Feed the Kitty | Looney Tunes Critic Commentary
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
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The sequence where she shows him the kitty cookie, he silently takes it with a shivering paw, and then he delicately places it on his back is just devastating. It's hilarious and mournful all at once.
Taking a step back from the actual emotional impact, it's amazing to just consider the incredible potency and economy of storytelling in less than 7 minutes of animation.
Feed The Kitty...
Makes me laugh, and cry. It's beautiful. A Chuck Jones gem!
This is a masterpiece, certainly one of the top five WB cartoons ever made.
Lava1964 I think it’s cause it’s so well drawn the animation and character movements have great movement and acting in them .Plus the expressions are amazing
Absolutely my all time favorite cartoon. Everything about it is perfect. You're not only watching with your eyes and mind, but this one actually touches your heart...both with laughter and sympathy. Its interesting to hear that he struggled with the "who me?" pose. That cracks me up everytime. He nailed it!
I agree with you! My favorite cartoon of all time. It's the one I remember most vividly.
i turned 69 yesterday, yup, one of the best on my list too. One of the others is "I Love to Singa" [1936]
Leonard Maltin [I think] pointed out that the more obscure Warners' characters were their best productions. Feed the Kitty is a good example, one of my favs. Hysterical with tears too. Thanks Ferris/Critic.
Come to think of it, this could be one of the very few cartoons from the Golden Age of American Animation that actually provoked tears instead of laughs. I mean, besides The Enchanted Square, some of the Silly Symphonies and Color Classics, what else is there?
If there is a perfect cartoon, this may just be it! The facial expressions are priceless. When she holds out the kitten-shaped cookie...
When I saw this cartoon for the first time, I was gasping for air I was laughing so hard! The whipped cream, the dog's expressions as he thinks his little pal is being cooked, OMG it was one of the funniest things I had ever seen! It's a cartoon for crying out loud--it is supposed to be funny! And it is.
It's funny and heartwarming
Oh by the way, this cartoon directly inspired Monster's Inc. It gets very obvious in the trash compactor scene. But there's more proof of this. Mike and Sully spend most of the movie hiding the fact that they have a human kid in their possession, so they disguise her and pass her off as something else. But yeah, Monsters Inc is basically Feed the Kitty stretched out into feature length, and it turned out golden.
Well, only Sully’s interactions with Boo are similar to this cartoon (like with him getting scared of her when they first meet, what you said about them hiding her by disguising her as a monster, and the facial expressions in the trash compactor)
And don't forget that Bea Benaderet also is well-known for her performances in Petticoat Junction and The Beverly Hillbillies!
And the Burns and Allen TV show.
I liked your final comment, Trevor!
Its about being a DAD! If you have ever watched a dad balance his baby by the feet on his hand, or THROW HER UP IN THE AIR and catch her, you know dads can be pretty reckless. But lay ONE finger on her...
I love the fact Marc Anthony licks his owners feet it’s such a small detail that gets me every time .
To answer your question about Pussyfoot's gender:
Pussyfoot was originally a boy (they keep addressing the kitten with male pronouns in two cartoons with Marc Anthony), but afterwards the staff decided to officially change Pussyfoot into a girl kitten because they thought it would make Marc & the kitten's relationship be even more adorable (like an innocent little girl befriending a big ferocious dragon).
That one cartoon with a flying cat that looks similar to Pussyfoot, I don't count that character as Pussyfoot, in my opinion at least.😅
Go Fly A Kit is the name of that short.
I agree with you.
Ohhh man, this is a favorite of mine, and it's also my mother's childhood favorite. I love the wide range of emotions that this cartoon can elicit from the audience in such a short timespan.
This is the most perfect cartoon ever made. Not one wasted frame.
Thank you soooooo much. You have made my day.
I don't know what Chuck Jones was aiming for, but what he got was the definition of pathos.
Knowing how pretentious and eager to be praised for his brilliance as Chuck was, he probably was aiming directly for pathos.
To be fair, I always found this short film to be hysterical when Marc Anthony thought the kitten was dead. Even when Monsters Inc. made an identical joke concerning Sully and Boo, it was hilarious.
Honestly, I think where it was unintended in Feed the Kitty was more or less to do with the animation mixed with the overall tone. Pixar isn't really known for its cutesy animation. And while Chuck Jones was always more about wit and humor rather than anything tearjerking, his style of animation, especially starting in the 1950's, always gave way to some rather cutesy designs and expressions. So when Marc Anthony's eyes change expression at 5:47, the comedic effect it was supposed to have also had the inverse effect of getting people all teary-eyed.
In stark contrast, Monsters Inc. pretty much did everything in its power to assure everyone who watched it that it was supposed to be funny. Sully faints, and Mike Wazowski cracks jokes. It does lead to a much weaker punch as a consequence though due to the whole "tell, don't show" method about it, but I still very much considered it the film's comedic highlights.
So here, this is proof positive that nobody--not Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, Freleng, nobody--could ever top Chuck Jones in the world of animation. Especially not comedic animation.
I agree. Although Monsters Inc. has its fair share of emotional moments, I thought the trash compactor scene was hilarious. In contrast, this cartoon just made me feel bad for the dog, even though I knew the kitten was fine.
Anybody know that the facial expressions from this cartoon where recreated and used for the scene in Monster Inc where Scully is worried about Boo in garbage disposal
This short is kinda like something Pixar would do .I could see this being a Pixar short cause of the emotion
You mean like Monster's Inc
Well, the part where Marc Anthony thinks Pussyfoot is being turned into cookies inspired the trash compactor scene in Monsters, Inc.
I know they referenced it in Monsters Inc it was fun to see a Pixar character to animated like A Chuck Jones character
Such an emotional cartoon.
I mean for most of the cartoon I can laugh. It's dark humor. But when he puts the cookie on his back like je did with the kitty before that's just... sad!
Don't get me wrong, I love it!
But it's... sad!
It broke me.
Random person: American animation can't have emotion
me...
ZD Productions it’s Like a great Pixar short
If these people aged the lady would be what, 100 now?
Does anyone know where to find the full video of this? I can find it anywhere
"Just a cartoon", is it? Do a UA-cam search for "big dog and kitten".
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Im not crying you are………..