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Sylvester is blackballed by the Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (again), while Hippety escapes from a zoo deliveryman. When he's found by the Grand Poohbah of the Order, he mistakes the kangaroo for a mouse, big enough for a whole banquet. Unfortunately, Hopper is too much for one cat, so the Order decide to have someone put a bell on Hopper's neck so they can hear him coming and gang up on him. At first, no one wants to volunteer, until Sylvester re-appears....

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Sylvester is blackballed by the Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (again), while Hippety escapes from a zoo deliveryman. When he's found by the Grand Poohbah of the Order, he mistakes the baby kangaroo for a mouse, big enough for a whole banquet. Unfortunately, Hopper is too much for one cat, so the Order decide to have someone put a bell on Hopper's neck so they can hear him coming and gang up on him. At first, no one wants to volunteer, until Sylvester re-appears....



* BookEnds: Sylvester gets conked on the head by a billiard eight-ball (as a VisualPun on the term "blackballed") at both the start and the end of the cartoon.



* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the abuse Sylvester had to go through to get the bell on Hippety, he goes on to become the Grand Poohbah... because the other members were hit by the zoo truck Hippety was captured in and are now too incapacitated to do much of anything.
* GotVolunteered: None of the Alley Cats want to bell the giant mouse, when Sylvester comes in begging to be reinstated. Instead of kicking him out, the Grand Poohbah decides to let him win back membership by doing what the others don't want to do.

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the abuse Sylvester had to go through to get the bell on Hippety, he [[spoiler:he goes on to become the Grand Poohbah... because the other members were hit by the zoo truck Hippety was captured in and are now too incapacitated to do much of anything.
anything]].
* GotVolunteered: None of the Alley Cats want to bell the giant mouse, "giant mouse", when Sylvester comes in begging to be reinstated. Instead of kicking him out, the Grand Poohbah decides to let him win back membership by doing what the others don't want to do.



* SeesawCatapult: At a junkyard, Sylvester ends up standing on one end of a plank propped on a tire. Hoppy jumps down from a ledge and onto the other end, sending him flying up to the same ledge. Sylvester then decides that two can play at that game and jumps down... only for Hoppy to be too heavy to launch, causing Sylvester to be flung far away.



* TelephonePolearm: Continuing the RunningGag the Alley Cats beat up Sylvester with a giant club. But they don't know it's him in that FruitCart coming down the hill...

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* TelephonePolearm: Continuing the RunningGag RunningGag, the Alley Cats beat up Sylvester with a giant club. But they don't know it's him in that FruitCart coming down the hill...
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"Bell Hoppy" is a 1954 Blue Ribbon ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson and staring [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] and Hippety Hopper.

Sylvester is blackballed by the Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (again), while Hippety escapes from a zoo deliveryman. When he's found by the Grand Poohbah of the Order, he mistakes the kangaroo for a mouse, big enough for a whole banquet. Unfortunately, Hopper is too much for one cat, so the Order decide to have someone put a bell on Hopper's neck so they can hear him coming and gang up on him. At first, no one wants to volunteer, until Sylvester re-appears....

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"Bell Hoppy" is a 1954 Blue Ribbon ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson and staring starring [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] and Hippety Hopper.

Sylvester is blackballed by the Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (again), while Hippety escapes from a zoo deliveryman. When he's found by the Grand Poohbah of the Order, he mistakes the kangaroo for a mouse, big enough for a whole banquet. Unfortunately, Hopper is too much for one cat, so the Order decide to have someone put a bell on Hopper's neck so they can hear him coming and gang up on him. At first, no one wants to volunteer, until Sylvester re-appears....
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* AsideGlance: The Grand Poohbah while realizing he can con Sylvester into belling Hippety.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Hoping to pass his initiation, Sylvester says he hope to run into a large mouse soon. He quickly bumps into Hippety and just as quickly learns what a handful he can be.


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* GuileHero: Sylvester lampshades how he's constantly failed to overpower Hippety with brute force, so he opts for trickery with the MirrorRoutine. It works.


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* OhCrap: The Alley Cats right before getting hit by the zoo truck.
* OhCrapSmile: Sylvester after the ''first'' time he gets clobbered by the Alley Cats by mistake.


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* TaughtByExperience: When a stoplight makes the same noise as the bell, Sylvester thinks to jump away from the bell this time. Unfortunately, the Alley Cats jump to the same spot he did.
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is a 1954 Blue Ribbon ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson and staring [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] and Hippety Hopper.

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"Bell Hoppy" is a 1954 Blue Ribbon ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson and staring [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] and Hippety Hopper.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"I belled the mouse!"]]'''Bell Hoppy''' is a 1954 Blue Ribbon ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson and staring [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] and Hippety Hopper.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"I belled the mouse!"]]'''Bell Hoppy''' mouse!"]]

is a 1954 Blue Ribbon ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson and staring [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] and Hippety Hopper.



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* WhoWillBellTheCat: The premise of the cartoon. In an amusing reversal, the cats want to bell the giant "mouse" so they can ''eat'' him, but realize they DidntThinkThisThrough first. So when Sylvester wants to rejoin the club, they give him the honor of belling Hopper. Ironically, they ''don't'' have an issue being out on the battlefield ''together'' as backup.

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* WhoWillBellTheCat: The premise of the cartoon. In an amusing reversal, the cats want to bell the giant "mouse" so they can ''eat'' him, but realize they DidntThinkThisThrough first. So when Sylvester wants to rejoin the club, they give him the honor of belling Hopper. Ironically, they ''don't'' have an issue being out on the battlefield ''together'' as backup.backup.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the abuse Sylvester had to go through to get the bell on Hippety, he goes on to become the Grand Poohbah... seeing as how he's now the only active member of the brotherhood.

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the abuse Sylvester had to go through to get the bell on Hippety, he goes on to become the Grand Poohbah... seeing as how he's because the other members were hit by the zoo truck Hippety was captured in and are now the only active member too incapacitated to do much of the brotherhood.anything.
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Sylvester is blackballed by the Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (again), while Hippety escapes from a zoo deliveryman. When he's found by the Grand Poohbah of the Order, he mistakes the kangaroo for a mouse, big enough for the banquet. Unfortunately, Hopper is too much for one cat, so the Order decide to have someone put a bell on Hopper's neck so they can hear him coming and gang up on him. At first, no one wants to volunteer, until Sylvester re-appears....

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Sylvester is blackballed by the Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (again), while Hippety escapes from a zoo deliveryman. When he's found by the Grand Poohbah of the Order, he mistakes the kangaroo for a mouse, big enough for the a whole banquet. Unfortunately, Hopper is too much for one cat, so the Order decide to have someone put a bell on Hopper's neck so they can hear him coming and gang up on him. At first, no one wants to volunteer, until Sylvester re-appears....
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Notable in that this is one of the few times Sylvester triumphs over Hippety Hopper.

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Notable in that this is one of the few times Sylvester triumphs over Hippety Hopper.
Hopper (though given that he actually liked his new toy, Hippety clearly wasn't all that bothered by the result).



* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the abuse Sylvester had to go through to get the bell on Hippety, he goes on to become the Grand Poohbah... seeing as how he's now the only active member of the club.

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the abuse Sylvester had to go through to get the bell on Hippety, he goes on to become the Grand Poohbah... seeing as how he's now the only active member of the club.brotherhood.



* LiteralMetaphor: Sylvester getting blackballed by the club means getting hit with a billiard eight ball.

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* LiteralMetaphor: Sylvester Sylvester's interpretation of getting blackballed by the club means getting hit with a billiard eight ball.

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Notable in that this is one of the few times Sylvester triumphs over Hippety Hopper.



* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the abuse Sylvester had to go through to get the bell on Hippety, he goes on to become the Grand Poohbah... seeing as how he's now the only active member of the club.



* WhoWillBellTheCat: The premise of the cartoon. In an amusing reversal, the cats want to bell the giant "mouse", but realize they DidntThinkThisThrough first. So when Sylvester wants to join the club again, they give him the honor of belling Hopper. Ironically, they ''don't'' have an issue being out on the battlefield ''together'' as backup.

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* WhoWillBellTheCat: The premise of the cartoon. In an amusing reversal, the cats want to bell the giant "mouse", "mouse" so they can ''eat'' him, but realize they DidntThinkThisThrough first. So when Sylvester wants to join rejoin the club again, club, they give him the honor of belling Hopper. Hopper. Ironically, they ''don't'' have an issue being out on the battlefield ''together'' as backup.

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* BrainsOverBrawn: Since he can't outdo him with his ''muss-kles,'' Sylvester decides that he'll have to use a little ''ch-ch-ch-chicanery'' to bell Hippety. It pays off with the MirrorRoutine.
* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: The Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club. Interestingly, only one member other than the Grand Poohbah is actually wearing a hat (a derby to the Poohbah's empty tincan).

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* BrainsOverBrawn: Since he can't outdo him with his ''muss-kles,'' Sylvester decides that he'll have to use a little ''ch-ch-ch-chicanery'' to bell Hippety. It pays off with the MirrorRoutine.
* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: The Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club. Interestingly, only one member other than the Grand Poohbah is actually wearing a hat (a derby to the Poohbah's empty tincan).



* MirrorRoutine: How Sylvester finally gets Hopper to put on the bell. He stands on the other side of the fence and imitates Hopper as he looks through a gap, eventually getting Hopper to imitate him putting the bell around his neck.

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* MirrorRoutine: How Sylvester finally gets Hopper to put on the bell. Since he can't outdo him with his ''muss-kles,'' Sylvester decides that he'll have to use a little ''ch-ch-ch-chicanery'' to bell Hippety. He stands on the other side of the fence and imitates Hopper as he looks through a gap, eventually getting Hopper to imitate him putting the bell around his neck.



* TelephonePolearm: At one point the Alley Cats beat up Sylvester with a giant club. But they don't know it's him in that FruitCart coming down the hill...

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* TelephonePolearm: At one point Continuing the RunningGag the Alley Cats beat up Sylvester with a giant club. But they don't know it's him in that FruitCart coming down the hill...

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[[caption-width-right:350:"I belled the mouse!"]]'''Bell Hoppy''' is a 1954 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson and staring [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] and Hippety Hopper.

Following Sylvester being blackballed by the Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (again), Hippety escapes from a zoo deliveryman. When he's found by the Grand Poohbah of the Order, he mistakes the kangaroo for a mouse, big enough for the banquet. Unfortunately, Hopper is too much for one cat, so the Order decide to have someone put a bell on Hopper's neck so they can hear him coming and gang up on him. At first, no one wants to volunteer, until Sylvester re-appears....

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[[caption-width-right:350:"I belled the mouse!"]]'''Bell Hoppy''' is a 1954 Blue Ribbon ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson and staring [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] and Hippety Hopper.

Following Sylvester being is blackballed by the Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (again), while Hippety escapes from a zoo deliveryman. When he's found by the Grand Poohbah of the Order, he mistakes the kangaroo for a mouse, big enough for the banquet. Unfortunately, Hopper is too much for one cat, so the Order decide to have someone put a bell on Hopper's neck so they can hear him coming and gang up on him. At first, no one wants to volunteer, until Sylvester re-appears....



* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: The Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (although only the Grand Poohbah is wearing a hat - a tin can).

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* BrainsOverBrawn: Since he can't outdo him with his ''muss-kles,'' Sylvester decides that he'll have to use a little ''ch-ch-ch-chicanery'' to bell Hippety. It pays off with the MirrorRoutine.
* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: The Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (although Club. Interestingly, only one member other than the Grand Poohbah is actually wearing a hat - a tin can).(a derby to the Poohbah's empty tincan).
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Following Sylvester being blackballed by the Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (again), Hippety escapes from a zoo deliveryman. When he's found by the Grand Poohbah of the Order, he mistakes the kangaroo as a mouse, big enough for the banquet. Unfortunately, Hopper is too much for one cat, so the Order decide to have someone put a bell on Hopper's neck so they can hear him coming and gang up on him. At first, no one wants to volunteer, until Sylvester appears, trying to join again....

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Following Sylvester being blackballed by the Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (again), Hippety escapes from a zoo deliveryman. When he's found by the Grand Poohbah of the Order, he mistakes the kangaroo as for a mouse, big enough for the banquet. Unfortunately, Hopper is too much for one cat, so the Order decide to have someone put a bell on Hopper's neck so they can hear him coming and gang up on him. At first, no one wants to volunteer, until Sylvester appears, trying to join again....re-appears....



* TelephonePolearm: At one point the Alley Cats beat up Sylvester with a giant club.

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* TelephonePolearm: At one point the Alley Cats beat up Sylvester with a giant club. But they don't know it's him in that FruitCart coming down the hill...
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'''Bell Hoppy''' is a 1954 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson and staring [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] and Hippety Hopper.

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Hoppy''' is a 1954 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson and staring [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] and Hippety Hopper.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After what they put Sylvester through, the Alley Cats finally gets their's when they jump into the street to get Hopper [[spoiler:and get hit by the van that just picked him up.]]

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* LaserGuidedKarma: After what they put Sylvester through, the Alley Cats finally gets their's get theirs when they jump into the street to get Hopper [[spoiler:and get hit by the van that just picked him up.up. Sylvester, at the end, assumes the role of Grand Poohbah, since all the other cats (including the real Grand Poohbah) are too badly injured from the van accident to bother protesting his self-appointed authority.]]
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* WhoWillBellTheCat: In an amusing reversal, the cats want to bell the giant "mouse", but no one wants to do it. So when Sylvester wants to join the club again, they give him the honor of belling Hopper. Ironically, they don't have an issue being out on the battlefield ''together'' as his support crew.

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* WhoWillBellTheCat: The premise of the cartoon. In an amusing reversal, the cats want to bell the giant "mouse", but no one wants to do it.realize they DidntThinkThisThrough first. So when Sylvester wants to join the club again, they give him the honor of belling Hopper. Ironically, they don't ''don't'' have an issue being out on the battlefield ''together'' as his support crew.backup.
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* WhoWillBellTheCat: In an amusing reversal, the cats want to bell the giant "mouse", but no one wants to do it. So when Sylvester wants to join the club again, they give him the honor of belling Hopper.

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* WhoWillBellTheCat: In an amusing reversal, the cats want to bell the giant "mouse", but no one wants to do it. So when Sylvester wants to join the club again, they give him the honor of belling Hopper. Ironically, they don't have an issue being out on the battlefield ''together'' as his support crew.

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* BellingTheCat: In an amusing reversal, the cats want to bell the giant "mouse", but no one wants to do it. So when Sylvester wants to join the club again, they give him the honor of belling Hopper.



* TelephonePolearm: At one point the Alley Cats beat up Sylvester with a giant club.

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* TelephonePolearm: At one point the Alley Cats beat up Sylvester with a giant club.club.
* WhoWillBellTheCat: In an amusing reversal, the cats want to bell the giant "mouse", but no one wants to do it. So when Sylvester wants to join the club again, they give him the honor of belling Hopper.

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Following Sylvester being blackballed by the Loyal of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (again), Hippety escapes from a zoo deliveryman. When he's found by the Grand Poohbah of the Order, he mistakes the kangaroo as a mouse, big enough for the banquet. Unfortunately, Hopper is too much for one cat, so the Order decide to have someone put a bell on Hopper's neck so they can hear him coming and gang up on him. At first, no one wants to volunteer, until Sylvester appears, trying to join again....

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Following Sylvester being blackballed by the Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (again), Hippety escapes from a zoo deliveryman. When he's found by the Grand Poohbah of the Order, he mistakes the kangaroo as a mouse, big enough for the banquet. Unfortunately, Hopper is too much for one cat, so the Order decide to have someone put a bell on Hopper's neck so they can hear him coming and gang up on him. At first, no one wants to volunteer, until Sylvester appears, trying to join again....

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* BellingTheCat: In an amusing reversal, the cats want to bell the giant "mouse", but no one wants to do it. So when Sylvester wants to join the club again, they give him the honor of belling Hopper.
* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: The Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (although only the Grand Poohbah is wearing a hat - a tin can).
* GotVolunteered: None of the Alley Cats want to bell the giant mouse, when Sylvester comes in begging to be reinstated. Instead of kicking him out, the Grand Poohbah decides to let him win back membership by doing what the others don't want to do.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After what they put Sylvester through, the Alley Cats finally gets their's when they jump into the street to get Hopper [[spoiler:and get hit by the van that just picked him up.]]
* LiteralMetaphor: Sylvester getting blackballed by the club means getting hit with a billiard eight ball.
* MirrorRoutine: How Sylvester finally gets Hopper to put on the bell. He stands on the other side of the fence and imitates Hopper as he looks through a gap, eventually getting Hopper to imitate him putting the bell around his neck.
* RunningGag: Sylvester getting clobbered by the Alley Cats every time a bell rings, thinking it was Hopper.
* TelephonePolearm: At one point the Alley Cats beat up Sylvester with a giant club.
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'''Bell Hoppy''' is a 1954 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson and staring [[WesternAnimation/SlyvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Slyvester the Cat]] and Hippety Hopper.

Following Slyvester being blackballed by the Loyal of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (again), Hippety escapes from a zoo deliveryman. When he's found by the Grand Poohbah of the Order, he mistakes the kangaroo as a mouse, big enough for the banquet. Unfortunately, Hopper is too much for one cat, so the Order decide to have someone put a bell on Hopper's neck so they can hear him coming and gang up on him. At first, no one wants to volunteer, until Slyvester appears, trying to join again....

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'''Bell Hoppy''' is a 1954 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson and staring [[WesternAnimation/SlyvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Slyvester [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] and Hippety Hopper.

Following Slyvester Sylvester being blackballed by the Loyal of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (again), Hippety escapes from a zoo deliveryman. When he's found by the Grand Poohbah of the Order, he mistakes the kangaroo as a mouse, big enough for the banquet. Unfortunately, Hopper is too much for one cat, so the Order decide to have someone put a bell on Hopper's neck so they can hear him coming and gang up on him. At first, no one wants to volunteer, until Slyvester Sylvester appears, trying to join again....
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'''Bell Hoppy''' is a 1954 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson and staring [[WesternAnimation/SlyvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Slyvester the Cat]] and Hippety Hopper.

Following Slyvester being blackballed by the Loyal of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club (again), Hippety escapes from a zoo deliveryman. When he's found by the Grand Poohbah of the Order, he mistakes the kangaroo as a mouse, big enough for the banquet. Unfortunately, Hopper is too much for one cat, so the Order decide to have someone put a bell on Hopper's neck so they can hear him coming and gang up on him. At first, no one wants to volunteer, until Slyvester appears, trying to join again....

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