Sylvester

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What is succotash and why is it stuck to a cartoon character? Suffering succotash was what I grew up with while watching Sylvester the Cat.

First, it is a very real dish with a huge, huge American history.

It's corn and beans, and some people actually add tomatoes, peppers, onions, and yes, even butter.

And that was just like, this right here is everything that we love about the Looney Tunes condensed into four minutes on screen.

It is the pure embodiment of why these characters have remained generational favorites, why they're still in the zeitgeist to this day, why every single generation still knows who Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester and Tweety, and Elmer Fudd are.

um and and i love that about this so much the way that it just fully embraces what the looney tunes is um you know and who they are that that's what meant everything to me watching this i just had a big freaking smile on my face for all four minutes um gorgeously brilliant brilliant short

I also want to say, I think there's a reference to Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers in this as well, which caught me off guard, but I really liked it.

And

one that's not talked about, King Tweety, where he voiced

Sylvester and Tweety.

Yeah, that's right.

And We're still talking about it to this very day in 2020.

The amount of the heart and soul that he poured into this character and the rest of the Looney Tunes, not just Bugs, but Daffy, Tweety, Sylvester, Yosemite, Marvin the Martian, like you name it.

He was behind Pepe Le Pew, Foghorn Leghorn.

Right.

It was like these really cool, slick posters.

You know, the only two colors on the poster were red and black and the characters were in silhouette and the background was red.

And I'm telling you, from like one side of the platform all the way to the end of the subway platform had like Tweety, Daffy, all the Monstars, Jordan, Bugs, you know, everyone, Sylvester.

They all had a poster.

Biggest voice and funniest name.

But, you know, Sylvester, Tweety, you know, all the characters.

Wile

E. Coyote.

Yeah.

Sylvester, can't use it.

Foghorn, Lakehorn.

Actually, now that I think about it, Boris, half these characters are real speech impediments.

Also, Eddie

said you sound like Sylvester the Cat.

That's hilarious.

Suffering fuck a death.