Sylvester n Tweety Mysteries S5
This Is the Kitty
Release date: 1999-09-18
Plot: Granny works as a volunteer in the zoo's souvenir stand, treating the whole day like one of her usual cases. Sylvester zeroes in on Tweety, but every attempt to snack on the canary brings him up against cranky zoo animals, a Dragnet-style cop and Hector. Things escalate to the point where Sylvester's own brain becomes part of the slapstick.
Name and role: Washday is the stone-faced zoo detective supervising Granny's volunteer shift and treating the whole Tweety situation like a Dragnet file. His design and delivery are a clear riff on Jack Webb's Joe Friday, down to the clipped, matter-of-fact way he reacts to Sylvester's chaos. He's there to keep order in the zoo, but the more he tries to be serious, the more ridiculous the case looks around him.
Release date: 1999-09-18
Plot: Granny works as a volunteer in the zoo's souvenir stand, treating the whole day like one of her usual cases. Sylvester zeroes in on Tweety, but every attempt to snack on the canary brings him up against cranky zoo animals, a Dragnet-style cop and Hector. Things escalate to the point where Sylvester's own brain becomes part of the slapstick.
Name and role: Washday is the stone-faced zoo detective supervising Granny's volunteer shift and treating the whole Tweety situation like a Dragnet file. His design and delivery are a clear riff on Jack Webb's Joe Friday, down to the clipped, matter-of-fact way he reacts to Sylvester's chaos. He's there to keep order in the zoo, but the more he tries to be serious, the more ridiculous the case looks around him.
This Is the Kitty
Release date: 1999-09-18
Plot: Granny works as a volunteer in the zoo's souvenir stand, treating the whole day like one of her usual cases. Sylvester zeroes in on Tweety, but every attempt to snack on the canary brings him up against cranky zoo animals, a Dragnet-style cop and Hector. Things escalate to the point where Sylvester's own brain becomes part of the slapstick.
Name and role: Here Granny is both narrator and on-site detective, calmly describing events as she works the souvenir counter and lets the mystery almost solve itself around her. Even in this last season Hector resumes his classic job as Tweety's living tank.
Release date: 1999-09-18
Plot: Granny works as a volunteer in the zoo's souvenir stand, treating the whole day like one of her usual cases. Sylvester zeroes in on Tweety, but every attempt to snack on the canary brings him up against cranky zoo animals, a Dragnet-style cop and Hector. Things escalate to the point where Sylvester's own brain becomes part of the slapstick.
Name and role: Here Granny is both narrator and on-site detective, calmly describing events as she works the souvenir counter and lets the mystery almost solve itself around her. Even in this last season Hector resumes his classic job as Tweety's living tank.
This Is the Kitty
Release date: 1999-09-18
Plot: In Madagascar, Granny, Sylvester, Tweety and Hector are poking around a touristy souvenir shop when they stumble on Captain Kidd's lost treasure map. Naturally, they head off on a tropical treasure hunt. Unfortunately, Yosemite Sam and his trigger-happy lemur crew also want the loot, so the whole thing turns into a race across jungle, beach and pirate ship, with Tweety in constant near-miss mode and Sylvester mostly collecting concussions.
Name and role: Here Yosemite Sam shows up as a full-on pirate captain again, basically in his Buccaneer Bunny wardrobe copy-pasted onto a '90s TV budget: big hat, big coat, even bigger temper. Instead of the usual band of human dopes, though, his crew are a pack of wide-eyed lemurs, which makes him look even shorter and angrier as he tries to boss around a bunch of squeaky primates.
Release date: 1999-09-18
Plot: In Madagascar, Granny, Sylvester, Tweety and Hector are poking around a touristy souvenir shop when they stumble on Captain Kidd's lost treasure map. Naturally, they head off on a tropical treasure hunt. Unfortunately, Yosemite Sam and his trigger-happy lemur crew also want the loot, so the whole thing turns into a race across jungle, beach and pirate ship, with Tweety in constant near-miss mode and Sylvester mostly collecting concussions.
Name and role: Here Yosemite Sam shows up as a full-on pirate captain again, basically in his Buccaneer Bunny wardrobe copy-pasted onto a '90s TV budget: big hat, big coat, even bigger temper. Instead of the usual band of human dopes, though, his crew are a pack of wide-eyed lemurs, which makes him look even shorter and angrier as he tries to boss around a bunch of squeaky primates.
When Harry Met Salieri
Release date: 1999-09-25
Plot: In Vienna, Granny, Sylvester and Tweety visit a big recording studio where a classical piece is being recorded live. Suddenly the music starts vanishing mid-performance, as if ghosts are stealing the sound right out of the air. While Granny tries to solve the case, the ghost of Salieri keeps tormenting Sylvester, turning a simple bird chase into a full-on haunted concert.
Name and role: The Stagehand is the big, bald, soft-shirted studio worker who handles the dirty jobs backstage: hauling gear, shooing people off the stage, and generally trying to keep the session running while cats and ghosts ruin his day. He's drawn with exaggerated proportions and tiny feet, so whenever he grabs Sylvester he looks like a human wrecking ball trying to stuff a housecat back where he belongs: a walking "do not touch the equipment" sign.
Release date: 1999-09-25
Plot: In Vienna, Granny, Sylvester and Tweety visit a big recording studio where a classical piece is being recorded live. Suddenly the music starts vanishing mid-performance, as if ghosts are stealing the sound right out of the air. While Granny tries to solve the case, the ghost of Salieri keeps tormenting Sylvester, turning a simple bird chase into a full-on haunted concert.
Name and role: The Stagehand is the big, bald, soft-shirted studio worker who handles the dirty jobs backstage: hauling gear, shooing people off the stage, and generally trying to keep the session running while cats and ghosts ruin his day. He's drawn with exaggerated proportions and tiny feet, so whenever he grabs Sylvester he looks like a human wrecking ball trying to stuff a housecat back where he belongs: a walking "do not touch the equipment" sign.
The Early Woim Gets the Boid
Release date: 1999-09-25
Plot: In Seoul, Granny, Sylvester, Tweety and Hector visit Mr. Kim's silk factory just as someone starts stealing all his silkworms. He's down to a single champion worm, so Granny leaves Sylvester on babysitting duty while she investigates. Of course Sylvester immediately decides the worm is perfect bait to reel in Tweety, and chaos erupts between factory floors, delivery trucks and hungry birds.
Name and role: The so-called Early Worm is the last surviving, extra-precious silkworm in Mr. Kim's factory: tiny, pale, and treated like the VIP of the cocoons. The worm is a clear reference at the worm from classic 1940 short The Early Worm Gets the Bird, a slight change of color but not in the design.
Release date: 1999-09-25
Plot: In Seoul, Granny, Sylvester, Tweety and Hector visit Mr. Kim's silk factory just as someone starts stealing all his silkworms. He's down to a single champion worm, so Granny leaves Sylvester on babysitting duty while she investigates. Of course Sylvester immediately decides the worm is perfect bait to reel in Tweety, and chaos erupts between factory floors, delivery trucks and hungry birds.
Name and role: The so-called Early Worm is the last surviving, extra-precious silkworm in Mr. Kim's factory: tiny, pale, and treated like the VIP of the cocoons. The worm is a clear reference at the worm from classic 1940 short The Early Worm Gets the Bird, a slight change of color but not in the design.
The Early Woim Gets the Boid
Release date: 1999-09-25
Plot: In Seoul, Granny, Sylvester, Tweety and Hector visit Mr. Kim's silk factory just as someone starts stealing all his silkworms. He's down to a single champion worm, so Granny leaves Sylvester on babysitting duty while she investigates. Of course Sylvester immediately decides the worm is perfect bait to reel in Tweety, and chaos erupts between factory floors, delivery trucks and hungry birds.
Name and role: Mr. Kim is a middle-aged Korean factory owner, polite and worried but clearly very attached to his business and his little army of worms. He's introduced as an old friend of Granny, which instantly upgrades the case from tourist visit to "we must save this man's livelihood or else".
Release date: 1999-09-25
Plot: In Seoul, Granny, Sylvester, Tweety and Hector visit Mr. Kim's silk factory just as someone starts stealing all his silkworms. He's down to a single champion worm, so Granny leaves Sylvester on babysitting duty while she investigates. Of course Sylvester immediately decides the worm is perfect bait to reel in Tweety, and chaos erupts between factory floors, delivery trucks and hungry birds.
Name and role: Mr. Kim is a middle-aged Korean factory owner, polite and worried but clearly very attached to his business and his little army of worms. He's introduced as an old friend of Granny, which instantly upgrades the case from tourist visit to "we must save this man's livelihood or else".
Blackboard Jumble
Release date: 1999-11-20
Plot: During school recess, Sylvester and Hector end up in an all-out duel in front of the classroom blackboard. Instead of the usual hallway chase, their rivalry turns into a contest of chalk drawings: plans, traps and counter-traps sketched in real time as the bell rings and the kids clear out. The whole thing plays like a recess daydream where the cat-dog feud is half playground brawl, half art class gone rogue.
Name and role: Here Sylvester is basically a smug schoolyard schemer: he's got his action in yellow colored chalk over a giant green board. Hector, as usual, is the brick wall to Sylvester's attempts; he answers every chalk action with his own crude but effective blue drawing, turning the board into a visual tug-of-war where each new doodle cancels out the last.
Release date: 1999-11-20
Plot: During school recess, Sylvester and Hector end up in an all-out duel in front of the classroom blackboard. Instead of the usual hallway chase, their rivalry turns into a contest of chalk drawings: plans, traps and counter-traps sketched in real time as the bell rings and the kids clear out. The whole thing plays like a recess daydream where the cat-dog feud is half playground brawl, half art class gone rogue.
Name and role: Here Sylvester is basically a smug schoolyard schemer: he's got his action in yellow colored chalk over a giant green board. Hector, as usual, is the brick wall to Sylvester's attempts; he answers every chalk action with his own crude but effective blue drawing, turning the board into a visual tug-of-war where each new doodle cancels out the last.
What's the Frequency, Kitty?
Release date: 1999-11-20
Plot: In a creaky old mansion, Sylvester finds out the hard way that the house already has a tenant: a very eager ghost called Spooky. The spirit just wants to hang out, but Sylvester reacts like any self-respecting cat and sprints from corridor to corridor in full panic mode. Doors slam, hallways stretch, and the haunting gets so over-the-top that even reality seems to flicker.
Name and role: Spooky is a short, pudgy little ghost in a derby hat, someone who just wants to be friendly but still manages to terrify everyone he meets. In this episode he fixates on Sylvester as his new best buddy, popping out of walls, furniture and thin air to follow the cat around like the world's clingiest roommate.
Release date: 1999-11-20
Plot: In a creaky old mansion, Sylvester finds out the hard way that the house already has a tenant: a very eager ghost called Spooky. The spirit just wants to hang out, but Sylvester reacts like any self-respecting cat and sprints from corridor to corridor in full panic mode. Doors slam, hallways stretch, and the haunting gets so over-the-top that even reality seems to flicker.
Name and role: Spooky is a short, pudgy little ghost in a derby hat, someone who just wants to be friendly but still manages to terrify everyone he meets. In this episode he fixates on Sylvester as his new best buddy, popping out of walls, furniture and thin air to follow the cat around like the world's clingiest roommate.
What's the Frequency, Kitty?
Release date: 1999-11-20
Plot: In a creaky old mansion, Sylvester finds out the hard way that the house already has a tenant: a very eager ghost called Spooky. The spirit just wants to hang out, but Sylvester reacts like any self-respecting cat and sprints from corridor to corridor in full panic mode. Doors slam, hallways stretch, and the haunting gets so over-the-top that even reality seems to flicker.
Name and role: At the very end, Marvin the Martian and K-9 arrive on Earth in a tall, spidery tripod war machine. Without a word of concern for the haunting we just watched, Marvin casually fires and completely disintegrates the haunted house, leaving Granny, Sylvester, Tweety, Hector and Spooky standing in open ground with zero explanation.
Release date: 1999-11-20
Plot: In a creaky old mansion, Sylvester finds out the hard way that the house already has a tenant: a very eager ghost called Spooky. The spirit just wants to hang out, but Sylvester reacts like any self-respecting cat and sprints from corridor to corridor in full panic mode. Doors slam, hallways stretch, and the haunting gets so over-the-top that even reality seems to flicker.
Name and role: At the very end, Marvin the Martian and K-9 arrive on Earth in a tall, spidery tripod war machine. Without a word of concern for the haunting we just watched, Marvin casually fires and completely disintegrates the haunted house, leaving Granny, Sylvester, Tweety, Hector and Spooky standing in open ground with zero explanation.
California's Crusty Bronze
Release date: 2000-02-05
Plot: In downtown Los Angeles, Mayor Rumproast's beloved greasy spoon, "California's Crusty Bronze", is having a very bad day. Someone is sabotaging the city with traffic jams, cartoon-only computer screens and a sudden mouse invasion, right before a surprise health inspection and a live TV remote. Granny is called in to save the mayor's reputation while Sylvester chases Tweety through the kitchen and Hector tries to keep everything looking vaguely sanitary. Between misfiring machinery, exploding coleslaw and a lot of bad publicity, the case slowly comes together on camera. In the end, Granny exposes the disgruntled tech staff behind the chaos and just barely keeps the diner open.
Name and role: The health inspector in this episode is a small, balding, painfully polite man who wanders into the mayor's diner and is treated like a random customer until things go horribly hairy, literally. Poked, ignored and showered with "have a pickle" hospitality, he finally snaps when he discovers a plate of hairy eggs and dramatically shuts the restaurant down on the spot. Even if unnamed in the episode, he's clearly Mr. Meek from the classic short The Wise Quacking Duck (1943), effectively turning that meek farm husband into a much older bureaucrat.
Release date: 2000-02-05
Plot: In downtown Los Angeles, Mayor Rumproast's beloved greasy spoon, "California's Crusty Bronze", is having a very bad day. Someone is sabotaging the city with traffic jams, cartoon-only computer screens and a sudden mouse invasion, right before a surprise health inspection and a live TV remote. Granny is called in to save the mayor's reputation while Sylvester chases Tweety through the kitchen and Hector tries to keep everything looking vaguely sanitary. Between misfiring machinery, exploding coleslaw and a lot of bad publicity, the case slowly comes together on camera. In the end, Granny exposes the disgruntled tech staff behind the chaos and just barely keeps the diner open.
Name and role: The health inspector in this episode is a small, balding, painfully polite man who wanders into the mayor's diner and is treated like a random customer until things go horribly hairy, literally. Poked, ignored and showered with "have a pickle" hospitality, he finally snaps when he discovers a plate of hairy eggs and dramatically shuts the restaurant down on the spot. Even if unnamed in the episode, he's clearly Mr. Meek from the classic short The Wise Quacking Duck (1943), effectively turning that meek farm husband into a much older bureaucrat.
California's Crusty Bronze
Release date: 2000-02-05
Plot: In downtown Los Angeles, Mayor Rumproast's beloved greasy spoon, "California's Crusty Bronze", is having a very bad day. Someone is sabotaging the city with traffic jams, cartoon-only computer screens and a sudden mouse invasion, right before a surprise health inspection and a live TV remote. Granny is called in to save the mayor's reputation while Sylvester chases Tweety through the kitchen and Hector tries to keep everything looking vaguely sanitary. Between misfiring machinery, exploding coleslaw and a lot of bad publicity, the case slowly comes together on camera. In the end, Granny exposes the disgruntled tech staff behind the chaos and just barely keeps the diner open.
Name and role: Howell Hoser is the over-caffeinated TV personality sent to do a live remote from the mayor's historic diner, treating the place like it's the crown jewel of California roadside culture. He strides in with camera crew in tow, narrating every greasy detail for public television while the mayor desperately tries to steer him away from mice, malfunctioning machinery and bald-guy-around-the-food violations. Howell keeps cheerfully selling the landmark establishment image even as the health inspector closes the place, then immediately pivots into showbiz mode when he realizes the inspector's horror stories would make great television.
Release date: 2000-02-05
Plot: In downtown Los Angeles, Mayor Rumproast's beloved greasy spoon, "California's Crusty Bronze", is having a very bad day. Someone is sabotaging the city with traffic jams, cartoon-only computer screens and a sudden mouse invasion, right before a surprise health inspection and a live TV remote. Granny is called in to save the mayor's reputation while Sylvester chases Tweety through the kitchen and Hector tries to keep everything looking vaguely sanitary. Between misfiring machinery, exploding coleslaw and a lot of bad publicity, the case slowly comes together on camera. In the end, Granny exposes the disgruntled tech staff behind the chaos and just barely keeps the diner open.
Name and role: Howell Hoser is the over-caffeinated TV personality sent to do a live remote from the mayor's historic diner, treating the place like it's the crown jewel of California roadside culture. He strides in with camera crew in tow, narrating every greasy detail for public television while the mayor desperately tries to steer him away from mice, malfunctioning machinery and bald-guy-around-the-food violations. Howell keeps cheerfully selling the landmark establishment image even as the health inspector closes the place, then immediately pivots into showbiz mode when he realizes the inspector's horror stories would make great television.
Dial "V" for Veterinarian
Release date: 2000-02-05
Plot: Granny hauls Sylvester, Tweety and Hector off to the vet for check-ups, and the pets are about as thrilled as you'd expect.
Name and role: In this segment Sylvester is the main drama queen of the waiting room: all the guides agree that he dreads the visit, and he spends the cartoon doing everything but calmly accepting his turn on the exam table. When discovers Hector's panic, he finally find an opportunity for revenge, playing the part of the sadist doctor for the dog.
Release date: 2000-02-05
Plot: Granny hauls Sylvester, Tweety and Hector off to the vet for check-ups, and the pets are about as thrilled as you'd expect.
Name and role: In this segment Sylvester is the main drama queen of the waiting room: all the guides agree that he dreads the visit, and he spends the cartoon doing everything but calmly accepting his turn on the exam table. When discovers Hector's panic, he finally find an opportunity for revenge, playing the part of the sadist doctor for the dog.
Dial "V" for Veterinarian
Release date: 2000-02-05
Plot: Granny hauls Sylvester, Tweety and Hector off to the vet for check-ups, and the pets are about as thrilled as you'd expect.
Name and role: This is one of the rare late-series segments where Hector's main job isn't guarding Tweety in some exotic location but simply enduring the same mundane horror every pet owner knows: the vet appointment. The bulldog who usually dishes out the pain is now stuck in the same queue as the cat he normally clobbers.
Release date: 2000-02-05
Plot: Granny hauls Sylvester, Tweety and Hector off to the vet for check-ups, and the pets are about as thrilled as you'd expect.
Name and role: This is one of the rare late-series segments where Hector's main job isn't guarding Tweety in some exotic location but simply enduring the same mundane horror every pet owner knows: the vet appointment. The bulldog who usually dishes out the pain is now stuck in the same queue as the cat he normally clobbers.
The Tail End?
Release date: 2002-12-13
Plot: Scientists at the Manx Institute on the Isle of Man proudly unveil the world's first Manx mouse... which vanishes in the middle of the press conference. Granny, Sylvester, Tweety and Hector are called in to find the missing tailless rodent, but every clue seems to point straight at Sylvester. Meanwhile he's grabbed by a secret Manx cat brotherhood that wants to chop off his beautiful tail as an initiation fee.
Name and role: The Manx Institute's lead scientist is an unnamed human researcher in a lab coat, the guy who proudly announces the world's first Manx mouse to the crowd before it disappears. He's the exact doctor who makes strange experiments over Bugs Bunny in Hot Cross Bunny (1948) trying to give to Bugs the brain of a chicken. Let's just say from 1948 to 2002 he keeps doing science stuff but never gains a proper name.
Release date: 2002-12-13
Plot: Scientists at the Manx Institute on the Isle of Man proudly unveil the world's first Manx mouse... which vanishes in the middle of the press conference. Granny, Sylvester, Tweety and Hector are called in to find the missing tailless rodent, but every clue seems to point straight at Sylvester. Meanwhile he's grabbed by a secret Manx cat brotherhood that wants to chop off his beautiful tail as an initiation fee.
Name and role: The Manx Institute's lead scientist is an unnamed human researcher in a lab coat, the guy who proudly announces the world's first Manx mouse to the crowd before it disappears. He's the exact doctor who makes strange experiments over Bugs Bunny in Hot Cross Bunny (1948) trying to give to Bugs the brain of a chicken. Let's just say from 1948 to 2002 he keeps doing science stuff but never gains a proper name.
The Tail End?
Release date: 2002-12-13
Plot: Scientists at the Manx Institute on the Isle of Man proudly unveil the world's first Manx mouse... which vanishes in the middle of the press conference. Granny, Sylvester, Tweety and Hector are called in to find the missing tailless rodent, but every clue seems to point straight at Sylvester. Meanwhile he's grabbed by a secret Manx cat brotherhood that wants to chop off his beautiful tail as an initiation fee.
Name and role: The cult's leader is a robed Manx cat who welcomes Sylvester to "the sacred tailless order of Manx cats" and speaks for the group like a feline grand master. He's the one who promises to help Sylvester catch Tweety in his noble quest and then casually reveals the entrance fee: joining the Manx Brotherhood means losing your tail. Once Sylvester balks, the leader flips from polite host to sinister priest, orders the others to keep him from leaving, and turns the whole brotherhood into an ominous cat cult.
Release date: 2002-12-13
Plot: Scientists at the Manx Institute on the Isle of Man proudly unveil the world's first Manx mouse... which vanishes in the middle of the press conference. Granny, Sylvester, Tweety and Hector are called in to find the missing tailless rodent, but every clue seems to point straight at Sylvester. Meanwhile he's grabbed by a secret Manx cat brotherhood that wants to chop off his beautiful tail as an initiation fee.
Name and role: The cult's leader is a robed Manx cat who welcomes Sylvester to "the sacred tailless order of Manx cats" and speaks for the group like a feline grand master. He's the one who promises to help Sylvester catch Tweety in his noble quest and then casually reveals the entrance fee: joining the Manx Brotherhood means losing your tail. Once Sylvester balks, the leader flips from polite host to sinister priest, orders the others to keep him from leaving, and turns the whole brotherhood into an ominous cat cult.
The Tail End?
Release date: 2002-12-13-1
Plot: Scientists at the Manx Institute on the Isle of Man proudly unveil the world's first Manx mouse... which vanishes in the middle of the press conference. Granny, Sylvester, Tweety and Hector are called in to find the missing tailless rodent, but every clue seems to point straight at Sylvester. Meanwhile he's grabbed by a secret Manx cat brotherhood that wants to chop off his beautiful tail as an initiation fee.
Name and role: In this episode Sniffles is the Manx mouse himself: a tiny, tailless lab mouse created at the Manx Institute, drawn in a simplified version of his classic design and wearing only a little cap. Sniffles started life way back in 1939's Naughty but Mice and headlined a whole run of Merrie Melodies shorts before fading into cameo duty, in fact even if Sylvester is the golden critter hunter of WB this is they're only appearence together.
Release date: 2002-12-13-1
Plot: Scientists at the Manx Institute on the Isle of Man proudly unveil the world's first Manx mouse... which vanishes in the middle of the press conference. Granny, Sylvester, Tweety and Hector are called in to find the missing tailless rodent, but every clue seems to point straight at Sylvester. Meanwhile he's grabbed by a secret Manx cat brotherhood that wants to chop off his beautiful tail as an initiation fee.
Name and role: In this episode Sniffles is the Manx mouse himself: a tiny, tailless lab mouse created at the Manx Institute, drawn in a simplified version of his classic design and wearing only a little cap. Sniffles started life way back in 1939's Naughty but Mice and headlined a whole run of Merrie Melodies shorts before fading into cameo duty, in fact even if Sylvester is the golden critter hunter of WB this is they're only appearence together.
This is the End
Release date: 2002-12-13
Plot: In a deliberately over-the-top meta finale, Sylvester finally manages to eat Tweety and the world turns on him. Condemned as a black-hearted cannibal, Sylvester is thrown in jail and the show itself is cancelled, complete with angry fans and media hysteria. A ghostly Tweety then appears to haunt him, only for the whole nightmare to be revealed as a dream, ending with Tweety perfectly alive and the pair making an uneasy peace.
Name and role: Here Sylvester is literally living every predator's worst PR nightmare: he finally eats Tweety, and instead of victory he gets an orange jumpsuit and a cancelled series. The episode spends a big chunk of its time with Sylvester behind bars, moping through guilt, bad press and spectral Tweety visits like a noir lead who picked the wrong snack.
Release date: 2002-12-13
Plot: In a deliberately over-the-top meta finale, Sylvester finally manages to eat Tweety and the world turns on him. Condemned as a black-hearted cannibal, Sylvester is thrown in jail and the show itself is cancelled, complete with angry fans and media hysteria. A ghostly Tweety then appears to haunt him, only for the whole nightmare to be revealed as a dream, ending with Tweety perfectly alive and the pair making an uneasy peace.
Name and role: Here Sylvester is literally living every predator's worst PR nightmare: he finally eats Tweety, and instead of victory he gets an orange jumpsuit and a cancelled series. The episode spends a big chunk of its time with Sylvester behind bars, moping through guilt, bad press and spectral Tweety visits like a noir lead who picked the wrong snack.
This is the End
Release date: 2002-12-13
Plot: In a deliberately over-the-top meta finale, Sylvester finally manages to eat Tweety and the world turns on him. Condemned as a black-hearted cannibal, Sylvester is thrown in jail and the show itself is cancelled, complete with angry fans and media hysteria. A ghostly Tweety then appears to haunt him, only for the whole nightmare to be revealed as a dream, ending with Tweety perfectly alive and the pair making an uneasy peace.
Name and role: Windbag is a ruthless TV host who turns Sylvester's "canarycide" into prime-time spectacle. During his show he publicly denounces Sylvester, whips the studio audience into outrage and basically feeds the whole story to the court of public opinion. He's the episode's walking media circus: less interested in what really happened and more thrilled to have a juicy villain to yell about.
Release date: 2002-12-13
Plot: In a deliberately over-the-top meta finale, Sylvester finally manages to eat Tweety and the world turns on him. Condemned as a black-hearted cannibal, Sylvester is thrown in jail and the show itself is cancelled, complete with angry fans and media hysteria. A ghostly Tweety then appears to haunt him, only for the whole nightmare to be revealed as a dream, ending with Tweety perfectly alive and the pair making an uneasy peace.
Name and role: Windbag is a ruthless TV host who turns Sylvester's "canarycide" into prime-time spectacle. During his show he publicly denounces Sylvester, whips the studio audience into outrage and basically feeds the whole story to the court of public opinion. He's the episode's walking media circus: less interested in what really happened and more thrilled to have a juicy villain to yell about.
This is the End
Release date: 2002-12-13
Plot: In a deliberately over-the-top meta finale, Sylvester finally manages to eat Tweety and the world turns on him. Condemned as a black-hearted cannibal, Sylvester is thrown in jail and the show itself is cancelled, complete with angry fans and media hysteria. A ghostly Tweety then appears to haunt him, only for the whole nightmare to be revealed as a dream, ending with Tweety perfectly alive and the pair making an uneasy peace.
Name and role: The closing image of the series shows Sylvester clutching Tweety to his chest in sheer relief when he realises the canary is still alive, fur puffed out into a little protective nest instead of a bib. For once he isn't scheming or drooling, he's just a tired old cat who almost lost the one target that has defined his whole life. As Tweety caps it with "This is why cartoons are special: anything can happen" the hug plays like a curtain call for decades of chases: predator and prey dropping the act long enough to admit they kind of need each other. This is one of the very rare times in any Warner cartoon where Sylvester is openly happy that Tweety survived; it functions as a soft rewrite of their relationship into something closer to frenemies than pure hunter and victim. Similar vibes pop up in shorts like Snow Business (1963), where Sylvester protects Tweety from outside threats mainly so he can keep him for himself, but This is the End is unique in letting that affection be sincere instead of purely self-interested. Because this was produced as the last story of The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries and aired as part of the final broadcast episode, this hug is the unofficial farewell shot for the entire spin-off era of the duo.
Release date: 2002-12-13
Plot: In a deliberately over-the-top meta finale, Sylvester finally manages to eat Tweety and the world turns on him. Condemned as a black-hearted cannibal, Sylvester is thrown in jail and the show itself is cancelled, complete with angry fans and media hysteria. A ghostly Tweety then appears to haunt him, only for the whole nightmare to be revealed as a dream, ending with Tweety perfectly alive and the pair making an uneasy peace.
Name and role: The closing image of the series shows Sylvester clutching Tweety to his chest in sheer relief when he realises the canary is still alive, fur puffed out into a little protective nest instead of a bib. For once he isn't scheming or drooling, he's just a tired old cat who almost lost the one target that has defined his whole life. As Tweety caps it with "This is why cartoons are special: anything can happen" the hug plays like a curtain call for decades of chases: predator and prey dropping the act long enough to admit they kind of need each other. This is one of the very rare times in any Warner cartoon where Sylvester is openly happy that Tweety survived; it functions as a soft rewrite of their relationship into something closer to frenemies than pure hunter and victim. Similar vibes pop up in shorts like Snow Business (1963), where Sylvester protects Tweety from outside threats mainly so he can keep him for himself, but This is the End is unique in letting that affection be sincere instead of purely self-interested. Because this was produced as the last story of The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries and aired as part of the final broadcast episode, this hug is the unofficial farewell shot for the entire spin-off era of the duo.