A Taste of Catnip
A Taste of Catnip is a 1966 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.[1] The short was released on December 3, 1966, and stars Daffy Duck, Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester.[2] It was the final theatrical classic-era Warner Brothers cartoon featuring Sylvester during the golden age of American animation.
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Directed by | Robert McKimson |
Produced by | David DePatie Friz Freleng |
Story by | Michael O'Connor |
Starring | Mel Blanc Gonzales Gonzales |
Music by | Walter Greene |
Animation by | Ted Bonnicksen Bob Matz Manny Perez Norm McCabe George Grandpré Warren Batchelder |
Layouts by | Dick Ung |
Backgrounds by | Tom O'Loughlin |
Color process | Technicolor |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
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Running time | 6:25 |
Language | English |
Plot
At the Guadalajara Medical Centre, psychiatrist Dr. Manuel Jose Olvera Sebastian Rudolfo Ortiz Pancho Jimenez Perez III (Mexico's finest) describes an encounter one year ago with Daffy Duck. Daffy proceeds to tell Perez that he has been exhibiting progressively more extreme cat-like desires.
Perez discovers through a blood test that Daffy has lethal amounts of catnip in his blood, and he must discover the source. Daffy discovers that right across the street is the Continental Catnip Corp. of Chihuahua. He decides to destroy it with a rocket, ridding him of his cat-like desires but also arousing the rage of neighborhood cats, including Sylvester. Perez receives a phone call about Daffy's success, and his next patient, Speedy Gonzales, enters; he exhibits duck-like desires. Moaning, Perez claims, "Oh, I should have listened to mi padre. He wanted me to be a bandido."
See also
References
- Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 360. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–62. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.