History WesternAnimation / CannedFeud

* ForTheEvulz: This might be the meanest cartoon Warner Brothers ever made. Anyone who watches the Looney Tunes canon will observe tons and tons of ComedicSociopathy. However, the victims of this are almost always people who somehow have it coming. Elmer and Yosemite Sam are trying to kill Bugs, while Wile E. Coyote, the Tasmanian Devil, and Sylvester are trying to eat their prey. "Canned Feud" is different in that at no time does Sylvester try and eat the mouse. All he wants to do is be able to eat while his master and mistress are away. The mouse, for his part, deliberately withholds the can opener from Sylvester. And if that weren't enough, the mouse ''tortures'' Sylvester, repeatedly dangling the can opener in front of him only to devise elaborate traps. The cartoon ends with Sylvester having finally obtained the can opener--only to find that the mouse has padlocked the cupboard. Sylvester is apparently doomed to starve to death.

%%* YankTheDogsChain: Poor Sylvester.

* ForTheEvulz: This might be the meanest cartoon Warner Brothers ever made. Anyone who watches the Looney Tunes canon will observe tons and tons of ComedicSociopathy. However, the victims of this are almost always people who somehow have it coming. Elmer and Yosemite Sam are trying to kill Bugs, while Wile E. Coyote, the Tasmanian Devil, and Sylvester are trying to eat their prey. "Canned Feud" is different in that at no time does Sylvester try and eat the mouse. All he wants to do is be able to eat while his master and mistress are away. The mouse, for his part, deliberately withholds the can opener from Slyvester. And if that weren't enough, the mouse ''tortures'' Sylvester, repeatedly dangling the can opener in front of him only to devise elaborate traps. The cartoon ends with Sylvester having finally obtained the can opener--only to find that the mouse has padlocked the cupboard. Sylvester is apparently doomed to starve to death.

* TooDumbToLive: Sylvester, you never think once to try to catch and eat the ''mouse'' instead? Blowing up part of the house's wall with a ton of dynamite probably wasn't too bright, sure, but it at least left fewer places for the little monster to hide, so he'd be easy pickin's.....

* TooDumbTooLive: Sylvester, you never think once to try to catch and eat the ''mouse'' instead? Blowing up part of the house's wall with a ton of dynamite probably wasn't too bright, sure, but it at least left fewer places for the little monster to hide, so he'd be easy pickin's.....

This cartoon is notably one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* ComedicSociopathy: See ForTheEvulz below.

* MalevolentMice: The mouse is one of the meanest characters in the ''Looney Tunes'' series, and it's not hard to see why.

* [[YankTheDogsChain Yank The Cat's Chain]]: Poor Sylvester.

'''"Canned Feud"''' is a WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon short from 1951, starring [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]], this time without Tweety. It was directed by Creator/FrizFreleng.

!!Tropes:

* {{Bowdlerization}}: On CBS, the part where Sylvester uses a metal coat hanger to get the can opener, only to have the mouse hook it onto a pair of wires that electrocutes Sylvester was edited to remove the scene of Sylvester getting electrocuted (which makes it painfully obvious that something is missing).
** Nickelodeon also cut the scene CBS edited, but the channel deleted the entire scene instead of leaving the entire scene in and cutting the punchline to the joke. Also cut on Nickelodeon is the scene of Sylvester using an axe to open his can of cat food, only for the blade to fly off and go through the mail slot. It should be noted that similar scenes in "Yankee Dood It" (the electric coat hanger scene) and "Moby Duck" (the flying axe blade) were not censored when aired on Nickelodeon.

* {{Disneyfication}}: "Moby Duck" is essentially the same cartoon retooled to make the mouse's character provoked and sympathetic. It kind of comes with the role being played by WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales after all.

* LighterAndSofter: The remake "Moby Duck" has less dark slapstick and implications, and also adds a LaserGuidedKarma dynamic for the mouse. Here Speedy merely holds onto the can opener for negotiation purposes against the selfish Daffy, and even submits and hands it to him anyway in the end (only for Daffy to, much like Sylvester, lose the cans to a tide).

* {{Robinsonade}}: The premise of "Moby Duck".

* VillainBall: Daffy in "Moby Duck". Compared to the vindictive rodent in "Canned Feud", all Speedy wants is to share the canned food fairly, but Daffy persists in "survival of the fittest" and torturing himself trying force the can opener from Speedy.

* [[YankTheDogsChain Yank The Cat's Chain]]: Poor Sylvester. The same occurs for Daffy in "Moby Duck", though it's much more a case of LaserGuidedKarma.

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: The mouse, who would make Tweety and even [[Jerry WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry]] look benevolent by comparison, mainly because we are not shown whatever Sylvester may have done to provoke the mouse, if he did anything at all.