Meanwhile Robert Zemeckis helmed Who Framed Roger Rabbit, in which featured several famous cartoon characters from the " Golden Age of animation " including Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Droopy, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, Sylvester the cat, Tweety Pie and Jiminy Cricket among others.

** Sylvester the cat, a cartoon character, debuts in Life with Feathers

The Looney Tunes characters have had more success in the area of television, with appearances in several originally produced series, including Taz-Mania ( 1991, starring The Tasmanian Devil ), The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries ( 1995, starring Sylvester the cat, Tweety Bird and Granny ), Baby Looney Tunes ( 2002, which had a similar premise to Muppet Babies ), and Duck Dodgers ( 2003, starring Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Marvin the Martian ).

Porky Pig asks Sylvester the cat ( in a non-speaking role ) to explain himself after disrupting his sleep, in Jumpin ' Jupiter ( 1955 )

Jones also paired Porky with Sylvester in a series of cartoons in the late 1940s and early 1950s, in which Porky plays the curmudgeonly owner of the cat and remains clueless that Sylvester is constantly saving him from homicidal mice, space aliens, and other threats.

The first short to team Tweety and the cat, later named Sylvester, was 1947's Tweetie Pie, which won Warner Bros. its first Academy Award for Best Short Subject ( Cartoons ).

* The hungry Sylvester wanting to eat the bird, but some major obstacle stands in his way – usually Granny or her bulldog Hector ( or occasionally, numerous bulldogs, or another cat who wants to eat Tweety ).

In the MAD segment " Dinosaurs with bird effects ", Sylvester appeared as a saber-toothed cat and Tweety appeared as a dinosaur.

Sylvester ( often called " El Gringo Pussygato " by Speedy ) is constantly outsmarted and outrun by the Mouse, causing the cat to suffer all manner of pain and humiliation from mousetraps to accidentally consuming large amounts of Tabasco hot sauce.

Sylvester J. Pussycat, Sr., Sylvester the Cat or simply Sylvester, or Puddy Tat, is a fictional character, a three-time Academy Award-winning anthropomorphic Tuxedo cat in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies repertory, often chasing Tweety Bird, Speedy Gonzales, or Hippety Hopper.

The name " Sylvester " is a play on Felis silvestris, the scientific name for the wild cat species ( domestic cats like Sylvester, though, are actually Felis catus ).

Before Sylvester's appearance in the cartoons, Blanc voiced a character named Sylvester on The Judy Canova Show using the voice that would eventually become associated with the cat.

" Sufferin ' succotash " is a catchphrase of the Warner Bros. cartoon cat Sylvester, also used less often by Daffy Duck.

* An episode of Looney Tunes featuring Elmer Fudd and Sylvester the cat shows Elmer tossing a book titled " The Thin Man " out the window at Sylvester who in turns tosses back a second book titled " Another Thin Man ".

One oft-repeated " official " story states that Mel Blanc patterned the voices of both Daffy Duck and Sylvester the cat on Schlesinger.

He introduced and / or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam ( to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance ) and Speedy Gonzales.

Hippety Hopper cartoons have a typical formula: Hopper escapes from a zoo, circus, etc., and is mistaken for a giant mouse by Sylvester the cat.

Sylvester mistakes Hippety Hopper once again for a giant mouse, and the baby kangaroo promptly beats the cat soundly.

In Bell Hoppy ( 1954 ), for example, in a twist on " belling the cat ", Sylvester must hang a bell around a mouse's neck in order to join the " Loyal Order of Alley Cats and Mousing and Chowder Club ".

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

Although Miller noted in 1907 that a difference in the pleural blood supply existed between animals, nowhere in his published works is it found that he did a comparative study of the intrapulmonary features of various mammalian lungs other than in the dog and cat ( Miller, '13 ; ;

This is especially so if the dog, cat or monkey are to be used, in view of their marked anatomical differences from man.

Since in oral languages the elements of sound are for the most part produced linearly in time ( that is, in a word like cat the a sound comes after the c sound, and the t sound comes after that ), they can generally be easily written in a linear ( one-dimensional ) writing system such as an alphabet.

Although the description sitting-on ( graph 1 ) is more abstract than the graphic image of a cat sitting on a mat ( picture 1 ), the delineation of abstract things from concrete things is somewhat ambiguous ; this ambiguity or vagueness is characteristic of abstraction.

After a worrying interval she reveals that E. D. Wivens is a cat.

Although black is sometimes described as an " achromatic ", or hueless, color, in practice it can be considered a color, as in expressions like " black cat " or " black paint ".

The Beast of Bodmin, also known as The Beast of Bodmin Moor () is a phantom wild cat purported to live in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom.

The report stated that ' the investigation could not prove that a " big cat " is not present.

Some, however, will possess the hunting instinct to such a degree that they find it impossible not to chase a cat that is moving quickly.

The hunting instinct is triggered by movement and much depends on how the cat behaves.

For example, if the main shot is of a man walking down an alley, possible cutaways may include a shot of a cat on a nearby dumpster or a shot of a person watching from a window overhead.

A cat is put in a sealed box, with its life or death made dependent on the state of a subatomic particle.

" But this can't be accurate because it implies the cat is actually both dead and alive until the box is opened to check on it.

The wave function means that, once the cat is observed, there is a 50 % chance it will be dead, and 50 % chance it will be alive.

His friend however is convinced that cat is alive, i. e. for him, the cat is in the state.

* In Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke when Lascelles and Drawlight are discussing Jonathan Strange, he is described as the man who " when an undergraduate at Cambridge, frightened a cat belonging to the Master of Corpus Christi ".

When angry or frightened, a cat will lay back its ears to accompany the growling or hissing sounds it makes.

For example ,-a may be used in place of-o in catto, producing catta " female cat ".

Nicholas Tucker described the early Harry Potter books as looking back to Victorian and Edwardian children's stories: Hogwarts was an old-style boarding school in which the teachers addressed pupils formally by their surnames and were most concerned with the reputations of the houses with which they were associated ; characters ' personalities were plainly shown by their appearances, starting with the Dursleys ; evil or malicious characters were to be crushed rather than reformed, including Filch's cat Mrs Norris ; and the hero, a mistreated orphan who found his true place in life, was charismatic and good at sports, but considerate and protective towards the weak.

Dirk learns that the missing cat was never missing in the first place as a result of their actions, and charges the client a small amount for the finding of the lost cat, adding " saving the entire human race from extinction – no charge ".

En route, the flat cat and its offspring overpopulate the ship, so that the family place them in hibernation, and later sell them to the miners.

In this case, the movie takes place at a construction site, where Oswald is a steel worker and Pete his supervising foreman ... a working relationship than only deteriorates when both men are interested in a cat love interest by the name of Sadie ( who also appears in The Banker's Daughter, Rival Romeos, Sagebrush Sadie, Oh, What a Knight and several more shorts ).

Although the episodes themselves are not in chronological order ( a single episode may have one story that takes place in the winter and another that takes place in the summer ), many episodes are rife with references to past events within the series ' continuity, in particular D. W .' s missing snowball for which she blames Arthur or Buster's cat saving incident ; these are often intended to amuse long-time viewers.

Author Rita Mae Brown along with her cat, Sneaky Pie Brown, have written a mystery series commonly called the ' Mrs. Murphy series ' that takes place in Crozet.

Flagellation took place either with a single whip or, more notoriously, with the cat o ' nine tails.

Bobtails also have a tendency to steal shiny objects and stash them away in a hiding place, requiring owners to know where their cat keeps their hoard when the owner wants to retrieve the items.

Colonel, an old sheepdog, along with his compatriots Captain, a gray horse, and Sergeant Tibbs, a tabby cat, find the puppies in a place called Hell Hall ( Cruella's abandoned and dilapidated family estate ), along with many other dalmatian puppies that Cruella had purchased from various dog stores.

Jordaens chooses to place the scene inside a farmhouse, complete with a bull, dog, cat, and rooster integrated around the furniture and figures.

I ain ’ t seen no cat aroun ’ here … uh unh, ain ’ t no cat, no place, no how-no ma ' am ,” in stereotypical African-American dialect.

However, many residents have objected to restrictions on land cultivation and improvement brought about by the measures in place to protect the Iriomote cat and other species on the island.

In the related Vietnamese zodiac, the cat takes the place of the hare.

The Cubs were in first place at the time, but after the cat appeared, the Cubs lost the game and eventually fell eight games behind the Mets in the standings, missing that season's playoffs entirely.

* In Sesame Street's Mother Goose Rhymes, Grundgetta takes the place of the cat, going to the dump and wanting to know who wants to know where she's been.

Most of the mysteries are rich with images from Amsterdam, where most of them take place ; some also feature a cat named Oliver.

A set was once again designed by František Zelenka, formerly a stage manager at the Czech National Theatre: several flats were painted as a background, in the foreground was a fence with drawings of the cat, dog and lark and holes for the singers to insert their heads in place of the animals ' heads.

At the first meeting of the town trustees ( aldermen ), 27 March 1837, Section 36 of the Ordinances was enacted: " any person who shall on the Sabbath day play at bandy, cricket, cat, town-ball, corner-ball, over-ball, fives, or any other game of ball, within the limits of the corporation, or shall engage in pitching dollars or quarters, or any other game, in any public place, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined the sum of one dollar.

Transmission can also take place from an infected mother cat to her kittens, either before they are born or while they are nursing.

Paulie is Captain Eddie's cat who is always with Eddie, accompanying him on his various fictional adventures, and usually sits on his shoulder, in place of the usual parrot accompanying a pirate.

Thorndike emphasized the importance of the situation in eliciting a response ; the cat would not go about making the lever-pressing movement if it was not in the puzzle box but was merely in a place where the response had never been reinforced.