"A Street Cat Named Sylvester" is a 1953 Looney Tunes short starting Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird.
Hoping to get out of the freezing cold, Tweety seeks shelter at a nearby house owned by Granny. Unfortunately, living in the house is Sylvester, who intends to eat the little shelter seeker, even with a laid up Hector getting in his way.
"A Street Cat Named Sylvester" provides examples of:
- Bowdlerization:
- On ABC, the end where Sylvester is laid up with injuries had the scene of Hector beating Sylvester's broken foot replaced with Tweety mixing additional medicines in Sylvester's bottle. The edit actually makes the scene worse, as it cuts down Hector's hits from three to one and leaves in Sylvester's scream of pain and the immediate cut to Tweety creates a Relax-o-Vision of sorts that implies what was already censored. Here's a video clip of how it was actually cut on ABC
. - The Nickelodeon version left in Hector beating Sylvester's broken foot, but cut off Tweety's final line, "That puddy tat's gonna be in an awful pwedicament when that medicine starts to work" and ended the cartoon with Tweety laughing as Sylvester gags and spits out the medicine (possibly to avoid implications that Tweety may have poisoned Sylvester, though leaving in Tweety mixing in the additional medicines, as well as ending it with Tweety laughing at Sylvester gagging and spitting out the medicine isn't much better).
- On ABC, the end where Sylvester is laid up with injuries had the scene of Hector beating Sylvester's broken foot replaced with Tweety mixing additional medicines in Sylvester's bottle. The edit actually makes the scene worse, as it cuts down Hector's hits from three to one and leaves in Sylvester's scream of pain and the immediate cut to Tweety creates a Relax-o-Vision of sorts that implies what was already censored. Here's a video clip of how it was actually cut on ABC
- Call-Back: Like in "Tweetie Pie", the short begins with Tweety out in the cold trying to keep warm with a lit cigar.
- Formula-Breaking Episode: In this short, Tweety is the stray (similar to 1947's "Tweety Pie") and Granny presumably remains unaware of his existence.
- Foul Medicine: Hector's medicine tastes really terrible, causing whoever drank it to turn green in the face.
- Fur Is Clothing: Sylvester hides inside Granny's knitting basket just as she sits down to knit. Some of her yarn gets caught with Sylvester's fur, and it starts unravelling. Sylvester realizes and knits it back, along with some of the yarn, and he ends up with a multicolor argyle pattern on his lower half. Granny sees this and blames it on her astigmatism.
- Non-Indicative Title: Though Sylvester is often a stray in a number of his pictures, he's playing a housecat in this one, so it does come off a bit odd.
- Noodle Incident: Hector somehow got his leg broken while chasing Sylvester.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: On A Streetcar Named Desire.
- Running Gag: Granny giving Hector his medicine.
- Threat Backfire: Hector vows to protect Tweety from Sylvester, telling him that Sylvester "will have to take you over my dead body," to which Sylvester defiantly declares, "Okay, Buster, I can arrange that!". He then attempts to crush Hector with a refrigerator, only to miscalculate his aim and end up being crushed himself.
- The Unreveal: We don't find out what the stuff Tweety put into the medicine Sylvester drank will do, just that he'll be in an awful predicament when it kicks in.
