Kitty Kornered

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Kitty Kornered is a 1946 Looney Tunes cartoon, directed by Robert Clampett and produced and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. Considered among Clampett's best and wackiest films, Kitty Kornered was Clampett's final cartoon starring his longtime star Porky Pig, and marks the only appearance of the (then unnamed) Sylvester the cat in a Clampett-directed cartoon.

Porky and Sylvester would later be paired in a trio of shorts directed by Chuck Jones: Scaredy Cat, Claws for Alarm, and Jumpin' Jupiter.

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As the film opens, we see the neighborhood's cat owners all (literally) throwing their cats out for the night. Porky Pig attempts to do the same, but his four cats (a tall black and white lisping cat, a medium sized tabby, a diminutive kitten, and a dumb drunkard cat) throw him out. Porky bangs on the door, demanding to be let in, but the cats pop out of the door and proclaim in unison, "Milkman, keep those bottles quiet!", and then slam the door in his face. Porky retaliates by sicing his pet dog "Lassie" on the cats. The cats see the dog's shadow and run for their lives, not knowing that "Lassie" is really only a shadow puppet created with Porky's fingers.

The cat with the lisp plots revenge, which is exacted by having the cats create a War of the Worlds-esque sensation about invading aliens, placing the fear of God in their porcine owner and driving him into a panic over "M-M-Me-M-Me-M-M-M-Me-M-Me-M-Men from Mars!" Assuming the appearances of Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders cavalry, the cats charge at Porky and run him out of the house once and for all. Homeless, alone, and cold in the snow, Porky turns to the camera and asks "D-D-Does anybody in the audience kn-kn-know somebody that kn-knows somebody that, uh, that has a house to rent?"