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Our favorite Sylvester The Cat toons are the ones without Tweety, who is just too infantile for our tastes most of the time. In this toon, legendary animation director Chuck Jones & writer Michael Maltese just leave the annoying bird out of the picture & instead pair the Maine Coon Cat inspired Sylvester with a much more refined Porky The Pig as the straight man who has just purchased a not-so-homey & somewhat spooky house that creeps out Sylvester. It looks like the house from Psycho. Except this house was created more than a decade before Hitchcock made that movie, so director Chuck Jones beat director Alfred to the punch. Sylvester is just not down with what this place has to offer at all since it’s inhabited by seemingly malevolent mice that set up the poor sloppy tomcat for a series of mean-spirited gags. In fact, this is the 1st toon where Chuck directed Sylvester & also where he got his name. Previously he was called Thomas or had no name at all. Chuck did a total of 3 toons with Sylvester as Porky’s cat. The other two are 1954 Claws For Alarm then 1955 Jumpin’ Jupiter. Mel Blanc provides all the voices.

Looney Tunes music director Carl Stalling picks some pretty funny music quotes for this including Chopin’s Waltz in A minor & Funeral March, Taps, Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals, Rock-A-Bye Baby & Sweet Dreams Sweetheart.

Lloyd Vaughan is the lead animator. The rest of Chuck’s Looney Tunes animation team at Termite Terrace are Ken Harris, Phil Monroe, Ben Washam, Abe Levitow & Rick Thompson. Special animation effects are done by A.C. Gamer. The layouts are done by Bob Gribbroek and Pete Alvarado did the backgrounds. Treg Brown does all the sound & editing.