We continue our journey into Sylvester’s world – this week tackling his relationship with his most famous opponent, Tweety the canary.
I tawt I taw a putty tat! |
Starting with their first episode together, ‘Tweetie Pie’ (even though Sylvester’s name back then was Thomas), we see our protagonist’s every attempt at catching the smart canary woefully fails.
As always,
Sylvester is enthusiastic and confident – sometimes rightfully so, as in ‘I taw
a putty tat’, which begins with an allusion to Sylvester’s previous success:
his master calls the pet shop to request a new canary, ‘the fifth this month
(…) He must’ve flown out the window’. Only now she gets Tweety, a sweet and
naïve bird that believes the ‘putty tat’ came to play with him. At least
apparently so. Because in fact the feared feline hunter has finally met his
match, Tweety the lisp canary is anything but naïve and always finds new
methods of turns the odds in his favor. As a matter of fact, the episode ends
with Tweety concluding ‘Her don’t know me very well, do her?’ when his master
calls the pet shop to request a new cat, after Tweety got rid of Sylvester in a
rather cruel manner, by locking him up in a bird cage with a ‘puddy dog’. And
the scenes repeat in a similar fashion in most of the episodes the two are seen
together – plus or minus the dog or the master.
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The two sides of the story reflect in ‘I taw a putty tat’ outfit – white for a confident Sylvester, that doesn’t just give up easily, and black for the disastrous exit of the afore-mentioned cat. At the same time, borrowing the breeches from the masculine wardrobe is a symbolic means of underlining the episode’s outcome: Sylvester is tied up – both literally and figuratively speaking – to the ‘wittle puddy dog’.
Ponte di Rome straight skirt with flounce and detachable suspenders, size 38 |