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Tom Tom Tomcat is a 1953 Merrie Melodies animated short featuring Sylvester and Tweety.
Plot
Granny and Tweety are riding through the desert in their wagon, to the tune of "Oh! Susanna", when they are ambushed by Indians (who bear remarkable resemblance to Sylvester). They are forced to hole up in a fort, where Granny begins to shoot them down while Tweety counts ("Ten Little Indians"). On the tenth, one nearly takes Tweety, but is shot down just in time.
More attempts include an archer and a battering ram, both foiled. One archer almost drags Tweety out again ("Granny! Help! A Mohican got me!") but Granny surprises him with a bomb instead. The cats' attempts continue like this, all of them backfiring or being foiled.
Finally, Granny and Tweety disguise themselves as a fellow Indian, and lead the cats into the powder house. When one asks for a match, they kindly oblige, and the powder house explodes, causing all the cats to fall. "Oh my goodness!" Tweety comments, "It's raining putty tats!"
Censorship
- On the syndicated Merrie Melodies show, the part where an Indian cat drills a hole in the side of Tweety and Granny's fort shelter and preps to shoot them with a bow and arrow (only to get shot by a rifle and have his bottom half fall down like a loose pair of pants) was cut.[1]
- This cartoon has not been seen on American television since the early 1990s due to Native American stereotyping. While the Turner networks in the United States, such as Cartoon Network and Boomerang, don't currently air this, the Turner networks internationally have shown this cartoon uncut and uncensored.
References
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 |