Fowl Weather

Granny leaves Hector in charge of looking after Tweety while she's away, otherwise she will shoot Hector. Sylvester tries to eat Tweety, first by disguising himself as a scarecrow (complete with ragged clothes and tall stilts), then Hector starts barking and an annoyed Sylvester hits him with his wooden leg and yells his only spoken line in the cartoon, "Aaaaah, shaddap!" Furious, Hector gets back up and bites the wooden leg and chases Sylvester away. Nonetheless, now out of his cage, Tweety decides to look around. He decides to greet the farm animals. "Hello, moo-moo cow!", even unintentionally insulting the pig with "Hi there, dirty piggy!" After detecting a goat to really be Sylvester in a realistic rubber mask ("Hello, puddy tat!"), Tweety takes cover in a chicken coop.

Sylvester tries several times to get into the coop using a toy soldier, dressing himself poorly as a hen, etc., only to be stopped by the rooster, who beats him soundly. While mimicking one of the baby chicks, Tweety comes across a worm and tells the "piece of spaghetti with eyes" to hide from the other chickens. A last attempt involves Sylvester, still in hen "costume", and the rooster, waiting while Sylvester "lays eggs". The rooster decides to use a grenade to make him "hatch" one. At this point, Hector realizes Tweety's absence, and demands to know his whereabouts. Short on time, and fearing Granny will kill him, he paints Sylvester yellow, stuffs the cat in Tweety's birdcage and has him act like Tweety.

Granny returns, and the ruse works. Tweety meanwhile also returns and notices the change of circumstances. "Ho ho! If he's a birdie, den dat makes me a putty tat!" Tweety claims and starts acting like a cat, much to Hector's shock.

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On ABC, the part where the aggressive rooster orders Sylvester to "hatch" a hand grenade was edited to remove the scene of the rooster getting the hand grenade, putting it under Sylvester, and the grenade exploding.^[1]
- The CBS version cuts the same scene as ABC. Unlike ABC's version, the short scene of Sylvester fleeing the coop to put out the fire on his tail was also edited out, which does not result in the plot hole of why Sylvester is fleeing the coop like in ABC's version.^[2]
The Cartoon Network and Boomerang version keeps in the grenade part, but cuts a brief and violent scene of Hector the Bulldog imagining himself being shot to death by Granny as punishment for not safeguarding Tweety, though an earlier scene where Granny warns Hector and mimics shooting him with her umbrella was unedited.^[3]^[4] As of 2013, the short has been shown uncut on Cartoon Network and Boomerang, and has been released uncut (but not digitally remastered) on Boomerang streaming service in 2017.^[5]

Notes[]

This is the first cartoon where Hector the Bulldog is given his name, although his name would rarely be used until The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries.
This cartoon was shown in theatres with Trouble Along the Way during its original release.

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References[]

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

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

[1] ttps://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-e-f.aspx

[2] ttps://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-e-f.aspx

[3] ttps://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-e-f.aspx

[4] ttps://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20o2oz

[5] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vpb6O87L3I

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