Hyde and Go Tweet (1960) Online

While not the first on most lists as a great Tweety and Sylvester cartoon, this is one of my personal favorites. It features a classic moment of a huge yellow finger, capped with a crooked claw, tapping Sylvester on the shoulder, with Sylvester literally falling to pieces when he turns around. All in all, a loud laugh for me every time I see it!

Hyde and Go Tweet is one of my personal favourite Sylvester and Tweety cartoons. The concept loosely based on the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde idea isn't exactly original, and has been done to death not only in Looney Tunes but also in Tom and Jerry and Scooby Doo, however despite this which is by no means a flaw, Hyde and Go Tweet is very funny and very clever. The animation is very impressive I think, it is colourful and vibrant, and the music sets the atmosphere well. The dialogue is minimal but is good, but the sight gags are what make the cartoon especially when Tweety turns into a Hyde-version of himself at unexpected times. Tweety is cute at times as he usually is, and his Hyde-version did scare me admittedly when I was little. Sylvester is even better, he is the butt of the joke and he takes it well. And Mel Blanc is exceptional, especially as Tweety's-Hyde version, actually it was the laugh that frightened me most about Tweety's-Hyde form. Overall, funny and clever, with a slightly unoriginal concept, but it makes the most of it and makes something interesting out of it. 10/10 Bethany Cox

This classic Tweety and Sylvester cartoon was one of the last great ones from that era of magnificent Looney Tunes shorts. The sight of a huge, slobbering Tweety in a role reversal of chasing Sylvester around, was not an original idea, but an old idea done with that 50's Warner Bros. flare that has sadly never been equaled.

Two years ago I took my family out to the movies for a couple of nights in a row to see a mini Looney Tunes film festival. The second night Hyde and Go Tweet was one of the selections and was a huge smash with the sold out audience (you hear that AOL/Time/Warner/etc? - SOLD OUT!). Not any of us has seen this cartoon since then, but we were recently talking about those two nights and recalled this one quite fondly.

Tweety, on the run from Sylvester, jumps into a bottle of Dr. Jekyll's Hyde formula and changes into one of the scariest cartoon birds I've ever seen. A funny short from Friz Freleng that is yet another cartoon take on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It may have been done before but this is still very enjoyable. Every time Tweety changes into that thing and poor Sylvester gets scared, you'll find yourself laughing. Great music from Milt Franklyn. Wonderful voice work from the incomparable Mel Blanc. The animation is nice and colorful with well-drawn characters and backgrounds. Pretty fun stuff. The Hyde Tweety alone makes it worth a look. My only complaint is that I didn't like the ending much.

. . . through their crack team of Animated Shorts Seers (aka, The Looney Tuners) explicitly reveal the character of "Tweety" for the unmitigated Threat to Humanity that it allegorically represents in this brief cartoon, HYDE AND GO TWEET. After being doused in the "Mr. Hyde Formula" (that is, money) Tweety turns into an overbearing monster that eventually eats "Sylvester Cat" (representing we True Blue Normal Average Loyal Patriotic 99 Per Center Progressive Union Label Americans, of course). To add to the fiendishness of the situation, Tweety ALTERNATES between his normal digitally-challenged self (notorious on Twitter, but frequently dismissed--with tragic consequences--as "all bark, no bite") and the Russian Red Commie KGB-controlled two-ton ogre now calling all the shots in the once Independent USA. At 5:30, when Tweety finally swallows Sylvester, can any of Today's viewers NOT see Warner warning us through their cartoon prophets about Putin's SCOTUS attacks against World Travelers, Union Members, LGBT-Q folk, and Democracy (i.e., "One Citizen, One Vote) this week?

I remember that I originally saw "Hyde and Go Tweet" in the compilation film "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters", but now I've finally gotten to see it in its own form. I actually derive that there's more to it than simply being a cartoon. Early on, Sylvester - after nearly falling off the ledge on the side of a building when he tried to catch some birds - says "Being a pussycat is a constant hazard." Less than a minute later, Tweety - having shakily landed on the ledge - says "They still haven't perfected flying." That's when Sylvester chases Tweety into a science lab, where Tweety jumps into Hyde formula; the rest, as they say, is history.

It's interesting to think that, despite their evident antagonism towards each other, Sylvester and Tweety appear to live somewhat parallel existences in this respect; obviously, things become more dangerous for them as they chase each other back and forth throughout the cartoon. Maybe if they both came to understand how unsafe life is for each other, they wouldn't be enemies.

Of course, I mean all that figuratively/metaphorically. But there is yet another topic that the cartoon brings up: cowardice. He was lucky that he was a civilian and not a soldier, because had that been cowardice in the face of the enemy during wartime...well, just watch Stanley Kubrick's movie "Paths of Glory" and you'll see what I mean.

I'm probably reading too far into this cartoon. It was most likely intended as pure entertainment, and it does come out pretty entertaining. Worth seeing.