Sylvester

Sylvester
Thufferin' thuccotash! That gosthdang canary must've gone thomewhere in thith site.
Species	Cat (Tuxedo)
Gender	Male
Member of	Tune Squad
Affiliation	Granny Tweety Hector Speedy Gonzales Hippety Hopper Porky Pig Furrball
Mother	Mrs. Pussycat in The Looney Tunes Show
Sibling(s)	One brother, Alan, in The Looney Tunes Show
Other relative(s)	One descendant, Sylth Vester, in Loonatics Unleashed
Marital status	Single
Son(s)	Sylvester Jr.
First appearance	MM: Life With Feathers (1945)
Played by	Mel Blanc (1945–1989) Bill Farmer (1987-1996) Jeff Bergman (since 1990) Bob Bergen (since 1990) Joe Alaskey (1990–2011) Greg Burson (1993–1997) Terry Klassen (2002–2005) Jeff Bennett (2003-2006) Eric Bauza (2018-2020)
Robert McKimson's Sylvester
File:S&TM Sylvester.png The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
Space Jam
Baby Looney Tunes
File:Baby S2 Sylvester.png Baby Looney Tunes
File:BIA Sylvester.png Looney Tunes: Back in Action
File:TLTS Sylvester.png The Looney Tunes Show
File:NLT Sylvester.png New Looney Tunes
File:LTC Sylvester.png Looney Tunes Cartoons
File:ANL Sylvester.png Space Jam: A New Legacy
File:BBB Sylvester.png Bugs Bunny Builders

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.

Appearances

TV series

• The Bugs Bunny Show
• Tiny Toon Adventures
• The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
• Baby Looney Tunes
• The Looney Tunes Show
• New Looney Tunes
• Looney Tunes Cartoons
• Bugs Bunny Builders

Movies

• The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
• Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
• Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
• Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
• Space Jam
• Tweety's High Flying Adventure
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action
• Bah Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
• Space Jam: A New Legacy
• King Tweety

Shorts

• Looney Tunes
• Merrie Melodies

Early appearances

• Life With Feathers
• Peck Up Your Troubles
• Kitty Kornered (with Porky Pig)

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

Gallery

Main article: Sylvester/Gallery

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".
• 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 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 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 as Joseph, Granny as Mary, and Daffy, Porky, and Bugs as the three wise men.

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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.