. . . the infamous television patchwork repeat with its "Looney Tunes" animated short, FREUDY CAT. The patchwork repeat masquerades as a coherent retrospective, though it probably more often serves as "filler material" thrown together to stroke the ego of featured cast or crew members who feel neglected. The "framing device" for the forced-together snippets usually is quite lame, and FREUDY CAT is no exception in this respect. Sylvesters Senior and Junior pay a pointless and hardly humorous visit to feline shrink "Dr. Freud E. Katt." Though each second of this "front story" is trifling and tedious, the "back-story" flashbacks are not much of an improvement. Lazily imported from earlier Hippety Hopper outings, the initial reprise finds Sylvester shooting himself three times with a musket. The second recycled scene shows the hapless penguin-colored cat "making a good impression" on son Junior by creating cat-shaped indentations on a ship's steel bulkhead as Master Hopper kangaroo-handles him. Viewers are left Asea, as all three cats hop off after Hippety without the sort of bedsprings Pops had previously needed to affix to his hind paws to accomplish such a feat.
Review of Freudy Cat
