The Cat Channel

The Cat Channel is a song sung in a Sesame Street Elmo's World skit by Bubbles Martin about how cats behave.

Lyrics
Bubbles: If you're dirty, have a go.

Lick yourself from head to toe.

Clean above and clean below.

That's being a cat. Meow!

Jump up some place six feet high.

Like a monkey on the fly.

Be a leaper, don't be shy.

That's being a cat.

You can climb your fancy curtains now and nothing's flat. (?)

Or walk a straight and narrow line, a circus acrobat (a cat, that too).

One baby makes its mommy proud.

Makes her want to shout out loud.

But eight new babies make a crowd.

That's being a cat.

They can act big, they can act small.

Chase an old tennis ball down the hall.

Bat with the left paw, bat with the right.

See in the dark in the middle of the night.

Walk like a dancer on pussycat toes.

Smell for a mile with a pussycat nose.

Cats: And we purr when we get a pat.

Bubbles and Cats: That's bein' a, that's bein' a, that's bein' a cat. Meow!

Trivia

 * A cat can have one kitten, but they usually have a litter of five, but sometimes as many as 12, and yes they can have eight. Technically, humans can have eight babies at once (called octuplets) but that's very rare.
 * Cats can jump up to eight feet.
 * The cats in the video really were "acting big" and "acting small". When cats are scared, they either arch their backs and puff up to look bigger or cower to look smaller.
 * While cats cannot see in total darkness, they do have better night vision than humans.