Doggone Cats

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Doggone Cats (reissued as Dog Gone Cats)
Merrie Melodies (Sylvester) series
Directed by Arthur Davis
Produced by Edward Selzer
(uncredited)
Story by Lloyd Turner
Bill Scott
Voices by Mel Blanc
Music by Carl Stalling
Animation by Basil Davidovich
J. C. Melendez
Don Williams
Emery Hawkins
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s) October 25, 1947 (USA)
Color process Cinecolor (original)
Technicolor (reissue)
Running time 7 min
Language English
Preceded by Crowing Pains
Followed by Catch as Cats Can

Doggone Cats (reissued as Dog Gone Cats), is a 1947-released Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series. It stars Sylvester, his brother Alan (his official debut, and his only appearance until The Looney Tunes Show) and a dog named Wellington. It was officially released in Cinecolor, but was reissued in Technicolor.[1]

Plot

Wellington the dog is given a package to deliver to Uncle Louie, with strict instructions not to let go of it. Sylvester and his brother Alan (although not officially named), both of whom Wellington has been tormenting, see this as their chance to get even. They try multiple ways to get him to drop the package (one of which is disguising a cigarette from pepper and using it to make him sneeze), but Wellington always outsmarts them. Besides repeatedly filching the package, at one point they drop a duplicate off a bridge. Wellington still manages to retrieve the package a few times, but never for as long as he hopes for. At the end of the cartoon, Wellington finally arrives at Uncle Louie's, but is upset when he finds out that the package contains dinner for the two cats. Realizing that he had been a "jackass" through the whole thing, Wellington slams his head against the mailbox and crowns himself with garbage can lids.

Trivia

This cartoon marks the debut appearance of Sylvester's brother, Alan. Alan looks like Sylvester, except with orange fur. In his debut appearance, he appears to be slightly smaller than Sylvester, and does not speak. After this short, Alan never appeared in animation, until episode 26 of The Looney Tunes Show ('Point Laser Point'), in which he is officially named, speaks for the first time (voiced by Jeff Bennett) and is designed slightly larger than Sylvester.

Wellington, or a dog identical to him in appearance, appears along with Pepé Le Pew in Odor of the Day (1948).

See also

References

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Preceded by Sylvester Cartoons
1947
Succeeded by
Catch as Cats Can


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