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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.

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.

This 60' "Looney Tunes" short called "Hyde and Go Tweet" is one fun and entertaining one a nice cartoon to watch at "Halloween". As the setting is Sylvester the cat sleeping outside the ledge of an office building and inside is Dr. Jekyll's office which houses a potion called Hyde. Things change and get strange when birds including Tweety fly by. Upon the little yellow bird drinking the potion he turns into a huge bird ugly clawed and a wild looking monster bird! The chase is on as it goes back and fourth with Tweety changing too going up and down in size! Overall fun entertaining cartoon that turns to be different in the end for Sylvester a real twist! I like the "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" parody too!

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

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!

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.

While all sorts of tedious junk, pretentious bores and miserable slogs get 8+ ratings on IMDb this is currently at 7.5... such is the injustice.

This 6 minute short tale has more creativity, humour and 'scares' than 99% of what Hollywood can generate with multi million £/$ 'epics'.

The tables turn between Sylvester and Tweety and its a real gem, memorable and well worth revisiting. Saviour the simple , but brilliantly evocative artwork, the incredible expressions and mannerisms... the wonderful music and sound effects... what a delight these animations are.

It was compiled in- Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (available on DVD)

and was released on VHS in- Sylvester and Tweety's Crazy Capers.

Science Fiction gets best both in reading(1*), filming(2*) or just watching(3*) when there is MAGIC TONIC vs. ANTIDOTE story structure in the concept. The original premise for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was merely an introvert scientist inventing a formula to prove his genius worth to be someone in life but he could not handle the Double Life of masking a calm doctor over a killer monster.

1* In Novels or Gamebooks(cyoa etc.) No amount of hero introduction is ever enough to withstand the necessity of a monster tonic so a casual medical doctor can become a better doctor than he was before. This means, story needs more visuals and actions than dialogues and backstory.

2* Sci-Fi submerges with Action through chase and suspenseful tension sequences of life-and-death battle when filming directly to video, or for TV which actually 1956 version of Zorro did just that in a perfectioned version Double Life Leading stories. Only the 1956 version of Zorro(TV). What worked was a simple trick: "The hero has a weak point which must be kept as a secret; if it is ever revealed then he needs to stop his Double Life" which indeed was the pioneer fuel behind all the Superhero genre today in 2022.

Friz Freleng may be just a simple animation director to all of you; but he was the pioneer of the Superhero/Nemesis genre for Marvel even before there was Marvel in 1956.

3* Antidote concept.... This is also used as an ANTI-NEMESIS storyline. So what is an Anti-Nemesis? We have to come back to Zorro once again. Zorro indeed was the only Superhero who lead TRIPLE LIFE - the nameless poor farmer only his family knows of during holidays; the town chief Don Diego De La Vega(based on real biography) during daytime; and the Zorro during night-time. In this antidote concept; the hero can give up every passion in his life when in danger to go back to being a poor nameless farmer again; in this case everyone would know Zorro dies when Don Diego De La Vega gets killed although through the antidote HE STILL LIVES (which gives a room for a franchise comeback). This antidote must always be a tangible matter:

• A tonic
• A pill or a syringable formula
• A transformator device like the Frankenstein's operation table

Otherwise the story will not be used of by Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde structure.

In Hyde And Go Tweet; Friz Freleng accomplishes it. But for the past 62 years ever since I always wondered why noone else could repeat it.