Hyde and Go Tweet

Plot synopsis:
Sylvester is sleeping on the ledge of a tall building. He is just outside the window of the laboratory and office of mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll, who is shown entering the laboratory, drinking a Hyde Formula and briefly turning into a monstrous, evilly laughing alter-ego. Sylvester hears the laughter and awakens startled, but when he looks inside the window, he sees only the re-transformed Jekyll departing the laboratory. Sylvester laughs it off and resumes his sleep.
Suddenly waking up, Sylvester tries to catch some pigeons, but to no avail. He then pursues his prey, Tweety, along the building's ledge. Tweety escapes inside the laboratory and hides in the Hyde Formula bottle. Sylvester demands that Tweety show himself, which he does now as a crazy, giant bird of prey that - after years of harassment, being chased and with payback on his mind - begins chasing Sylvester.
Sylvester is frantically summoning the elevator, and he turns and looks down a corridor, and Tweety/Hyde is ambling along, laughing maniacally.
For most of the rest of the cartoon, Tweety frequently switches between his usual, innocent self (which Sylvester chases) and the evil bird-monster (from which Sylvester runs away). After several back-and-forth chases (which includes Sylvester being tricked by the normal Tweety into running into an out of order chute for an elevator, as well as jumping out a window to escape the monster form), Sylvester nabs a normal-sized Tweety. Unaware of the fact that the monster bird and his potential meal are one and the same, the cat locks himself in a small kitchen, throws the key out the window to make sure that Tweety doesn't "...get out and that 'goon' don't get in," and begins to make Tweety into a sandwich. But while Sylvester is searching for some ketchup, Tweety changes back into his menacing, Hyde-like self and devours his adversary whole in a single gulp. Sylvester frees himself and tries to escape the room.
Just then, Sylvester awakens... to realize that this was only a nightmare and to see a normal-sized Tweety struggling to fly to the ledge of the building. Fearing the events of his nightmare are about to come true, Sylvester is convinced that Tweety poses a giant risk to his well-being. Sylvester cries out and runs through a brick wall to escape (He is found by Porky Pig and Daffy Duck in Quackbusters). Two cats (variants of the cats in Birds Anonymous) observe his action and refer to it as cowardice. Tweety agrees on that.

Tags: psychedelic

Review:
Hysterical.
While not the first on most lists as a great Tweety and Sylvester cartoon, this is one of my personal favorites.
It features a classic moment of a huge yellow finger, capped with a crooked claw, tapping Sylvester on the shoulder, with Sylvester literally falling to pieces when he turns around.
All in all, a loud laugh for me every time I see it!.
The concept has been done to death, but Hyde and Go Tweet is still very funny and very clever.
Hyde and Go Tweet is one of my personal favourite Sylvester and Tweety cartoons.
The concept loosely based on the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde idea isn't exactly original, and has been done to death not only in Looney Tunes but also in Tom and Jerry and Scooby Doo, however despite this which is by no means a flaw, Hyde and Go Tweet is very funny and very clever.
The animation is very impressive I think, it is colourful and vibrant, and the music sets the atmosphere well.
The dialogue is minimal but is good, but the sight gags are what make the cartoon especially when Tweety turns into a Hyde-version of himself at unexpected times.
Tweety is cute at times as he usually is, and his Hyde-version did scare me admittedly when I was little.
Sylvester is even better, he is the butt of the joke and he takes it well.
And Mel Blanc is exceptional, especially as Tweety's-Hyde version, actually it was the laugh that frightened me most about Tweety's-Hyde form.
Overall, funny and clever, with a slightly unoriginal concept, but it makes the most of it and makes something interesting out of it.
10/10 Bethany Cox. One of the Last of the Best.
This classic Tweety and Sylvester cartoon was one of the last great ones from that era of magnificent Looney Tunes shorts.
The sight of a huge, slobbering Tweety in a role reversal of chasing Sylvester around, was not an original idea, but an old idea done with that 50's Warner Bros.
flare that has sadly never been equaled.Two years ago I took my family out to the movies for a couple of nights in a row to see a mini Looney Tunes film festival.
The second night Hyde and Go Tweet was one of the selections and was a huge smash with the sold out audience (you hear that AOL/Time/Warner/etc?
- SOLD OUT!).
Not any of us has seen this cartoon since then, but we were recently talking about those two nights and recalled this one quite fondly..
"Just being a pussycat is a constant hazard.".
Tweety, on the run from Sylvester, jumps into a bottle of Dr. Jekyll's Hyde formula and changes into one of the scariest cartoon birds I've ever seen.
A funny short from Friz Freleng that is yet another cartoon take on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
It may have been done before but this is still very enjoyable.
Every time Tweety changes into that thing and poor Sylvester gets scared, you'll find yourself laughing.
Great music from Milt Franklyn.
Wonderful voice work from the incomparable Mel Blanc.
The animation is nice and colorful with well-drawn characters and backgrounds.
Pretty fun stuff.
The Hyde Tweety alone makes it worth a look.
My only complaint is that I didn't like the ending much..
living on the (l)edge vs.
cowardice.
I remember that I originally saw "Hyde and Go Tweet" in the compilation film "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters", but now I've finally gotten to see it in its own form.
I actually derive that there's more to it than simply being a cartoon.
Early on, Sylvester - after nearly falling off the ledge on the side of a building when he tried to catch some birds - says "Being a pussycat is a constant hazard." Less than a minute later, Tweety - having shakily landed on the ledge - says "They still haven't perfected flying." That's when Sylvester chases Tweety into a science lab, where Tweety jumps into Hyde formula; the rest, as they say, is history.It's interesting to think that, despite their evident antagonism towards each other, Sylvester and Tweety appear to live somewhat parallel existences in this respect; obviously, things become more dangerous for them as they chase each other back and forth throughout the cartoon.
Maybe if they both came to understand how unsafe life is for each other, they wouldn't be enemies.Of course, I mean all that figuratively/metaphorically.
But there is yet another topic that the cartoon brings up: cowardice.
He was lucky that he was a civilian and not a soldier, because had that been cowardice in the face of the enemy during wartime...well, just watch Stanley Kubrick's movie "Paths of Glory" and you'll see what I mean.I'm probably reading too far into this cartoon.
It was most likely intended as pure entertainment, and it does come out pretty entertaining.
Worth seeing..
The always eponymous Warner Bros.
through their crack team of Animated Shorts Seers (aka, The Looney Tuners) explicitly reveal the character of "Tweety" for the unmitigated Threat to Humanity that it allegorically represents in this brief cartoon, HYDE AND GO TWEET.
After being doused in the "Mr. Hyde Formula" (that is, money) Tweety turns into an overbearing monster that eventually eats "Sylvester Cat" (representing we True Blue Normal Average Loyal Patriotic 99 Per Center Progressive Union Label Americans, of course).
To add to the fiendishness of the situation, Tweety ALTERNATES between his normal digitally-challenged self (notorious on Twitter, but frequently dismissed--with tragic consequences--as "all bark, no bite") and the Russian Red Commie KGB-controlled two-ton ogre now calling all the shots in the once Independent USA.
At 5:30, when Tweety finally swallows Sylvester, can any of Today's viewers NOT see Warner warning us through their cartoon prophets about Putin's SCOTUS attacks against World Travelers, Union Members, LGBT-Q folk, and Democracy (i.e., "One Citizen, One Vote) this week?