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|airdate = April 2, 1948 |
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− | |Starring = [[Sylvester]]<br>[[Tweety]]<br>[[Hector the Bulldog]] |
+ | |Starring = [[Sylvester]]<br>[[Tweety]]<br>[[Hector the Bulldog]] |
|Voice = [[Mel Blanc]]<br>[[Bea Benaderet]] (uncredited) |
|Voice = [[Mel Blanc]]<br>[[Bea Benaderet]] (uncredited) |
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|series = [[Merrie Melodies]] |
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+ | [[File:Sylvester and Tweety E9 – I Taw A Putty Tat|thumb|center|280 px|Censored Turner Print]] |
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|Writer = [[Michael Maltese]]<br>[[Tedd Pierce]] |
|Writer = [[Michael Maltese]]<br>[[Tedd Pierce]] |
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|Animators = [[Gerry Chiniquy]]<br>[[Manuel Perez]]<br>[[Ken Champin]]<br>[[Virgil Ross]]<br>[[Pete Burness]] (uncredited) |
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|Musician = [[Carl W. Stalling|Carl Stalling]] |
|Musician = [[Carl W. Stalling|Carl Stalling]] |
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− | '''I Taw a Puddy Tat''' is a 1948 ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' short directed by [[Friz Freleng]] and starring [[Tweety]] and [[Sylvester]]. |
+ | '''I Taw a Puddy Tat''' is a [[1948]] ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' short directed by [[Friz Freleng]] and starring [[Tweety]] and [[Sylvester]]. |
− | ==Title== |
+ | == 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 " |
+ | 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== |
+ | == 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- |
+ | 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. |
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− | Tweety developing his little muscles at the expense of Sylvester's uvula. |
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− | + | 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. |
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− | + | Tweety, inside the cat's mouth, yells down its gullet. The answer comes back, "There's nobody here but us mice!" |
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− | + | 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. |
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− | The |
+ | 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 == |
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⚫ | 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. |
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+ | * (1986) VHS - ''[[Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals|Little Tweety]]'' |
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+ | * (1986) VHS - ''[[Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals|Little Inki Cartoon Festival]]'' |
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+ | * (1988) VHS - ''[[Cartoon Moviestars|Tweety and Sylvester]]'' |
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+ | * (1993) LaserDisc - ''[[The Golden Age of Looney Tunes]]'', Volume 4, Side 4 |
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+ | * (2006) DVD - ''[[Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4]]'', Disc 1 (''Bugs Bunny: Superstar'' print) |
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+ | * (2007) DVD - ''Romance on the High Seas'' (USA 1995 Turner print; censored) |
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+ | * (2012) DVD - ''Bugs Bunny: Superstar'' (Warner Archive print) |
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⚫ | 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). |
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⚫ | *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. |
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⚫ | 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). |
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⚫ | *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. |
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⚫ | *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). |
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⚫ | *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). |
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+ | *Though this cartoon was re-released into the [[Blue Ribbon]] program, the original titles are known to exist. |
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⚫ | *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]]". |
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⚫ | *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. |
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⚫ | **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. |
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⚫ | This and Tweetie Pie were the only two Tweety and Sylvester pairings sold to [[Associated Artists Productions]]. This is the only Tweety/Sylvester pairing in Cinecolor as well. The cartoon |
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⚫ | 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]]". |
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− | 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. |
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⚫ | 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. |
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− | ==Availability== |
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− | * After its original release and its mid-1950s Blue Ribbon re-release in theaters, this short 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. |
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− | * 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|Little Inki Cartoon Festival]]'' and ''[[Cartoon Moviestars|Tweety and Sylvester]]''. |
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− | * The short was part of ''[[The Golden Age of Looney Tunes]] Volume 4'' Laserdisc set, using the same print as on the Cartoon Moviestars VHS tape. |
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− | * 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. |
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− | * 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''. |
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I_Taw_A_Putty_Tat.png|Original Titles From A Thad K. Film Print. |
I_Taw_A_Putty_Tat.png|Original Titles From A Thad K. Film Print. |
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ITawAPuttyTat1.JPG|Tweety developing his little muscles at the expense of Sylvester's uvula |
ITawAPuttyTat1.JPG|Tweety developing his little muscles at the expense of Sylvester's uvula |
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+ | Tatgc.png|Version used on ''[[Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4]]'' (interlaced video) |
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+ | tatss.png|Version used on the Warner Archive release of ''[[Bugs Bunny: Superstar]]'' (progressive scan) |
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Revision as of 09:44, 15 February 2020
← Back Alley Oproar | Sylvester Cartoons | Hop, Look and Listen → |
← Tweetie Pie | Tweety Cartoons | Bad Ol' Putty Tat → |
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
Tweety Cartoons | ||||
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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 |