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Sylvester J. Pussycat Sr. is a fictional character, an anthropomorphic cat in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. [1] Most of his appearances have him often chasing Tweety Bird, Speedy Gonzales, or Hippety Hopper.
Sylvester mistakes Hippety Hopper once again for a giant mouse and the baby kangaroo promptly beats the cat soundly. Junior is mortified, but the true victim is Sylvester, humiliated by a mere "mouse" in front of his own son. McKimson would continue the Sylvester/Hippety Hopper series for 16 years, varying it slightly from cartoon to cartoon.
The short was released on January 31, 1953, and stars Sylvester. [4] The title is a pun on Lincoln's House Divided Speech. In the film, Sylvester and his wife receive their first son from a drunken stork, and this son is a mouse. Sylvester struggles between his desire to eat the mouse and his protective feelings about his son.
Convinced that his fate lies in the jaws of a cat, Sweetypuss strategically positions himself near Sylvester the Cat, hoping for a swift demise. However, Sylvester's hesitation, stemming from suspicions of Sweetypuss being poisonous, thwarts the avian's initial plan.
The first short to team Tweety and the cat, later named Sylvester, was 1947's Tweetie Pie, which won Warner Bros. its first Academy Award for Best Short Subject. [14] Sylvester and Tweety proved to be one of the most notable pairings in animation history. Most of their cartoons followed a standard formula:
Sylvester does a wild musical number of "You're Just An Angel in Disguise" in Elmer's back yard inspired by Spike Jones. Elmer is ready for bed, but Sylvester has other plans as he starts singing in Elmer's back yard - an exaggeration of common cat-howling disturbances. A series of gags play out, as Elmer tries everything up his sleeve to get ...
A popular Thai period drama is under investigation for suspected animal cruelty after a cat was sedated to show it had “died” on the show.. Mae Yua, or The Empress of Ayodhaya, follows Jinda ...
At a Mexican shipping port all the mice are starving to death. Suddenly a ship arrives from Switzerland with a cargo filled with cheese docks. They smell the cheese and race toward the ship, only to be chased away by Sylvester, who has been hired to guard all the cheese. The mice suggest that the only mouse to get by Sylvester is Speedy Gonzales.