| Hyde and Go Tweet | |
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| Merrie Melodies (Tweety/Sylvester) series | |
Sylvester's first encounter with the monstrous Tweety, causing the cat to fall apart - literally. |
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| Directed by | Friz Freleng |
| Produced by | John Burton (unc.) |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Milt Franklyn (music) Treg Brown (effects) |
| Animation by | Virgil Ross Gerry Chiniquy Art Davis |
| Layouts by | Hawley Pratt |
| Backgrounds by | Tom O'Loughlin |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 14, 1960 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 6 mins |
| Language | English |
Hyde and Go Tweet is a Merrie Melodies animated short starring Tweety and Sylvester. Released May 14, 1960, the cartoon is directed by Friz Freleng. The voices were performed by Mel Blanc.
The short is the third in the series of Freleng's cartoons based on "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." The title is a play on the game hide and go seek.
In the Sega Mega Drive game Sylvester and Tweety in Cagey Capers, level 5 is loosely based on this cartoon, but with a few changes.
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Sylvester is sleeping on the ledge of a tall building. After observing mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll drinking a Mr. Hyde potion and briefly turning into a monstrous alter ego, Sylvester laughs it off and resumes his sleep.
In the dream: Suddenly waking up, Sylvester chases some pigeons away for disrupting his nap. He then pursues his prey, Tweety, along the building's ledge. Tweety escapes inside and hides in the Hyde formula ("I'd better hide, or that bad ol' putty tat gonna get me!"). Sylvester demands that Tweety show himself, which he does: he's turned into an ugly, giant bird of prey ("You bad ol' puddy tat!" and laughs maniacally) that - after years of harassment and being chased and with payback on his mind - begins chasing Sylvester!
Sylvester is frantically trying to get the elevator to come up, and he turns and looks down the corner, and Tweety/Hyde is ambling along, laughing maniacally.
For most of the rest of the cartoon, Tweety frequently switches between his usual, innocent self (which Sylvester chases) and the evil bird-monster (from which Sylvester runs away). After several back-and-forth chases, Sylvester nabs a normal-sized Tweety. Unaware of the fact that the monster bird and his potential meal are one and the same, the cat locks himself in a small kitchen, throws the key out the window to make sure that Tweety doesn't get out and "the goon" doesn't get in, and begins to "make that Tweety Sandwich I've been dreaming of." But while Sylvester is searching for some ketchup, Tweety changes back into his menacing, Hyde-like self and devours his adversary whole ("What? No ketchup? Well, I guess I'll just have to eat you without KETCH...!") in a single gulp. Sylvester frees himself and tries to escape the room as his hunter murderously stalks him down (off-screen). Sylvester cries out "Help! Open the door! Help! I'm locked in with a killer! Aaaaaargh! Help! Help! Aaargh! Aaargh! Aaaargh! Help!". End of the dream.
Just then, Sylvester awakens from his dream... only to believe this was a nightmare and to see a normal-sized Tweety struggling to fly to the ledge of the building. Fearing of the events of his nightmare about to come true, Sylvester is convinced that Tweety poses a giant risk to his well-being, cries out "Help! Save me! Aaargh! Aaargh! Aaargh! Save me! He's a killer! Help!" and runs through a wall to escape! Two cats (variants of the cats in Birds Anonymous) observe his action and refer to it as cowardice ("Most outrageous exhibition of wonton cowardice", "Tsk, tsk, tsk. Shameful"). Tweety turns to the viewers and agrees ("Yeah, shameful!").
On the ABC version of this cartoon, Sylvester's line when he's standing on the window sill and preparing to jump out to escape the monster Tweety, "I'll jump!" then asiding to the audience, "I've got a choice?" was cut, presumably because of its allusions to suicide. The ABC edited version has Sylvester look down and then jump out the window.
Dr. Jekyll drank a potion and turned into a Mr. Hyde again in one episode of Animaniacs. This is the same Jekyll that appeared in this episode.
In Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, new animation is incepted into the cartoon; when Sylvester runs through the wall to escape, he finds himself in the Paranormalists at Large office.
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