YMMV / Feed the Kitty

• Awesome Music: The jazzy tune that plays during the cartoon’s opening credits is quite catchy.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Armed with the knowledge that the kitten is perfectly safe, we're allowed to laugh at Marc Anthony's trauma over said kitten's (supposed) death, then getting salt rubbed in his wounds when his mistress gives him a kitten-shaped cookie, unaware of its sentimental value.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Pussyfoot. There's even lots of merchandise of him sold at the Six Flags theme parks.
  • Marc Anthony is also beloved thanks to his hilarious Large Ham moments mixed with being just so pitiable near the end.
• Funny Moments:
  • Marc Anthony's "Who, me?" face◊ when he hides Pussyfoot in the cupboard. According to his autobiography, Chuck Jones drew at least a hundred versions of that face before getting it just right.
  • Marc Anthony's reaction to his owner making the cookies (see Crosses the Line Twice).
  • "My, what a long face."
  • "Marc Anthony! Have you gone insane?" And the grin Marc Anthony gives her in the middle of this.
• Heartwarming Moments
  • When Marc Anthony's owner lets him keep Pussyfoot, he playfully scolds the kitten for scaring him... at which point Pussyfoot plays with his finger and he hugs him.
  • Marc Anthony beaming from ear to ear when his owner tells him he can keep "that dear little kitten."
  • The beginning of the cartoon where Pussyfoot, undeterred by Marc Anthony's attempts to scare him, climbs onto his back, kneads his fur, and curls up fast asleep. Marc Anthony softens up and gives the kitten a little kiss on the forehead and the kitten licks his nose.
• Memetic Mutation: The shot of Marc Anthony in the "Thinker" pose, while squishing Pussyfoot's face into a smug expression. Plenty of redraws have been made, replacing them with other "best friends with a comical size contrast".
• Misaimed Fandom: A positive example: Chuck Jones didn't think anybody would take the infamous "cookie baking heartbreak" scene at face value and only intended it as Black Comedy, yet even he was surprised how much watching it made him tear up.
• Signature Scene: Marc Anthony watching as his owner bakes what he believes is his kitten into a batch of cookies. Monsters, Inc. famously recreated the sequences beat-for-beat when Sully thinks Boo has been dumped into a trash compactor.
  • Also, the first scene of Marc Anthony warming up to Pussyfoot after his attempts to scare her, in particular his eyelids bouncing up and down with the music as he looks directly at the viewer.
• Tear Jerker
  • Marc Anthony believing that his beloved kitten has been turned into a cookie. At first, it's hilariously dark, but it becomes genuinely tragic when a heartbroken Marc Anthony takes the kitten-shaped cookie from his mistress, puts it on his back where the kitten used to sleep and bursts into tears.
  • The scene beforehand as he watches aghast as the mistress makes the cookies which he believes contains his now-dead kitten. Again, the over-the-top reactions are hysterical, but his anguished, howling tears really sell just how heartbroken he is believing that his poor kitten is dead. And his owner has no way of knowing just why her dog is so upset (she thinks it's because she kicked him out of the house for making a mess).
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Pussyfoot (though the lady of the house calls the kitten "him" when giving Marc Anthony the stock responsible pet owner speech). Adding to the confusion is that the kitten's Leitmotif is "Ain't She Sweet".
• The Woobie: Even if you're laughing, it's still hard not to feel sorry for Marc Anthony. While he sees Pussyfoot not long afterwards, he still genuinely believes that his new friend has been killed, and it's clear he's completely heartbroken over it. Chuck Jones himself couldn't help crying for the poor dog, even though he made the cartoon with the idea that nobody would take his grief seriously. Luckily he snaps out of his depression as soon as he spots Pussyfoot.

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