Home Sweet Homewrecker

Home Sweet Homewrecker is a 2012 Kuckoo Kat animated short film directed by Chester Underwood and written by April Glover and Sammy Moyer. The film focuses around Kuckoo traveling to Beverly Hills and getting taken home by three bubbly valley girls while having to deal with their mean sister, Claudette. Released on April 23, 2012, the short was shown before Kuckoo Kat: The Search for Whatzitville and was given critical acclaim.
The short was given an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short, the first Gryphon short to do so since Feline of Seville in 1957, and would win the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject, beating out Disney's Paperman.
== Plot ==
While tunneling to Tulsa, Oklahoma for a polka festival, Kuckoo ends up at Beverly Hills, stating about how he "should've taken a left turn at Cuc-amonga" (a reference to Mel Blanc's train announcer character on The Jack Benny Program). While looking around the city, he comes across a bubbly valley girl named Delia, who takes Kuckoo to her mansion and introduces him to her sisters, Stacy and Mindy. After they find out who he is, they let him stay at their mansion for the time being. Their older sister, Claudette arrives back home and is shocked to find Kuckoo in the pool and after an argument, she beats him up. After her little incident, the three sisters threaten Claudette to be nice to Kuckoo or else she'll be kicked out of the mansion. After they leave to go to the mall, Claudette kicks Kuckoo out of the mansion.
After she kicks him out, Claudette quickly finds Kuckoo back in the house, now in Claudette's room. After losing her temper behind closed doors, she tries a few schemes to kill Kuckoo while her sisters are gone, all of which go awry:
* Claudette ties a carrot to a string that is booby-trapped to an overhanging anvil tied around a nearby tree outside of the mansion, which Claudette tests with a marble, triggering the trap successfully. After being attracted by perfume, Kuckoo finds the carrot, and after initial trouble, takes the carrot, but the trap is not triggered this time. Claudette lightly tugs at the string, but she accidentally triggers the trap and is crushed by the anvil.
* Claudette then ties a string attached to a cannon to the doorknob of the laundry room. After faking a truce to Kuckoo, Claudette asks if he can check the laundry, which Kuckoo obliges. He comes back out the room unscathed and with a load of laundry. Claudette opens the door herself and is quickly blown up by the cannon.
* Finally, Claudette brings home a vicious dog named Killer to capture Kuckoo. When the dog approaches him, he stupidly asks Kuckoo if he knows what a cat is. Kuckoo tricks Killer into thinking Claudette is a cat and he goes back and attacks her.
Having had enough, Claudette grabs a shotgun and chases Kuckoo throughout the house, constantly shooting, but always missing him. Claudette hides in a closet waiting for Kuckoo to come back inside the house while Kuckoo hides outside right when Delia, Mindy, and Stacy come back wearing cat outfits. Kuckoo tricks Claudette into thinking he brought friends with him and she comes out the closet and shoots Kuckoo's "friends". Claudette points the gun at Kuckoo as she is about to shoot him, but Kuckoo makes her realize that she shot her own sisters. Kuckoo steps out the house to give them some "privacy" as the three sisters beat up Claudette off-screen. Later, while in a restaurant due to being stood up by her date, Claudette is about to eat her dinner, until Kuckoo comes out the platter and honks her nose and jumps around the restaurant, hooting wildly.
==Caricatures==
*Mel Blanc - Kuckoo quotes his train announcer character that he played in The Jack Benny Program
== Voice Cast ==
* "Weird Al" Yankovic - Kuckoo Kat
* Grey DeLisle - Claudette
* Kathleen Wilhoite - Delia
* Candi Milo - Stacy
* Yeardley Smith - Mindy
* Billy West - Killer
==Music Cues==
**That Was A Big Fat Lie (by Jules Styne)
***Plays during the opening credits
**It's a Great Feeling (by Jules Styne and Sammy Cahn)
***Plays when Kuckoo arrives at Beverly Hills
**Lucky Day (by Ray Henderson)
***Plays when Kuckoo meets Delia and is taken to her mansion
**Hooray for Hollywood (by Richard A. Whiting and Johnny Mercer)
***Plays when Kuckoo realizes he’s in Beverly Hills
**Fiddle Dee Dee (by Jules Styne)
***Plays briefly when Claudette arrives
**As Time Goes By (by Herman Hupfeld)
***Sung by Kuckoo as he relaxes in the pool
**Mutiny in the Nursery (by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer)
***Plays when Claudette meets Kuckoo
**Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (traditional)
***Sung as a dissonant version when Kuckoo emerges beaten up
**You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby (by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer)
***Plays when Claudette discovers Kuckoo in her room
**The Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish (by Harry Warren)
***Plays when Kuckoo smells the perfume
**Concert in the Park (by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin)
***Sung briefly by Kuckoo as he reads a comic book
**Old Pal (by Egbert Van Alstyne)
***Plays when Claudette fakes a truce towards Kuckoo
**Puddin' Head Jones (by Lou Handman)
***Plays when Kuckoo tricks Killer
**You Hit My Heart With A Bang (by Al Goodhart, Edward G. Nelson and Harry Pease)
***Plays during the chase sequence
**So Dumb, But So Beautiful (by M.K. Jerome)
***Plays when Kuckoo and the three girls reunite
**Mysterious Mose (by Walter Doyle)
***Plays when Claudette finds the three sisters angry at her
**Gotta Be This Or That (by Sunny Skylar)
***Plays at the end with Claudette at the restaurant
== Availability ==