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Hyde and Go Tweet

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Hyde and Go Tweet is a 1960 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.

Title[]

The title is a play on the children's game "hide-and-go-seek."

Plot[]

Sylvester is sleeping on the ledge of a tall building. After observing Dr. Jekyll drinking a Mr. Hyde potion, and briefly turning into a monstrous alter ego, Sylvester laughs it off and resumes his sleep. In a dream-like sequence, Sylvester chases some pigeons away after their coos disrupt his nap. He then pursues his prey, Tweety, along the building's ledge. Tweety escapes inside and hides in the Hyde formula. Sylvester demands that Tweety show himself, which he does: he has turned into a monstrous, giant bird who starts chasing Sylvester.

Sylvester is frantically trying to get the elevator to come up, and he turns and looks down the corner, and Tweety Hyde is ambling along, laughing maniacally. For most of the rest of the cartoon, Tweety frequently switches between his usual, innocent self, which Sylvester chases, and the evil bird-monster, which goes after the cat. After several back-and-forth chases, Sylvester nabs a normal-sized Tweety. Still failing to figure out the monster bird and his potential meal are one and the same, the cat locks himself in a small kitchen, throws the key out the window and begins to "make that Tweety sandwich I've been dreaming of." But while Sylvester is searching for some ketchup, Tweety changes back into his Hyde-like self and devours his adversary whole. Sylvester frees himself and tries to escape the room repeatedly calling out for help.

Just then, Sylvester awakens to realize that this whole experience was a dream and he sees a normal-sized Tweety struggling to fly to the ledge of the building. Sylvester is convinced that Tweety poses a giant risk to his well-being and runs through a wall to escape! Two cats observe his action and refer to it as cowardice. Tweety agrees.

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  • On ABC's The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, the scene of Sylvester, who is trying to escape the Hyde-esque Tweety Bird, looking down, getting on the ledge, telling Tweety, "I'll jump," and then asiding to the audience, "I've got a choice?" was re-edited to remove the line, "I'll jump! I've got a choice?" The removed line was replaced with the POV shot of Sylvester looking down and seeing just how far he has to jump to get away from the monstrous Tweety.[2]

Goofs[]

  • The 2020 restored print of this cartoon incorrectly uses the "A VITAPHONE RELEASE" byline from another cartoon and scraps the original 1959-60 end card. This error was not fixed on any future releases such as the Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 4 print.

Notes[]

  • This cartoon was used in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, with new animation showing Sylvester in Daffy's office, and in Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special.
    • The closing credits in the former film incorrectly credit Carl Stalling with music instead of Milt Franklyn.
  • This cartoon lacks a visible MPAA number on the credits card.
  • This is one of the few, if not only, times in which Tweety chases Sylvester.
  • The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode called "London Broiled" is based on this cartoon, which also has Tweety turning into a Hyde-like monster. The two cats in the end of the cartoon reappear in "London Broiled", as well as making cameos in the series from time to time.
  • This cartoon also serves as the basis for a level in Sylvester and Tweety in Cagey Capers called "Hyde and Shriek", where Tweety, after getting into the Hyde Potion, will also turn into a monster and chase after Sylvester (rather than the other way around), and Sylvester must hit the Tweety monster with a shrinking potion so that Tweety will revert to normal before he can chase after him again.
  • This Friz Freleng cartoon was later remade by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises as The Inspector cartoon, "Sicque! Sicque! Sicque!" (1966), where Sgt. Deux Deux drinks the Hyde formula, becomes a monster, and chases the Inspector.
  • "Voice Characterizations" is replaced with "Voices" in the opening credits.
  • The plot of this cartoon is homaged in the Tiny Toon Adventures episode segment Go Sweetie Hyde, where Sweetie turns into a monster and tries to eat Furrball.
  • This would be the final cartoon where Sylvester would consistently have a white tip on his tail until "Mexican Cat Dance", although it is briefly visible in "Mouse and Garden" when he is sleeping.

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References[]

  1. ↑ https://tralfaz.blogspot.com/2022/11/hyde-and-go-tweet-titles.html
  2. ↑ https://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-h
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
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
1980 The Yolks on You
1995 Carrotblanca
1997 Father of the Bird
2011 I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat
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