Gift Wrapped

Sylvester can't find a stirring mouse on Christmas Eve, and is overjoyed when Santa brings Tweety to Granny as a present. Sylvester switches Christmas-gift tags so he receives Tweety instead of a toy. Granny is puzzled when her gift is a rubber mouse, but then realizes what has happened when Sylvester burps up Tweety's feathers. Tweety distracts Sylvester with another gift: a large bulldog, which devours the cat. Granny promptly beats the dog's behind until Sylvester is spit out. He resumes his ploys and torments of Tweety until Granny has had enough.

Sylvester, Tweety, Granny, Hector

Current release versions have a scene removed in which Tweety shoots Sylvester with a gun.

Daws Butler's first appearance in a Warner Bros. cartoon.

This cartoon has appeared in several video compilations of ostensibly public-domain cartoons, especially those with a Christmas theme. However, it definitely is not in the public domain.

This Looney Tune short was reissued as a Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodie cartoon.

In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their "Blue Ribbon" program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.

All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.