Catty Cornered

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Catty Cornered

Directed By:		I. Freleng
Produced By:		Eddie Selzer (uncredited)
Released:		October 31, 1953
Series:		Merrie Melodies
Story:		Warren Foster
Animation:		Arthur Davis Manuel Perez Ken Champin Virgil Ross
Layouts:		Hawley Pratt
Backgrounds:		Irv Wyner
Film Editor:		Treg Brown (uncredited)
Voiced By:		Mel Blanc Ralph James (uncredited)
Music:		Carl Stalling
Starring:		Sylvester Tweety Rocky Nick
Preceded By:		Easy Peckin's
Succeeded By:		Of Rice and Hen

Catty Cornered is a 1953 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.

Plot

Rocky's gang, which only consists of Nick and himself, pulls off a bird-napping racket by kidnapping Tweety! Sylvester then decides to save the bird, but... will he save him from the gangsters or save him for lunch?

Quotes

Nick: Hey, boss. I tawt I taw a putty tat.
Rocky: You did, you did. You did tee a putty tat.
Sylvester: I slip-p-p-ed.
Sylvester: Ya dirty guys!
Tweety: Nasty old kidnappers!
Tweety: Those bad old gangsters!
Tweety: Ooh, he's a bad putty tat!

Availability

(1982) VHS - The Looney Tunes Video Show, Volume 9
(1993) LaserDisc - Guffaw and Order: Looney Tunes Fight Crime
(1994) VHS - Looney Tunes Special Bumper Collection vol 1
(1996) VHS - Looney Tunes Special Bumper Collection vol 4
(1996) VHS - Looney Tunes Collection - Sylvester and Tweety
(1997) VHS\LaserDisc - Bugs and Tweety: Watch the Birdie (1997 dubbed version) (only in pal regions)
(1998) VHS - Looney Tunes Presents: Tweety: Tweet and Lovely (1997 dubbed version)
(2001) DVD - I Love Tweety: Volume 1 (restored)

Censorship

The scene of the mayor smacking Sylvester on the head to make him spit out Tweety at the ending was shortened on ABC airings ^[1].

Notes

This short was included in Friz Freleng's Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie and The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special, but the audio is PAL in the beginning and ending to the short, while the middle is NTSC.
Rocky would bird-nap Tweety once again in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode "The Cat Who Knew Too Much", except that Rocky's sidekick is the idiotic Mugsy as opposed to the smart Nick.
The short has been restored on the I Love Tweety Japanese DVD. However, the American release for the restored print is currently not available.

References

↑ https://archive.org/details/bugsbunnyandtweetyshows2ep20jan231988

External Links

Catty Cornered on the SFX Resource

Sylvester Cartoons
1945	Life with Feathers • Peck Up Your Troubles
1946	Kitty Kornered
1947	Tweetie Pie • Crowing Pains • Doggone Cats • Catch as Cats Can
1948	Back Alley Oproar • I Taw a Putty Tat • Hop, Look and Listen • Kit for Cat • Scaredy Cat
1949	Mouse Mazurka • Bad Ol' Putty Tat • Hippety Hopper
1950	Home Tweet Home • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • All a Bir-r-r-d • Canary Row • Stooge for a Mouse • Pop 'Im Pop!
1951	Canned Feud • Putty Tat Trouble • Room and Bird • Tweety's S.O.S. • Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952	Who's Kitten Who? • Gift Wrapped • Little Red Rodent Hood • Ain't She Tweet • Hoppy Go Lucky • A Bird in a Guilty Cage • Tree for Two
1953	Snow Business • A Mouse Divided • Fowl Weather • Tom Tom Tomcat • A Street Cat Named Sylvester • Catty Cornered • Cats A-weigh!
1954	Dog Pounded • Bell Hoppy • Dr. Jerkyl's Hide • Claws for Alarm • Muzzle Tough • Satan's Waitin' • By Word of Mouse
1955	Lighthouse Mouse • Sandy Claws • Tweety's Circus • Jumpin' Jupiter • A Kiddies Kitty • Speedy Gonzales • Red Riding Hoodwinked • Heir-Conditioned • Pappy's Puppy
1956	Too Hop to Handle • Tweet and Sour • Tree Cornered Tweety • The Unexpected Pest • Tugboat Granny • The Slap-Hoppy Mouse • Yankee Dood It
1957	Tweet Zoo • Tweety and the Beanstalk • Birds Anonymous • Greedy for Tweety • Mouse-Taken Identity • Gonzales' Tamales
1958	A Pizza Tweety-Pie • A Bird in a Bonnet
1959	Trick or Tweet • Tweet and Lovely • Cat's Paw • Here Today, Gone Tamale • Tweet Dreams
1960	West of the Pesos • Goldimouse and the Three Cats • Hyde and Go Tweet • Mouse and Garden • Trip for Tat
1961	Cannery Woe • Hoppy Daze • Birds of a Father • D' Fightin' Ones • The Rebel Without Claws • The Pied Piper of Guadalupe • The Last Hungry Cat
1962	Fish and Slips • Mexican Boarders • The Jet Cage
1963	Mexican Cat Dance • Chili Weather • Claws in the Lease
1964	A Message to Gracias • Freudy Cat • Nuts and Volts • Hawaiian Aye Aye • Road to Andalay
1965	It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around The House • Cats and Bruises • The Wild Chase
1966	A Taste of Catnip
1995	Carrotblanca
1997	Father of the Bird
2011	I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat

Tweety Cartoons
1942	A Tale of Two Kitties
1944	Birdy and the Beast
1945	A Gruesome Twosome
1947	Tweetie Pie
1948	I Taw a Putty Tat
1949	Bad Ol' Putty Tat
1950	Home Tweet Home • All a Bir-r-r-d • Canary Row
1951	Putty Tat Trouble • Room and Bird • Tweety's S.O.S. • Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952	Gift Wrapped • Ain't She Tweet • A Bird in a Guilty Cage
1953	Snow Business • Fowl Weather • Tom Tom Tomcat • A Street Cat Named Sylvester • Catty Cornered
1954	Dog Pounded • Muzzle Tough • Satan's Waitin'
1955	Sandy Claws • Tweety's Circus • Red Riding Hoodwinked • Heir-Conditioned
1956	Tweet and Sour • Tree Cornered Tweety • Tugboat Granny
1957	Tweet Zoo • Tweety and the Beanstalk • Birds Anonymous • Greedy for Tweety
1958	A Pizza Tweety-Pie • A Bird in a Bonnet
1959	Trick or Tweet • Tweet and Lovely • Tweet Dreams
1960	Hyde and Go Tweet • Trip for Tat
1961	The Rebel Without Claws • The Last Hungry Cat
1962	The Jet Cage
1964	Hawaiian Aye Aye
2011	I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat

[1] ttps://archive.org/details/bugsbunnyandtweetyshows2ep20jan231988

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