slymusic "Feed the Kitty", directed by Chuck Jones, is a wonderful Warner Bros. cartoon that stars two characters who never really became popular with the public: Pussyfoot the kitten and Marc Anthony the bulldog. The love and friendship they have for one another is absolutely adorable.Here are my favorite moments from "Feed the Kitty" (if you haven't yet seen this cartoon, don't read any further). I love Marc Anthony's classic "Who? Me?" look in his eyes when he hides Pussyfoot in the flour cabinet, as well as his bloodshot eyes & high-pitched whine when he thinks that Pussyfoot has been baked into a batch of cookies. Composer/arranger Carl Stalling repeatedly uses three popular songs throughout this cartoon that represent Pussyfoot: "Ain't She Sweet" is the playful kitten's primary theme; "Oh! You Beautiful Doll" is heard when Marc Anthony disguises Pussyfoot as a powder puff; and "Mommy's Little Baby Loves Shortening Bread" is heard when the lady of the house makes her batch of cookies."Feed the Kitty" is a cartoon that is funny, yet it also tugs at your heart. Director Chuck Jones later admitted that he hadn't planned on having his audience cry at the "cookie climax" of this film; I think it's safe to say that "Feed the Kitty" was a major achievement for Chuck in terms of the audience's emotional spectrum.

Julia Arsenault (ja_kitty_71) Chuck Jones is a master! I really love his cartoons including this enduring short. I think Pussyfoot is cutest kitten character of Looney Tunes besides Figaro from Disney's Pinocchio.My favorite scene is the mousehole scene, where Marc Anthony who hid Pussyfoot in a mousehole from his mistress, picks up a mouse (thinking it's Pussyfoot) and places it on his back. But Pussyfoot was really eating from Marc's dish. Realizing his goof-up Marc Anthony throws the mouse back in the hole.So anyway, this short is Chuck's most enduring piece. And you know, animation fans would recognize Bea Benaderet (Marc's mistress), as the voice of Betty Rubble from The Flintstones; also many other Looney Tunes shorts too.

chatdemidi This sublime piece ranks among the best work Jones, the grand master of short-form animation, ever did, on at least a par with "One Froggy Evening," "Duck Amuck," "The Dot and the Line," et al. It also reveals the major flaw in Jones's sense of humor--a flaw that, this time around, succeeds by being received by viewers in the obverse of its intent.Of all the artists who worked at Warner Brothers' animation department, Jones's humor was the most psychologically oriented. As such, his sense of slapstick found its expression not in physical, but psychological, expressions of pain: frustration, humiliation, panic, emotional trauma. (Witness the numerous Road Runner/Coyote and Pepe Le Pew shorts Jones directed.) "Feed the Kitty" exemplifies this cruel streak in Jones's humor. The most well-known sequence in this work is when Mark Antony believes Pussyfoot has been killed and blended into cookie dough, and the poor bulldog collapses into paroxysms of grief and sobbing. Many here have already noted how heartrending this sequence comes across. But on the PBS documentary about Jones, he stated that he conceived all that strictly for laughs, that he thought it was funny and meant it to be taken as such--and that, at its premiere, he was shocked to see members of the audience in tears upon watching it.

AHBatz When you say "Looney Toons" these days, Bugs Bunny usually comes to mind. Most people don't realize that some of the best looney toons didn't feature the usual characters. This cartoon is an example of a one time hit.*_spoilers_* This is the story of a rather large bulldog named Marc Anthony, who finds a stray kitten that's very cute. Marc Anthony befriends the cat despite their obvious differences. Marc Anthony struggles to keep the kitten unknown to his owner. it's one of the sweetest stories that can be told in seven minutes... go see it!