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Quincy: Cartoon Coroner
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A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
In this parody of Quincy, M.E., the crusading coroner (Joe Flaherty, doing Jack Klugman) is handed the pancake-flat body of Sylvester the Cat with a report blaming natural causes. Sure there is more to it, he talks his boss into giving him 24 hours, questions Tweety at his cage and the unseen Spike inside his doghouse, then breathlessly acts out every cartoon catastrophe the cat survived, from a falling branch and a stick of dynamite to a bread-slicing conveyor and a steamroller. The boss deflates the theory with one fact about Sylvester's age, a special-delivery bomb sends Quincy up to heaven, and he finally bursts through a Looney Tunes-style closing card refusing to accept that it's all over.
The funny people
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Highly quotable.
When will these ducks ever learn?
I've seen cats go through a lot more than that in movies. And they're never killed.
Sylvester was 97 years old.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
John Blanchard
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
SCTV Guide notes that this sketch marked the first appearance of Joe Flaherty's Jack Klugman impression.
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