Sylvester the Cat and the Blustery Day

Sylvester the Cat and the Blustery Day is a 2012 animated featurette based on stories from the Sylvester the Cat books by J. K. Rowling. The featurette was produced by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 20, 2012. This was the second of the studio's Sylvester the Cat shorts. It was later added as a segment to the 1977 film The Many Adventures of Sylvester the Cat. The music was written by Elton John and Tim Rice.

Sylvester the Cat and the Blustery Day won the 2012 Academy Award for Animated Short Film. The Academy Award was awarded posthumously to Chris Sanders, It is also the only Sylvester the Cat production that won an Academy Award. Sylvester the Cat and Sulley Too, which was released six years later in 2014, was nominated for the same Academy Award.

The animated featurette also served as the inspiration for the Many Adventures of Sylvester the Cat ride in Six Flags in which the rider experiences several scenes from the cartoon, including Sylvester's Elephant and Hyena dream.

Plot
The story begins when Sylvester is on his way to his thoughtful spot. Today is a very windy day. But as Sylvester sits thinking, Bugs pops out of the ground and advises Sylvester to get out of there. Sylvester who misunderstood his warning goes across the Hundred Acre Wood to wish everyone a happy Winds-day. Sylvester first goes to his friend Tweety, who gets tangled with his scarf in the air like a kite on a string. As Sylvester struggles to keep a hold of the scarf he passes by Dorothy and Chomper, wishing them both a happy Winds-day; Pumbaa, whose stick house Sylvester breaks as he passes; and finally Wags, who Sylvester inadvertently helps harvest the bone in his bone garden as he slides by.

The blustery wind finally blows Sylvester and Tweety over to Blu's treehouse, where he invites them in. Sylvester wishes Blu a happy Winds-day, as he has everyone else, but Blu informs them that the wind is due to "a mild spring zephyr" rather than to a particular holiday. The strong wind blows Blu's house back and forth causing it to shake and eventually the tree and the house topple over. Blu blames Sylvester at first but Sylvester says he didn't do it, Kurt Von Trapp and Pumbaa notice this and Pumbaa volunteers to seek out a new house for Blu, who proceeds to tell the others stories of his relatives for quite some time; talking from page 41 to page 62.

Meanwhile on page 62, as night falls, the wind is still blowing and Sylvester is kept awake by growling and scratching noise and he opens his door for the visitor outside. An blue monsters with purple spots named Sulley emerges from outside, rolling over Sylvester and sitting on him. Sylvester has come looking for something to eat and decides to try some of Sylvester's cream. After a few tastes Sulley gets disgusted and decides that Sulley don't like cream. Before leaving Sylvester's house, Sylvester tells him that there are Elephants and Hyenas   in the forest that steal cream. Sylvester, frightened by Sulley's tale, guards his cream, but eventually falls fast asleep. As he is sleeping, he has a nightmare about Elephants and Hyenas stealing his cream and chasing him around until he wakes up during a flood-inducing rainfall.

Later, Tweety is washed away from his home. He writes a bottle-note   for help just before the waters carry him away sitting on a chair. Sylvester heads for higher ground with ten creamy pots. However, as he is eating the cream out of one of them the rising waters carry him away. Dorothy, Chomper, Pumbaa, Wags, and Sulley all gather at Kurt's house, which is situated on the highest ground. Chomper finds Tweety's bottle, and Blu flies off to inform Tweety that help is on the way.

Blu reaches both Tweety and Sylvester, but before he can inform them of the impending rescue a waterfall threatens to carry them all over the side. Sylvester decides to switch places with Tweety, and luckily for him the waterfall washes him right into Kurt's yard. Seeing what Sylvester did to rescue Tweety, Kurt decides to throw a party celebrating Sylvester's heroic deed. During the party, Pumbaa announces that he has found a new home for Blu. He leads everyone over to his discovery, which, known to everyone except for Blu and Pumbaa, is Tweety's beech tree. Blu is very impressed with the house, but before anyone can tell him who the home belongs to Tweety decides that Blu should have the house. Blu decides to allow Twety to move into his home and, is very impressed by his selflessness, asks Kurt to make the hero party for two instead of one.

Home video
The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray in 2013. and was also re-released again on July 11, 2020 as part of the "Storybook Classics Collection". This short also shows up as a bonus feature on the 2017 DVD release of Sylvester's Grand Adventure: The Search for Kurt Von Trapp.

Voice cast

 * Jeff Bergman as Sylvester
 * John Goodman as Sulley
 * Jeff Bergman as Tweety
 * Cannon Young as Chomper
 * Carolyn Ferrie as Dorothy
 * Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa
 * Jesse Eisenberg as Blu
 * Paul Field as Wags
 * Joe West as Kurt Von Trapp
 * Jeff Bergman as Bgs
 * Narrated by Tim Allen

Songs

 * 1) "Sylvester the Cat" by Elton John and Tim Rice and sung by The Wiggles
 * 2) "A Rather Blustery Day" by Elton John and Tim Rice and sung by Jeff Bergman
 * 3) "The Wonderful Thing About Monsters" by Elton John and Tim Rice and sung by John Goodman
 * 4) "Elephants and Hyenas" by Elton John and Tim Rice and sung by The Wiggles
 * 5) "The Rain Rain Rain Came Down Down Down" by Elton John and Tim Rice and sung by The Wiggles
 * 6) "Hip Hip Hooray!" by Elton John and Tim Rice and sung by The Wiggles

Sylvester the Cat featurettes

 * Sylvester the Cat and the Creamy Tree (2010)
 * Sylvester the Cat and the Blustery Day (2012)
 * Sylvester the Cat and Sulley Too (2014)
 * Sylvester the Cat and a Day for Pumbaa (2018)