Catch as Cats Can

An emaciated canary, singing like Frank Sinatra, is getting on the nerves of a pipe-puffing parrot, who speaks like Bing Crosby. The parrot spots Sylvester, foraging through the trash. Telling the cat he needs more vitamins (which the canary has been swallowing in bulk), he lures the cat inside to snare the canary. The straightforward approach fails (the canary bops him in the nose). He carves a female canary from soap, lures Frankie there; the birds slide down a greased counter, into the sink, and down the drain, but only the soap bird goes through the pipe and down Sylvester's throat. A trail of birdseed into the garage seems to work, but Frankie jacks Sylvester's mouth open. Sylvester laces the vitamins with buckshot; like all cartoon magnets, his attracts everything metal in sight except his prey. The canary turns Sylvester's vacuum cleaner against him, with a crash in the fireplace giving Sylvester a hot-stomach; as he buries his head in the sink...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• wb
• warner
• bros
• 1947
• sylvester
• Bing
• Crosby
• Parrot
• Frank
• Sinatra
• Canary
• Catch
• as
• Cats
• Can
• Merrie
• Melodies
• cat
• bird
• cute
• kitty
• kitten

[PunkyBear36]

HIT THE ROAD, STUPID!

[darmokthegreen]

Great to see a good quality version of this!

[WhiteVII]

@COMPFUNK2 Source: imdb.com/title/tt0039253/ we were both wrong.

[COMPFUNK2]

@WhiteVII And where's YOUR source for that?

[WhiteVII]

@COMPFUNK2 Source? This is Sylvester before he was Sylvester.

[WhiteVII]

4:44 Sylvester has a demon tail.

[durece100]

A 1947 cartoon.

[TeamRocket2010]

Bing Crosby's bird disliked this.

[KrazyKartoonKid]

Art Davis was a really good director

[BuckieBear]

("...and when two lovers woo, they still go boo-boo-boo, on that you can rely--Ah, there's nothing like vitamins," lolol)