Catty Cornered

Catty Cornered is a 1953 Merrie Melodies short directed by I. Freleng.
== Plot ==
Tweety is being held ransom at Rocky's hideaway, and whoever rescues the bird will get one million dollars reward. Tweety tries to escape, but Rocky nearly shoots Tweety. Outside, Sylvester is eating his scraps of food when he hears Tweety chirping at Rocky's lair. Hungry for lunch, Sylvester runs up the stairway and through the sides of the building. However, this catches the attention of Rocky and his sidekick Nick. Nick places a banana where Sylvester is walking, causing him to slip and fall.
Tweety escapes through the door, but needs to hide quickly before he is caught again. Sylvester, who is inside, suggests that Tweety hide in Sylvester's mouth. However, Tweety immediately exits, finding it too cramped inside. Rocky hears Tweety, and Sylvester quickly hides Tweety in a tomato can. Rocky tries to get Sylvester to say where the bird is, but he refuses and is beaten up by Nick. Rocky spots the tomato can moving, exposing Tweety. Rocky places a stick of dynamite inside of the can, and Nick angrily throws Sylvester out. Thinking he finally caught his prey, Sylvester runs off with the can but it explodes. "Ya dirty guys, ugh...", says Sylvester before collapsing on the stairway.
Sylvester next tries to lift himself with an I-beam. He quickly runs off with Tweety, but is squashed by the I-beam as he runs off. "Aw, the poor puddy tat fall down." Sylvester hides in an elevator just as the police arrive at the hideout. Nick hides the bird in the same elevator Sylvester is in. As Rocky and Nick are arrested, Sylvester runs out with Tweety only to be confronted by various photographers and news outlets, who all call Sylvester a hero for saving Tweety. During a town hall meeting, the mayor congratulates Sylvester and tells him to kiss the bird. However, still wanting to get his lunch, Sylvester eats Tweety, and the mayor spanks his head repeatedly until he spits out the bird. Tweety responds angrily, "Ooh, he's a bad puddy tat!"
== Availability ==
W UK10562 LooneyTunesVideoShowNo9The.jpg|(1984) VHS The Looney Tunes Video Show, Volume 9
51QXZD98XSL.jpg|(1990) VHS Sylvester and Tweety (1990)
GUFFAW AND ORDER.jpg|(1994) LaserDisc Guffaw and Order: Looney Tunes Fight Crime
Bumper01.jpg|(1994) VHS Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 1)
Bumper04.jpg|(1996) VHS Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 4)
Gjhniulk.jpg|(1996) VHS Looney Tunes Collection - Sylvester and Tweety 
Jlaser-bnt.jpg|(1997) LaserDisc Bugs and Tweety: Watch the Birdie (1997 dubbed version) (only in PAL regions)
51Rir IkqCL.jpg|(1997) VHS Classic Bumper Collection
lt ccmns.jpg|(1997) VHS Looney Tunes Classic Collection (Marks and Spencer UK VHS)
TweetAndLovelyVHS.jpg|(1998) VHS Looney Tunes Presents Tweety: Tweet and Lovely (1997 dubbed version)
Bumper08.jpg|(1998) VHS Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 8)
I Love Tweety - Volume 1.jpg|(2001) DVD I Love Tweety: Volume 1 (restored with DVNR)
A1L-oj097sL. AC SL1500 .jpg|(2003) VHS Tweety & Sylvester (2003)
346061 front.jpg|(2023) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 2 (restored without DVNR)
=== Streaming ===
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max Latin America / Brazil (2021 - 2024) (restored without DVNR)
lt max.jpg|Max Latin America / Brazil (2024 - ) (restored without DVNR)
== Censorship ==
* The scene of the mayor smacking Sylvester on the head to make him spit out Tweety at the ending was shortened on ABC airings.https://archive.org/details/bugsbunnyandtweetyshows2ep20jan231988
== Notes ==
* This short was included in Friz Freleng's Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie and The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special, but the scenes at the beginning and ending of the short are sped-up by about five percent, while the middle of the short is kept at normal speed.
* This is one of the few cartoons where Tweety doesn't say his signature catchphrase "I tawt I taw a putty tat".
* Rocky would bird-nap Tweety once again in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode "The Cat Who Knew Too Much", except that Rocky's sidekick is the idiotic Mugsy as opposed to the smart Nick.
* It was adapted into Sylvester and Tweety in Catty Cornered, a book from Buzz Books.
* The newspaper announcer at the start of the cartoon sounds similar to that of Bugs Bunny.
* The animation at the end where Sylvester eats Tweety and is picked up by the mayor to spit the bird out is largely reanimated from "Gift Wrapped" from the previous year.
* The version of the short restored for HBO Max has a beige tint to the opening rings.
== Gallery ==
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File:Catty 1.jpg|Layout drawing
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File:Catty layout.jpg|Layout drawing
== References ==
== External links ==
* "Catty Cornered" at the SFX Resource
Category:Sylvester Cartoons
Category:Tweety Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:1953
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:Cartoons written by Warren Foster
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Hawley Pratt
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Irv Wyner
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer