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Template:Infobox Shorts wTabs I Taw a Puddy Tat is a 1948 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng and starring Tweety and Sylvester.

Title

The bird's inability to enunciate certain letters (presumably due to having a beak instead of lips) is the reason for the pronunciation of his famous catch-phrase that forms part of this cartoon's title (as in "I Saw a Pussy Cat"). This is the first film whose title included Tweety's speech-impaired term for a cat. The "standard" spelling was eventually changed from "putty tat" to "puddy tat".

Plot

Sylvester awaits the arrival of a new canary, after the previous house bird has mysteriously disappeared (one of several such disappearances, according to stencils the cat keeps on a wall hidden by a curtain, confirmed by his "hiccup" of some yellow feathers). Upon the arrival of the bird, Sylvester pretends to play nice in order to abuse and eventually make a meal of the pretending-to-be-naive canary.

Tweety physically subdues the threatening cat by smoking him up, hitting him on the foot with a mallet, feeding him some alum and using his uvula as a punching bag.

Sylvester imitates a Scandinavian-sounding maid, who feigns complaining about having to "clean out de bird cage." He reaches into the covered cage and grabs what he thinks is the bird. The canary whistles at him. The confused cat opens his fist to find a small bomb, which promptly explodes, covering the cat in "blackface" makeup. His voice pattern then changes to something sounding like "Rochester", and he says, "Uh-oh, back to the kitchen, ah smell somethin' burnin'!" just before passing out.

Tweety, inside the cat's mouth, yells down its gullet. The answer comes back, "There's nobody here but us mice!"

Tweety has managed to trap Sylvester inside the birdcage, and has introduced a "wittle puddy dog". Their deadly battle occurs under the wrap the bird has thrown over the cage.

The lady of the house calls the pet shop again, this time ordering a new cat, while Tweety lounges in Sylvester's old bed. Overhearing the woman telling the pet shop that the cat will have a nice home here, Tweety reveals the silhouette of a cat now stencilled on the wall, and says, "Her don't know me vewy well, do her?"

Availability

(1992) VHS - Bugs Bunny: Superstar
(1986) VHS - Little Tweety
(1986) VHS - Little Inki Cartoon Festival
(1988) VHS - Tweety and Sylvester
(1993) LaserDisc - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 4, Side 4
(2006) DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4, Disc 1 (Bugs Bunny: Superstar print)
(2007) DVD - Romance on the High Seas (USA 1995 Turner print; censored)
(2012) DVD - Bugs Bunny: Superstar (Warner Archive print)

Censorship

The scene where Sylvester poses as a Swedish maid so he can get Tweety, only to grab a stick of dynamite and end up in blackface and sounding like Rochester from The Jack Benny Show is always cut when aired on TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and the former WB network.

Notes

This cartoon is a color remake of a 1943 black and white short film titled Puss n' Booty which was directed by Frank Tashlin and written by Warren Foster. In this previous version, a generic cat and canary team called Rudolph and Petey were used but the plot along with some gags and story elements were re-used. Puss N' Booty was notable as it was the final black and white cartoon ever released by WB.
After winning the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1947 for Tweetie Pie, a film which combined for the first time two of the studio's latest animated stars, Tweety Bird and Sylvester, there was a demand for more short films using the characters. Freleng himself said he could not imagine Tweety working with any other partners than Sylvester (in contrast, Sylvester still had his fair share of cartoons without Tweety).
This was Freleng's second film teaming the characters and was released less than a year after Tweetie Pie. It is noticeable that while this cartoon was directed by Friz Freleng, the Tweety we see in it is by far closer to the aggressive little bird used in his first few cartoons directed by Bob Clampett than the more subdued and naïve character he would become a few years later as the series progressed. This is also the first cartoon in the Sylvester and Tweety series where Sylvester has a speaking role (in the first entry Tweetie Pie Sylvester doesn't speak).
This and Tweetie Pie were the only two Tweety and Sylvester pairings whose copyrights were sold to Associated Artists Productions. This is the only Tweety/Sylvester pairing in Cinecolor as well. The cartoon opens with a "PRINT BY TECHNICOLOR", which means it was reissued in 3-hue Technicolor.
Though this cartoon was re-released into the Blue Ribbon program, the original titles are known to exist.
Bea Benaderet provided the voice of the housemistress but she did not get credit as with most voice actors at the studio, Mel Blanc being the exception. Amongst the musical quotations in the Carl Stalling film score (with or without lyrics accompanying them) are extracts from "Singin' in the Bathtub", "She Was an Acrobat's Daughter" and "Ain't We Got Fun".
The Cartoon Festivals prints are damaged a.a.p. print where the a.a.p. logo plays first, then the 1947-49 Blue Ribbon Color Rings from Inki and the Lion open, also notice the light blue borders, with the 1939-40 version of Merrily We Roll Along plays over instead of the 1941-45 version before the print finally changes to another print that says "I Taw a Putty Tat". This is a MGM/UA print and probably was hacked off by United Artists in the 1980s.
- This MGM/UA print airs in Cartoon Network and Boomerang Latin America and Tooncast, alternately with the 1995 Turner dubbed version print of the cartoon, and like the 1995 dubbed version print of the cartoon airing on all three channels, this print airs censored on all three channels to remove a blackface gag.
- The Cartoon Moviestars VHS release uses an a.a.p. print (minus the a.a.p. opening) which preserves the original opening and closing titles, and has red borders in the credit sequences.

Gallery

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

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+|Starring = [[Sylvester]]<br>[[Tweety]]<br>[[Hector the Bulldog]]
 |Voice = [[Mel Blanc]]<br>[[Bea Benaderet]] (uncredited)
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+|video = [[File:I Taw a Putty Tat (1948) with original titles|thumb|center|280 px|16mm print]]
+[[File:I Taw a Putty Tat (1948)|center|280px]]
+[[File:Sylvester and Tweety E9 – I Taw A Putty Tat|thumb|center|280 px|Censored Turner Print]]
 |Writer = [[Michael Maltese]]<br>[[Tedd Pierce]]
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+|Musician = [[Carl W. Stalling|Carl Stalling]]
+}}
-[[File:I_taw_a_putty_tat.jpg|thumb|298px|Blue Ribbon Re-Issue Titles]]
+'''I Taw a Puddy Tat''' is a [[1948]] ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' short directed by [[Friz Freleng]] and starring [[Tweety]] and [[Sylvester]].
-[[File:I Taw a Putty Tat1.JPG|thumb|250px|right]]
-'''I Taw a Putty Tat''' is a 1947 [[Merrie Melodies]] short, released in 1948, directed by [[Friz Freleng]]. It stars [[Tweety]] and [[Sylvester]], both voiced by [[Mel Blanc]]. The uncredited voice of the lady of the house was [[Bea Benaderet]].
-The bird's inability to enunciate certain letters (presumably due to having a beak instead of lips) is the reason for the pronunciation of his famous catch-phrase that forms part of this cartoon's title (as in "I Thought I Saw a Pussy Cat"). This is the first film whose title included Tweety's speech-impaired term for a cat. The "standard" spelling was eventually changed from "putty tat" to "puddy tat".[[File:I_Taw_A_Putty_Tat.png|thumb|Original Titles From A Thad K. Film Print.]][[File:188713_10150128291893926_223597233925_6419133_535060_n.jpg|thumb|Lobby Card]][[File:ITawAPuttyTat1.JPG|thumb|Tweety developing his little muscles at the expense of Sylvester's uvula]][[File:8mm-aap-cartoons2.jpg|thumb|250px]]
-==Plot==
-Sylvester awaits the arrival of a new canary, after the previous house bird has mysteriously disappeared (one of several such disappearances, according to stencils the cat keeps on a wall hidden by a curtain, confirmed by his "hiccup" of some yellow feathers). Upon the arrival of the bird, Sylvester pretends to play nice in order to abuse and eventually make a meal of the pretending-to-be-naïve canary.
-A series of violent visual gags ensues in which Tweety physically subdues the threatening cat by smoking him up, hitting him on the foot with a mallet, feeding him some alum and using his uvula as a punching bag. (See illustration)
-Tweety developing his little muscles at the expense of Sylvester's uvula.
-A couple of racial/ethnic gags are included. Sylvester imitates a Scandinavian-sounding maid, who feigns complaining about having to "clean out de bird cage." He reaches into the covered cage and grabs what he thinks is the bird. The canary whistles at him. The confused cat opens his fist to find a small bomb, which promptly explodes, covering the cat in "blackface" makeup. His voice pattern then changes to something sounding like "Rochester", and he says, "Uh-oh, back to the kitchen, ah smell somethin' burnin'!" just before passing out.
-A more subtle gag with a racist legacy occurs when Tweety, inside the cat's mouth, yells down its gullet. The answer comes back, "There's nobody here but us mice!" This is a variant on an old joke in which a black man is hiding in a henhouse, and when the farmer yells who is there, the would-be chicken thief answers, "Dey's nobody here but us chickens!"
-At the climax, Tweety has managed to trap Sylvester inside the birdcage, and has introduced a "wittle puddy dog" (rhymes with "puppy dog"; a not-so-little "pug dog", an angry bulldog - in his first appearance). Their deadly battle occurs under the wrap the bird has thrown over the cage.
-The film ends with the lady of the house calling the pet shop again, this time ordering a new cat, while Tweety lounges in Sylvester's old bed. Overhearing the woman telling the pet shop that the cat will have a nice home here, Tweety reveals the silhouette of a cat now stencilled on the wall, and closes the cartoon with a comment to the camera, "Her don't know me vewy well, do her?" a variant on one of Red Skelton's catchphrases by his "Mean Widdle Kid" character from radio.
-==History==
-This cartoon is a color remake of a 1943 black and white short film titled ''[[Puss n' Booty]]'' which was directed by [[Frank Tashlin]] and written by [[Warren Foster]]. In this previous version, a generic cat and canary team called Rudolph and Petey were used but the plot along with some gags and story elements were re-used. Puss N' Booty was notable as it was the final black and white cartoon ever released by WB.
-After winning the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1947 for ''[[Tweetie Pie]]'', a film which combined for the first time two of the studio's latest animated stars, Tweety Bird and Sylvester, there was a demand for more short films using the characters. Freleng himself said he could not imagine Tweety working with any other partners than Sylvester (in contrast, Sylvester still had his fair share of cartoons without Tweety).
+== Title ==
-''I Taw a Putty Tat'' was Freleng's second film teaming the characters and was released less than a year after ''Tweetie Pie''. It is noticeable that while this cartoon was directed by Friz Freleng, the Tweety we see in it is by far closer to the aggressive little bird used in his first few cartoons directed by Bob Clampett than the more subdued and naïve character he would become a few years later as the series progressed.
+The bird's inability to enunciate certain letters (presumably due to having a beak instead of lips) is the reason for the pronunciation of his famous catch-phrase that forms part of this cartoon's title (as in "I Saw a Pussy Cat"). This is the first film whose title included Tweety's speech-impaired term for a cat. The "standard" spelling was eventually changed from "putty tat" to "puddy tat".
+== Plot ==
-This and Tweetie Pie were the only 2 Tweety and Sylvester pairings sold to [[Associated Artists Productions]]. This is the only Tweety/Sylvester pairing in Cinecolor as well. The cartoon says PRINT BY TECHNICOLOR, which means it was reissued in TECHNICOLOR. This and Tweetie Pie are the only 2 Tweety/Sylvester pairings that do not survive with original titles. [[Bad Ol' Putty Tat]] was released in 1949 but had the 1956-64 rules which reissued but kept original credits.
+Sylvester awaits the arrival of a new canary, after the previous house bird has mysteriously disappeared (one of several such disappearances, according to stencils the cat keeps on a wall hidden by a curtain, confirmed by his "hiccup" of some yellow feathers). Upon the arrival of the bird, Sylvester pretends to play nice in order to abuse and eventually make a meal of the pretending-to-be-naive canary.
+Tweety physically subdues the threatening cat by smoking him up, hitting him on the foot with a mallet, feeding him some alum and using his uvula as a punching bag.
-==Production==
+Sylvester imitates a Scandinavian-sounding maid, who feigns complaining about having to "clean out de bird cage." He reaches into the covered cage and grabs what he thinks is the bird. The canary whistles at him. The confused cat opens his fist to find a small bomb, which promptly explodes, covering the cat in "blackface" makeup. His voice pattern then changes to something sounding like "Rochester", and he says, "Uh-oh, back to the kitchen, ah smell somethin' burnin'!" just before passing out.
-Bea Benaderet provided the voice of the housemistress but she did not get credit as with most voice actors at the studio, Mel Blanc being the exception. Amongst the musical quotations in the Carl Stalling film score (with or without lyrics accompanying them) are extracts from "Singin' in the Bathtub", "[[She Was an Acrobat's Daughter]]" and "[[Ain't We Got Fun]]".
+Tweety, inside the cat's mouth, yells down its gullet. The answer comes back, "There's nobody here but us mice!"
-The animators for the cartoon were Ken Champin, Gerry Chiniquy, Manuel Perez, Virgil Ross, and an uncredited Pete Burness. Paul Julian was the background artist, while Hawley Pratt was the layout artist.
+Tweety has managed to trap Sylvester inside the birdcage, and has introduced a "wittle puddy dog". Their deadly battle occurs under the wrap the bird has thrown over the cage.
-==Censorship==
+The lady of the house calls the pet shop again, this time ordering a new cat, while Tweety lounges in Sylvester's old bed. Overhearing the woman telling the pet shop that the cat will have a nice home here, Tweety reveals the silhouette of a cat now stencilled on the wall, and says, "Her don't know me vewy well, do her?"
-<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">The scene where Sylvester poses as a Swedish maid so he can get Tweety, only to grab a stick of dynamite and end up in blackface and sounding like Rochester from ''The Jack Benny Show'' is always cut when aired on</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBS_(TV_channel) TBS]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">, </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_(TV_channel) TNT]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">, </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon_Network Cartoon Network]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> , Boomerang, and the former </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WB_Television_Network WB] network.
-==Availability==
+== Availability ==
+* (1992) VHS - ''[[Bugs Bunny: Superstar]]''
-* After its original release and its mid-1950s Blue Ribbon re-release in theaters, ''I Taw a Putty Tat'' was re-released as part of the compilation film, ''[[Bugs Bunny: Superstar]]'' (1975), along with other animated short films from the 1940s. This feature was later made available on VHS and Laserdisc before it was discontinued in 1999 due to the waning popularity of laserdisc and VHS formats and due to MGM/UA Home Video losing the home video rights of the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library to [[Warner Home Video]], but could be found on eBay or a selling site for people getting rid of/collecting these types of formats.
+* (1986) VHS - ''[[Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals|Little Tweety]]''
+* (1986) VHS - ''[[Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals|Little Inki Cartoon Festival]]''
+* (1988) VHS - ''[[Cartoon Moviestars|Tweety and Sylvester]]''
+* (1993) LaserDisc - ''[[The Golden Age of Looney Tunes]]'', Volume 4, Side 4
+* (2006) DVD - ''[[Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4]]'', Disc 1 (''Bugs Bunny: Superstar'' print)
+* (2007) DVD - ''Romance on the High Seas'' (USA 1995 Turner print; censored)
+* (2012) DVD - ''Bugs Bunny: Superstar'' (Warner Archive print)
+== Censorship ==
-* The short film has also been made available on VHS through two compilations released by MGM/UA and [[Turner Entertainment]] in the 1980s : ''[[Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals|Little Tweety]]''[[Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals| and ''Little Inki Cartoon Festival'' featuring ''I Taw a Putty Tat'']] and [[Cartoon Moviestars|Tweety and Sylvester]].
+*The scene where Sylvester poses as a Swedish maid so he can get Tweety, only to grab a stick of dynamite and end up in blackface and sounding like Rochester from ''The Jack Benny Show'' is always cut when aired on TBS, [[TNT]], [[Cartoon Network]], [[Boomerang]], and the former [[The WB|WB]] network.
-** The former VHS tape uses a damaged [[Associated Artists Productions|a.a.p.]] print where the a.a.p. logo plays first, then the 1947-49 rings open instead of the 1952-53 rings (notice the light blue borders) with the 1939-40 version of ''Merrily We Roll Along'' plays over instead of the 1941-45 version before the print finally  changes to another print that says "I Taw A Putty Tat". This is a MGM/UA print and probably was hacked off by [[United Artists]] in the 1980s.
-*** This MGM/UA print airs in [[Cartoon Network]] and [[Boomerang]] Latin America and Tooncast, alternately with the 1995 Turner dubbed version print of the cartoon, and like the 1995 dubbed version print of the cartoon airing on all three channels, this print airs censored on all three channels to remove a blackface gag.
-** The latter VHS release uses an a.a.p. print (minus the a.a.p. opening) which preserves the original opening and closing titles, and has red borders in the credit sequences.
+== Notes ==
-* The short was part of the ''[[The Golden Age of Looney Tunes|The]]''[[The Golden Age of Looney Tunes| ''Golden Age of Looney Tunes'']]'' volume 4'' Laserdisc set, using the same print as on the Cartoon Moviestars VHS tape.
+*This cartoon is a color remake of a 1943 black and white short film titled ''[[Puss n' Booty]]'' which was directed by [[Frank Tashlin]] and written by [[Warren Foster]]. In this previous version, a generic cat and canary team called Rudolph and Petey were used but the plot along with some gags and story elements were re-used. Puss N' Booty was notable as it was the final black and white cartoon ever released by WB.
-* It also occurs in its entirety in the documentary ''Bugs Bunny: Superstar Part 1'', which is available as a special feature on Discs 1 and 2 of the ''Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4'', although it has not been refurbished or released independently in that DVD series.
+*After winning the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1947 for ''[[Tweetie Pie]]'', a film which combined for the first time two of the studio's latest animated stars, Tweety Bird and Sylvester, there was a demand for more short films using the characters. Freleng himself said he could not imagine Tweety working with any other partners than Sylvester (in contrast, Sylvester still had his fair share of cartoons without Tweety).
+*This was Freleng's second film teaming the characters and was released less than a year after ''Tweetie Pie''. It is noticeable that while this cartoon was directed by Friz Freleng, the Tweety we see in it is by far closer to the aggressive little bird used in his first few cartoons directed by Bob Clampett than the more subdued and naïve character he would become a few years later as the series progressed. This is also the first cartoon in the Sylvester and Tweety series where Sylvester has a speaking role (in the first entry ''Tweetie Pie'' Sylvester doesn't speak).
+*This and Tweetie Pie were the only two Tweety and Sylvester pairings whose copyrights were sold to [[Associated Artists Productions]]. This is the only Tweety/Sylvester pairing in Cinecolor as well. The cartoon opens with a "PRINT BY TECHNICOLOR", which means it was reissued in 3-hue Technicolor.
+*Though this cartoon was re-released into the [[Blue Ribbon]] program, the original titles are known to exist.
+*Bea Benaderet provided the voice of the housemistress but she did not get credit as with most voice actors at the studio, Mel Blanc being the exception. Amongst the musical quotations in the Carl Stalling film score (with or without lyrics accompanying them) are extracts from "Singin' in the Bathtub", "[[She Was an Acrobat's Daughter]]" and "[[Ain't We Got Fun]]".
+*The ''[[Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals|Cartoon Festivals]]'' prints are damaged [[Associated Artists Productions|a.a.p.]] print where the a.a.p. logo plays first, then the 1947-49 Blue Ribbon [[Color Rings]] from [[Inki and the Lion]] open, also notice the light blue borders, with the 1939-40 version of ''Merrily We Roll Along'' plays over instead of the 1941-45 version before the print finally changes to another print that says "I Taw a Putty Tat". This is a MGM/UA print and probably was hacked off by [[United Artists]] in the 1980s.
+**This MGM/UA print airs in [[Cartoon Network]] and [[Boomerang]] Latin America and Tooncast, alternately with the 1995 Turner dubbed version print of the cartoon, and like the 1995 dubbed version print of the cartoon airing on all three channels, this print airs censored on all three channels to remove a blackface gag.
+**The ''[[Cartoon Moviestars]]'' VHS release uses an a.a.p. print (minus the a.a.p. opening) which preserves the original opening and closing titles, and has red borders in the credit sequences.
+== Gallery ==
-* The Turner dubbed version (which also has the same edit seen on TV to remove the blackface gag) has been made available as a bonus feature on the DVD release of ''Romance on the High Seas''.
+<gallery>
+I Taw a Putty Tat1.JPG
+I_Taw_A_Putty_Tat.png|Original Titles From A Thad K. Film Print.
+I_taw_a_putty_tat-card.png|Lobby Card
+ITawAPuttyTat1.JPG|Tweety developing his little muscles at the expense of Sylvester's uvula
+mm-aap-cartoons2.jpg
+Tatgc.png|Version used on ''[[Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4]]'' (interlaced video)
+tatss.png|Version used on the Warner Archive release of ''[[Bugs Bunny: Superstar]]'' (progressive scan)
+</gallery>
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