Never thought I'd see the day I do this but I'm finally doing it.
I'm posting about this Cartoon called
A TALE OF TWO KITTIES
Believe it or not, this was one of my first pieces of material I typed on my former WIX BLOG before I migrated to BLOGGER.COM but for some strange reason, I never got around to making this post until now.
If you don't believe me, behold an old FEBRUARY 2023 Screenshot I took before the migration to BLOGGER.COM:
I may have to quote in verbatim some parts of that old blogpost but at the same time, SPRUCE IT UP with newer bits of knowledge I now know.
So sit back, Grab yourself a bag of LAYS Potato Chips, and a can of PEPSI THROWBACK & READ-ALONG.
A TALE OF TWO KITTIES is a 1942 Cartoon by BOB CLAMPETT's Unit at TERMITE TERRACE and it's directed by the man himself:
Except for several things which.... well.... I already spoiled the surprise with that above image way at the top of this blogpost but I sometimes screw up.
Anyway, This was when TWEETY was NUDE!!!
No. Not nude as a NUDIS.
But rather ATRICIAL AVIAN NUDITY....
In this Cartoon, TWEETY'S born without feathers.
Of course, in Cartoon land, TWEETY's born a PRECOCIAL Bird.... just without his feathers that is.
The difference between Altricial vs Precocial is that...
Altricial Birds are born without feathers and are dependent on the parents.
While Precocial birds are capable of taking care of themselves.
So NUDE TWEETY is a mix. He's born without feathers yet he's perfectly adept at taking care of himself.
And I've read that TWEETY's nakedness is inspired by an old BABY PHOTO of BOB CLAMPETT himself.
But that won't stop our FEATHERLESS PRECOCIAL AVIAN from causing all sorts of Mayhem.
I also forgot to mention that in this Cartoon, TWEETY was not his name but rather ORSON.
No relation to actor ORSON WELLES
I mentioned how......
Ok.... I'll wait till the end of this post before I quip.
It all starts with a Camera Pan
Who could that be?
Shout outs to Comedy Duo ABBOT & COSTELLO.
BABBIT wants to eat some birds for breakfast.
But.....
CATSTELLO doesn't want to.
BABBIT reminds CATSTELLO that if the both of them don't eat, they'll starve to death.
WHAT IS HE? A VEGETARIAN CAT?
So BABBIT decides to tell CATSTELLO that the bird they're after is....
SMALL DEFENSELESS BIRD.
Yup. He goes nuts with enthusiasm.
This transitions to the two of them managing to enter a storage shed.
I did a major blogpost about it back in 2023 & 2025.
I did mention in the original WIX post however that this joke was excised by the modern executives of THE WB NETWORK years later because they thought BABBIT wanted CATSTELLO to flip him off, which he wasn't.
He was simply demanding that CATSTELLO should grab the Bird they're gonna eat.
If you want to bask in the Glory of this BOB CLAMPETT CLASSIC, here's the video link below:
And why am I embedding the video here?
Because the short has been in the public domain since 1970 due to UNITED ARTISTS failing to renew the COPYRIGHT.
I used a link to the one on WIKIPEDIA but SR BULLET BILL of ARCHIVE.ORG has a huge backlog of Cartoons in his account.
Every Cartoonist should have SR BULLET BILL in their life.
While his print is likely an EL-GATO Capture from HBO MAX, due to ZASLAV's TAX WRITE-OFF FINGERS OF DOOM, the cartoon transferred to TUBI.
But for me, it's always ARCHIVE.ORG for me.
In the later years, the HAYS OFFICE cried afoul(No avian puns please) over the fact that TWEETY is a PSEUDO-ATRICIAL/PRECOCIAL BIRD.
They demanded that TWEETY have feathers or he can kiss his career goodbye.
So FRIZ FRELENG took the bird and gave him feathers,
And TWEETY also got a new ADVERSARY:
Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta to finish up this blogpost before.........
