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Line 1: {{~~trope~~work}} [[File:Kingsizecanary_3402.jpg\|frame\|Don't let the title card fool you -- the canary does not actually look like this in the cartoon itself.]] A'''''King-Size Canary''''' is a landmark 1947 [[Tex Avery]] cartoon made during his MGM tenure during [[The Golden Age of Animation]], voted no. 10 on [[The 50 Greatest Cartoons]] list. This oneshot short is centered around a hungry cat who, in an attempt to get more meat out of a pea size canary snack ("Well... I'm sick."), pours a bottle of Jumbo Gro Plant Growth formula on him-only to make him grow to gargantuan proportions. The tables keep turning and turning as one of the other keeps drinking more of the formula as their battle continues. Obviously, [[Hilarity Ensues]]. The plot was recycled for the [[Sylvester Cat and Tweety Bird]] short ''Hyde and Go Tweet'' in which Tweety Bird accidentally drank [[Jekyll and Hyde\|Dr. Jekyll's formula]], much to Sylvester's confusion. ~~-------------------------~~ {{tropelist}} ~~=== Tropes Used In This Short: ===~~ * [[Angry Guard Dog]] * [[Attack of the 50 -Foot Whatever]] * [[Born in ~~The~~the Theater]]: The mouse tells the cat that he will save his life. He knows because ''he's seen the cartoon before!'' * [[Canis Major]] * [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: The mouse the cat meets early the in short, who promises to save him later. He does. Line 17: * [[Mouse Hole]]: A train tunnel is used as one later on in the short. * [[No Fourth Wall]]: {{quote\| Mouse: [[Nonstandard Game Over\|Ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna have to end this picture. We just ran out of the stuff. Good night.]] }} * [[Rodents of Unusual Size]] * [[Serial Escalation]]: By the end, the characters have grown so massive [[Batman Can Breathe in Space\|that they are bigger than planet they're standing on!]] * [[So What Do We Do Now?]]: Occurs when they run out of the formula and are stuck at the exact same size as each other. {{50 Greatest Cartoons}} {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Animated Films]] [[Category:The 50 Greatest Cartoons]] [[Category:The Forties]] [[Category:~~King~~Films ~~Size~~of ~~Canary~~the 1940s]] [[Category:Western Animation of the 1940s]] [[Category:Short Film]] [[Category:Western Animation]] [[Category:Film]]