Greedy for Tweety

Greedy for Tweety
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Airdate:	28 September 1957 Blue Ribbon reissue: March 1964
Series:	Looney Tunes
MPAA Number:	18327
Production Number:	1468
Vitaphone Number:	2750
Runtime:	6 minutes, 31 seconds
Copyright Renewed:	22 April 1985
Starring:	Sylvester Tweety Hector the Bulldog Granny
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Mel Blanc June Foray
Director:	Friz Freleng
Written By:	Warren Foster
Producer:	Eddie Selzer
Animated By:	Gerry Chiniquy Art Davis Virgil Ross
Layout Artist:	Hawley Pratt
Background Artist:	Boris Gorelick
Film Editor:	Treg Brown
Musician:	Milt Franklyn

Greedy for Tweety is a 1957 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.

Plot

Hector, Sylvester and Tweety are chasing each other on the street, and accidentally get injured by passing cars. They are taken to the Animal Hospital, where nurse Granny takes care of them. Only Tweety tries to get some rest, while Sylvester tries to catch him like usual. All the while both Sylvester and the dog try to inflict pain by hitting the other in their leg cast. The first barking fit from the dog results in Sylvester hitting him in the cast and being force to head back to his bed when Granny hears Hector's screams of pain. The second time, Hector hits Sylvester's cast with a mallet, and leaps into Granny's arms when she re-enters. Believing he is in pain, she relocates him to another bed opposite Hector in the same ward, though not after Sylvester causes more pain to the dog's leg by cutting the support off without Granny looking. Once she relocates Sylvester, she gives him pills to make him fall asleep, leaving him helpless as Hector hits him in the cast again. Sylvester subsequently succeeds into eating Tweety, but Granny sees Tweety's feathers on Sylvester, and panickedly runs him over to the X-ray room. When she sees Tweety in an X-ray, she takes Sylvester in for surgery to get Tweety out. Sylvester appears out of surgery, with a giant bandage over his chest (and Tweety, after admonishing him for it, disappears for the rest of the short until the end).

When Sylvester tries to hit Hector's cast again after the latter chuckles at his misfortune, Hector tries to hit Sylvester's cast again with a club, but Sylvester slides his cast into a mouse hole only for the mouse to hit both Sylvester's and Hector's casts with a hammer. When Granny saw the two in pain, she thinks they were at each other again and decides to strap them in their beds. Granny then tells Hector to stop sulking and suggests he get a hobby like Sylvester, who is busy building something over his strap. When she leaves, promising to unstrap them if the decide to behave, The purpose of Sylvester's newly built machine becomes clear as he uses it to put a stick of dynamite in Hector's cast with the intention to cause more pain to his leg, but Hector quickly rows to Sylvester's bed and switches his own cast onto Sylvester's leg. Hector's cast explodes on Sylvester's leg, causing him to shriek in pain, at which point Granny comes in and informs the trio that there was nothing wrong with them and they are therefore being dismissed.

As soon as the trio are discharged from the animal hospital, Sylvester resumes chasing Tweety, and Hector goes after Sylvester again, once again leading the chase to the streets. Granny, as she checks "Tweety", "Cat", and "Dog" into the "Outgoing Patients" list, she sees the chase, and knowing that they'll get injured by passing cars again, puts them back into "Incoming Patients", and sighs, "Que sera sera."

Availability

(1982) VHS, Beta
The Prince and the Showgirl

(1985) VHS
A Salute to Friz Freleng

(1994) LaserDisc
Sylvester and Tweety's Bad Ol' Putty Tat Blues

(1999) VHS
Looney Tunes Presents Tweety: Tweet and Lovely

(2000) VHS
Mil-Looney-Um 2000 - Bumper Collection

(2001) DVD
I Love Tweety: Volume 1 (restored with DVNR)

(2023) Blu-ray
Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 1 (restored without DVNR)

(2024) Blu-ray
Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volumes 1-4

Streaming

HBO Max (2020 - 2022) (restored without DVNR)

Max (2024 - 2025) (restored without DVNR)

Censorship

• When aired on The WB channel, the part where the mouse hammers both Sylvester and Hector's cast-bound feet was cut.

Goofs

• When Sylvester quiets Hector the first time, Hector is yowling in pain even before Sylvester hits Hector's cast. Additionally, Hector's mouth does not move in sync.
• As Hector walks away after hitting Sylvester as he is sleeping, he briefly disappears for a single frame before the scene cuts to Sylvester groaning in pain.
• In the recent 2020 restoration on HBO Max streaming service and Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 1 Blu-Ray set, there appears to be an abrupt cut from a black screen before the zooming-in of the WB shield in the opening Color Rings, likely due to an editing error. This error is not present in earlier prints of the cartoon, including the earlier 1998 and 2001 restorations.

Notes

• This cartoon was used in Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island, but was edited for time.
  • Although this cartoon is a Looney Tunes short, it uses the Merrie Melodies Blue Ribbon opening and closing titles.
• Hector has yellow fur, as in "A Street Cat Named Sylvester" (1953), instead of his usual light grey fur in this cartoon.
  • Ironically, in the model sheet of this cartoon, as pictured in "Gallery" below, Hector was originally intended to be colored light grey before he is colored yellow in the final product.
  • Unlike most of his other appearances in the Tweety and Sylvester cartoons, Hector is not drawn with a dog collar around his neck, implying that he is a stray dog in this cartoon.
• Parts of this cartoon would later be recycled in two cartoons from DePatie-Freleng Enterprises studio, "The Pink Pill" (1968) from the Pink Panther series and later "From Bed to Worse" (1971) from The Ant and the Aardvark series.
• This and "Birds Anonymous" are the last Tweety cartoons to be given a "Blue Ribbon" reissue.
• Granny quotes a line from a popular Doris Day song, "Que sera, sera".
• This is the last Warner Bros. cartoon to use the 1956-57 orange color rings.
  • It is also the latest cartoon to be re-released under the original Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies program. Shorts re-released after the 1963-64 season would keep their original titles or those from their first re-release.

Gallery

Lobby card

Animation cel

Color guide

TV Title Cards

Sylvester and Tweety