# That Fucking Cat That Fucking Cat is a reaction image macro built from a smirking screenshot of Tom from the 1965 Tom and Jerry short Bad Day at Cat Rock. Anonymous 4chan users spammed the picture on /b/ in the mid-2000s, where the frustrated reply 'If I see the fucking cat one more time' gave the shitpost its name and turned it into one of the board's rare successful forced memes. ## Origin The frame comes from Bad Day at Cat Rock, a Tom and Jerry short released on February 10th, 1965, in which Tom chases Jerry onto a half-built skyscraper and the two of them peek out from behind the wooden beams[1]. Tom's smirking peek, animated by the Chuck Jones unit at MGM, is the exact pose later cropped for the macro[6]. In the mid-2000s, anonymous users on 4chan's /b/ board started spamming threads with the still as a shitpost, with the recurring reply 'If I see the fucking cat one more time' giving the bit its name[4]. The earliest surviving posting of the macro form is a DeviantArt upload from August 2nd, 2007 by user JWC, titled 'IF I SEE THAT FUCKING CAT' and showing a slightly battered Tom[2]. The earliest archived 4chan thread featuring the image dates to February 14th, 2008[3]. - **Platform:** Tom and Jerry (source frame) / 4chan /b/ (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2007 ## Overview The image shows Tom the cat peeking around a wooden construction beam with a tight, condescending smirk, hand curled over the edge of the girder[1]. Also tagged Cover-Tom, the macro works as a pure non sequitur: posting it, often without any caption, is the whole joke, and the picture is designed to look at the viewer like it knows something they don't[4]. The attached catchphrase, 'If I see that fucking cat one more time,' names the format's own exhausting repetition and became part of the gag[4]. A common follow-up reply is a photo of former US congressman Tom DeLay smirking in a nearly identical way, treated as a human mirror of Tom's expression[4]. The image is also notable for being one of the few genuinely forced memes, pushed through sheer repetition on /b/ until the hostile reactions themselves started reading as the punchline[4]. ## How to Use Typical use is to drop the Tom crop into a thread with no context, usually as the first or final reply, letting the smirk read as either a dare or a brag[4]. A common convention is to answer it with the Tom DeLay photograph, matching Tom's smirk to the congressman's face as a visual callback[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is That Fucking Cat? A reaction image macro of Tom from Tom and Jerry smirking around a wooden construction beam, usually posted with the line 'If I see that fucking cat one more time'[4]. ### Where did That Fucking Cat come from? The screenshot is from the 1965 Tom and Jerry short Bad Day at Cat Rock[1], which anonymous 4chan users began spamming on /b/ in the mid-2000s[4]. ### What does That Fucking Cat mean? It is used as a smug, taunting non sequitur reply, with the attached phrase mocking how often the image gets posted[4]. ### How do you use That Fucking Cat? People typically drop the Tom crop into a thread with no context, often following it up with the matching Tom DeLay smirk photo[4]. ### Is That Fucking Cat still popular? It is a classic 4chan-era reaction image rather than a current trend; derivative projects like the 2009 Newgrounds dress-up game show how far past /b/ it travelled[5]. ## References 1. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058932/]() 2. [https://www.deviantart.com/jwc/art/IF-I-SEE-THAT-FUCKING-CAT-61248909]() 3. [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/9556296/#9557581]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/that-fucking-cat]() 5. [https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/488906]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUlyKLRXy8I]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/that-fucking-cat Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library