...Bugs Bunny..., Sylvester, Tweety, Wile E. Coyote, Pepe le Pew, Foghorn Leghorn - they all go 'commando' and let it all hang out each and every day... .
Bugs Bunny is anatomically correct. He flashed his dick in the shower scene in
The Wabbit Who Came To Supper, (directed by
Isadore ('
Friz'
) Freleng;
Merrie Melodie, 1942).
For trivia buffs, the song
Bugs sang in the shower was
Angel in Disguise,
not When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano, (a common mistake).
Tweety was pink in his first three films,
all directed by
Bob Clampett,
A Tale of Two Kitties, (1942), (with
Babbit and Catstello),
Birdy And The Beast, (1944), and
A Gruesome Twosome, (1945) arguably his most vicious role, and one of the most violent
Merrie Melodies ever, and yet, it played uncut on
TBS as late as the early 1990's.
At this time,
Tweety had not yet been named, and was unofficially known as
Orson, from
Clampett's 1942
model sheet. My 2003
.mpeg VHS rip of
A Gruesome Twosome was the "Internet Standard" for several years, until it was released on
DVD in
The Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 3.
Tweety did not acquire a name until
Freleng's 1947
Tweetie Pie, (the
Warner Bros. cartoon studio's first
Oscar winning animated short), in which
Sylvester was still known as "
Thomas".
Sylvester had gone unnamed in his first three films, as well, (
Life with Feathers and the dialogue-free
Peck Up Your Troubles, both 1945
Freleng Merrie Melodies), and
Clampett's 1946
MM,
Kitty Cornered, with
Porky Pig. To my knowledge,
Kitty Cornered is the only
Porky and Sylvester cartoon in which
Sylvester can speak, discounting
The Scarlet Pumpernickel, of course.
In
A Gruesome Twosome, the
"Jimmy Durante Cat" who shoots the other cat in the head with a pistol
says, (referring to
Orson/ Tweety): 'There goes the little naked genius now', and that was the end of the pink
Tweety.
Curiously, this line of dialogue has been removed from the
DVD release, and I've long since recycled the .mpeg rip, but I still have it on the
VHS cassette.
Toronto residents might get a chance to see this one uncut at one of
Reg Hartt's
CineForum shows, in the living room of his home, on
Bathurst St., south of
College St., on the East side.
Beginning with
Tweetie Pie, all
WB theatrical cartoons starring the
Sylvester and Tweety pairing were directed by
Freleng.
Robert McKimson directed the ones with
Sylvester and
Hippity Hopper, the 'giant mouse' baby kangaroo, and
Chuck Jones did the ones with
Porky and
Sylvester in haunted houses/ hotels
.
Clampett went on to create
Albert Einstein's favorite TV show,
Time For Beany, (1949) (with the hand puppets), and later the animated version,
Beany and Cecil, (1962).
Following the closure of the
Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon studio in 1964,
Freleng notably teamed up with
David DePatie to form
DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, for which their best know output is
The Pink Panther television show.
Most of their corporation is now owned by
Marvel Entertainment, a subsidiary of
The Walt Disney Company.
