Kitty Kornered is a 1946 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, directed by Robert Clampett. The short was released on June 8, 1946, and stars Porky Pig and Sylvester.
Porky and Sylvester would later be paired in a trio of shorts directed by Chuck Jones: Scaredy Cat, Claws for Alarm, and Jumpin’ Jupiter. Both also appeared (with Daffy Duck) in The Scarlet Pumpernickel as a villain (the only time Sylvester spoke in a Chuck Jones-directed cartoon).
At nine o’clock on a cold winter’s night, the neighborhood’s cat owners all literally throw 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 falls into the snow. Sticking his face out and now resembling Santa Claus, Porky states that he hates pussycats. 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!” (mainly because the vibrations from his banging are causing some empty ones to rattle noisily), and then slam the door in his face.
While the cats are lounging around while smoking cigars and getting drunk on wine, a furious Porky throws open the window while making an incredibly menacing face. He chases them around the house until one of them throws him into a teapot. Porky then orders the cats to leave, but the cats still proceed to stick around in the house laughing at his face, causing Porky to retaliate by setting 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.
When Sylvester finds out that they’ve been tricked, he and the others plot revenge. They fake an alien invasion, driving Porky 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 personal 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 and asks, “Pardon me, but d-d-does anybody in the audience kn-kn-know somebody that kn-knows somebody that, uh, that has a house to rent?”
Another classic Bob Clampett cartoon featuring a plethora of cats including Sylvester peeving off Porky Pig the only way they know how.
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