Toonces, The Cat Who Could Drive A Car first aired May 20th, 1989 on NBC's Saturday Night Live. He quickly built up a reputation for being consistently hilarious, and his fame grew quickly. Fans loved Toonces' plucky determination to master the wheel, albeit badly. He drove cars, trucks and tractors, but invariably lost control of the vehicles, ending up in catastrophic car crashes. Even though Toonces repeatedly drove cars over cliffs (usually with the car owners inside), his owners Lyle (Dana Carvey) and Branda Clarke (Victoria Jackson), lovingly encouraged his efforts, recording the crashes on home video and sending him to driving school. But Toonces just can't help himself... he's crashed alien spaceships into the Washington Monument, impersonated a chauffeur, driven off the Grand Canyon, ridden a mechanical bull, daydreamed he spoke in both French and English, and even became the Tooncinator, an advanced cyborg wearing leather and shades, impervious to bullets and car crashes - or so he thought! He's even crashed into one of his competitor's short-lived sketches: Flippy, the Flipping Chihuahua. Unfortunately for Flippy, he flipped into Toonces' oncoming path and the car ran him over! In a past life, Tooces was a horse-drawn carriage driver whose passengers Isabelle (Kirstie Alley) and Penelope (Julia Sweeney), loudly discuss their upcoming weddings with John Wilkes and Rasputin. No sooner has Isabelle mentioned that she hopes nothing terrible will happen to them before their wedding days, than they swerve onto Dead Man's Curve - and they're going too fast! It's not the regular driver! "It's Toonces! The Cat Who Could Drive a Horse-Drawn Carriage! The whole group goes over a beautiful cliff. That's Toonces!

A great site dedicated to Toonces can be found at WRONA WORLD - it features great downloadable pictures of Toonces and Toonces wallpaper backgrounds.

Left to right: Mr Winkle . Ed The Sock . Toonces The Driving Cat . Triumph The Insult Comic Dog.