Tweet and Sour

Tweet and Sour
Looney Tunes (Sylvester/Tweety/Granny) series
Directed by	Friz Freleng
Voices by	Mel Blanc June Foray (uncredited)
Music by	Milt Franklyn
Animation by	Gerry Chiniquy Virgil Ross Arthur Davis
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	March 24, 1956
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 mins
Language	English

Tweet and Sour is a "Looney Tunes" cartoon animated short starring Tweety and Sylvester. Released March 24, 1956, the cartoon is directed by Friz Freleng. The voices are performed by Mel Blanc and June Foray.

The cartoon's title is a play on the phrase "sweet and sour".

Plot

Granny leaves the house for an outing, but as she drives by the house and waves goodbye to Tweety, she sees Sylvester has gotten into the house and is about to eat the bird. Granny stops the cat in time and, fed up with his constant chasing after Tweety, gives him an ultimatum: "If there's so much as one little feather harmed on the canary, it's off to the violin string factory!" (punctuating the warning by mimicking Frédéric Chopin's "The Funeral March").

As Sylvester sulks in the corner, Tweety is about to face a new threat—a rough-looking orange cat wearing an eyepatch. The unnamed orange cat is after a meal of his own and is uncaring that Sylvester will be deemed responsible if Tweety is noticed missing. As such, the chase now casts Sylvester not as the predator but as the (not-so-altrustic) protagonist who plans to save Tweety from a predatory cat before Granny returns—more to save his own skin. After several exchanges, with both Sylvester and the orange cat clobbering each other, Sylvester finally gets rid of the predatory cat by blowing him up in Granny's chimney (by way of a lighted TNT candle tied to a balloon).

However, Sylvester's efforts are in vain. As he is putting Tweety back in the cage, Granny enters and, assuming he was after Tweety, promises to make good on her earlier threat. Sylvester tried to explain what really happened before declaring: "Aw, what's the use! She'll never believe me!", then he plays Chopin on his violin and falls into the violin case as a coffin to his doom.

Succession

Preceded by Red Riding Hoodwinked

Tweety and Sylvester cartoons 1956

Succeeded by Tree Cornered Tweety

See also

• List of American films of 1956

References

• Friedwald, Will and Jerry Beck. "The Warner Brothers Cartoons." Scarecrow Press Inc., Metuchen, N.J., 1981. ISBN 0-8108-1396-3.

External links

• Tweet and Sour at IMDb