Pappy's Puppy

Pappy's Puppy
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Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	December 17, 1955
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	Warren Foster
Animation	Gerry Chiniquy
Director(s)	Friz Freleng
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Pappy's Puppy is the four hundred and third Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on December 17, 1955. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.

Butch the Bulldog finally gets a son and teaches him all there is know about being a bulldog. But when his son learns how to attack cats, he soon releases that Sylvester is a cat and decides attack him.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Doctor	Mel Blanc
Butch	Mel Blanc
Butch's son	Mel Blanc
Sylvester	N/A
Drunk Stork	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Pet hospital
    • Sylvester's residence
      • Butch and Son's doghouse

Objects

• Cat training dummy
• Ball
• Tin can
• Dynamite stick
• Bone
• Shotgun

Music

The music was composed by Carl Stalling.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: December 17, 1955

Behind the scenes

• The plot of this cartoon is a spoof of MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons with Spike and Tyke, where Spike is very protective of his son Tyke and would teach him to attack cats, particularly Tom at times. He would usually threaten and clobber Tom whenever he thinks Tom was annoying Tyke.
• According to Jerry Beck's book, Looney Tunes: The Ultimate Visual Guide, it states that Butch J. Bulldog was meant to be the same bulldog as Hector from the Tweety and Sylvester cartoons, which Friz Freleng also directed at the same time.
• This is the only short where the Drunk Stork, who is normally intoxicated from alcohol, is sober throughout and delivers babies to the right parent.
  • It is also the only short where he only has one line of dialogue on-screen.
• This is one of the rare Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons to have only one animator, in this case Gerry Chiniquy. This is because the cartoon was animated around the time Friz was reassembling his unit after the 1953 shutdown.

Errors

• During the credit sequence, the MPAA Icon doesn't have a number for it.

Legacy

• The gag where Sylvester plays fetch with the puppy and throws the stick into traffic would be reused for the 1962 Merrie Melodies short, Honey's Money, a cartoon which Freleng also directed.