''Freudy Cat'' is a 1964

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'' animated short directed by Robert McKimson. The short was released on March 14, 1964, and stars

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and

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. A paranoid Sylvester flashes back to earlier cartoons such as '' Who's Kitten Who?'', ''

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'', and '' The Slap-Hoppy Mouse'' while describing to a psychiatrist that he thinks

is out to get him.

Soundtrack Anomaly

The cartoon is unusual in that it mixes a new soundtrack by Bill Lava with music by

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(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

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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

and

References

1964 films 1964 animated films 1964 short films 1960s Warner Bros. animated short films Looney Tunes shorts Sylvester the Cat films Films about father–son relationships Animated films about kangaroos and wallabies Films directed by Robert McKimson Films scored by Carl Stalling Films scored by William Lava Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films 1960s English-language films Hippety Hopper films {{LooneyTunes-stub