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A Pizza Tweety-Pie

Directed By:		Friz Freleng
Produced By:		John W. Burton (uncredited)
Released:		February 22, 1958
Series:		Looney Tunes
Story:		Warren Foster
Animation:		Virgil Ross Gerry Chiniquy Art Davis
Layouts:		Hawley Pratt
Backgrounds:		Tom O'Laughlin
Film Editor:		Treg Brown
Voiced By:		Mel Blanc Daws Butler (uncredited) June Foray (uncredited)
Music:		Milt Franklyn
Starring:		Sylvester Tweety Granny
Preceded By:		Hare-Less Wolf
Succeeded By:		Robin Hood Daffy

A Pizza Tweety-Pie is a 1958 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.

Plot

Tweety and Granny arrive at their hotel in Venice, Italy. From his cage on the balcony, Tweety looks down at the canal and thinks it is a flooded street and that there must be a lot of barber shops down there (because of the many red and white striped barber poles).

As Tweety is singing "Santa Lucia" and strumming his mandolin in his cage, Sylvester spies him from his balcony across the canal. In haste, he runs out of the hotel with an open sandwich roll, and falls into the water. He climbs out and finds a canoe and starts rowing, but forgets to loose it from the rope. After he cuts the rope, he sinks with the canoe.

Sylvester then starts paddling in a rubber raft, but Tweety takes a slingshot and punctures it. The raft floats back to the dock with Sylvester as the air leaks out, and Sylvester removes the deflated raft from his hind quarters in disgust.

Next, Sylvester tries to swing across the canal with a rope Tarzan-style, but lands in the water into the gaping mouth of a hungry shark. Sylvester wrestles his way out and swims hurriedly away.

Then, using an electric fan and a balloon tied to his waist, Sylvester attempts to float his way across through the air, but he floats too high. Tweety, again using the slingshot, shoots Sylvester down from the sky. Sylvester dons a bathing cap as he is descending, but misses the water, landing on the sidewalk, next to Tweety and Granny’s hotel as it turns out. He runs into the hotel and takes the elevator up to the floor of Granny and Tweety's room, but Granny and Tweety are leaving, so Sylvester goes back down the elevator, which takes him...into the water!

As Tweety and Granny are taking a relaxing gondola ride along the canal, Sylvester is awaiting them on a bridge with a fishing rod. Sylvester hooks a passing speedboat, forcibly yanking him into the water. After a close call with a striped pole, Sylvester gets slammed into a low bridge, where there is a warning sign that reads, "Ducka you head, lowla bridgeada"!

Finally, as Sylvester is dining on a plate of spaghetti, he again hears Tweety singing "Santa Lucia" (he is out of his cage this time), and proceeds to hurl a strand of spaghetti like a lasso to catch Tweety. Nearly strangled, Tweety screams to Granny for help. Granny clutches Sylvester's noose of pasta and substitutes a mallet in Tweety’s place. As Sylvester sucks the spaghetti into his mouth, he gets clobbered squarely in the head with the mallet, causing birds to appear uttering Tweety’s trademark line: "I tawt I taw a puddytat!" (Ironically, in this cartoon, Tweety never uses this line himself.)

Availability

(1998) VHS - Looney Tunes Presents: Tweety: Tweet and Lovely
(2001) DVD - I Love Tweety: Volume 3 (restored)

Gallery

TV Title Cards

Notes

Like all WB cartoons from 1958, the WB shield is accompanied by blue Color Rings.
The term "lowla bridgeada" is a pun on actress name Gina Lollobrigida.
Portions of this picture were reused two years later in the 1960 "cheater" short, "Trip for Tat".
The scene when Sylvester tries but fails to swing across the canal is reused in the introduction of Friz Freleng's Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie.
When the short airs on Boomerang, the Warner Bros Family Entertainment opening sequence with Bugs Bunny and the Merrie Melodies fanfare used for movies (instead of the usual Animaniacs fanfare used for TV) is shown.

External Links

A Pizza Tweety Pie at the Internet Movie Database
A Pizza Tweety-Pie on the SFX Resource

Tweety Cartoons
1942	A Tale of Two Kitties
1944	Birdy and the Beast
1945	A Gruesome Twosome
1947	Tweetie Pie
1948	I Taw a Putty Tat
1949	Bad Ol' Putty Tat
1950	Home, Tweet Home • All a Bir-r-r-d • Canary Row
1951	Putty Tat Trouble • Room and Bird • Tweety's S.O.S. • Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952	Gift Wrapped • Ain't She Tweet • A Bird in a Guilty Cage
1953	Snow Business • Fowl Weather • Tom Tom Tomcat • A Street Cat Named Sylvester • Catty Cornered
1954	Dog Pounded • Muzzle Tough • Satan's Waitin'
1955	Sandy Claws • Tweety's Circus • Red Riding Hoodwinked • Heir-Conditioned
1956	Tweet and Sour • Tree Cornered Tweety • Tugboat Granny
1957	Tweet Zoo • Tweety and the Beanstalk • Birds Anonymous • Greedy for Tweety
1958	A Pizza Tweety-Pie • A Bird in a Bonnet
1959	Trick or Tweet • Tweet and Lovely • Tweet Dreams
1960	Hyde and Go Tweet • Trip for Tat
1961	The Rebel Without Claws • The Last Hungry Cat
1962	The Jet Cage
1964	Hawaiian Aye Aye
2011	I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat

Sylvester Cartoons
1945	Life with Feathers • Peck Up Your Troubles
1946	Kitty Kornered
1947	Tweetie Pie • Crowing Pains • Doggone Cats • Catch as Cats Can
1948	Back Alley Oproar • I Taw a Putty Tat • Hop, Look and Listen • Kit for Cat • Scaredy Cat
1949	Mouse Mazurka • Bad Ol' Putty Tat • Hippety Hopper
1950	Home, Tweet Home • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • All a Bir-r-r-d • Canary Row • Stooge for a Mouse • Pop 'Im Pop!
1951	Canned Feud • Putty Tat Trouble • Room and Bird • Tweety's S.O.S. • Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952	Who's Kitten Who? • Gift Wrapped • Little Red Rodent Hood • Ain't She Tweet • Hoppy Go Lucky • A Bird in a Guilty Cage • Tree for Two
1953	Snow Business • A Mouse Divided • Fowl Weather • Tom Tom Tomcat • A Street Cat Named Sylvester • Catty Cornered • Cats A-weigh!
1954	Dog Pounded • Bell Hoppy • Dr. Jerkyl's Hide • Claws for Alarm • Muzzle Tough • Satan's Waitin' • By Word of Mouse
1955	Lighthouse Mouse • Sandy Claws • Tweety's Circus • Jumpin' Jupiter • A Kiddies Kitty • Speedy Gonzales • Red Riding Hoodwinked • Heir-Conditioned • Pappy's Puppy
1956	Too Hop to Handle • Tweet and Sour • Tree Cornered Tweety • The Unexpected Pest • Tugboat Granny • The Slap-Hoppy Mouse • Yankee Dood It
1957	Tweet Zoo • Tweety and the Beanstalk • Birds Anonymous • Greedy for Tweety • Mouse-Taken Identity • Gonzales' Tamales
1958	A Pizza Tweety-Pie • A Bird in a Bonnet
1959	Trick or Tweet • Tweet and Lovely • Cat's Paw • Here Today, Gone Tamale • Tweet Dreams
1960	West of the Pesos • Goldimouse and the Three Cats • Hyde and Go Tweet • Mouse and Garden • Trip for Tat
1961	Cannery Woe • Hoppy Daze • Birds of a Father • D' Fightin' Ones • The Rebel Without Claws • The Pied Piper of Guadalupe • The Last Hungry Cat
1962	Fish and Slips • Mexican Boarders • The Jet Cage
1963	Mexican Cat Dance • Chili Weather • Claws in the Lease
1964	A Message to Gracias • Freudy Cat • Nuts and Volts • Hawaiian Aye Aye • Road to Andalay
1965	It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House • Cats and Bruises • The Wild Chase
1966	A Taste of Catnip
1980	The Yolks on You
1995	Carrotblanca
1997	Father of the Bird
2011	I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat

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+'''A Pizza Tweety-Pie''' is a [[1958]] ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short directed by [[Friz Freleng]].
-==Synopsis==
+== Plot ==
-Tweety and Granny arrive at their hotel in Venice, Italy. From his cage on the balcony, Tweety looks down at the canal and thinks it is a flooded street and that there must be a lot of barber shops down there (because of the many red and white striped barber poles).
+[[Tweety]] and [[Granny]] arrive at their hotel in Venice, Italy. From his cage on the balcony, Tweety looks down at the canal and thinks it is a flooded street and that there must be a lot of barber shops down there (because of the many red and white striped barber poles).
-As Tweety is singing "Santa Lucia" and strumming his mandolin in his cage, Sylvester spies him from his balcony across the canal. In haste, he runs out of the hotel with an open sandwich roll, and falls into the water. He climbs out and finds a canoe and starts rowing, but forgets to loose it from the rope. After he cuts the rope, he sinks with the canoe.
+As Tweety is singing "Santa Lucia" and strumming his mandolin in his cage, [[Sylvester]] spies him from his balcony across the canal. In haste, he runs out of the hotel with an open sandwich roll, and falls into the water. He climbs out and finds a canoe and starts rowing, but forgets to loose it from the rope. After he cuts the rope, he sinks with the canoe.
 Sylvester then starts paddling in a rubber raft, but Tweety takes a slingshot and punctures it. The raft floats back to the dock with Sylvester as the air leaks out, and Sylvester removes the deflated raft from his hind quarters in disgust.
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 Finally, as Sylvester is dining on a plate of spaghetti, he again hears Tweety singing "Santa Lucia" (he is out of his cage this time), and proceeds to hurl a strand of spaghetti like a lasso to catch Tweety. Nearly strangled, Tweety screams to Granny for help. Granny clutches Sylvester's noose of pasta and substitutes a mallet in Tweety’s place. As Sylvester sucks the spaghetti into his mouth, he gets clobbered squarely in the head with the mallet, causing birds to appear uttering Tweety’s trademark line: "I tawt I taw a puddytat!" (Ironically, in this cartoon, Tweety never uses this line himself.)
-== Clips ==
+== Availability ==
+* (1998) VHS - ''[[Looney Tunes Presents]]:'' ''Tweety: Tweet and Lovely''
-[[File:A Pizza Tweety Pie Clip 1|left|thumb]]
+* (2001) DVD - ''[[I Love Tweety (Japanese DVDs)|I Love Tweety: Volume 3]]'' (restored)
-[[File:A Pizza Tweety Pie Clip 3|thumb]][[File:A Pizza Tweety Pie Clip 2|centre|thumb]]
-==Notes==
-*The term "lowla bridgeada" was a pun on actress name [[Wikipedia:Gina Lollobrigida|Gina Lollobrigida]].
-*Portions of this picture were reused two years later in the 1960 "cheater" cartoon ''[[Trip For Tat]]''.
-*The background for the title showed a cheese pizza with Tweety and Sylvester-shaped pepperoni pieces on the slices.
-==External links==
+== Gallery ==
+<gallery>
-*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052075/ ''A Pizza Tweety Pie''] at the Internet Movie Database
+Pizatwty.jpg|Title card (before remastering)
+Pizatwty.png|Title card (better quality)
+Ltajan-26-bp.png|[[Sylvester]] about to swing with the rope
+-PE0FIl7L.jpg|[[Lobby Cards|Lobby Card]]
+H19807-L141567815.jpg|Production Background
+lff.jpg|Production Cell
+Screenshot_20190903-072849.jpg
+Screenshot_20190903-073006.jpg
+Screenshot_20190903-073044.jpg
+Screenshot_20190903-073122.jpg
+Screenshot_20190903-073207.jpg
+Screenshot_20190903-073252.jpg
+Screenshot_20190903-073533.jpg
+Screenshot_20190903-073647.jpg
+Screenshot_20190903-073804.jpg
+</gallery>
+== TV Title Cards ==
-{{TweetyNav}}{{SylvesterShorts}}
+<gallery>
+lt a pizza snt.jpg|''[[Sylvester and Tweety]]''
+Screenshot_20190903-072323.jpg|''[[The Bugs Bunny Show|The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show (Final Season)]]''
+</gallery>
+== Notes ==
+* Like all [[Warner Bros. Cartoons|WB cartoons]] from [[1958]], the [[Warner Bros.|WB]] shield is accompanied by blue [[Color Rings]].
+* The term "lowla bridgeada" is a pun on actress name [[Wikipedia:Gina Lollobrigida|Gina Lollobrigida]].
+* Portions of this picture were reused two years later in the [[1960]] "cheater" short, "[[Trip for Tat]]".
+* The scene when [[Sylvester]] tries but fails to swing across the canal is reused in the introduction of [[Friz Freleng]]'s ''[[Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie]]''.
+* When the short airs on Boomerang, the Warner Bros Family Entertainment opening sequence with Bugs Bunny and the ''Merrie Melodies'' fanfare used for movies (instead of the usual ''Animaniacs'' fanfare used for TV) is shown.
+== External Links ==
+* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052075/ ''A Pizza Tweety Pie''] at the Internet Movie Database
+* [https://sfx-resource.fandom.com/wiki/A_Pizza_Tweety-Pie_(1958) A Pizza Tweety-Pie] on the SFX Resource
+{{TweetyShorts}}
+{{SylvesterShorts}}
+{{DEFAULTSORT:Pizza Tweety-Pie, A}}
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