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Anthropomorphism | New York City
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Budget 850,000 USD
Box Office Collection 90,000,000 USD
There is no evidence that Robert Crumb filed suit to have his name removed from the film's credits. Contradictory to this claim, Crumb's name continues to appear in the credits, even on home media releases. His name, however, does not appear in the credits for The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974).
Ralph Bakshi bought the rights to use Billie Holiday's performance of the song "Yesterdays" for $35.
For the Harlem bar scene, Bakshi traveled to Washington Square Park, invited several black militants and activists to the recording studio, and allowed them to say what they wanted. He edited the results to get the dialog heard in the film.
The first animated film to receive an 'X' rating from the MPAA. The X rating was never trademarked by the MPAA and was eventually disavowed in 1990, succeeded by the NC-17 rating. However, since Fritz the Cat was never submitted to the MPAA to be re-rated, it has been unrated since 1990.
Produced entirely without the use of pencil tests in order to keep the film's budget low. Ralph Bakshi had to judge the timing of the animation simply by flipping an animator's drawings in his hand.
"[Arriving back at his dorm room, where his roomates ignore him] Fritz: Hello men... everybody all busy studyin' for their goddamn exams and all? Hey Fuz, how'd it go with that Dee Dee chick, huh? She's got some bod' you have to admit... ol' Charlene isn't bad either... like, wow! Heinz, you swine, ol' buddy pig, ya groove behind Alvina and get some kicks tonight, huh? [Scene fades into black] Fritz: Bastards... you'd think the goddamn exams was the be-all end-all of existence... the cosmic life-force or somethin'. Can't even say a few decent words to a guy... th' bastards... What a bore... take some bennies an' stay up all night with your face stuck in a bunch of books an' your thumbs up your ass... Yes... yes... I remember the time when it was all very inspiring and enlightening... all this history and literature and sociology shit... You think learning is a really big thing an' you become this big fuckin' intellectual and sit around tryin' ta out-intellectual all the other big fuckin' intellectuals... you spend years and years with your nose buried in these goddamn tomes while out there the world is passin' you by... and all the stuff to see and all th' kicks an' girls are all out there... an' ME, a writer ad a poet who should be havin' adventures an' experiencing all the diversities and paradoxes and ironies of life and passin' over all the roads of the world and digging all the cities and towns and rives and oceans... and making all them chicks! [Imagines naked woman] Fritz: As a writer and poet it is my duty to get out there and dig the world... to swing with the whole friggin' scene while there's still time! [Grabs papers] Fritz: My farting around days are over! From this day on I shall live every day as if yit were my last! Yes! Yes! I must do it! No more the dreary boring classes, the dismal lectures, the sitting around bullshitting with pretentious fat-assed hippies, no more the books, the spoutings of a bunch of old farts who think they know the whole goddamn score! [Breathes fire] Fritz: Oh God! What have I done? I've set all my notes and books and stuff on fire and now I can't study for my exams... I'll flunk out and my folks'll be pissed off as hell... I'll get a blanket... the blanket's on fire. We'd better call the fire department. [We see the roof of Fritz's dorm on fire]"
"Fritz: Hey, hey, hey, Look at this big fucking gun! [shoots the toilet] Fritz: I killed the john! I killed the john!"
