Because Jim Tyer is at work here, Percy is roused like no other sleepy cat. First, his ear goes up, grows and shakes. The remaining drawings follow, ending in a shock take.
There’s more typical Tyer later in the cartoon, where body parts stretch like a balloon being pulled.
Manny Davis is the director and Tommy Morrison came up with the story with a sentimental ending which I liked.
Those stills bring back some happy memories. My brother briefly owned a Super 8 movie camera when he was in high school, and while he never bothered to buy a projector, he did have a hand-cranked film viewer along with two black-and-white animated reels: "Bambi Falls in Love" and "Pastry Panic". I remember studying the latter frame-by-frame and marveling at how the individual drawings worked together to express motion and mood. I had always loved cartoons, but for the first time I was able to appreciate one on a deeper level. While it might not be my favourite Little Roquefort cartoon -- "Cat Happy" is -- "Pastry Panic" will always have a special place in my heart.
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