Freudy Cat

Freudy Cat
Freudy Cat
Directed by	Robert McKimson
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Produced by	David H. DePatie (uncredited)
Starring	Mel Blanc
Music by	Bill Lava; Carl Stalling (archive footages only); Philip Green (certain prints); (both uncredited)
Animation by	Ted Bonnicksen; Warren Batchelder; George Grandpré
Layouts by	Robert Gribbroek
Backgrounds by	Robert Gribbroek
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	March 14, 1964;
Running time	7 minutes
Language	English

Freudy Cat is a 1964 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated short directed by Robert McKimson.^[2] The short was released on March 14, 1964, and stars Sylvester the Cat, Sylvester Jr. and Hippety Hopper.^[3]

Plot

A paranoid Sylvester flashes back to earlier cartoons such as Who's Kitten Who?, Cats A-Weigh!, and The Slap-Hoppy Mouse while describing to a psychiatrist that he thinks Hippety Hopper is out to get him.

Soundtrack Anomaly

The cartoon is unusual in that it mixes a new soundtrack by Bill Lava with music by Carl Stalling (while alive in 1964, he had retired six years earlier), which is heard during the original shorts that make up this cartoon. That results in a schizophrenic soundtrack (whether this was intentional, given the plot of a mentally unbalanced Sylvester visiting a psychiatrist, isn't known, but it is possible). Even more unusual is that certain prints of the cartoon contain stock music pieces by Philip Green that play over numerous areas of the cartoon without removing the old soundtrack, creating a rather dissonant, overbearing "new" soundtrack.

Notes

This was the last theatrical appearance of both Hippety Hopper and Sylvester Jr.

References

^ Beck, Jerry (1991). I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety. New York: Henry Holt and Co. p. 151. ISBN 0-8050-1644-9.
^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 347. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–61. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

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[1] Beck, Jerry (1991). I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety. New York: Henry Holt and Co. p. 151. ISBN 0-8050-1644-9.

[Beck-2] Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 347. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.

[3] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–61. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

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v t e Sylvester Jr. in animation
Short films	Pop 'im Pop! (1950) Who's Kitten Who? (1952) Cats a-Weigh (1953) Too Hop to Handle (1956) The Slap-Hoppy Mouse (1956) Mouse-Taken Identity (1957) Cat's Paw (1959) Tweet Dreams (1959) Goldimouse and the Three Cats (1960) Birds of a Father (1961) Fish and Slips (1962) Claws in the Lease (1963) Freudy Cat (1964)
Feature films	Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982; archive footage) Space Jam (1996; cameo)

v t e Hippety Hopper in animation
Short films	Hop, Look and Listen (1948) Hippety Hopper (1949) Pop 'im Pop! (1950) Bushy Hare (1950; cameo) Who's Kitten Who (1952) Hoppy Go Lucky (1952) Cats A-Weigh! (1953) Bell Hoppy (1954) Lighthouse Mouse (1955) Too Hop to Handle (1956) The Slap-Hoppy Mouse (1956) Mouse-Taken Identity (1957) Hoppy Daze (1961) Freudy Cat (1964)
Feature films	Space Jam (1996; cameo) Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (2000; cameo) Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003; cameo) Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006; cameo)
TV series	Bugs Bunny Builders (2022–present)