Warner Bros. Entertainment Wiki
Register
Warner Bros. Entertainment Wiki
(Created page with "{{Under construction}}")
Tag: rte-source
 
No edit summary
Tag: Visual edit
(3 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
  +
{{Infobox LT&MM|image = File:Freudy Cat Title Card.png|caption = Title Card|series = [[Looney Tunes]]|starring = [[Sylvester]], [[Sylvester Junior]] and [[Hippety Hopper]]|director = [[Robert McKimson]]|prod# = 1657|reel# = 3156|excerpt = [[Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet]] (starting scene only where Sylvester is seen running to his house)|footage = [[Who's Kitten Who?]]<br>[[The Slap-Hoppy Mouse]]<br>[[Cats A-Weigh!]]|release = March 14, 1964|story = [[Tedd Pierce]]|animator = [[Ted Bonnicksen]]<br>[[Warren Batchelder]]<br>[[George Grandpre]]|layout/BG = [[Robert Gribbroek]]|film editor = [[Treg Brown]]|voices = [[Mel Blanc]]|music = [[Bill Lava]]|mpaa# = 20212|preceded = [[Bartholomew versus The Wheel]]|followed = [[Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare]]}}
{{Under construction}}
 
  +
'''Freudy Cat''' is a 1964 ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' animated short starring [[Sylvester]] and [[Sylvester Junior]]. The cartoon is essentially a clip show, as a paranoid Sylvester flashes back to earlier cartoons such as "[[Who's Kitten Who?]]", "[[Cats A-Weigh!]]", and "[[The Slap-Hoppy Mouse]]" while describing to a psychiatrist that he thinks [[Hippety Hopper]] is out to get him.
  +
  +
==Soundtrack Anomaly==
  +
The cartoon is unusual in that it mixes a new soundtrack by [[William Lava|Bill Lava]] with music by [[Carl Stalling]] (while he was alive in 1964, he had retired six years earlier), which is heard during the original shorts that make up this cartoon. This results in a schizophrenic soundtrack (whether this was intentional, given the plot of a mentally unbalanced Sylvester visiting a psychiatrist, isn't known, but it is possible). Even more unusual is that certain prints of the cartoon contain a stock music piece by [[Philip_Green_(composer)|Philip Green]] that plays over numerous areas of the cartoon without removing the old soundtrack, creating a rather dissonant, overbearing "new" soundtrack.
  +
  +
==Censorship==
  +
*On ABC, the flashback from "[[The Slap-Hoppy Mouse]]" where Sylvester repeatedly attempts to load a rifle "frontier-style" (and gets blasted) was cut.<ref>http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-e-f.aspx</ref>
  +
  +
==Gallery==
  +
{{Gallerylink}}
  +
  +
==Availability==
  +
*DVD - ''[[Looney Tunes Super Stars' Sylvester & Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem]]''
  +
  +
==Notes==
  +
* This was the last theatrical appearance of both [[Hippety Hopper]] and [[Sylvester Junior]]
  +
* A small scene from this cartoon would be used in the Thanksgiving special, ''[[Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet]]''.
  +
  +
==References==
  +
{{reflist}}
  +
[[Category:Looney Tunes]]
  +
[[Category:Looney Tunes shorts]]
  +
[[Category:Sylvester shorts]]
  +
[[Category:Sylvester]]
  +
[[Category:Sylvester Junior]]
  +
[[Category:Sylvester Junior shorts]]
  +
[[Category:Sylvester and Junior shorts]]
  +
[[Category:Hippety Hopper shorts]]
  +
[[Category:Hippety Hopper]]
  +
[[Category:Sylvester and Hippety Hopper shorts]]
  +
[[Category:Directed by Robert McKimson]]
  +
[[Category:1960s shorts]]
  +
[[Category:1960s films]]
  +
[[Category:1960s]]
  +
[[Category:Merrie Melodies shorts]]
  +
[[Category:Merrie Melodies]]

Revision as of 19:53, 8 November 2017


Freudy Cat is a 1964 Looney Tunes animated short starring Sylvester and Sylvester Junior. The cartoon is essentially a clip show, as a paranoid Sylvester flashes back to earlier cartoons such as "Who's Kitten Who?", "Cats A-Weigh!", and "The Slap-Hoppy Mouse" while describing to a psychiatrist that he thinks Hippety Hopper is out to get him.

Soundtrack Anomaly

The cartoon is unusual in that it mixes a new soundtrack by Bill Lava with music by Carl Stalling (while he was alive in 1964, he had retired six years earlier), which is heard during the original shorts that make up this cartoon. This results in a schizophrenic soundtrack (whether this was intentional, given the plot of a mentally unbalanced Sylvester visiting a psychiatrist, isn't known, but it is possible). Even more unusual is that certain prints of the cartoon contain a stock music piece by Philip Green that plays over numerous areas of the cartoon without removing the old soundtrack, creating a rather dissonant, overbearing "new" soundtrack.

Censorship

  • On ABC, the flashback from "The Slap-Hoppy Mouse" where Sylvester repeatedly attempts to load a rifle "frontier-style" (and gets blasted) was cut.[1]

Gallery

WARNER BROS. WIKI LOGO
Warner Bros. Entertainment Wiki has a collection of images and media related to Freudy Cat.

Availability

Notes

References