Hitchcock-type Narrator: Are you nervous, pussycat?
Sylvester: Yep.
Hitchcock-type Narrator: Why don't you try reading? That always helps.
Sylvester: Yeah. Yeah, that's a good idea, and besides, reading is good for you.
[picks a book from the shelf, sits down and reads it]
Sylvester: Once upon a time there lived three birds - a mama bird, a papa bird, and a cute little... blue eyed... baby bird.
[drops the book and screams]

- Mel Blanc in The Last Hungry Cat (1961)