Fat Freddy's Cat (aka Fat Freddy Scat) is an orange tabby tomcat nominally belonging to Fat Freddy Freekowtski, one of the Freak Brothers, a trio of hippies who are featured in Gilbert Shelton's underground comix. Tomcat has several meanings, including: A male cat. ... Fat Freddy Freekowtski is a character in Gilbert Sheltons underground comix. ... The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers is a series of underground comics originally created in 1968 by the U.S. artist Gilbert Shelton. ... Hippie (or sometimes hippy) is a term originally used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the 1960s and 1970s. ... Gilbert Shelton (born 1940, Houston, Texas) is an American cartoonist and underground comics artist. ... The term underground comics or comix describes the self-published or small press comic books that sprang up in the US in the late 1960s. ...

The Cat is much smarter than Freddy, and is a sort of hippie Garfield (whom he predates), sharing laziness and gluttony with Garfield. He tends to regard the Freak Brothers with amused contempt, and routinely displays greater intelligence than they do. Hippie (or sometimes hippy) is a term originally used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the 1960s and 1970s. ... Garfield is a popular comic strip created by Jim Davis featuring the cat Garfield, the less than brilliant pet dog Odie, and their socially inept owner Jon Arbuckle. ...

While the Cat is usually featured in a small strip below a Freak Brothers strip, he has had independent appearances and storylines of his own. Like Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes, he has a fertile imagination, and one of his storylines featured him playing the role of "F. Frederick Skitty", an undercover agent sworn to stop the distribution of "Hee Hee Hee", a drug that turned people into homosexuals. At another time, one of Fat Freddy's schemes involved trying to replicate Dick Whittington's success by selling the Cat to the (fictional) small, oil-rich nation of Pootweet to deal with mice. Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic—albeit stuffed—tiger. ... Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ... Dick Whittington is a character in British pantomime, very loosely based on the real-life Richard Whittington. ...