No Barking

No Barking is a 1954 Merrie Melodies short directed by Charles M. Jones.
== Title ==
The title is based on the sign "No Parking" used to prevent a vehicle from parking in a particular area for various safety or zoning reasons.
== Plot ==
Mixed breed alley cat Claude, searching for food, is harassed by the playful antics and barking of an energetic pup, Frisky Puppy. Frisky repeatedly sneaks up behind the poor tabby cat (who hates the dog) and scares it into jumping vertically when it barks. 
Claude comes across to see Frisky arrives carrying a bone on his mouth and buries near the electric pole and leaves after he growls around knowing someone will steal his bone. Claude then begins to dig where the bone is buried only to get barked by Frisky sending him into the top of the electric pole and picks his bone planning to hide it somewhere as he leaves Claude badmouths him angrily. Claude checks the trash can Frisky pops out barking him sending him into the ceiling of a house and leaves. Claude fells off the ceiling and chases him but loses him. Frisky picks up a boot from a box and carries it and gets trip by it. Frisky barks angrily at the boot and grabs it shaking it and toss it at Claude's face who steps in and throws him into a wall. 
Outraged, he chases Frisky into the sewers but he loses him and he was in the other pipe. He barks Claude sending flying out of the sewer and lands on the road followed by the manhole lid and Frisky climbs out of the hole and leaves. A dazed Claude walks down the alley and finds a faucet and turns it on to recover and Frisky appears and barks him sending into the train tracks and gets run over by a passing train. In the train station Claude walks down dazedly and bumps into a "Up-Town Elevated" sign and leaves the station. 
Frisky walks down the alley and notices his self in a shattered mirror and licks it but he angrily barks it and leaves. He scratches his back then grabs a nearby rope which tied on a pole the rope snap and whips him in the butt and he barks angrily at the rope. Claude suddenly appears and chases Frisky into a lumber mill Claude stops running and Frisky was on the other side and sees him through the old pipe and barks him sending him a piece of lumber and getting his legs stuck on it, much to his fury. 
Meanwhile, Claude hears a bird chipping and looks up to see a dumb bird nest in a branch of a tree. He approaches the tree to get the cheeky bird, but Frisky suddenly appears and stops him sending into a pole and also removing all the branch and leaves in the tree only leaves the branch where the nest is. Tweety Bird pops saying his famous line after seeing Claude zoomed by. After Claude finally silences the friendly pup after he tricks him with a fake tail, he encounters a large bulldog resembling Marc Anthony, whose bark has a disastrous effect sending him into a wing of an airplane. Tweety remarks, "I did! I did taw a putty tat!"
== Availability ==
Lt vs10 uk.jpg|(1984) VHS The Looney Tunes Video Show, Volume 10
Golden Collection box 3.jpg|(2005) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3, Disc Four
lt cas4.jpg|(2006) DVD Looney Tunes Collection All Stars Volume 4
lt spotlight 7.jpg|(2009) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 7, Disc 2
lt cv3.jpg|(2018) DVD Looney Tunes Collection Volume 3
=== Streaming ===
Lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2022)
Lt max.jpg|Max (2024 - )
File:Lt itunes.jpg|iTunes ( - ) (restored)
== Censorship ==
* In ABC's The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show and Teletoon Retro's re-airing of The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, the entire scene of Claude Cat emerging from under the manhole cover that has flattened him and is so startled by Frisky's barking outburst that he jumps into the path of a speeding elevated train was cut.http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-n-o.aspx
== Notes ==
* This is one of the rare Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies cartoons to have only one animator, in this case Ken Harris, as the cartoon was made while Jones was reassembling his unit after the brief studio shutdown the previous year.
*This is Claude's first cartoon in which he is a stray cat, and has red-orange fur instead of yellow. The second would be "Cat Feud" in 1958 and the third would be "Louvre Come Back To Me!" in 1962.
* Tweety makes two small cameos, and only has two lines, which are the only lines of dialogue ever heard in this short. This is Tweety's first appearance in a Chuck Jones-directed cartoon; he would later appear in "Superior Duck" in 1996. 
** Marc Anthony the bulldog makes a small cameo appearance near the end. 
** Due to Tweety's cameos in this cartoon, this is the only cartoon from the classic era which Tweety appears in the same cartoon with the Chuck Jones' cat-and-dog duo Claude Cat and Marc Anthony instead of his usual cat-and-dog "counterparts" Sylvester and Hector the Bulldog, despite Tweety not sharing screen-time with both Claude and Marc Anthony at the same time in this cartoon. Coincidentally, Tweety would eventually share screentime together with both Claude Cat and Marc Anthony in the New Looney Tunes episode "Tweet Team" 64 years later. 
* This cartoon marks the final appearance of Frisky Puppy.
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
 
Category:Cartoons directed by Chuck Jones
Category:1954
Category:Shorts
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Tweety Cartoons
Category:Claude Cat Cartoons
Category:Frisky Puppy Cartoons
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:Cartoons written by Michael Maltese
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Philip DeGuard
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons animated by Willie Ito
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer
Category:Re-released cartoons whose original titles are known to exist