Freudy Cat

Freudy Cat
Looney Tunes/Sylvester series
Directed by	Robert McKimson
Produced by	David H. DePatie (uncredited)
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Voices by	Mel Blanc
Music by	Bill Lava Philip Green (certain prints; uncredited)
Animation by	Ted Bonnicksen Warren Batchelder George Grandpré
Layouts by	Robert Gribbroek
Backgrounds by	Robert Gribbroek
Studio	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	March 14, 1964 (USA)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 minutes
Language	English
Preceded by	Bartholomew Versus the Wheel
Followed by	Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare

Freudy Cat is a 1964 Looney Tunes animated short starring Sylvester and Sylvester Jr.. The cartoon is essentially a clip show, as a paranoid Sylvester flashes back to earlier cartoons such as Who's Kitten Who?, Cats A-Weigh!, and The Slap-Hoppy Mouse while describing to a psychiatrist that he thinks Hippety Hopper is out to get him.

Soundtrack Anomaly

The cartoon is unusual in that it mixes a new soundtrack by Bill Lava with music by Carl Stalling (while alive in 1964, he had retired six years earlier), which is heard during the original shorts that make up this cartoon. That results in a schizophrenic soundtrack (whether this was intentional, given the plot of a mentally unbalanced Sylvester visiting a psychiatrist, isn't known, but it is possible). Even more unusual is that certain prints of the cartoon contain stock music pieces by Philip Green that play over numerous areas of the cartoon without removing the old soundtrack, creating a rather dissonant, overbearing "new" soundtrack.

Notes

• This was the last theatrical appearance of both Hippety Hopper and Sylvester Jr.