History WesternAnimation / BadLuckBlackie

* BullyBulldog: The first act of the cartoon involves the bulldog mercilessly tormenting the kitten - tossing him up in the air and pretending to hold out a cushion for him to land on before pulling it away at the last minute, giving him a dish of cream with a mousetrap hidden at the bottom, squashing him between two books - all for the sake of his own amusement. He gets his LaserGuidedKarma, though.

* KitchenSinkIncluded: Because Tex Avery, ''duh''-- although notably the invoking phrase doesn't come up.

* MyCard: When the kitten flees into an alley and the black cat accurately guesses "dog trouble", the latter hands over a business card reading "''Black Cat'' Bad Luck Company. Paths crossed -- Guaranteed bad luck".

** Early on in the cartoon, the kitten, hiding on a bookshelf, is squashed into book-shape; when the dog pulls the kitten out, we see the title, ''Kitty Foiled'' -- a pun on the popular novel ''Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman'' by Christopher Morley, made into a [[Film/KittyFoyle popular movie]] in 1940. Interestingly, there was also made a 1948 WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry cartoon called ''Kitty Foiled'', made a year before this cartoon came out.

** The opening shot is a perfect recreation of the opening shot of the first Jasper and Jinx--er, WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry short "WesternAnimation/PussGetsTheBoot."

The short involves an innocent little kitten being bullied by a cruel bulldog. After enduring his slapstick torment the kitten escapes into an alley, and meets a cigar-smoking alley cat with black fur. The cat offers to protect the kitten by crossing the dog's path and causing him bad luck whenever the kitten blows on a whistle. The rest of the short involves the AmusingInjuries that befall the cruel dog as the kitten uses his newly-found protection to his full advantage.

* SchmuckBait: The kitten comes across a box with the words 'Curiosity killed the cat'. Sure enough, upon opening it, the bulldog comes out as a scary jack-in-the-box, scaring the kitten into dropping the whistle.

* {{Determinator}}: Even with his bad luck, that dog just won't quit. Drop flower pots, pianos, steamer trunks, cash registers, {{Cartoon Bomb}}s, safes, or piles of bricks on him, and he'll still go after first the kitten, then the black cat.

** This is just one of may examples throughout the cartoon. Others include the kitten being squeezed between two sets of books into the shape of a book, the bulldog squeezing under a sofa and coming out a flat rectangle, and the bulldog trapped in a jagged shape after bricks fall on him to form a wall.

** This is just one of may examples throughout the cartoon. Others include the kitten being squeezed between two sets of books into the shape of a book, the bulldog squeezing under a dresser and coming out a flat rectangle, and the bulldog trapped in a jagged shape after bricks fall on him to form a wall.

* BullyBulldog: The first act of the cartoon involves the bulldog mercilesly tormenting the kitten - tossing him up in the air and pretending to hold out a cushion for him to land on before pulling it away at the last minute, giving him a dish of cream with a mousetrap hidden at the bottom, squashing him between two books - seemingly for no other reason than because he can. He gets his LaserGuidedKarma, though.

* ThatRussianSquatDance: One of the ways Blackie crosses the dog's path (and one of a few times we ''don't'' hear "Comin' Thro' the Rye"; Creator/JohannesBrahms' Hungarian Dance No.5 plays instead).

* AmusingInjuries: [[LaserGuidedKarma What the dog suffers for his cruelty]].

* AnvilOnHead: As well as several other heavy things, whenever the black cat crosses the dog's path.

* BullyBulldog: He gets his LaserGuidedKarma, though.

* ButtMonkey / TheChewToy: The dog, [[LaserGuidedKarma all because of his bullying habits]].

* CatsAreMagic: At least when they're black.

* {{Determinator}}: Even with his bad luck, that dog just won't quit.

* IllogicalSafe: Another heavy object that lands on the dog.

* JustWhistle: And the dog will suffer.

* MyCard: The cat's card reads: "''Black Cat'' Bad Luck Company. Paths crossed -- Guaranteed bad luck".

* ShadowOfImpendingDoom: Particularly visible at the end.

* RuleOfFunny: The ending most of all.
* SerialEscalation: Every time Blackie crosses the dog's path, the objects that fall on him get bigger and more ridiculous.

* ShoutOut:
** The opening shot is a perfect recreation of the opening shot of the first Jasper and Jinx-er, WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry short "WesternAnimation/PussGetsTheBoot."
** Also happens when the dog pushes the books into the kitten -- the kitten's newfound cover reads "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Foiled Kitty Foiled]]."
** Additionally, the famous Tom scream is used in this short.

* SuperstitionEpisode: It's a one-shot, but the short is about a kitten who enlists the help of a black cat to give bad luck to the bulldog that kept tormenting it.

Ranked #15 on The50GreatestCartoons.

* CranialEruption

* SuperstitionEpisode: It's a one-shot, but the short is about a kitten, who enlists the help of a black cat to give bad luck, to the bulldog that kept tormenting it.

* {{iSophagus}}: [[spoiler: After the dog swallows the whistle, every time he hiccups, the whistle blows and something falls on him. [[MagicAIsMagicA This sort of breaks the rules that the short had been following in the first place, as now it's the ''whistle'' giving the dog bad luck]], but with Avery shorts RuleOfFunny is always being invoked.]]

* {{iSophagus}}: [[spoiler: After the dog swallows the whistle, every time he hiccups, the whistle blows and something falls on him. This sort of breaks the rules that the short had been following in the first place, as now it's the ''whistle'' giving the dog bad luck, but with Avery shorts RuleOfFunny is always being invoked.]]

* AnnoyingLaugh: The dog has two, [[CreatorCameo provided by]] Creator/TexAvery [[CreatorCameo himself]]. The main one is a goofy belly laugh, but a couple times he also emits a wheezy snicker that predates [[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines Muttley.]] [[spoiler: And at the very end, [[NotSoDifferent the kitten gives the same wheezy snicker.]]]]

* {{Leitmotif}}: The [[PublicDomainSoundtrack traditional]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] [[PublicDomainSoundtrack folktune]] "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy2vyx_ZZn0 Comin' Thro' the Rye]]" is used to represent the black cat.

* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: The bulldog eventually neutralises the black cat's bad luck by painting him white, and begins to deliver a payback beatdown onto him. The kitten however rectifies this by painting itself black, making itself TheJinx and [[TheDogBitesBack e
able to dispose of the dog itself.

* {{iSophagus}}: [[spoiler: After the dog swallows the whistle, every time he hiccups, the whistle blows and something falls on him. This sort of breaks the rules that the short had been following in the first place, as now it's the ''whistle'' giving the dog bad luck]], but with Avery shorts RuleOfFunny is always being invoked.]]

* SchmuckBait: The kitten comes across a box with the words 'Curiosity killed the cat'. Sure enough, upon opening it, the bulldog comes out as a scary jack-in-the-box, scarring the kitten into dropping the whistle.

* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: The bulldog eventually neutralises the black cat's bad luck by painting him white, and begins to deliver a payback beatdown onto him. The kitten however rectifies this by painting itself black, making itself TheJinx and able to dispose of the dog itself.

* {{iSophagus}}: [[spoiler: After the dog swallows the whistle, every time he hiccups, the whistle blows and something falls on him. This sort of breaks the rules that the short had been following in the first place, as now it's the ''whistle'' giving the dog bad luck, but with Avery shorts RuleOfFunny is always being invoked.]]

* MyCard: The cat's card reads: "''Black Cat'' Bad Luck Company. Paths crossed -- Guaranteed bad luck"

[-[[caption-width-right:350: Gin a body, meet a body, coming through the rye...]]-]

[-[[caption-width-right:350:[[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x39wwu2 Gin a body, meet a body, coming through the rye...]]]]-]

* ForciblyFormedPhysique: Occurs when the titular Blackie comes out of a drainage pipe with his body round, thin, and elongated. How he managed to get his head and ''a unicycle'' through that pipe without effect, however, is anyone's guess.