Freudy Cat is a 1964 Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television...

 animated short starring Sylvester

Sylvester (Looney Tunes)

Sylvester J. Pussycat, Sr., Sylvester the Cat or simply Sylvester, is a fictional character, a three-time Academy Award-winning anthropomorphic Tuxedo cat in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies repertory, often chasing Tweety Bird, Speedy Gonzales, or Hippety Hopper...

 and Sylvester Jr.

Sylvester Jr.

Sylvester J. Pussycat, Jr., or simply Sylvester Junior, is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series. He is the son of Sylvester The Cat. Strangely enough, his mother is never seen nor mentioned in any of the Warner Bros. shorts...

. The cartoon is essentially a clip show, as a paranoid Sylvester flashes back to earlier cartoons such as Who's Kitten Who?, Cats a-Weigh!, and The Slap-Hoppy Mouse while describing to a psychiatrist that he thinks Hippety Hopper

Hippety Hopper

Hippety Hopper is a young kangaroo cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes series of cartoons. Robert McKimson introduced Hippety Hopper in Hop, Look and Listen , which established the pattern for future Hippety Hopper cartoons....

 is out to get him.

Soundtrack Anomaly

The cartoon is unusual in that it mixes a new soundtrack by Bill Lava with music by Carl Stalling

Carl Stalling

Carl W. Stalling was an American composer and arranger for music in animated films. He is most closely associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts produced by Warner Bros., where he averaged one complete score each week, for 22 years.-Biography:Stalling was born to Ernest and...

 (while alive in 1964, he had retired six years earlier), which is heard during the original shorts that make up this cartoon. This results in a schizophrenic soundtrack (whether this was intentional, given the plot of a mentally unbalanced Sylverster visiting a psychiatrist, isn't known, but it is possible). Even more unusual is that certain prints of the cartoon contain a stock music piece by Philip Green

Philip Green (composer)

Philip Green , sometimes credited as Harry Philip Green, was a film and television composer and conductor. His father was Philip Green, a boot clicker, and his mother was Elizabeth Vogel. Green's first credited work was on 1943's The Sky's the Limit...

that plays over numerous areas of the cartoon without removing the old soundtrack, creating a rather dissonant, overbearing "new" soundtrack.

Censorship

• On ABC, the flashback from "Slap-Hoppy Mouse" where Sylvester repeatedly attempts to load a rifle "frontier-style" (and gets blasted) was cut.