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Who's Kitten Who? is a 1952 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.

Title[]

The title is a play on the phrase "who's kiddin' who?"

Plot[]

A delivery man brings a crate into the zoo office. Inside the crate is a baby kangaroo, named Hippety Hopper, who begins to leap until he finds a coal truck and slides down to the basement. The basement happens to be the one in the house of Sylvester and his son, Sylvester Junior. Sylvester wants to teach his son to catch a mouse. As they spot a small mouse, Junior wants to chase after it, but Sylvester just wants his son to watch him catch it. Sylvester spots some eyes in the basement door, and thinks it is the mouse, but it is Hippety. Hippety kicks Sylvester, causing Sylvester to mistakenly think that Hopper is a giant mouse. The playful and curious kangaroo manages to evade most of Sylvester's attempts to catch Hippety:

  1. Sylvester first tries to swipe the kangaroo and Hippety jumps around, causing Sylvester to tell him to stand still. Eventually, Hippety places his feet and balances on his tail, causing Sylvester to do the same and gets kicked to the kitchen counter.
  2. An enraged Sylvester attacks Hippety directly, but is constantly bopped in the head. Junior starts to show enthusiasm which slowly turns into concern when Sylvester keeps popping out the door with more bruises after each consecutive bopping. Eventually, Hippety kicks Sylvester and it banged into an ironing board and is launched out of the kitchen. Junior realizes that a little mouse has beaten Sylvester, causing him to respond, "Oh the shame of it. Wherever I go, people will point at me and say, 'There goes the kid whose father was thrown out by a mouse.'"
  3. Sylvester tries to bounce like the kangaroo using a pair of springs. Eventually, he falls down too hard and ricochets to the ceiling and is kicked out of the kitchen again. Junior facepalms and says, "What kind of father have I that won't back his little son up?" Sylvester tries to convince Junior that Hippety is a giant mouse, but Junior thinks his father is a liar and covers his face with a paper bag.
  4. After Sylvester gives Junior a lollipop (which Junior considers bribery), Junior goes after the mouse himself and brings fly paper with him. Sylvester pummels Hippety downs the stairs and eventually, Junior is now ensnared onto the fly paper on Hippety's body.

Sylvester erroneously thinks that Hippety swallowed his son alive and also puts a paper bag over his face in shame similar to what his son did earlier. However, Junior emerges out of the fly paper stuck on Hippety's body alive and unharmed, sharing his lollipop with Hippety.

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The version of this cartoon that aired on ABC's The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show shortens all instances of Hippety Hopper kicking Sylvester in the face and head.[3]

Notes[]

  • This was the last Sylvester cartoon to be animated by Emery Hawkins.
  • This is the final Robert McKimson-directed Sylvester cartoon to use the "plump Sylvester" design which Robert McKimson previously used since "Crowing Pains" (1947). Beginning with "Hoppy-Go-Lucky" later that year, McKimson would redesign Sylvester to be slimmer and more streamlined to closely resemble how his original creator Friz Freleng drew him permanently until his final classic-era appearance in "A Taste of Catnip" (1966).
  • This is the first cartoon which Sylvester Junior would cover his face with a paper bag in shame when he witness his father's humiliating defeats in catching mice, birds or fish, which becomes a running gag in the Sylvester/Sylvester Junior cartoons, especially the ones co-starring Hippety Hopper.

Goofs[]

  • In the middle of the cartoon from after when Sylvester emerges from the kitchen door with his face battered and beaten up for the second time up until the scene where Sylvester gets kicked out of the kitchen by Hippety, Sylvester's face was erroneously miscolored white instead of black.
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    Sylvester's face miscolored white instead of black

  • On all TV broadcasts of the cartoon's 1990s print, including on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Boomerang, for some odd reason on the English Audio Track, the 1946-1955 Looney Tunes ending music cue is replaced by the 1955-1964 Looney Tunes ending music cue, though on the foreign language dub tracks the original ending music cue is retained. A similar audio error also occurs in European PAL TV broadcasts of "All a Bir-r-r-d" (1950)[4].

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References[]

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Sylvester Cartoons
1945 Life with FeathersPeck Up Your Troubles
1946 Kitty Kornered
1947 Tweetie PieCrowing PainsDoggone CatsCatch as Cats Can
1948 Back Alley OproarI Taw a Putty TatHop, Look and ListenKit for CatScaredy Cat
1949 Mouse MazurkaBad Ol' Putty TatHippety Hopper
1950 Home, Tweet HomeThe Scarlet PumpernickelAll a Bir-r-r-dCanary RowStooge for a MousePop 'Im Pop!
1951 Canned FeudPutty Tat TroubleRoom and BirdTweety's S.O.S.Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952 Who's Kitten Who?Gift WrappedLittle Red Rodent HoodAin't She TweetHoppy Go LuckyA Bird in a Guilty CageTree for Two
1953 Snow BusinessA Mouse DividedFowl WeatherTom Tom TomcatA Street Cat Named SylvesterCatty CorneredCats A-weigh!
1954 Dog PoundedBell HoppyDr. Jerkyl's HideClaws for AlarmMuzzle ToughSatan's Waitin'By Word of Mouse
1955 Lighthouse MouseSandy ClawsTweety's CircusJumpin' JupiterA Kiddies KittySpeedy GonzalesRed Riding HoodwinkedHeir-ConditionedPappy's Puppy
1956 Too Hop to HandleTweet and SourTree Cornered TweetyThe Unexpected PestTugboat GrannyThe Slap-Hoppy MouseYankee Dood It
1957 Tweet ZooTweety and the BeanstalkBirds AnonymousGreedy for TweetyMouse-Taken IdentityGonzales' Tamales
1958 A Pizza Tweety-PieA Bird in a Bonnet
1959 Trick or TweetTweet and LovelyCat's PawHere Today, Gone TamaleTweet Dreams
1960 West of the PesosGoldimouse and the Three CatsHyde and Go TweetMouse and GardenTrip for Tat
1961 Cannery WoeHoppy DazeBirds of a FatherD' Fightin' OnesThe Rebel Without ClawsThe Pied Piper of GuadalupeThe Last Hungry Cat
1962 Fish and SlipsMexican BoardersThe Jet Cage
1963 Mexican Cat DanceChili WeatherClaws in the Lease
1964 A Message to GraciasFreudy CatNuts and VoltsHawaiian Aye AyeRoad to Andalay
1965 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the HouseCats and BruisesThe 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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