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Kit For Cat
File:Kitforcat.jpg
Directed By: Friz Freleng
Produced By: Eddie Selzer
Released: November 6, 1948
Series: Looney Tunes
Voiced By: Mel Blanc
Starring: Sylvester
Elmer Fudd
Preceded By: Daffy Dilly
Succeeded By: The Stupor Salesman
Video
File:Looney Tunes - Kit for Cat

Kit for Cat is a 1948 Looney Tunes cartoon starring the cat that would eventually be known as Sylvester, an unknown cat, and Elmer Fudd. This cartoon features Elmer Fudd without his hat or hunting clothes, just like he does with others.

This was only one of five post-1948 WB cartoons to get a Blue Ribbon reissue prior to 1956 - with the original credits cut. The others were Daffy Dilly, The Foghorn Leghorn, Scaredy Cat, and You Were Never Duckier. Kit for Cat was the only one of these to originally be a Looney Tune (the rest were Merrie Melodies), and the only Friz Freleng-directed cartoon in the group (The Foghorn Leghorn was directed by Robert McKimson, the others by Chuck Jones).

The original opening has been restored for DVD release on Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1 and Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume 1 with kinda faded colors, but both still contain the Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodie closing but original ending music for unknown reasons. The original ending card may be lost. (although they can insert a used one to replace the Merrie Melodie closing.) This cartoon currently exists only low pitched, however, a print with original pitch sound can be found on at www.b99tv/video/kit-cat/

Plot[]

The beginning starts with Sylvester in the trash alley trying to find food to eat. When a kitten comes by, Sylvester yells at the kitten that the alley is his ("Say, listen, small fry, I'm working this side of the street! Now scram! Go on, beat it! Get lost!"). When a blizzard comes, Sylvester acts frozen and knocks on Elmer Fudd's door, begging for shelter ("Please, save a frost-bitten feline from a frozen fate!"). Elmer Fudd tries to warm up Sylvester by putting him on his sitting chair near the fire and tells Sylvester to consider his home as his own now. When the same kitten comes acting half frozen, Elmer Fudd is surprised by two cats ("Dear me, two cats! I'd wike to have a cat awound the house alwight, but I can't keep both of ya..."). Elmer thinks the baby kitten is cute ("Hahahaha! Baby kittens are so cute!"). Sylvester tries to act like a baby, but Fudd is disappointed by Sylvester's way of acting when he's grown-up (labelling it "a widicuwous way for a gwown-up cat to behave") and tells him to "act your age". Elmer decides "Well, maybe I'd better sweep on it and make up my mind in the morning", to Sylvester's chagrin.

Sylvester then decides how to get rid of kitten, like thinking of hanging up the kitten, shooting him with revolver, or tying him up and leaving him in front of a train. Then Sylvester decides to frame the baby kitten by pouring all the milk in a milk bottle on him and then dropping the bottle to make it look like the kitten did it ("What's going on here? Did you do that?"). Fudd thinks the kitten did it by accident ("Aww, the poor wittle fewwa, you must be starved. How negwectful of me.") and gives the kitten milk, cheese, hamburgers, pickled herring, smoked barracuda, salami, bologna (in that order) and other foodstuffs never mentioned. Then Sylvester knocks his head on the wall in disappointment as each food item is mentioned.

Sylvester then throws a ball of string to the baby kitten to play with, but the other end of the string is tied to the glasses and dishes. When the kitten plays with it, the glasses and dishes break. The kitten quickly tries to fix it all by gluing them back together, but Sylvester breaks every one he fixes. When Fudd sees Sylvester breaking his dishes, he says that he's making it very easy for him to make up his mind which of the two cats to keep ("So, bweaking my dishes? You're making it vewy much easier for me to make up my mind which one of you to keep!").

Sylvester then hypnotizes the kitten with a book of hypnosis to hit Elmer on the head (He says, "The head. The head. On the head. Here, stupid, on the head."). The kitten becomes mistaken, and hits Sylvester's head near Elmer's bed (as Sylvester stupidly pointed at his own head when he ordered the kitten to hit Elmer's head), making Sylvester sleep with Fudd in the bed, and Elmer, waking to notice Sylvester in his bed, throws him back down the stairs. Sylvester is then warned by Elmer that he'll be held responsible for the next time Elmer gets disturbed ("If I'm disturbed once more, I'm holding you wesponsible!").

Sylvester then uses a mouse toy and the kitten chases it, getting inside a mouse hole. Sylvester locks up the mouse hole with wood and nails. The kitten, however, undoes all the portraits and things held by nails on the walls. Sylvester, remembering Elmer's warning, tries to catch all of them. The chandelier on top of Fudd's head crashes before Sylvester can fix it with a screwdriver, which angers Elmer so much, that he tells Sylvester he will be thrown out if Elmer hears just one more sound regardless of who made it, and assures him that that's his final warning ("That's the wast stwaw! I'm giving you just one more chance! If I hear just one more sound out of you, just one more peep, just so much as one tiny wittle peep, out you go! And that's my final warning!").

Next, the kitten, overhearing Elmer's warning, does role-reversal and tries to make noise himself to try and frame Sylvester. He tries to shoot lots of rifle bullets though Sylvester puts some earmuffs on Elmer's ears beforehand (the kitten tries using the gun again later on), bangs on a parade drum, slams the door numerous times (at which point, Sylvester loses his patience with the kitten, and from that point chases the kitten to try and get rid of the kitten by force), turns on the radio (where "Melvin" and "Beatrice", puns on their voice actors' names, take turns trying to kill each other), activates the coin-operated piano, and is even chased by Sylvester. Eventually, all the noise crescendos, too loud for even the earmuffs on Elmer's head to block out thanks to a last-minute addition of Sylvester crashing into a metal bowl the kitten held up; he stops them and says that he has "made up his mind who's weaving these pwemises!", but not before Elmer's landlord serves him an eviction notice ("Oh no, you haven't, I've made up my mind! Here!"), presumably for all the noise pollution the two cats caused. The cartoon ends with Elmer, Sylvester and the kitten looking for food in the trash alley.

Credits[]

Censorship[]

  • When this aired on ABC, the part where Sylvester hypnotizes the kitten to hit Elmer in the head as he sleeps (with the kitten hitting Sylvester instead) was cut. Also: the part where Sylvester uses his finger to plug the barrel of a firing shotgun was shortened.

Trivia[]

  • The title is a pun on the term 'tit for tat'.

Gallery[]

Sylvester Cartoons
1945 Life with Feathers • Peck Up Your Troubles
1946 Kitty Kornered
1947 Tweetie Pie • 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-rd • 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 • Claws for Alarm • 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 • The 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
2011 I Tawt I Taw A Putty Tat
Elmer Fudd Cartoons
1940 Elmer's Candid Camera • Confederate Honey • The Hardship of Miles Standish • A Wild Hare • Good Night Elmer
1941 Elmer's Pet Rabbit • Wabbit Twouble
1942 The Wabbit Who Came to Supper • Any Bonds Today? • The Wacky Wabbit • Nutty News • Fresh Hare • The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
1943 To Duck or Not to Duck • A Corny Concerto • An Itch in Time
1944 The Old Grey Hare • The Stupid Cupid • Stage Door Cartoon
1945 The Unruly Hare • Hare Tonic
1946 Hare Remover • The Big Snooze
1947 Easter Yeggs • A Pest in the House • Slick Hare
1948 What Makes Daffy Duck? • Back Alley Op-Roar • Kit For Cat
1949 Wise Quackers • Hare Do • Each Dawn I Crow
1950 What's Up Doc? • Rabbit of Seville
1951 Rabbit Fire
1952 Rabbit Seasoning
1953 Up-Swept Hare • Ant Pasted • Duck! Rabbit! Duck! • Robot Rabbit
1954 Design for Leaving • Quack Shot
1955 Pests for Guests • Beanstalk Bunny • Hare Brush • Rabbit Rampage • This Is A Life? • Heir-Conditioned
1956 Bugs' Bonnets • A Star is Bored • Yankee Dood It • Wideo Wabbit
1957 What's Opera, Doc? • Rabbit Romeo
1958 Don't Axe Me • Pre-Hysterical Hare
1959 A Mutt in a Rut
1960 Person To Bunny • Dog Gone People
1961 What's My Lion?
1962 Crow's Feat
1990 Box Office Bunny
1991 Blooper Bunny
1992 Invasion Of The Bunny Snatchers
2012 Daffy's Rhapsody
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