Tweet And Sour

Tweet And Sour

March 24, 1956 Theatrical Series Looney Tunes

Studio
Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
Distributor
Warner Bros.

Synopsis

Granny leaves Tweety to go shopping. "Let me warn you, Sylvester, if there is one little feather, just one little feather, harmed on this bird, I'm going to sell you to the violin string factory," Granny declares. Sylvester makes his move. Granny returns and catches him. She throws Sylvester out of the house, but a new one-eyed orange alley cat goes after Tweety. Sylvester must stop the alley cat from catching Tweety. Sylvester is sore, and the two cats fight. But the orange cat won't give up on dinner! Is it all worth it in the end?

Characters

Sylvester, Tweety, Granny, Orange Cat, Hen, Rooster

Credits

Directing

Director
Isadore Freleng (as Friz Freleng)

Producing

Producer
Edward Selzer

Writing

Writer
Warren Foster

Voices

Voice
Mel Blanc (Sylvester, Tweety), June Foray (Granny)

Music

Music
Milt Franklyn

Animation

Animator
Virgil Ross, Art Davis, Gerry Chiniquy
Layouts
Hawley Pratt

Art Department

Backgrounds
Irv Wyner

Pictures

Reviews

Tweet And Sour

damfineOctober 7, 2004

This is not a bad cartoon, thanks mostly to Sylvester's usual flawless performance as be battles for Tweety with another cat. However, Tweety does something rather puzzling and somewhat out of character in this one. When Granny leaves for town, Sylvester grabs Tweety out of the cage andis ready to eat him. But, instead of thwarting the putty tat himself, Tweety yells for Granny and insists that she save him. This marks the first time that Tweety actually needed to be saved from Sylvester whom he had handled many times before. In A Gruesoe Twosome he took on two cats by himself and didn't even break a sweat. Now, in the presence of just Sylvester he suddenly fears for his life? Something happened. Possibly, the situation of Catty Cornered caused Friz to think that Tweety actually in danger worked better than him just taking it easy. But, since Sylvester has proven himself to be less than dangerous, the fear in Tweety had to be trumped up. Therefore, in this toon and other toons to follow, Tweety would constantly take dives in order to make Sylvester seem more ominous a threat than he is. In Greedy for Tweety, Tweety is actually swallowed by Sylvester and is probably in the digestion stage by the time Granny finds out. Then it is up to her to rush Sylvester into emergency surgery and Tweety is safe once again. Tweety never needed this much help before. But, from then on, he needed all the help he could get.