Who's Kitten Who?

Who's Kitten Who?
Lobby card.
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	January 5, 1952
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Animation	Phil DeLara Emery Hawkins Charles McKimson Rod Scribner
Director(s)	Robert McKimson
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Who's Kitten Who? is the two-hundred and ninety-fourth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on January 5, 1952. It was produced by Edward Selzer, written by Tedd Pierce, and directed by Robert McKimson.

When Hippety Hopper hops away from being delivered to the zoo, he winds up at Sylvester's house, where the father cat tries to teach Sylvester Jr. on catching mice. While showing his son a sample of his skills, he mistakens Hippety for a giant mouse.

Memorable quotes

Delivery: 'Out to Lunch', eh? Well, I'll just leave it right here. (chuckles) Don't reckon it'll hop away.

Sylvester: Now people will point at me and sthay, "There goesth the cat whose only son was swallowed by a mousthe". Oh, the shame of it...

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Deliveryman	Mel Blanc
Hippety Hopper	N/A
Sylvester	Mel Blanc
Sylvester Jr.	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
  • Zoo
  • Sylvester's residence

Objects

• Hippety's crate
• Whiskey bottle
• Couch springs
• Paper bag
• Lollipop
• Flypaper

Production

Second lobby card.

Music

The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: January 5, 1952 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun on the phrase, "Who's kiddin' who?"
• This was the last Sylvester/Hippety cartoon to be animated by Emery Hawkins.
• This is the final McKimson-directed Sylvester cartoon to use the "plump Sylvester" design, which Robert McKimson previously used since Crowing Pains.
• This is the first cartoon to have Sylvester Jr.'s higher voice pitch, which he uses up until Freudy Cat.
  • It is also the first cartoon which Sylvester Jr. would cover his face with a paper bag in shame when he witness his father's humiliating defeats in catching mice, birds or fish, which becomes a running gag in their cartoons, especially the ones co-starring Hippety.
• This is currently the only Hippety and Junior cartoon that does not survive with its original color rings; most of the other shorts that were reissued had their original color rings restored for the Marsupial Mayhem DVD.

Legacy

• Beginning with Hoppy-Go-Lucky later that year, McKimson would redesign Sylvester to be slimmer and more streamlined to closely resemble how his creator Friz Freleng drew him. This would last until his final classic appearance in A Taste of Catnip.
• A small clip of this cartoon, where Hippety hops away, would be used in the 1964 Looney Tunes short Freudy Cat.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • Looney Tunes Super Stars' Sylvester and Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem