Tweet Dreams is a 1959 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.
Title[]
The title of the short is a pun on the term "sweet dreams".
Plot[]
At the Dog and Cat Clinic, psychiatrist Dr. Milt Towne sees Sylvester, who is having a nervous breakdown. He recounts a short scene from his kittenhood where his father wouldn't teach him how to catch mice. Then he tells of his troubles trying to fish and first meeting Tweety (in flashbacks from "Sandy Claws").
Sylvester then tells the doctor about trying to catch Tweety at the circus (from "Tweety's Circus"). Then about his embarrassment when he hid in Granny's knitting basket and his fur was knitted into a sweater (from "A Street Cat Named Sylvester"). Finally, he relates the tale of Tweety shooting him in the face with a gun and Granny shooting him in the face with a plunger (scenes from "Gift Wrapped").
Sylvester notices that the doctor is snoring. When he wakes up, the doctor makes an excuse about having to fly to Detroit for an appointment that afternoon, and he jumps out the window and literally flies away. Sylvester flies out the window after him.
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- ABC's The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show cut the scene from "Tweety's Circus" where the elephant hits Sylvester with his trunk, as well as the Hopalong Cassidy/Indian sequence from "Gift Wrapped" as it is when said short aired on the show.[1]
Notes[]
- The scene of Sylvester as a child is actually a scene of Sylvester Junior from "Too Hop to Handle", though using the establishing shot from the opening of "Cheese It, the Cat!".
- The short lacks a visible MPAA number on the credits card.
- It is the only appearance of Sylvester Junior and Tweety in the same cartoon, though the two never interact since they only appear in flashbacks, and the footage of Junior is said to be a flashback of a young Sylvester.
- Sylvester Junior's brief cameo in this cartoon as a flashback of a young Sylvester would later be referenced in the The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode "A Mynah Problem" where in that episode Sylvester has a flashback to his childhood; in the flashback sequence, as with this cartoon, Sylvester resembles his son physically.
- The Apartment Building used in the first flashback was borrowed from "Cheese It, the Cat!"
- Most of this cartoon was used in the Thanksgiving special Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet.
- The doctor, "Milt Towne", is possibly a reference to musician Milt Franklyn.
- Granny and Tweety's respective screen times in this cartoon are limited to flashbacks (in the form of archive footage).
- Although all other Cartoon Network and Boomerang stations (including the USA) air faded copies of the cartoon, a remastered (but unrestored) copy of the cartoon was released on the Italian VHS release Silvestro e Gonzales: Matti e mattatori; it has not yet been released on DVD. Eventually, this short was restored for the HBO Max streaming service in 2020. The restored version is also used when the cartoon is shown on MeTV.
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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 |