A Taste of Catnip

A Taste of Catnip
Merrie Melodies (Daffy Duck/Speedy Gonzales) series
Directed by	Robert McKimson
Produced by	David DePatie Friz Freleng
Story by	Michael O'Connor
Voices by	Mel Blanc Gonzales Gonzales
Music by	Walter Greene
Animation by	Ted Bonnicksen Bob Matz Manny Perez Norm McCabe George Grandpré Warren Batchelder
Layouts by	Dick Ung
Backgrounds by	Tom O'Loughlin
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date(s)	1966 (USA)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	6:25
Language	English

A Taste of Catnip is a Merrie Melodies cartoon from 1966. It was first released to theaters on December 3, 1966.

Plot

At the Guadalajara Medical Centre, psychiatrist Dr. Manuel Jose Olvera Sebastian Rudolfo Ortiz Pancho Jimenez Perez III (Mexico's finest) describes an encounter one year ago with Daffy Duck. Daffy proceeds to tell Perez that he has been exhibiting progressively more extreme cat-like desires.

Perez discovers through a blood test that Daffy has lethal amounts of catnip in his blood, and he must discover the source. Daffy discovers that right across the street is the Continental Catnip Corp. of Chihuahua. He decides to destroy it with a rocket, ridding him of his cat-like desires but also arousing the rage of neighborhood cats, including Sylvester. Perez receives a phone call about Daffy's success, and his next patient, Speedy Gonzales, enters; he exhibits duck-like desires. Moaning, Perez claims, "I should have listened to mi padre. He wanted me to be a bandido."

Edited versions

• On CBS, the part where Daffy blows up the catnip factory and is pummelled by the neighborhood cats was cut.

Trivia

• This is the last theatrical cartoon featuring Sylvester from the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series.

See also

• List of Daffy Duck cartoons

External links

A Taste of Catnip at IMDb