the air, landing on a cart and falling into a swimming pool.

However, while Tammy was bragging to her feline friends about her plan to drive Heathcliff out of Westfinster, Sonja stumbles upon this, accidentally overhearing Tammy's boasting, and realizing he was framed. Those testimonies completely convince the white angora that Heathcliff is innocent, so she admits she has to go and apologize to him. Meanwhile, Marcy appears, placing Tammy into the carriage before taking her to the Nutmegs' house. Upon arrival to the Nutmeg residence, Marcy leaves, but not before placing Tammy beside Heathcliff.

Heathcliff confronts Tammy, but instead, he applies bandages and bruise make-up on himself, and rolls in the dirt to make himself appear that he has been badly battered by Tammy. Marcy sees Heathcliff in such a horrible mess and promptly accuses Tammy of beating him up. After Marcy leaves, Heathcliff admits that he gave Tammy the taste of her own medicine, which only infuriates her to give Heathcliff a fight for neighborhood superiority. Tammy jumps at the carriage and makes Heathcliff land on his face in front of the Catillac Cats and Spike. Mungo's attempt to say the idiom about the cats landing on their feet is interrupted by Heathcliff, who approaches Tammy in anger, that he refuses to fight but he won't back down, either.

Tammy is about to throw the first punch while the audience is chanting, but Sonja catches her paw a split-second before it hits Heathcliff. Tammy is shocked to see that not only Sonja stepping in to fight her, but stating that it may be against Heathcliff's honor to fight a girl, but not against hers. The short fight resumes with Sonja beating Tammy up, threatening if Tammy ever does this again, she will answer to her. While unseen in the fight cloud, Sonja delivers the knock-out blow, sending Tammy sailing skyward. As the Russian blue cat remains in the air, Sonja pushes Marcy's carriage down the street, where Tammy lands, and is swiftly driven out of town. The white angora admits that the way she handled Tammy was not very lady-like, but very necessary. Spike and the Catillac Cats congratulate Sonja on the good fight, as she rejoins Heathcliff.

The episode ends with Heathcliff and Sonja stating, that behind every good man stands the best woman.

Characters[]

(In order of appearance)[]

Running Gags[]

  • The two main gags in this episode are, when a character is being beaten up, they knocked skyward, flying high in the air.
  • The old saying that cats are supposed to "always land on their feet", especially when Heathcliff falls flat on his face.

Memorable Quotes[]

Sonja: (to Tammy as she is fighting her for Heathcliff) "If I ever catch you bothering Heathcliff again, you'll answer to me!"

Home media releases[]

  • 1987 - Heathcliff: Heathcliff's Double and Other "Tails" (RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video) - VHS
  • 2012 - Heathcliff - Season One, Volume One (Cookie Jar Group / Mill Creek Entertainment) - DVD
  • 2016 - Heathcliff: The Complete Series (DHX Media, Ltd. / Mill Creek Entertainment) - DVD

References[]

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Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats Episodes
Season 1
The Great PussiniKitty Kat KennelsChauncey's Great EscapeCarnival CapersMad Dog CatcherCircus BeserkusRebel Without a ClawsThe Farming Life Ain't For MeHeathcliff's Middle NameWishful ThinkingKing of the BeastsCat Can DoSmoke Gets in my EyesMuch Ado about BeddingCity Slicker CatHouse of the FutureSpike's CousinFor the BirdsHeathcliff's PetSwamp FeverTeed OffMonstro vs. the Wolf HoundSay CheeseCat's AngelsMeow Meow IslandIron CatsFamily TreeWho's Got the Chocolate?Be PreparedCruisin' for a Bruisin'Heathcliff Gets CannedWhackoed OutBrain SprainCat BalloonMay the Best Cat WinComedy CatsRevenge of the KittyJungle VacationHospital HeathcliffHector's TakeoverGoing ShoppingCat in the FatWild Cat HeathcliffKitten AroundCat Burglar HeathcliffLucky's Unlucky DayThe Blizzard BanditHarem CatKitten SmittenYoung Cat with a HornThe Gang's All HereThe Meowsic Goes Round & RoundSnow JobCondo FeverHeathcliff Pumps IronMungo's DilemmaHeathcliff's DoubleBig FootTerrible TammyThe Games of LoveBig Top BunglingSpace CatsLard TimesThe Merry PrankstersSpike's SlaveScaredy CatsGopher BrokeA Camping We Will GoWhere There's an Ill, There's a WayYes Sewer That's my BabySoap Box DerbyA Better MousetrapBamboo IslandSuperhero MungoButter Up!Mungo Gets No RespectSonja's NephewDr. MousetusCat Food for ThoughtGoing SouthPhantom of the GarbageJunkyard FloodTrombone TerrorThe Other WomanPop on ParoleThe BabysittersThe Siamese TwinsThe Mungo MashCopa-ca-HeathcliffLeroy's in LoveUsed PetsSearch for a StarAn Officer and an Alley CatHector SpectorService with a SmileJunk FoodBoom Boom PussiniBeach Blanket MungoSealand ManiaRiff-Raff the GourmetThe Super M.A.C. MenaceJourney to the Center of the EarthHeathcliff ReformsPrehysteric Riff RaffA Piece of the RockDivide and ClobberFlying HighDebutante BallHeathcliff Surprise!The Big Break InThe CatfatherThe Big SwipeTally-Ho HeathcliffCleo Moves InGrandpa Vs. GrandpaThe Big Game HunterThe Great Tuna CaperPecos' TreasureThe Baby Buggy Bad GuysRiff-Raff's MomMomma's Back in TownTrash DanceClaws!Hector the DetectorRaiders of the Lost CatMungo Lays an EggThe Home WreckerIn Search of CatlantisStar of Tomeow-meowSoccer Anyone?
Season 2
The White Cliffs of DoverLife SaverNightmare in Beverly HillsThe Cat in the Iron MaskThe ShrinkBrushing UpDr. Heathcliff and Mr. SpikeTime WarpedSpike's New HomeMungo's Big RomanceThe Cat and the PauperMungo of the JungleIn the BeginningCatlympic CatsRear Cat WindowCat Days, Ninja NightsSomething FishyChristmas MemoriesHeathcliff's MomHockey PucksCat Day AfternoonHector ProtectorFeline GoodOff-Road RacerSpike's CoachThe Trojan CadillacHeathcliff Gets FramedRepo CatMissing in ActionBag Cat Sings the BluesIt's a Terrible LifeLeroy Gets CannedHair of the CatTenting TonightThe Fortune TellerCottontails, Chickens, & Colored EggsBreak an EggA Letter to GrannyThe New York City Sewer SystemHigh GoonNorth Pole CatHe Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
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