oscaralbert Review of Catch as Cats Can

Catch as Cats Can (1947)

A couple of crooning birds give Sylvester Cat fits . . .

[6/10 · 15 October 2017]

. . . in another clairvoyant parable aimed at We Americans of (The Then) Far Future by Warner Bros.' Animated Shorts Seers division (aka, The Looney Tuners) during CATCH AS CATS CAN. There are three characters in CATCH AS CATS CAN: a thin canary referred to by a briefly-seen swooning chorus as "Frankie" (that is, a Frank Sinatra stand-in for this brief cartoon's contemporary audience), a pipe-smoking parrot voiced along the lines of Bing Crosby, and Sylvester Cat. Throughout this cartoon a jealous Bing tries to convince Sylvester to do his own dirty work by eating Frank, but Bing ends up the bird getting Et in the End. Many if not most Americans of Today's Troubled Times will immediately recognize the Bing Parrot as America's Modern-Day Iago, Red Commie KGB Chief Vlad "The Mad Russian" Putin. Bing Putin puts Sylvester Cat up to back-firing attack after attack upon Frankie. Sylvester Cat primarily is serving here to symbolize Putin's White House Sock-Puppet-in-Chief Don Juan Rump, all of whose Putin-inspired follies (the Great Wall of Rump, the Genocidal Elimination of ObamaCare, the Rampant Oil-Fracking Earthquakes, allowing Big Coal to snuff out the U.S. Asthmatic Population, military assault rifle-toting millionaires machine-gunning the Common Man, Putin's stolen SCOTUS seat for Justice SnoreMuch, a modern Handmaid's Tale of Forced-Birthing, and so forth) is aptly acted out by Sylvester Rump's disastrous interactions with Frankie, the Canary in America's current benighted Coal Mine. When Sylvester finally eats Bing Putin, Warner Bros.' cartoon prognosticators are warning us of the inevitable nuclear exchange when China's "Little Rocket Man" stalking horse Kim serves as Sylvester Rump's Tar Baby, drawing return fire from Hench Nations as Russia AND China. Stay tuned for any Apocalyptic Post-Armageddon developments.