YMMV / The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries

• Broken Base: The first season lived up to its name by being a legitimate mystery series. The next four eventually devolved into just being Sylvester and Tweety cartoons which happened to have a mystery going on in them. Because of this, fans are split between which approach is better, wanting either the more focused mystery stories or the antics if you just wanted a more traditional Sylvester and Tweety chase.
• Captain Obvious Reveal: In "It Happened One Night Before Christmas" the culprit turns out to be Mr. Totter, who is a parody of Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life as well as the only suspect.
• Designated Monkey: Even in episodes where he does nothing wrong, up to and including leaving Tweety alone, Sylvester is still mercilessly tortured by sadistic plane gremlins and murderous mice.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In "Froggone It" Granny tells Sylvester to not get lost or he would get put in "another basketball movie".
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: The Seven Arts-era characters Cool Cat, Colonel Rimfire, and Spooky were considered unmemorable during their original run in the series’ Audience-Alienating Era in The '60s due to their low-budget nature and basic plots. Here, the writers utilized them in situations with the classic characters Sylvester and Tweety in more innovative ways such as Cool Cat’s Once per Episode cameos, Spooky haunting a punished Sylvester who tries to prove that he exists, and Colonel Rimfire being a lost explorer in Egypt and transformed into Gossamer by Dr. Moron from "Water, Water Every Hare" as well as kickstarting the plot of the Spiritual Successor film Tweety's High Flying Adventure.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Who expected Cool Cat to appear in this series, let alone any of the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts characters?
  • The end of "Moscow Side Story" features the Kremlin Gremlins from Russian Rhapsody.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: For the dozens of episodes where he tries to eat Tweety, there's at least one where Sylvester actually does more to help him and Granny, yet receives no gratitude, let alone mercy.
• Unintentional Period Piece: "Froggone It" is clearly meant to be about how The WB network was in the mid-90s, with Michigan J. Frog as the mascot and a reference to the commercial bumpers.

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