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Snow Business

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Snow Business is a 1953 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.

Title[]

The cartoon's title is a pun on "show business."

Plot[]

A security guard refuses to let Granny drive her car back into the mountain cabin because the roads are blocked due to a bad snowstorm, but Granny pleads to be let through because her bird and cat would starve inside the cabin.

Meanwhile, friends Sylvester and Tweety are alone in Granny's mountain cabin. A radio report announces that due to heavy snow the roads leading up to the mountains will be blocked for six weeks. Panicked that he'd starve that way, Sylvester nervously checks the cabin for food but finds nothing but boxes and boxes of bird seed, much to Tweety's relief and Sylvester's frustration. As Tweety sympathizes with Sylvester's predicament, the cat then tries to talk Tweety into being cooked by taking advantage of the bird's naivete, first in a sailboat in a pot of boiling water on the stove, and then ice-skating in an oiled frying pan. Meanwhile, a hungry, insane mouse keeps trying to eat Sylvester, and has better luck in eating Sylvester than Sylvester has in eating Tweety.

Granny finally arrives on snowshoes with a backpack full of food, but it's just more bird seed, much to Sylvester's disappointment. Sylvester munches the bird seed miserably, but unknown to them, the mouse has one last try at eating Sylvester while in his mouse hole. When Tweety asks Sylvester how he liked the bird seed, the mouse bites him on the tail, Sylvester yells in pain and flies up in the air. Tweety says "Aw, come now, it can't be that bad."

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Censorship[]

  • When this short was shown on CBS, the part where the hunger-crazed mouse sticks Sylvester's tail in a toaster and Sylvester extinguishes the flames with an ashtray was cut.[1]

Notes[]

  • This short provides an anomaly in the Sylvester & Tweety pairings: In this one, Tweety and Sylvester start off as friends. It is also also a rare short in these Tweety/Sylvester pairings where Sylvester is in the role of a victim instead of being the aggressor; in this case, Sylvester attempts to eat Tweety because he would starve, and is also the prey of a crazed mouse whom is desperate for food.
  • The short was later remade as the Pink Panther short "Pinknic" in 1967.
  • This is the first short where Tweety never uses his signature catchphrase "I tawt I taw a putty tat!" Other shorts include "Heir-Conditioned", "Trip for Tat", "The Last Hungry Cat", and "The Jet Cage"
  • Sylvester's frantic reactions to search for food around the kitchen upon finding out that he will starve due to the closure of the mountain roads is similar to that in "Canned Feud" (1951). Coincidentally, both cartoons depict Sylvester being heavily victimized by a mouse instead of the other way around.
  • The original ending card was presumed to be lost when many later prints since the 1990s replaced the end card with a 1959-60 MM end card. When this short was later digitally remastered and restored and released on the Japanese DVD I Love Tweety: Volume 2, Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2, and Looney Tunes Collector's Vault: Volume 1, the original end card was later found and therefore reinstated.
  • The European version of the Looney Tunes Super Stars' Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy uses the unrestored VHS transfer, thus keeping the altered 1959-60 MM end card. However, the American version of the DVD set uses the Japanese DVD/Golden Collection DVD print.[2]
  • Sylvester's scream of pain when the mouse bites his tail at the end of the cartoon would later be re-used as a stock sound effect in "Zipping Along" when Wile E. Coyote gets caught in mousetraps and in "A Street Cat Named Sylvester" when Hector bites Sylvester's tail. Coincidentally, all three cartoons using this exact same stock sound effect were released in 1953.
    • This same stock sound effect is also later re-used in "Stupor Duck" (1956) when Daffy is launched to the moon by a rocket, "Mexican Cat Dance" (1963) when Sylvester gets pinned in the rear by Speedy Gonzales and "Chariots of Fur" (1994) when Wile E. Coyote accidentally wraps his arms around himself while wearing the cactus costume, as well as the Tom and Jerry Tales Nintendo DS video game which Warner Bros. would later produce in 2006.[3]
  • The lobby card of the cartoon (pictured in the gallery below) depicts a scene reminiscent to that of "Putty Tat Trouble" (1951) where Sylvester attempts to catch and eat Tweety whom is cleaning out his nest off snow. This scene does not exist in the actual cartoon short itself, since in this cartoon Sylvester & Tweety both reside in Granny's log cabin instead of an outdoor nest.

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References[]

  1. ↑ http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-s.aspx
  2. ↑ https://vimeo.com/370476310
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkNbqoQUe5M&ab_channel=WorldofLongplays
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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