- Sylvester sings opera and popular tunes while standing on a back alley fence; Elmer, who wants to sleep, tries to thwart him.
- A weary Elmer Fudd retires to bed with hopes for a good night's sleep, but his slumber is disrupted by the incessant singing of Sylvester Cat, who is perched atop a fence beneath Elmer's window. Fudd resorts to increasingly violent methods to try to silence the pesky feline.—Kevin McCorry <mmccorry@nb.sympatico.ca>
- Sylvester the cat is one of the great, underrated performers. He's certainly underrated by Elmer Fudd who only wants a good night's sleep, not a late-night opera from a caterwauling cat. Elmer's shoe to the cat's noggin ends the kitty's Rossini performance. But that unkind gesture makes him mad; and for his next performance he clomps up and down the stairs doing Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody." This means war. Elmer throws books at him, ties him up, feeds him alum and tries to blow him up with dynamite. The kitty retaliates with a greased staircase, a floor full of thumb tacks for Elmer's bare feet and a surprising ability to chase him into the hereafter. Meanwhile, a dumb-looking cat with an unexpectedly beautiful female singing voice, becomes an unwitting participant in this mess. "You Never Know Where You're Goin' Till You Get There" sings Sylvester; and that proves true for him, the tabby and especially Elmer.—J. Spurlin
- The film opens with Elmer Fudd getting ready for bed. He goes to sleep, but unbeknownst to him, Sylvester hops up to the nearby fence outside his house with a music stand, tunes his voice with a harmonica, and then begins singing a tune from "The Barber of Seville". Elmer awakes, shouting at him to be quiet, but he continues singing. Various items are thrown at Sylvester each time he sings "Figaro", but he dodges each item, until he sings the end, and is then hit with a vase. Thinking he got rid of him, Elmer goes back to sleep.
However, Sylvester is outside his room singing an excerpt from Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2", whilst stomping up and down the stairs with shoes on. Elmer catches him and ties him up, along with gagging him with some sort of tissue to keep him from singing. He marches back to his room.
Then, Sylvester is back out on the fence singing "Some Sunday Morning", again, waking Elmer up. He throws a book, entitled "The Thin Man", at him, but in return, a book is thrown back at him entitled "Return of the Thin Man". Eventually, he shuts the window, and the phone rings. It turns out that it's Sylvester on the other line singing the end of the song. He then rushes to his closet, whilst Sylvester puts grease and thumbtacks on the stairs and floor in the next room. Elmer gets a golf club and starts slipping down the stairs, and then walking over the thumbtacks, yelling in pain. He then goes back the same way and goes back to his closet wielding a rifle. Again, he slips down the stairs and walks over the thumbtacks, yelling in pain.
Sylvester is now on his roof, singing "You'll Never Know Where You're Going 'Till You Get There". Elmer climbs up the ladder to put an end to his obnoxious singing. Knowing this, he substitutes himself with an orange tabby cat, who then sings Arthur Penn's "Carissima" in an operatic female voice. Elmer smacks the tabby, who then eventually falls off the roof. Sylvester then re-appears, leading to Elmer threatening to kill him, since he's now in his sights. Immediately, Sylvester starts singing "Brahm's Lullaby", which lulls Elmer back to sleep.
Sylvester puts Elmer back in his bed, but then immediately reappears as a one-man band, walking back and forth in front of Elmer. Elmer then tries to chase Sylvester out, but is stopped by a door that suddenly appeared with a sign saying "Surprize!" Sylvester is back out on the fence in a boat singing "Moonlight Bay", when Elmer then has the idea of pouring milk in a bowl and mixing it with alum, a chemical compound substance. Sylvester drinks the milk and then continues to sing, only to have his head shrink and his voice getting higher in pitch.
Then we see Sylvester performing "Angel in Disguise" a la Spike Jones, thus making a multitude of noise with props. Elmer, who believes this is the last straw, becomes desperate to get rid of him no matter what. He grabs a crate of dynamite from a nearby shed and lights it up, only to explode prematurely, thus not only killing Sylvester, but also himself.
We see him in Heaven, believing he can finally get some rest and relaxation, until Sylvester's nine lives start appearing, singing "Sextet" from "Lucia di Lammermoor" in Italian, much to Elmer's surprise. Elmer then jumps off his cloud, and we hear a thud off-screen. Iris out.
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