Room and Bird

This cartoon has Sylvester Cat, Tweety Bird, and a bulldog all snuck in a deluxe apartment building where no pets are aloud. They have to avoid the manager while chasing each other around. I'm not the biggest Tweety bird fan, I thought at one point he may have been tolerable, but I got over that fast. I'm sorry, I did give him so many chances to change my mind, but Nada. The biggest laughs come from Sylvester and the bulldog (ok and Tweety in ONE instance when they dress up like one old woman) This animated short can be seen on Disc 3 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2.

My Grade: C+

What's most funny about "Room and Bird" is the fact that Sylvester and Tweety are in neighboring rooms in a hotel where no pets are allowed, and the manager keeps suspecting that something's up...all leading up to what happens at the end! Truth be told, the hotel manager reminded me just a little bit of Mr. Hand in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", how he suspected everyone of breaking the rules. But that's just me. All in all, it's not a great cartoon by any stretch, but I just like the sight of seemingly lowly characters rattling authority figures (think "Animal House", and not just because of the animals here).

All in all, an OK cartoon. Worth seeing.

The Spinsters Arms is an apartment building which doesn't allow pets. One old lady smuggles Tweety Bird into the building past its manager. Another old lady smuggles Sylvester the Cat into the same building. The pets get left alone in adjacent apartments. Sylvester hears Tweety's singing and tries to get a snack. There is also a dog in another room.

This is a solid Tweety and Sylvester cartoon. It is a good premise. It is a lot of the standard Tweety, Sylvester, dog interactions. I even like the building man. More than anything, I like the ending. In fact, I would like more of you-know-whats.

Whether it is one of their best is up for debate, not for me but it is one of the better ones. It does start off a tad slow, but it gets much better once the action accelerates right up to the great end.

The animation is fluid and colourful, the character designs are above average and the colouring is lavish. The music is also quirky and fun, the dialogue has evidence of the Looney Tunes wit and the sight gags and chases are energetic and very manic. Sylvester is as fun as ever, and Tweety is cute too. The dog is wonderful to watch especially when the action accelerates.

So all in all, a fun cartoon. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Friz Freleng's 'Room and Bird' is one of the better cartoons in the largely dull Sylvester and Tweety series. One of the crucial elements that elevates most of the better Sylvester and Tweety cartoons is the addition of more characters to be involved in the chase. 'Room and Bird' features the standard Bulldog but more crucially it features a hotel manager who is determined to keep his establishment free of pets. This extra angle means that the characters have to occasionally break from the chase and sometime set their differences aside in order to evade detection. Also working in 'Room and Bird's' favour is Tweety's less irritating that usual performance. Freleng's Tweety has a tendency to be overtly cute and slow cartoons down with eyelash fluttering poppet-isms. In 'Room and Bird' there simply isn't time for this sort of filler material and Tweety actually gets to deliver quite an amusing punch line to the whole she-bang.