miniature Sylvester wearing a wizard's robe and carrying a star-tipped wand) appears. He magically produces an easel on which the word "coward" is written; then, with diagrams and charts, he reminds Sylvester how Porky raised him from a kitten, shows him the "comparative sizes" of a cat to a mouse, and demands that he return to the house to take action. Reinvigorated, Sylvester grabs a tree branch for use as a weapon, then decides to use the whole tree instead and races back into the mouse-infested house to fight. He sends the hundreds of murderous mice running for their lives, much to his conscience's delight. With the mice now all supposedly gone for good, Porky graciously apologizes to Sylvester and thanks him for saving his life. One leftover mouse (the executioner) pops out of the longcase clock behind Sylvester, wielding a large wooden mallet. Seeing this, Porky yells at Sylvester to look out, but the mouse clobbers Sylvester on the head, knocking him unconscious, much to Porky's shock. The mouse then yanks off his hood, revealing that he has transformed into a Lew Lehr caricature wearing a Napoleonic-era bicorne hat. The snaggletoothed rodent then chuckles and declares, "Pussycats is the cwaziest peoples!" Reception In Jerry Beck's 2020 compendium The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons, animator Yvette Kaplan expresses her admiration for this short's script as well as for its pairing of Porky and Sylvester: Home video VHS - The Looney Tunes Video Show Volume 3 LaserDisc - Looney Tunes After Dark VHS - Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Volume 2 - "Running Amuck" VHS - Porky Pig (1990) VHS - Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 4) (U.K.) DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1, Disc Two (original opening and credits restored) DVD - Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 2, Disc One (part of The Porky Pig Show, without the opening and closing titles) DVD, Blu-ray - Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1 Notes This is the first short in which the cartoon cat is referred to as "Sylvester", as prior to that he is either unnamed or, in the case of the 1947 release Tweetie Pie, is named "Thomas". Sylvester's name was based on the Latin scientific name for the European wildcat, Felis silvestris. This is also the first Sylvester cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. This was the only one of five 1948 WB cartoons to get a Blue Ribbon