Sylvester Jr.



Sylvester Junior is an animated cartoon character; he is the son of Sylvester the cat in the Looney Tunes cartoons.

Physically, Junior is basically a miniature version of his father, having a large head in proportion to a small body. Junior has been noted saying that he is three and a half years old. His first appearance was in the short Pop 'im Pop, directed by Robert McKimson. Mel Blanc and Joe Alaskey voiced both father and son.

Junior's personality reflected a degree of respect for his father, though often, when Sylvester did something embarrassing or humiliating, Junior would (melodramatically) often profess feeling ashamed or embarrassed by his father's behavior (sometimes donning a paper bag over his head).

Often, Sylvester and Junior's shorts would feature Sylvester trying to capture Hippety Hopper, a baby kangaroo, to prove a point to his son. Each attempt at capture, of course, failed miserably, owing to Sylvester's invariably mistaking the kangaroo for a "giant mouse", and as such being taken completely by surprise by the kangaroo's athletic prowess, with Sylvester losing every fight, often in spectacularly humiliating fashion. Though Tweet Dreams was the only pairing of Junior and Tweety in the Looney Tunes shorts, it was not a direct one; Junior basically served as a flashback image.

After the original Looney Tunes shorts, Junior would show up sporadically in later years. In the 1990s animated series Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Sylvester has a flashback to his childhood in the episode "A Mynah Problem"; in the flashback sequence, as with Tweet Dreams, Sylvester resembled his son physically.

In the American dub of the Japanese anime Dragon Ball Z, Goku acts like a baby at the thought of being injected by a needle, embrassing his son, Gohan, whose reaction to this seems based on Sylvester Junior's ashamed reactions to Sylvester's failures to catch Hippity Hopper.