Claws in the Lease

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"Claws in the Lease" is a 1963 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.

[edit] Plot

Sylvester lives with his son in a city dump. Sylvester Junior then decides to find a home for themselves. He finds one, but the lady who lives there only wants to adopt Sylvester Jr. and separates him from his father. When the lady puts a milk then for Sylvester Jr., then Sylvester starts drinking it but gets bopped on head with broom by the lady. Then he gets angry and starts knocking on door and screaming to give his son back, but gets again bopped with the broom again and runs away. Then lady prepares to watch TV, but Sylvester is in the TV holding in hand a can of "Pussy Kins Cat Food". He then starts singing about it, but gets thrown out from house. Later he puts everywhere in the house cheese and lets some mice in. Then he comes back as a super cat and says: "This is a job for SuperPuss!" and enters to house, but is thrown out by mice, along with the housewife and Sylvester Jr. The cartoon ends with Sylvester Jr., Sylvester, and the housewife living at the dump.

[edit] Censorship

  • This cartoon was shown with parts cut on ABC, but there were two edited versions shown--one in 1988 and another in 1994:
    • The 1988 version cuts the part where Sylvester Jr. runs to get Sylvester from the dump after Sylvester Jr. finds a home and Sylvester tries to drink from the bowl of milk before getting beaten with a broom repeatedly by the woman who takes Sylvester Jr. in the house, followed by the scene where Sylvester bangs on the door, demanding that the housewife give back his son, and ends up getting beaten with the broom again. The edited version in 1988 had the cartoon cut so that way Sylvester Jr. is immediately taken in after the woman answers the door and then cuts to Sylvester Jr. and his new master watching TV.
    • The 1994 version left in the part where Sylvester Jr. gets his father from the dump after finding a home and Sylvester drinking the milk before getting beaten, but the beatings were shortened from six hits to one and the part where Sylvester tries to retrieve his son, only to get beaten again was cut completely. Also edited in the 1994 version was the part after Sylvester sings the "Pussykins Cat Food" jingle where he gets thrown out the window and hits a tree and the part after the mice throw Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., and the housewife out where the housewife barks, "And it's all your fault, you stupid feline!" and slams her fist on the top of Sylvester's head.

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