fiction.wikisort.org - CharacterMarc Antony and Pussyfoot are animated characters in four Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts.[1] Three cartoons focus on the dog and kitten pair: Feed the Kitty (1952), Kiss Me Cat (1953) and Cat Feud (1958).[2] They also appear in one Claude Cat cartoon, Feline Frame-Up (1954).[3]
Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon characters
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Fictional character
Marc Antony & Pussyfoot |
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First appearance | Marc Antony: Cheese Chasers (1951) Pussyfoot: Feed the Kitty (1952) |
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Created by | Chuck Jones |
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Voiced by | Marc Antony: Mel Blanc (1952–1958) Greg Burson (1991) Matt Craig (2017) Pussyfoot: Mel Blanc (1952–1958) Debi Derryberry (2022–present) |
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Species | Marc Antony: Bulldog Pussyfoot: Tuxedo cat |
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Gender | Marc Antony: Male Pussyfoot: Female |
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Nationality | American |
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Description
Marc Antony is a burly bulldog that is usually brown with a tan belly and black ears, though his coloration varies in some shorts. He bears a close resemblance to Hector the Bulldog, but with thinner back legs and minus the outer fangs. Pussyfoot/Cleo, in contrast, is a petite and extremely cute, blue-eyed black-and-white tuxedo cat to whom Marc Antony is utterly devoted with motherly passion. The characters seem to be named as an allusion to Mark Antony and Cleopatra, who were lovers detailed in Plutarch's Parallel Lives. Chuck Jones, the creator, has discussed the efforts to maximize the kitten's sheer adorableness. All head and eyes, she is black with a white face and belly and a white tip on her fluffy tail.
Influence
Pussyfoot has appeared in some Warner Bros. merchandising, and the pair have been featured in various Warner Bros. productions, such as the third segment of the film version of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), and a Looney Tunes comic book story called "Bringing Up Baby" published in 1999. Tiny Toon Adventures featured a similar character named Barky Marky, who was a comparatively minor character on the show. The pair were also an inspiration for the characters Buttons and Mindy that were featured in the successor to Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs. In the Buttons and Mindy short "Cat on a Hot Steel Beam", the cat that Mindy follows throughout the cartoon is Pussyfoot. Additionally, the kitten makes a very brief cameo appearance in the Chuck Jones short Another Froggy Evening (1995).
Jones would later revisit the idea of a cute kitten having an unlikely protector in an MGM Tom and Jerry short, The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse (1964), with Jerry becoming a kitten's friend and protector against a selfish and jealous Tom (the plot of which was borrowed from Feline Frame-Up (1954)). In Feline Frame-Up, Claude Cat attempts to convince their human owner that Marc Antony wants to harm Pussyfoot.
A segment of Feed the Kitty, in which an apparently "inconsolable" Marc Antony believes that Pussyfoot has been turned into a cookie (and unaware that the kitten is actually perfectly safe), was the subject of a homage in the 2001 Pixar film Monsters, Inc. in which Sulley believes that a little human girl he is protecting has fallen into a trash compactor, and reenacts the scene with Marc Antony nearly shot-for-shot.[4]
A reference is also made to Feed the Kitty in the 13th and 14th episodes of season 14 of South Park with Eric Cartman acting as Pussyfoot and Cthulhu as Marc Antony in his "cute kitten" routine.
In the series Archer, the relationship between Archer and his daughter A.J. was inspired by their cartoons, according to series creator Adam Reed.[5]
Feed the Kitty is available on DVD, appearing on the compilations Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1, disc 3 and Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection, and on Blu-ray, on Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1.
Alternate names
Marc Antony is referred to as "Marc Anthony" on his food dish in Feed the Kitty, and Pussyfoot is sometimes called "Kitty" or "Cleo" in some WB animation history books.
Appearances
Classic shorts
Marc Antony also makes a cameo appearance in No Barking (1954), and Pussyfoot makes one in Another Froggy Evening (1995).
References
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Studios |
- Harman-Ising Productions (1930–1933)
- Leon Schlesinger Productions (1933–1944)
- Warner Bros. Cartoons (1944–1964)
- DePatie–Freleng Enterprises (1964–1967, 1979–1980)
- Format Films (1965–1967)
- Warner Bros.-Seven Arts (1967–1969)
- Chuck Jones Enterprises (1976–1980, 1994–1997)
- Warner Bros. Animation (1980–present)
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Shorts |
- 1929–1939
- 1940–1949
- 1950–1959
- 1960–1969
- 1970–present
- Featuring Bugs Bunny
- Featuring Daffy Duck
- Featuring Sylvester
- Featuring Porky Pig
- Blue Ribbon reissues
- Censored Eleven
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Live-action/animation | |
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Documentaries | |
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Television series | Compilations |
- The Bugs Bunny Show
- The Porky Pig Show
- The Road Runner Show
- The Merrie Melodies Show
- Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends
- Bugs 'n' Daffy
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Originals |
- Tiny Toon Adventures
- Taz-Mania
- The Plucky Duck Show
- The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
- Baby Looney Tunes
- Duck Dodgers
- Loonatics Unleashed
- The Looney Tunes Show
- Wabbit/New Looney Tunes
- Looney Tunes Cartoons
- Bugs Bunny Builders
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Music/songs | |
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- Category
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Short subjects | 1930s | |
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1940s | |
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1950s |
- The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)
- The Ducksters (1950)
- Dog Gone South (1950)
- 8 Ball Bunny (1950)
- The Hypo-Chondri-Cat (1950)
- Homeless Hare (1950)
- Caveman Inki (1950)
- Rabbit of Seville (1950)
- Two's A Crowd (1950)
- Bunny Hugged (1951)
- Scent-imental Romeo (1951)
- A Hound for Trouble (1951)
- Rabbit Fire (1951)
- Chow Hound (1951)
- The Wearing of the Grin (1951)
- Cheese Chasers (1951)
- A Bear for Punishment (1951)
- Drip-Along Daffy (1951)
- Operation: Rabbit (1952)
- Feed the Kitty (1952)
- Little Beau Pepé (1952)
- Water, Water Every Hare (1952)
- Orange Blossoms for Violet (1952)
- Beep, Beep (1952)
- The Hasty Hare (1952)
- Going! Going! Gosh! (1952)
- Mouse-Warming (1952)
- Rabbit Seasoning (1952)
- Terrier Stricken (1952)
- Don't Give Up the Sheep (1953)
- Forward March Hare (1953)
- Kiss Me Cat (1953)
- Duck Amuck (1953)
- Much Ado About Nutting (1953)
- Wild Over You (1953)
- Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)
- Bully for Bugs (1953)
- Zipping Along (1953)
- Lumber Jack-Rabbit (1953)
- Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953)
- Punch Trunk (1953)
- Feline Frame-Up (1954)
- No Barking (1954)
- The Cat's Bah (1954)
- Claws for Alarm (1954)
- Bewitched Bunny (1954)
- Stop! Look! And Hasten! (1954)
- From A to Z-Z-Z-Z (1954)
- My Little Duckaroo (1954)
- Sheep Ahoy (1954)
- Baby Buggy Bunny (1954)
- Beanstalk Bunny (1955)
- Ready, Set, Zoom! (1955)
- Past Perfumance (1955)
- Rabbit Rampage (1955)
- Double or Mutton (1955)
- Jumpin' Jupiter (1955)
- Knight-mare Hare (1955)
- Two Scent's Worth (1955)
- Guided Muscle (1955)
- One Froggy Evening (1955)
- A Hitch in Time (1955)
- 90 Days Wondering (1956)
- Bugs' Bonnets (1956)
- Broom-Stick Bunny (1956)
- Rocket Squad (1956)
- Heaven Scent (1956)
- Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z (1956)
- Barbary Coast Bunny (1956)
- Rocket-Bye Baby (1956)
- Deduce, You Say! (1956)
- There They Go-Go-Go! (1956)
- To Hare Is Human (1956)
- Scrambled Aches (1957)
- Ali Baba Bunny (1957)
- Go Fly a Kit (1957)
- Boyhood Daze (1957)
- Steal Wool (1957)
- What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
- Zoom and Bored (1957)
- Touché and Go (1957)
- Drafty, Isn't It? (1957)
- Robin Hood Daffy (1958)
- Hare-Way to the Stars (1958)
- Whoa, Be-Gone! (1958)
- To Itch His Own (1958)
- Hook, Line and Stinker (1958)
- Hip Hip-Hurry! (1958)
- Cat Feud (1958)
- Baton Bunny (1959)
- Hot-Rod and Reel! (1959)
- Wild About Hurry (1959)
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1980s | |
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1990s | |
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Television specials |
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
- The Pogo Special Birthday Special (1969)
- Horton Hears a Who! (1970)
- The Cat in the Hat (1971)
- The Cricket in Times Square (1973)
- A Very Merry Cricket (1973)
- Yankee Doodle Cricket (1975)
- The White Seal (1975)
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975)
- Mowgli's Brothers (1976)
- Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals (1976)
- A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court (1978)
- Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper (1978)
- Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile (1979)
- Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979)
- Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over (1980)
- Daffy Duck’s Thanks-for-Giving Special (1980)
- A Chipmunk Christmas (1981)
- Peter and the Wolf (1995)
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Books |
- Daffy Duck for President (1997)
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