Father of the Bird

Father of the Bird
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Production company	Warner Bros. Family Entertainment Warner Bros. Animation Chuck Jones Film Productions
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	November 14, 1997
Run time	8:40
Starring	Joe Alaskey June Foray
Producer(s)	Chuck Jones and Linda Jones Clough Stephen A. Fossati (Co-Producer)
Music composed by	Cameron Patrick (Original Music Score) Eric J. Schmidt (Orchestration)
Story by	Stephen A. Fossati
Director(s)	Stephen A. Fossati
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Father of the Bird is the four hundred and eighty-ninth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures (under their Warner Bros. Family Entertainment label) on November 17, 1997. It was produced by Chuck Jones and Linda Jones Clough, and written, produced and directed by Stephen A. Fossati.

Sylvester steals a sparrow egg for breakfast. But when a baby bird hatches from it, he mistakes the cat for his mother.

Memorable quotes

Sylvester: Where there's featherths there'ths birdths, and where there'ths birdths, there'ths breakfasth.

Sylvester: Imagine, a pussycat giving away perfectly tender morthel of bird. And why? Jutht becauthe they called me "Mama." Mama... Why, I don't even like breathstfeeding!

Sylvester: Thufferin' thuccatash... Me, the father of the bird... Prepotherouth!
Baby sparrows: Papa. Papa. Papa. Papa. Papa. Papa. Papa.

Characters

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Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Sylvester	Joe Alaskey
Cornbred	June Foray

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • City park
      • Alley streets
      • O'Neil Builders construction site
      • Railroad yard

Organizations

• Acme
  • Acme Junk Co.

Objects

• Teeter-totter
• Anvil

Music

The music was composed by Cameron Patrick with orchestrations by Eric J. Schmidt.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: November 14, 1997

Behind the scenes

• The short was originally released alongside the film The Man Who Knew Too Little.
• The title is a pun of "father of the bride".
• The short is somewhat similar to that of the 1953 Friz Freleng-directed short, A Mouse Divided.
• This is the last short to be entirely animated on cels, and the last to be produced by Chuck Jones Film Productions.
• This is the last Sylvester-solo cartoon made in the Looney Tunes theatrical series.
• It is the second short under Chuck Jones' production unit where Sylvester talks, after The Scarlet Pumpernickel (the only one of the two directed by Jones himself).

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1