The Last Hungry Cat is a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon animated short directed by Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt.

[4] The short opens with a shadow of a bear walking up to an outline silhouette of himself and, speaking in a quasi-Hitchcockian accent, announcing, "Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, we bring you a story about...murder."

The story opens with Sylvester waiting outside Granny's apartment as she puts Tweety to bed and goes to visit a neighbor.

But the Hitchcock-bear begins to play on Sylvester's nerves, suggesting that there is a good chance that nobody will ever find out about it; then, when Sylvester sees a newspaper headline saying "Police Hunt 'The Cat' " (referring to a human criminal with that alias) and hears sirens of police cars, he hides in a nearby house and attempts to get what he did off his mind, but to no avail, especially after an embarrassed announcer on the radio flubs his announcement by saying, "Your local company would like to present gas chamber music ...err... your local gas company would like to present chamber music."

At the end, the Hitchcock-bear attempts to relate the moral of the story quoting Shakespeare, saying, "In the words of the Bard, 'conscience makes cowards of us all.'"