Hyde and Go Tweet

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Hyde and Go Tweet
series = Merrie Melodies
director = Friz Freleng| animator = Arthur Davis
Gerry Chiniquy
Virgil Ross
| voice_actor = Mel Blanc
| musician = Milt Franklyn
producer = David H. DePatie
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
release_date = May 14 1960
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 7 mins
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0053930

"Hyde and Go Tweet" is a "Merrie Melodies" animated short starring Tweety and Sylvester. Released May 14, 1960, the cartoon is directed by Friz Freleng. The voices were performed by Mel Blanc.

The short is the third in the series of Freleng's cartoons based on "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." The title is a play on the game hide and go seek.

Plot

Sylvester is sleeping on the ledge of a tall building, when he chases some pigeons away after their coos disrupt his nap. After observing mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll drinking a Mr. Hyde potion and briefly turning into a monsterous alter ego, Sylvester laughs it off and resumes his sleep.

In a dream-like sequence, Sylvester pursues his prey, Tweety, along the building's ledge. Tweety escapes inside and hides in the Hyde formula. Sylvester demands that Tweety show himself, which he does: he's turned into an ugly, giant bird of prey that - after years of harassment and being chased and with payback on his mind - begins chasing Sylvester!

Sylvester is frantically trying to get the elevator to come up, and he turns and looks down the corner, and Tweety Hyde is ambling along, laughing maniacally.

For most of the rest of the cartoon, Tweety frequently switches between his usual, innocent self (which Sylvester chases) and the evil bird-monster (which goes after the cat). After several back-and-forth chases, Sylvester nabs a normal-sized Tweety. Failing to realize the monster bird and his potential meal are one and the same, the cat locks himself in a small kitchen, throws the key out the window and begins to "make that Tweety sandwich I've been dreaming of." But while Sylvester is searching for some ketchup, Tweety changes back into his Hyde-like self and devours his adversary whole. Sylvester frees himself and tries to escape the room as his hunter murderously stalks him down.

Just then, Sylvester awakens from his dream ... only to see a normal-sized Tweety struggling to fly to the ledge of the building. Sylvester is convinced that Tweety poses a giant risk to his well-being and runs through a wall to escape!

Censorship

*On the ABC version of this cartoon, Sylvester's line when he's standing on the window sill and preparing to jump out to escape the monster Tweety, "I'll jump!" then asiding to the audience, "I've got a choice?" was cut, presumably because of its allusions to suicide. The ABC edited version has Sylvester look down and then jump out the window.

Trivia

*In the later cartoon, an avian version of Hyde looks like a cross between the modern vulture or falcon and a large, prehistoric bird similar to Tweety in his Hyde form but with fangs and slightly sharper fingers and is called "Bird Hyde". He tries to eat Sylvester Pussycat and Bugs Bunny.

References

* Friedwald, Will and Jerry Beck. "The Warner Brothers Cartoons." Scarecrow Press Inc., Metuchen, N.J., 1981. ISBN 0-8108-1396-3.

External links

*imdb title|0053930
* [http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/articles/tasarticle2.html Nuance and Suggestion in the Tweety and Sylvester Series] - Written by Kevin McCorry