#c: bustopher

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Mistoffelees blue-screening because Bustopher! noticed him!!??! 🤩😵‍💫

Skimblesays "anybody at home, boy? time for our photo op!"

Tim Haskayne as Mistoffelees, Todd McKenney as Bustopher, and Tom Davis as Skimbleshanks. 2025 Australia tour, 15/01/26 (my footage).

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Jennyanydots, sweating: Bustopher, there’s something I need to ask you-

Bustopher: Finally! You’re proposing!

Jennyanydots: How’d you know?

Bustopher: Jennypenny, you’ve dropped the ring five times during dinner.

Bustopher: I even picked it up once.

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in which Munkustrap has a little foodgasm 😌

"... von Trüffeln, Soufflé und Languste!"

In the English this line is "cabbage, rice pudding, and mutton"; here, Bustopher is suggesting truffles, souffle, and lobster.

He has Munkustrap's attention 👀

Alexander Auler as Munkustrap and Lucius Wolter as Bustopher; Vienna revival, March 2022.

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Bustopher and the babies. 😌

Naturally, given the choice, kittens will unanimously select the door behind which there is a Skimbleshanks.

John Anker Bow as Bustopher, Brendan Moran as Tumblebrutus, Sam Bello as Sillabub, and Dominic Fortunato as Pouncival. US tour 6, October 2022.

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Bill Bailey checking in with the adults and the audience to make sure everybody knows he's still cute.

(Well, it works on Skimbleshanks!)

Matthew Levick in the Vienna revival, with Felix Martin as Bustopher and Jo Lucy Rackham as Jennyanydots. Plus, please note background Munkustrap (Alexander Auler) getting to sit on the hat for once! He's just a big kitten really. 🥺

6 May 2022, @thunderwhenhepurrs' footage.

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Good news! Vienna's back... again!

(Hannah Kenna Thomas, Victoria)

They were meant to re-open on January 3, but with COVID running through the cast, it ended up being January 11 - with several covers.

Riccardo Sinisi as Carbuckety, bringing the blep.

Anneke Brunekreeft covering Demeter and Anna Carina Buchegger as Rumpelteazer.

Anastasia Bertinshaw covering Cassandra, and Lucius Wolter covering Bustopher.

Florian Fetterle covering Munkustrap.

Aaron Hunt as Bill Bailey and Johnny Randall covering Mistoffelees.

... and of course the obligatory half-naked selfies from chez Sinisi-Maniadis.

Riccardo out of makeup, and George Maniadis as Alonzo.

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Solutions to Bustopher Falling:

- sit up really tall! (pouncival)

- PAT HIS FOOT (skimbleshanks)

- pat his foot then turn away and hide your face and pretend you Do Not See It (coricopat)

- look concerned and wait for mistoffelees to do something (literally every protector cat)

- CATCH HIM I GUESS??? (mistoffelees)

- wiggle toes (bustopher)

Brazil 2010. Bustopher is cover André Saporetti; for the others, if they're all first cast, they will be Fernando Patau as Bustopher, Leonardo Wagner as Alonzo, Adenis Vieira as Coricopat, Jhean Allex as Mistoffelees, Julio Mancini as Munkustrap, Arthur Marques as Plato, Max Oliveira as Pouncival, and Daniel Monteiro as Skimbleshanks (X).

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Alonzo zooms in for the family photo opp, then utterly betrays Pouncival before running away giggling.

(Left to right, the other boys are Munkustrap, Plato, Mistoffelees, Coricopat, Skimbleshanks.)

And poor Pounce isn't having a good day. It's barely a minute since Bustopher bonked him on the head.

Mexico 1991 (X). Probably Guillermo Téllez as Pouncival and Alberto Díaz as Alonzo. Armando Moreno is Skimbleshanks, Javier Diaz Dueñas is Bustopher Jones, and Guillermo Hernandez is Mistoffelees.