Merrie Melodies: A Tale of Two Kitties
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Babbit and Catstello, take-offs on Bud Abbott and Lou Costello try to catch the little Tweety bird, using everything from stilts to dynamite. Trouble is, the tiny bird has a vicious streak in him.
The usual high standard of animation is present, along with the character voices supplied by Mel Blanc (Catstello and Tweety) and Tedd Pierce (Babbit).
April 3rd, 2007 at 6:31 pm
A Camplett´s classic. Correct me if I´m wrong, but this is Tweety (no-feathers version) debut.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:15 pm
WWII was a great time for cartoons, especially Warner Bro.’s.
Favorite part; when Bud is bouncing up and down on springs, tweety clobbering him at the top of every bounce, Bud shrugs his shoulders like he just doesn’t know what to do about the situation.
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:38 am
when i was younger, my mom used to buy me tapes of all these old cartoons. They arent like this any more, cartoons… but thank God for sites like these.. =)
February 16th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I found the pacing to be too slow, and the animation was pretty dull for a 40’s Looney Tune. I love “Looney Tunes”, but this whole short is forgettable. Even Terrytoons are better than this!
May 9th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Since it hasn’t been noted yet, the cats are takeoffs on Abbott and Costello.
July 4th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
The kids were at the babysitter when mom and dad went out to see a movie and one or two feature cartoons. The Costello-like cat mentions something about the “Hays Code,” which is the motion picture production code of the 1930’s. http://www.artsreformation.com/a001/hays-code.html
This is a classic Warner Brothers cartoon that tells us a lot about the ear in which it was made.