Catch as Cats Can

An emaciated canary who sings like Frank Sinatra is getting on the nerves of a pipe-puffing parrot who speaks like Bing Crosby. The canary spots Sylvester the cat foraging through the trash. Telling the cat he needs more vitamins (which the canary has been swallowing in bulk), he lures the cat inside to snare the canary. The straightforward approach fails (the canary bops him in the nose). He carves a female canary from soap, lures the canary there; the birds slide down a greased counter, into the sink, and down the drain, but only the soap bird goes through the pipe and down Sylvester's throat. A trail of birdseed into the garage seems to work, but the canary jacks Sylvester's mouth open. Sylvester laces the vitamins with buckshot; like all cartoon magnets, his attracts everything metal in sight except his prey. The canary turns Sylvester's vacuum cleaner against him, with a crash in the fireplace giving Sylvester a hot-stomach; as he buries his head in the sink, the bird adds Foamo-Seltzer to the water; the cat rockets off, crashing into a wall. The cat finally realizes that the portly parrot is a better meal; he sits on the parrot's perch, imitating his mannerisms and speaking a less-pronounced lisp than his final voice.