"Why is the floor so slippery?!": a cat's footwork that viewers call break dancing
Some hear Michael Jackson in it, and several think the cat's orange coat explains everything.
TOTALLY FUNNY ANIMALS
Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 56,174 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (4,473).
Why is the floor so slippery?! 😹🐾 #funnycats #shorts
Friction lost this one. "Why is the floor so slippery?!" is a short clip of a cat and a floor that will not cooperate. It was posted on Totally Funny Animals, the pet-clips channel from the people behind America's Funniest Home Videos. In its first day it drew roughly 56,000 views. A new short here usually opens with a few thousand.
The title asks the question, and the comment section mostly answers it with dance moves. Some viewers hear Michael Jackson's "Beat It" playing in their heads. Others see break dancing. One reaches for the old image of a cat on a hot tin roof, borrowed from Tennessee Williams. Another says the whole thing is so cartoonish that it only needs sound effects. Several point out that the cat is orange, as if that settles the matter, a nod to the internet's long-running joke about orange cats and their behavior. A few owners chime in with their own cats, one tearing laps around a living room and another wrecking a chair at three in the morning. The comments came in about seven times faster than on a usual first day here.
The cat had plenty of company on the channel that day. Other shorts went up alongside it: a cat ringing a doorbell, a puppy's bedtime routine and a dog far too excited about a friend coming over. The excited dog did best of those, but it stayed well behind the slippery cat. The next upload, a camel the title says is missing a hump, had only just begun its first day.
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What viewers say
Looks as if he's dancing on hot tin roof 😂😂😂😂
@SugAnderson-w3vSee it on YouTubeAll I hear is "Michael Jackson's "Just beat it" in the background
@ifeyecouldpaintSee it on YouTubeIt's so cartoony ,it needs sound affects😂
@daniel3190wellsSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- TOTALLY FUNNY ANIMALS
- Subscribers
- 112,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 5,426,606
- Channel views, pace per day
- 772,075 (on a normal day: 495,445)
- Video published
- October 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 75,783 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 73,782
The numbers
The short's first day ran far past what this channel's shorts usually manage, and its comments and likes rose with it.
💡 Test your knowledge
Michael Jackson's "Beat It," which one viewer hears in the clip, first appeared on which album?
"Beat It" was released in 1983 as a single from Thriller, the 1982 album that became the best-selling album of all time.
