Animator's practice sheet featuring studies from The Cagey Canary (1941), The Heckling Hare (1941), Nutty News (1942), Wacky Blackout (1942) and A Tale of Two Kitties (1942).
Me: Sir! *scruff BB and moves him away* You do NOT have the parts to do what you are attempting to do, and he does NOT have the parts to receive what you are attempting to do.
The Hays Office was mentioned by name in at least one cartoon classic. In Bob Clampett's "A Tale of Two Kitties" (1942) two cats are trying to catch Tweety. The cats are caricatures of the comedy team Abbott and Costello. The tall thin cat named Babbitt tells Catstello, "Give me the bird, give me the bird!", Catstello replies, "If the Hays Office would only let me, I'd give him the bird all right."
Karl F. Cohen (Forbidden Animation
Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America)
Here's how I'd play with the Sylvester vs Tweety formula:
Sylvester stays the same for the most part, he's already pretty good. He's still trying to eat Tweety and failing miserably.
Tweety would be taken straight out of his early Bob Clampett cartoons. Pink feathers, extreme sadism and everything. Think like A Tale of Two Kitties, Birdy and the Beast and A Gruesome Twosome. In addition to tormenting Sylvester, he'd always be trying to kill Hector, which always ends up failing ala Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner.
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Hector would be Tweety's own personal bodyguard as usual. The canary's constantly trying to kill him but he doesn't realize that and continues to go after Sylvester whenever he tries to eat him. You could also fuse Hector with Spike/Alfie from the Spike/Alfie and Chester cartoons.
Granny is the equalizer of the group, making sure that none of the pets succeeds in killing another pet.
In other words: Hector torments Sylvester who torments Tweety who torments both of them. Granny makes sure none of them kill each other.
Picture book: "A Tale of Two Kitties" by Judith Graves
Well, the rule is, if my kid asks me to read a book a second time, it's an automatic 5-star! Which does skew the results in favor of any cat book, but...she's asked FOUR TIMES. I am beginning to worry this one will wear out its welcome!
Now, this book has basically nothing to do with "A Tale of Two Cities," even as an affectionate homage. So don't expect any Dickensian notes. Instead, this is just about two orange brothers who are very, very jealous of their belongings. There is to be NO switching of who sleeps on which chair!
Until the chairs disappear.
And a loveseat appears.
Whatever are they to do!? Surely they cannot sleep on the SAME piece of furniture! They may touch! Or even...shudder...CUDDLE.
Peter Venkman from Ghostbusters and Garfield from the Garfield comic strip have two shared actors.
Bill Murray plays Venkman in the live action Ghostbusters films and voices Garfield in Garfield: The Movie (2004) and Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties, while Lorenzo voiced Venkman in Seasons 1 and 2 of The Real Ghostbusters and voiced Garfield in Garfield and Friends.