The paleontologist proudly showed off their discovery: at last, indisputable proof that cats' fear of vacuum cleaners was due to a long-dormant memory of an ancestral predator.

The auditorium was packed for Indiana Jones’s presentation on his true passion — the origins of the feline legend of mechacat, which made all cats hate vacuums to this day.

Dr. Jones used his bullwhip to gesture at the Mayan pictographs projected on the screen. "Xhooverque, god of cleanliness and anti-wind, remains locked in eternal electric battle with his robot cat offspring. Anyone know the name of that warrior?" But his class did not answer, for they were mere housecats.

indiana jones had his work cut out for him, giving a powerpoint presentation to the cats in the patron-free cat cafe on the aztec myth of the king who dared quetzalcoatl to stick his tongue on a frozen lamp-post.

A clowder of cats lounged in the coffeehouse, enthralled by Cowboy Jack's presentation on the Mayan gods.

The cat family was skeptical of the movie's plot development, in which the earnest modern cowboy revealed his dream to become an Aztec god.