Sylvester
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Sylvester J. Pussycat, Sr., also known as Sylvester the Cat, or simply Sylvester, is an anthropomorphic tuxedo cat and one of the main characters of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical shorts. He often appears as an antagonist to Tweety Bird or Speedy Gonzales, and usually acts as one of the pets of Granny, alongside Tweety. His voice was originated by Mel Blanc.
Outside of his antagonist role, Sylvester also appeared with his son Sylvester Jr. and Hippety Hopper in shorts directed by Robert McKimson, and was briefly a pet to Porky Pig in a few by Chuck Jones.
Character description
Appearances
TV series
Movies
Shorts
- Early appearances
- With Tweety
- Tweetie Pie
- I Taw a Putty Tat
- Bad Ol' Putty Tat
- Home, Tweet Home
- All A Bir-r-r-d
- Canary Row
- Putty Tat Trouble
- Room and Bird
- Tweety's S.O.S.
- Tweet Tweet Tweety
- Gift Wrapped
- A Bird in A Guilty Cage
- Snow Business
- Fowl Weather
- Tom Tom Tomcat
- A Street Cat Named Sylvester
- Catty Cornered
- Dog Pounded
- Muzzle Tough
- Satan's Waitin'
- Sandy Claws
- Tweety's Circus
- Red Riding Hoodwinked
- Tweet and Sour
- Tree Cornered Tweety
- Tugboat Granny
- Tweet Zoo
- Tweety and the Beanstalk
- Birds Anonymous
- Greedy for Tweety
- A Pizza Tweety-Pie
- A Bird in a Bonnet
- Trick or Tweet
- Tweet and Lovely
- Tweet Dreams
- Hyde and Go Tweet
- Trip for Tat
- The Rebel Without Claws
- The Last Hungry Cat
- The Jet Cage
- Hawaiian Aye Aye
- Carrotblanca
- Museum Scream
- I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat
- With Speedy Gonzales
- Speedy Gonzales
- Gonzales' Tamales
- Here Today, Gone Tamale
- West of the Pesos
- Cannery Woe
- The Pied Piper of Guadalupe
- Mexican Boarders
- Mexican Cat Dance
- Chili Weather
- A Message to Gracias
- Nuts and Volts
- Road to Andalay
- Cats and Bruises
- The Wild Chase
- It's Nice to Have A Mouse Around The House
- With Hippety Hopper and Sylvester Jr.
- Hop, Look and Listen
- Hippety Hopper
- Pop 'im Pop!
- Who's Kitten Who?
- Hoppy-Go--Lucky
- Cats A-Weigh!
- Bell Hoppy
- Lighthouse Mouse
- Too Hop to Handle
- The Slap-Hoppy Mouse
- Mouse-Taken Identity
- Cat's Paw (Sylvester Jr. only)
- Goldimouse and the Three Cats (Sylvester Jr. only)
- Hoppy Daze
- Birds of a Father (Sylvester Jr. only)
- Fish and Slips (Sylvester Jr. only)
- Claws in the Lease (Sylvester Jr. only)
- Freudy Cat
- Other appearances
- Crowing Pains (with Foghorn Leghorn, Barnyard Dawg and Henry Hawk)
- Doggone Cats
- Catch as Cats Can
- Back Alley Oproar (with Elmer Fudd)
- Kit for Cat (with Elmer Fudd)
- Scaredy Cat (with Porky Pig)
- Mouse Mazurka
- The Scarlet Pumpernickel (with Daffy Duck and others)
- Stooge for a Mouse (with Hector)
- Canned Feud
- A Mouse Divided
- Little Red Rodent Hood
- Tree for Two
- Dr. Jerkyl's Hide
- Claws for Alarm (with Porky Pig)
- By Word of Mouse
- Jumpin' Jupiter (with Porky Pig)
- A Kiddie's Kitty
- Heir-Conditioned (with Elmer Fudd)
- Pappy's Puppy
- The Unexpected Pest
- Yankee Dood It (with Elmer Fudd)
- Mouse and Garden
- D' Fightin' Ones
- Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (with Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and others)
- The Yolk's On You (with Daffy Duck and Foghorn Leghorn)
- Father of the Bird
Comics
Video games
Theme parks
Biography
Debut series
The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
We're All a Little Looney
Come on and Slam! and Welcome to the Jam!
Sylvester Sells Out
Sylvester Gets Modern
Going Down The Rabbit Hole
It's Hard Hat Time
Development
Gallery
- Main article: Sylvester/Gallery
Toys and merchandise
Behind the scenes
- Sylvester's name is a play on Felis silvestris, the scientific name of the European wildcat.
- "Sufferin' succotash!" is said to have originated from the minced oath "Suffering Savior," and makes reference to succotash; a vegetable dish made primarily of sweet corn and beans.
- Mel Blanc stated that Sylvester was the easiest character to voice, because "[he's] just my normal speaking voice with a spray at the end".[1]
- Sylvester has died at least more times than any other characters in the franchise.
- He was killed in the shorts Peck Up Your Troubles, I Taw a Putty Tat, Back Alley Oproar, Mouse Mazurka, Bad Ol' Putty Tat, 'Ain't She Tweet, Satan's Waitin', Muzzle Tough, Sandy Claws, Tweety's Circus, Too Hop To Handle, Tree Cornered Tweety, Tweet and Lovely, Trick or Tweet, The Wild Chase, Museum Scream, and Fully Vetted.
- He appeared as a ghost in the DTV film Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas, having been squashed by a forklift nine times.
In popular culture
- A stuffed doll of Sylvester makes an appearance at the department store in the 1984 film Gremlins.
- In a 1985 episode of the TV game show Press Your Luck, host Peter Tomarken provided a question on which cartoon character said, "sufferin' succotash," to which all three contestants correctly answered Sylvester. When Tomarken mistakenly credits the phrase to Daffy Duck, he receives a telephone call from Mel Blanc as Sylvester, who tells him, "Sufferin' succotash, everybody knows that!"
- In The Simpsons episode "Bart the Murderer," Sufferin' Succotash, named after Sylvester's catchphrase, is one of the racehorses that Fat Tony bets against.
- In the 1993 film Wayne's World 2, when Kim seduces Garth by kissing his hand, he starts sputtering random lines from fictional characters, such as Tweety's "I thought I saw I puddy cat."
- In the Beast Wars: Transformers episode "Endgame Part 2: When Legends Fall," Thurst mockingly calls Cheetor a "puddytat," much like how Tweety calls Sylvester with that name.
- In the 2003 film Rugrats Go Wild, Spike the dog (who can be heard through Eliza's gift) makes fun of Siri the clouded leopard by calling her a pussy cat, and then mocks her even more by saying, "You're a very scary putty tat" in the same manner as Tweety would say to Sylvester.
- In the 2023 film The Flash, the alternate 2013 version of Barry Allen has a Looney Tunes background screen on his computer, which includes Sylvester, Tweety, Bugs, Daffy, Road Runner, and Wile E.
- In the Transformers: Earthspark episode "House Rules," a farmer yells "Sufferin' succotash!" upon seeing that his corn field was destroyed by Thrash and Swindle.
- In the Velma episode "Private Velmjamin," Fred wants to return a nativity miniature model with the Looney Tunes to Father O'Rourke, after Fred briefly became Catholic. Elmer Fudd is baby Jesus, Sylvester is Joseph, Granny is Mary, and Daffy, Porky, and Bugs atr the three wise men.
Family Guy
- Main article: Family Guy
- "Padre de Famillia:" Peter makes a new American character called Rapid Dave, after finding out that Speedy Gonzales is an immigrant and a bad influence. Sylvester appears in the short and is voiced by Jeff Bergman.
- "Stewie is Enciente:" In the Looney Tunes edition of Top Chef, the judges criticize Elmer's carrot stew because there was a live rabbit in it. One of the judges praises Sylvester's "sufferin' succotash," however, to which he responds with a simple "Thanksth." Sylvester is again voiced by Jeff Bergman.
References
- ↑ Blanc, Mel; Bashe, Philip (1989). That's Not All, Folks!. New York, NY: Warner Books. ISBN 0-446-51244-3.
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