Museum Scream is a 2003 Looney Tunes short directed by Dan Povenmire.
Plot[]
When Sylvester hears that a children's museum's prize exhibit is Tweety Pie, he tries to raid the museum in order to have lunch. He doesn't succeed in his mission, due to Tweety's intelligence, and the children.
Availability[]
(2004) DVD
Looney Tunes Back in Action, Bonus Disc (Australia only)
Looney Tunes Back in Action, Bonus Disc (Australia only)
(2011) Blu-ray
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc Three
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc Three
(2014) Blu-ray
Looney Tunes Back in Action
Looney Tunes Back in Action
Streaming[]
HBO Max (2020 - 2022)
Notes[]
- The short was planned to be released theatrically with Looney Tunes Back in Action (even accompanying the film in test screenings).[1] It was later transferred to Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed before being pulled due to the box-office failure of Back in Action.
- This short first aired on Boomerang on December 31, 2023, during a marathon of final episodes.
- The short has aired uncut as part of Saturday Morning Cartoons on MeTV.
Censorship[]
- Boomerang in France (after 2016) edited this cartoon to remove the following scenes:
- Sylvester connecting the wires to the early generator and his nose breaking like a light bulb, then sticking his fingers in the lightbulb socket and getting electrocuted. The edited version goes from Sylvester cranking the generator to chasing Tweety into the dinosaur exhibit.
- Sylvester going inside the human ear and getting his head pounded by the eardrum as Tweety shouts, "Can you hear me, puddy tat?" The edited version goes from Sylvester's head and tongue swelling and chasing Tweety inside the Human Body exhibit to Sylvester finding Tweety in the life-size human body model.
- Tweety's line, "Are you okay, puddy tat? You look pooped" during the human digestion presentation was cut (though Sylvester going through the human digestion process, the actual explanation of it by the narrator, and Tweety's grossed-out reaction at the end of the explanation wasn't cut). The edited version goes from Tweety's reaction to Sylvester being eliminated as waste to Tweety at the "Where Rubber Comes From" exhibit.
- The many colored Sylvesters chasing Tweety through the "Hey Kids, Weapons!" exhibit was drastically shortened so that way viewers only see the red Sylvester chasing after Tweety with an American Revolutionary-style musket (cutting the red Sylvester first going after Tweety with a spear, the orange Sylvester going after Tweety with a hatchet, the yellow Sylvester going after Tweety with a pitchfork, the green Sylvester wearing a horned Viking helmet and going after Tweety with Thor's hammer, the blue Sylvester going after Tweety wearing a knight's helmet and using a medieval flail against him, and the purple Sylvester tripping the blue Sylvester and stabbing Tweety with a fencing sword). Despite this, there were no cuts or alterations to the establishing shot of the "Hey Kids, Weapons!" exhibit to remove the actual name of the exhibit (as most international edits, mostly in places like the United Kingdom and parts of Europe, will cut anything that encourages or glamorizes weapon use on children's entertainment so as not to invoke any copycat incidents or teach children that weapons are harmless).
- Tweety shooting the many colored Sylvesters out of a cannon, turning them into a firework display cut the display to remove the purple one depicted as being decapitated, though the green one being depicted as holding his groin in pain (as if he's been kicked in the crotch) wasn't cut.
Gallery[]
Storyboard panel