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A Kiddies Kitty is a 1955 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.

Plot[]

Suzanne has broken all of her toys, so she asks her mother if she can get a cat, as their heads can't be torn off. However, Suzanne's mother rejects her offer and says that she will not get any other toy or pet until she can be more responsible with them. On the other side of the fence, Sylvester is being chased by Hector the Bulldog. Hoping to escape from Hector, Sylvester leaps over the fence and onto Suzanne's yard. Suzanne finds Sylvester and wants to keep him for herself.

However, Suzanne doesn't know how to treat a cat. She first hugs Sylvester too hard that he nearly chokes and then gives him a bath in a washing machine. She gives Sylvester some milk to drink, but she nearly gets caught by her mother for having a cat, and hides Sylvester in the freezer and licks the milk that Sylvester drank earlier. After being called out by her mother for being silly, Suzanne attempts to take Sylvester out, but only to see him frozen in a pack of ice cubes. To thaw Sylvester, Suzanne warms him up with an electric blanket that eventually overheats.

Back outside, Sylvester wants dinner and is being offered "liver and sardines," which is actually mud. Sylvester realizes that Suzanne is actually worse than Hector and tries to escape, but the fence door is guarded by Hector. Sylvester regretfully accepts eating the mud. Sylvester is next sent to swing on a swing set, while Hector climbs up a nearby tree to finally attack Sylvester again. Sylvester is wrapped in bandages and he tries to remove them at the cost of losing some facial hair.

Lastly, Suzanne watches a show called Captain Electronic in Outer Space. Realizing that she can make Sylvester have fun by imitating Captain Electronic, she tugs Sylvester out and puts him in a spacesuit with a firework jetpack. The jetpack lodges up into Sylvester's space helmet and then explodes, causing Sylvester to lose all of his fur on his head. Suzanne's mother finally catches Sylvester and Suzanne begs to keep him. Suzanne's mother allows her daughter to keep Sylvester, as long as she can give him a bath, feed him, and give him medical attention. Upon hearing this "medical attention", Sylvester is scared off and runs out of the house to resume the chase with Hector.

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  • On ABC, the part where Sylvester is blown up by a rocket while playing spaceman with Suzanne was edited by replacing the blast with a mirrored still of Suzanne smiling from earlier in the short when she first picks him up.
  • When this cartoon aired on The WB, the rocket part was uncut, but an earlier scene in which Sylvester is thrown into a washing machine by Suzanne and comes out of the machine as a big ball of fur is cut. A similar scene from "A Waggily Tale" is also cut when shown on the same channel.[2]

Notes[]

  • This was the last Sylvester cartoon to be reissued as a "Blue Ribbon" as it was reissued on 15 August 1964.[3] The Vitaphone release "title card" and Color Rings also serve as the ending, replacing the 1955-56 green rings.
  • Sylvester does not speak in this short, although he does say "yeah" four times.
  • This short was used in the special Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes.

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Sylvester Cartoons
1945 Life with Feathers ā€¢ Peck Up Your Troubles
1946 Kitty Kornered
1947 Tweetie Pie ā€¢ Crowing Pains ā€¢ Doggone Cats ā€¢ Catch as Cats Can
1948 Back Alley Oproar ā€¢ I Taw a Putty Tat ā€¢ Hop, Look and Listen ā€¢ Kit for Cat ā€¢ Scaredy Cat
1949 Mouse Mazurka ā€¢ Bad Ol' Putty Tat ā€¢ Hippety Hopper
1950 Home, Tweet Home ā€¢ The Scarlet Pumpernickel ā€¢ All a Bir-r-r-d ā€¢ Canary Row ā€¢ Stooge for a Mouse ā€¢ Pop 'Im Pop!
1951 Canned Feud ā€¢ Putty Tat Trouble ā€¢ Room and Bird ā€¢ Tweety's S.O.S. ā€¢ Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952 Who's Kitten Who? ā€¢ Gift Wrapped ā€¢ Little Red Rodent Hood ā€¢ Ain't She Tweet ā€¢ Hoppy Go Lucky ā€¢ A Bird in a Guilty Cage ā€¢ Tree for Two
1953 Snow Business ā€¢ A Mouse Divided ā€¢ Fowl Weather ā€¢ Tom Tom Tomcat ā€¢ A Street Cat Named Sylvester ā€¢ Catty Cornered ā€¢ Cats A-weigh!
1954 Dog Pounded ā€¢ Bell Hoppy ā€¢ Dr. Jerkyl's Hide ā€¢ Claws for Alarm ā€¢ Muzzle Tough ā€¢ Satan's Waitin' ā€¢ By Word of Mouse
1955 Lighthouse Mouse ā€¢ Sandy Claws ā€¢ Tweety's Circus ā€¢ Jumpin' Jupiter ā€¢ A Kiddies Kitty ā€¢ Speedy Gonzales ā€¢ Red Riding Hoodwinked ā€¢ Heir-Conditioned ā€¢ Pappy's Puppy
1956 Too Hop to Handle ā€¢ Tweet and Sour ā€¢ Tree Cornered Tweety ā€¢ The Unexpected Pest ā€¢ Tugboat Granny ā€¢ The Slap-Hoppy Mouse ā€¢ Yankee Dood It
1957 Tweet Zoo ā€¢ Tweety and the Beanstalk ā€¢ Birds Anonymous ā€¢ Greedy for Tweety ā€¢ Mouse-Taken Identity ā€¢ Gonzales' Tamales
1958 A Pizza Tweety-Pie ā€¢ A Bird in a Bonnet
1959 Trick or Tweet ā€¢ Tweet and Lovely ā€¢ Cat's Paw ā€¢ Here Today, Gone Tamale ā€¢ Tweet Dreams
1960 West of the Pesos ā€¢ Goldimouse and the Three Cats ā€¢ Hyde and Go Tweet ā€¢ Mouse and Garden ā€¢ Trip for Tat
1961 Cannery Woe ā€¢ Hoppy Daze ā€¢ Birds of a Father ā€¢ D' Fightin' Ones ā€¢ The Rebel Without Claws ā€¢ The Pied Piper of Guadalupe ā€¢ The Last Hungry Cat
1962 Fish and Slips ā€¢ Mexican Boarders ā€¢ The Jet Cage
1963 Mexican Cat Dance ā€¢ Chili Weather ā€¢ Claws in the Lease
1964 A Message to Gracias ā€¢ Freudy Cat ā€¢ Nuts and Volts ā€¢ Hawaiian Aye Aye ā€¢ Road to Andalay
1965 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House ā€¢ Cats and Bruises ā€¢ The Wild Chase
1966 A Taste of Catnip
1980 The Yolks on You
1995 Carrotblanca
1997 Father of the Bird
2011 I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat
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