Kitty Kornered

At nine o'clock on a cold winter's night, the neighborhood's cat owners all literally throw their cats out for the night. Porky Pig attempts to do the same, but his four cats, a tall black-and-white lisping cat, a medium sized tabby, a diminutive kitten, and a dumb drunkard cat, throw him out. Porky falls into the snow. Sticking his face out and now resembling Santa Claus, Porky states that he hates pussycats. Porky bangs on the door, demanding to be let in, but the cats pop out of the door and proclaim in unison, "Milkman, keep those bottles quiet!", and then slam the door in his face.

While the cats are lounging around, Porky throws open the window while making an incredibly menacing face. He chases them around the house until one of them throws him into a teapot. Porky retaliates by setting his pet dog "Lassie" on the cats. The cats see the dog's shadow and run for their lives, not knowing that "Lassie" is really only a shadow puppet created with Porky's fingers.

When Sylvester finds out that they've been tricked, he and the others plot revenge. They fake an alien invasion, driving Porky into a panic over "M-M-Me-M-Me-M-M-M-Me-M-Me-M-Men from Mars!" Assuming the appearances of Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders cavalry, the cats charge at Porky and run him out of the house once and for all. Homeless, alone, and cold in the snow, Porky turns and asks "Pardon me, but d-d-does anybody in the audience kn-kn-know somebody that kn-knows somebody that, uh, that has a house to rent?"

Caricatures

Theodore Roosevelt

Evolution of Sylvester

The still anonymous Sylvester appears in the film, with a black nose, yellow eyes, and lacking a white-colored tip at the end of his tail. He is joined by, among others, a drunk cat with the red nose, gray fur, big lips, and saggy jowls who was popular enough to appear in several later cartoons such as in the Rolling Stones music video "Harlem Shuffle" (with art by Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi), in a few episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures, an episode of Animaniacs, and among the many cats in Tweety's High-Flying Adventure.

Availability

Censorship

Sylvester and the other three cats after throwing Porky outside, a scene cut from some BBC, Kids WB, and Boomerang airings

Versions shown on FOX's Merrie Melodies Show, The WB, and the United Kingdom's BBC channel cut the scene where the cats smoke cigars, read comics, lounge, and drink wine before Porky bursts in on them.^[6]

Goofs

When the drunk cat slips into the goldfish bowl, there is sound of the bowl rolling on the table, yet the bowl does not roll.
Porky's front door has molding on most scenes, but when the smallest cat lowers the doorknob to jump through the keyhole, the door is plain. On the next shot, where the drunk cat dives for where the keyhole was and hits the door, the molding is back, then disappears again when the cat falls to the floor.
When Sylvester dives under the bed, the production cells of him diving were placed over the bed by mistake, so that he appears to dive on top of the bed and then disappear.
At the beginning of the cartoon, every time the font door of Porky's house is opened or closed, the door changes color often. Although the original door color is white, when half opened the door turns green and when wide open the door turns yellow. Then, when the door is closed, the door color changes from yellow to green and finally white.

Notes

"Lassie" is a reference to the dog of the same name from the 1943 movie Lassie Come Home from MGM.
Considered among Clampett's best and wackiest films, "Kitty Kornered" was Clampett's final cartoon starring his longtime star Porky Pig (although he made a cameo in Clampett's next cartoon "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" as a train driver).
This marks the only appearance of the (then-unnamed) Sylvester in a Clampett-directed cartoon, and only one of two times Sylvester spoke in a Porky Pig cartoon. It was also the first appearance of Sylvester in the Looney Tunes series and also the only short where Sylvester does not have his red nose.
Porky and Sylvester would later be paired in a trio of shorts directed by Chuck Jones: "Scaredy Cat", "Claws for Alarm", and "Jumpin' Jupiter". Both also co-starred (with Daffy Duck, which has a speed-up version of Sylvester's voice, including the lisp) in the Jones short "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" (the only other time Sylvester spoke in a Porky Pig cartoon, and the only time Sylvester spoke in a Chuck Jones directed cartoon).
This is the first color Looney Tunes cartoon to use the written-out "That's all Folks" ending sequence and onwards, although the Merrie Melodies ending music is heard because WB was making a new version of the music to replace the 1939-46 ending as that one had Porky say, "Th-th-th-that's all Folks!" This trend would be used until 1964.
At the cartoon's start, the WB shield doesn't zoom to the viewers (similar to the Daffy Duck short "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"), only the sound effect is heard.
The alien disguises worn by Sylvester and his cohorts were seen again as real characters in the episode of The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, "Spaced Out".
The wine bottle the drunk cat drinks from is named "Arsenic and Old Grapes", a reference to the film Arsenic and Old Lace, as is the Teddy Roosevelt charge.
Even though this is a Looney Tunes short, it uses the Looney Tunes end title with the 1941-1955 rendition of the Merrie Melodies theme playing over the end title.
The drunk cat is a parody of Spooky the Cat from Bill Holman's Smokey Stover comic strip.
Starting with this cartoon, the "MPPDA" circle underwent a redesign that saw the letters in it stand up straight; this design would be used until 1952, when the circle was updated to say "MPAA".
Sylvester's yellow eyes in the short would later be incorporated into his Looney Tunes Cartoons appearance.

Gallery

References

↑ https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig3281213li/page/81/mode/1up
↑ (1991) I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety. New York: Henry Holt and Co, page 89. ISBN 0-8050-1644-9.
↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVoMpidVlFg
↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEa1IhMiPWo
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 https://twitter.com/_ibcf_/status/896618848375291904
↑ http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-k-l.aspx

External Links

Review of Kitty Kornered and context to War Of The Worlds

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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

Porky Pig Cartoons
1935	I Haven't Got a Hat • Gold Diggers of '49
1936	Plane Dippy • Alpine Antics • The Phantom Ship • Boom Boom • The Blow Out • Westward Whoa • Fish Tales • Shanghaied Shipmates • Porky's Pet • Porky the Rain-Maker • Porky's Poultry Plant • Porky's Moving Day • Milk and Money • Little Beau Porky • The Village Smithy • Porky in the North Woods • Boulevardier from the Bronx
1937	Porky the Wrestler • Porky's Road Race • Picador Porky • Porky's Romance • Porky's Duck Hunt • Porky and Gabby • Porky's Building • Porky's Super Service • Porky's Badtime Story • Porky's Railroad • Get Rich Quick Porky • Porky's Garden • Rover's Rival • The Case of the Stuttering Pig • Porky's Double Trouble • Porky's Hero Agency
1938	Porky's Poppa • Porky at the Crocadero • What Price Porky • Porky's Phoney Express • Porky's Five & Ten • Porky's Hare Hunt • Injun Trouble • Porky the Fireman • Porky's Party • Porky's Spring Planting • Porky & Daffy • Wholly Smoke • Porky in Wackyland • Porky's Naughty Nephew • Porky in Egypt • The Daffy Doc • Porky the Gob
1939	The Lone Stranger and Porky • It's an Ill Wind • Porky's Tire Trouble • Porky's Movie Mystery • Chicken Jitters • Porky and Teabiscuit • Kristopher Kolumbus Jr. • Polar Pals • Scalp Trouble • Old Glory • Porky's Picnic • Wise Quacks • Porky's Hotel • Jeepers Creepers • Naughty Neighbors • Pied Piper Porky • Porky the Giant Killer • The Film Fan
1940	Porky's Last Stand • Africa Squeaks • Ali-Baba Bound • Pilgrim Porky • Slap Happy Pappy • Porky's Poor Fish • You Ought to Be in Pictures • The Chewin' Bruin • Porky's Baseball Broadcast • Patient Porky • Calling Dr. Porky • Prehistoric Porky • The Sour Puss • Porky's Hired Hand • The Timid Toreador
1941	Porky's Snooze Reel • Porky's Bear Facts • Porky's Preview • Porky's Ant • A Coy Decoy • Porky's Prize Pony • Meet John Doughboy • We, the Animals - Squeak! • The Henpecked Duck • Notes to You • Robinson Crusoe Jr. • Porky's Midnight Matinee • Porky's Pooch
1942	Porky's Pastry Pirates • Who's Who in the Zoo • Porky's Cafe • My Favorite Duck
1943	Confusions of a Nutzy Spy • Yankee Doodle Daffy • Porky Pig's Feat • A Corny Concerto
1944	Tom Turk and Daffy • Tick Tock Tuckered • Swooner Crooner • Duck Soup to Nuts • Slightly Daffy • Brother Brat
1945	Trap Happy Porky • Wagon Heels
1946	Baby Bottleneck • Daffy Doodles • Kitty Kornered • The Great Piggy Bank Robbery • Mouse Menace
1947	One Meat Brawl • Little Orphan Airedale
1948	Daffy Duck Slept Here • Nothing but the Tooth • The Pest That Came to Dinner • Riff Raffy Daffy • Scaredy Cat
1949	Awful Orphan • Porky Chops • Paying the Piper • Daffy Duck Hunt • Curtain Razor • Often an Orphan • Dough for the Do-Do • Bye, Bye Bluebeard
1950	Boobs in the Woods • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • An Egg Scramble • Golden Yeggs • The Ducksters • Dog Collared
1951	The Wearing of the Grin • Drip-Along Daffy • The Prize Pest
1952	Thumb Fun • Cracked Quack • Fool Coverage
1953	Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
1954	Claws for Alarm • My Little Duckaroo
1955	Jumpin' Jupiter • Dime to Retire
1956	Rocket Squad • Deduce, You Say
1957	Boston Quackie
1958	Robin Hood Daffy
1959	China Jones
1961	Daffy's Inn Trouble
1965	Corn on the Cop
1966	Mucho Locos
1980	Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century
1996	Superior Duck
2004	My Generation G...G... Gap

[1] ttps://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig3281213li/page/81/mode/1up

[2] (1991) I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety. New York: Henry Holt and Co, page 89. ISBN 0-8050-1644-9.

[3] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVoMpidVlFg

[4] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEa1IhMiPWo

[twitter-5] 5.0 ^5.1 https://twitter.com/_ibcf_/status/896618848375291904

[6] ttp://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-k-l.aspx

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