History WesternAnimation / LifeWithFeathers

It is notable as the debut of [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the cat]]--and, unlike many other Warner Brothers cartoon characters who went through significant ArtEvolution and/or EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, Sylvester was born with his look, voice (supplied by Creator/MelBlanc, of course), and personality fully-formed, right down to his "Sufferin' succotash!" {{catchphrase}} (though he wouldn't be paired with Tweety for another two years).

* HereWeGoAgain: The bird gets a telegram and says that everything's better now because his wife is leaving him. Sylvester has changed his mind and very much wants to eat the bird, but the bird escapes - only to learn that his wife changed her mind about leaving him, which makes him suicidal again.

* DrivenToSuicide: The love bird elects to kill himself after his wife dumps him.

* NoNameGiven: Sylvester is unnamed in this short. His name wouldn’t be officially established until ''WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat'' in 1948.

''Life with Feathers'' is a 1945 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon, directed by Creator/FrizFreleng.

!!Tropes:

* TalkingWithSigns: At one point when the bird leaps down Sylvester's gullet, he holds up a sign saying "Don't tell me--I know."

It is notable as the debut of [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the cat]]--and, unlike many other Warner Brothers cartoon characters who went through significant ArtEvolution and/or EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, Sylvester was born with his look, voice (supplied by Creator/MelBlanc, of course), and personality fully-formed, right down to his "Sufferin' succotash!" {{catchphrase}}.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: As usual with this trope, it's portrayed as comical when the angry wife is hurling crockery at her husband.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: On Cartoon Network[[note]]American version only[[/note]], Boomerang[[note]]American version only[[/note]], TNT, TBS, and The WB the part where the lovebird thinks of different ways to commit suicide (shown as crudely drawn pencil sketches of the bird shooting himself, jumping off a building[[note]]even though he's a bird and he could easily fly to safety...unless he had a weight tied to him[[/note]], laying on some train tracks just as one is barreling down, and letting a cat eat him) after his wife has thrown him out is cut. While the cut isn't as obvious as other cuts, it does leave a PlotHole of how the lovebird got the idea to try and get Sylvester to eat him.

In this one, a lovebird is thrown out of his cage by his angry, violent wife. Despondent over this and feeling that there is no reason for a lovebird to live without love, the lovebird decides to kill himself. He resolves to get a cat to eat him, and picks Sylvester, who is scrounging for food in an alley. Sylvester initially leaps at the chance for an easy lunch, until he hesitates, thinking that it's ''too'' easy. He decides that the lovebird must be poisoned, and refuses to eat him. Comic hijinks ensue as the lovebird, who is determined to die, keeps chasing Sylvester around and insisting that the cat eat him.

So, a fair bit DarkerAndEdgier than other ''Looney Tunes'' cartoons.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: On Cartoon Network[[note]]American version only[[/note]], Boomerang[[note]]American version only[[/note]], TNT, TBS, and The WB the part where the lovebird thinks of different ways to commit suicide (shown as crudely drawn chalk sketches of shooting himself, jumping off a building[[note]]even though he's a bird[[/note]], laying down on some train tracks just as one is barreling down, and letting a cat eat him) after his wife has thrown him out is cut. While the cut isn't as obvious as other cuts, it does leave a PlotHole of how the lovebird got the idea to try and get Sylvester to eat him.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: On Cartoon Network, Boomerang, TNT, TBS, and The WB the part where the lovebird thinks of different ways to commit suicide (shown as crudely drawn chalk sketches) after his wife has thrown him out is cut.

In this one a lovebird is thrown out of his cage by his angry, violent wife. Despondent over this and feeling that there is no reason for a lovebird to live without love, the lovebird decides to kill himself. He resolves to get a cat to eat him, and picks Sylvester, who is scrounging for food in an alley. Sylvester initially leaps at the chance for an easy lunch, until he hesitates, thinking that it's ''too'' easy. He decides that the lovebird must be poisoned, and refuses to eat him. Comic hijinks ensue as the lovebird, who is determined to die, keeps chasing Sylvester around and insisting that the cat eat him.

* BaitAndSwitch: The telegram the lovebird gets is at first implied to say that he and his wife have made up; it actually reads that she has left to live with her mother, and he's happy that she's gone.
* CanisLatinicus: The lovebird calls himself a ''Parakeetus romanticus''. (For the record, lovebirds belong to the genus ''Agapornis''.)

It is the debut of [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the cat]]--and unlike many other Warner Brothers cartoon characters who went through significant ArtEvolution and/or EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, Sylvester was born with his look, voice (supplied by Creator/MelBlanc, of course), and personality fully-formed, right down to his "Sufferin' succotash!" {{catchphrase}}.

''Life with Feathers'' is a 1945 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon, directed by Creator/FrizFreleng.

It is the debut of [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the cat]]--and unlike many other Warner Brothers cartoon characters who went through significant ArtEvolution and/or EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, Sylvester was born with his look, voice, and personality fully-formed, right down to his "Sufferin' succotash" {{Catchphrase}}.

So, a fair bit DarkerAndEdgier than other Looney Tunes cartoons.

* OrificeInvasion: The mouse repeatedly leaps into Sylvester's mouth.

* AliterativeAppeal: "Sufferin' succotash! Squab!"

* HereWeGoAgain: The bird gets a telegram and says that everything's better now. Sylvester has changed his mind and very much wants to eat the bird, but the bird escapes