Sylvester Jr.

Sylvester Junior is an animated cartoon character. He is the son of Sylvester Cat in the Looney Tunes cartoons.

Physically, Sylvester Junior is basically a miniature version of his father, having a large head in proportion to a small body. Sylvester 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, Joe Alaskey and Frank Welker (after Blanc's death) voiced both father and son.

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

Often, Sylvester Cat and Sylvester Junior's shorts would feature Sylvester Cat 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 Cat'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 Cat losing every fight, often in spectacularly humiliating fashion. Tweet Dreams was the only pairing of Sylvester Junior and Tweety in the Looney Tunes shorts, it was not a direct one; Sylvester Junior basically served as a flashback image.

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