Catty Cornered

Tweety is being held ransom at Rocky's hideaway, and whoever rescues the bird will get one million dollars reward. Tweety tries to escape, but Rocky nearly shoots Tweety. Outside, Sylvester is eating his scraps of food when he hears Tweety chirping at Rocky's lair. Hungry for lunch, Sylvester runs up the stairway and through the sides of the building. However, this catches the attention of Rocky and his sidekick Nick. Nick places a banana where Sylvester is walking, causing him to slip and fall.

Tweety escapes through the door, but needs to hide quickly before he is caught again. Sylvester, who is inside, suggests that Tweety hide in Sylvester's mouth. However, Tweety immediately exits, finding it too cramped inside. Rocky hears Tweety, and Sylvester quickly hides Tweety in a tomato can. Rocky tries to get Sylvester to say where the bird is, but he refuses and is beaten up by Nick. Rocky spots the tomato can moving, exposing Tweety. Rocky places a stick of dynamite inside of the can, and Nick angrily throws Sylvester out. Thinking he finally caught his prey, Sylvester runs off with the can but it explodes. "Ya dirty guys, ugh...", says Sylvester before collapsing on the stairway.

Sylvester next tries to lift himself with an I-beam. He quickly runs off with Tweety, but is squashed by the I-beam as he runs off. "Aw, the poor puddy tat fall down." Sylvester hides in an elevator just as the police arrive at the hideout. Nick hides the bird in the same elevator Sylvester is in. As Rocky and Nick are arrested, Sylvester runs out with Tweety only to be confronted by various photographers and news outlets, who all call Sylvester a hero for saving Tweety. During a town hall meeting, the mayor congratulates Sylvester and tells him to kiss the bird. However, still wanting to get his lunch, Sylvester eats Tweety, and the mayor spanks his head repeatedly until he spits out the bird. Tweety responds angrily, "Ooh, he's a bad puddy tat!"

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The scene of the mayor smacking Sylvester on the head to make him spit out Tweety at the ending was shortened on ABC airings.^[1]

Notes[]

This short was included in Friz Freleng's Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie and The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special, but the scenes at the beginning and ending of the short are sped-up by about five percent, while the middle of the short is kept at normal speed.
This is one of the few cartoons where Tweety doesn't say his signature catchphrase "I tawt I taw a putty tat".
Rocky would bird-nap Tweety once again in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode "The Cat Who Knew Too Much", except that Rocky's sidekick is the idiotic Mugsy as opposed to the smart Nick.
It was adapted into Sylvester and Tweety in Catty Cornered, a book from Buzz Books.
The newspaper announcer at the start of the cartoon sounds similar to that of Bugs Bunny.
The animation at the end where Sylvester eats Tweety and is picked up by the mayor to spit the bird out is largely reanimated from "Gift Wrapped" from the previous year.
The version of the short restored for HBO Max has a beige tint to the opening rings.

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References[]

↑ https://archive.org/details/bugsbunnyandtweetyshows2ep20jan231988

External links[]

"Catty Cornered" at the SFX Resource

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

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

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