Who's Kitten Who?

Who's Kitten Who? is a 1952 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.
== Title ==
The title is a play on the phrase "who's kiddin' who?"
== Plot ==
A delivery man brings a crate into the zoo office. Inside the crate is a baby kangaroo, named Hippety Hopper, who begins to leap until he finds a coal truck and slides down to the basement. The basement happens to be the one in the house of Sylvester and his son, Sylvester Junior. Sylvester wants to teach his son to catch a mouse. As they spot a small mouse, Junior wants to chase after it, but Sylvester just wants his son to watch him catch it. Sylvester spots some eyes in the basement door, and thinks it is the mouse, but it is Hippety. Hippety kicks Sylvester, causing Sylvester to mistakenly think that Hopper is a giant mouse. The playful and curious kangaroo manages to evade most of Sylvester's attempts to catch Hippety:
# Sylvester first tries to swipe the kangaroo and Hippety jumps around, causing Sylvester to tell him to stand still. Eventually, Hippety places his feet and balances on his tail, causing Sylvester to do the same and gets kicked to the kitchen counter.
# An enraged Sylvester attacks Hippety directly, but is constantly bopped in the head. Junior starts to show enthusiasm which slowly turns into concern when Sylvester keeps popping out the door with more bruises after each consecutive bopping. Eventually, Hippety kicks Sylvester and it banged into an ironing board and is launched out of the kitchen. Junior realizes that a little mouse has beaten Sylvester, causing him to respond, "Oh the shame of it. Wherever I go, people will point at me and say, 'There goes the kid whose father was thrown out by a mouse.'"
# Sylvester tries to bounce like the kangaroo using a pair of springs. Eventually, he falls down too hard and ricochets to the ceiling and is kicked out of the kitchen again. Junior facepalms and says, "What kind of father have I that won't back his little son up?" Sylvester tries to convince Junior that Hippety is a giant mouse, but Junior thinks his father is a liar and covers his face with a paper bag.
# After Sylvester gives Junior a lollipop (which Junior considers bribery), Junior goes after the mouse himself and brings fly paper with him. Sylvester pummels Hippety downs the stairs and eventually, Junior is now ensnared onto the fly paper on Hippety's body.
Sylvester erroneously thinks that Hippety swallowed his son alive and also puts a paper bag over his face in shame similar to what his son did earlier. However, Junior emerges from the fly paper stuck on Hippety's body alive and unharmed, sharing his lollipop with Hippety.
== Availability ==
Lt salute mb.jpg|(1985) VHS A Salute to Mel Blanc
LooneyTunesSuperStars SylvesterAndHippetyHopper.jpg|(2013) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars' Sylvester & Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem
=== Streaming ===
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== Censorship ==
The version of this cartoon that aired on ABC's The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show shortens all instances of Hippety Hopper kicking Sylvester in the face and head.https://web.archive.org/web/20240224055624/https://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-u-z.aspx
== Goofs ==
* In the middle of the cartoon from after when Sylvester emerges from the kitchen door with his face battered and beaten up for the second time up until the scene where Sylvester gets kicked out of the kitchen by Hippety, Sylvester's face was erroneously miscolored white instead of black.
* On all TV broadcasts of the cartoon's 1990s print, including on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Boomerang, for some odd reason on the English Audio Track, the 1946-1955 Looney Tunes ending music cue is replaced by the 1955-1964 Looney Tunes ending music cue, though on the foreign language dub tracks the original ending music cue is retained. A similar audio error also occurs in European PAL TV broadcasts of "All a Bir-r-r-d" (1950).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-KwX5EVip4
== Notes ==
* This was the last Sylvester cartoon to be animated by Emery Hawkins.
*This is the final Robert McKimson-directed Sylvester cartoon to use the "plump Sylvester" design which Robert McKimson previously used since "Crowing Pains" (1947). Beginning with "Hoppy-Go-Lucky" later that year, McKimson would redesign Sylvester to be slimmer and more streamlined to closely resemble how his original creator Friz Freleng drew him permanently until his final classic-era appearance in "A Taste of Catnip" (1966).
* This is the first cartoon which Sylvester Junior would cover his face with a paper bag in shame when he witness his father's humiliating defeats in catching mice, birds or fish, which becomes a running gag in the Sylvester/Sylvester Junior cartoons, especially the ones co-starring Hippety Hopper.
* This is currently the only Hippety Hopper and Sylvester Junior cartoon that does not survive with its original color rings; most of the other shorts that were reissued had their original color rings restored for the Marsupial Mayhem DVD.
== Gallery ==
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=== TV Title Cards ===
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== References ==
Category:Cartoons directed by Robert McKimson
Category:Sylvester Cartoons
Category:Sylvester Junior Cartoons
Category:Hippety Hopper Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:1952
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:Re-released cartoons whose original titles are known to exist
Category:Cartoons written by Tedd Pierce
Category:Cartoons animated by Emery Hawkins
Category:Cartoons animated by Charles McKimson
Category:Cartoons animated by Bob Wickersham
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Peter Alvarado
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer