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| − | '''''Tweet Zoo''''' is a "[[Merrie Melodies]]" cartoon animated short starring [[Tweety Bird|Tweety]] and [[Sylvester (Looney Tunes)|Sylvester]]. Released January 12, 1957, the cartoon is directed by [[Friz Freleng]]. The voices were performed by [[Mel Blanc]]. |
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| + | |image = Tweetzoo.png |
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| + | |Director = [[Friz Freleng]] |
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| + | |producer = [[Eddie Selzer]] (uncredited) |
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| + | |airdate = January 12, 1957 |
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| + | |series = [[Merrie Melodies]] |
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| + | |Voice = [[Mel Blanc]] |
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| + | |Starring = [[Tweety]] <br>[[Sylvester]] |
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| + | |previous = [[Three Little Bops]] |
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| + | |next = [[Scrambled Aches]] |
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| + | |video = [[File:Tweet Zoo (1957)-0|thumb|center|280 px]] |
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| + | |Writer = [[Warren Foster]] |
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| + | |Animators = [[Gerry Chiniquy]] <br>[[Arthur Davis|Art Davis]] <br>[[Virgil Ross]] |
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| + | |Layout-artist = [[Hawley Pratt]] |
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| + | |Background-artist = [[Irv Wyner]] |
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| + | |Sound effects = [[Treg Brown]] |
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| + | |Musician = [[Milt Franklyn]] |
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| + | }} |
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| + | '''Tweet Zoo''' is a [[1957]] ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' short directed by [[Friz Freleng]]. |
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| − | == |
+ | == Title == |
| + | The title is a play on the 1928 song "Sweet Sue". |
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| − | The cartoon, set in a city zoo, begins with a tour guide showing various animal exhibits to visitors. The final stop (at least as far as viewers can see) is the exhibit featuring the "one and only example" of the Tweety Bird species. This draws tag-along tourist Sylvester's interest. After the requisite "I tawt I taw a puddy tat" lines, Sylvester begins his latest pursuit. |
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| + | == Plot == |
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| − | The attempts, all unsuccessful, are as follows: |
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| + | A zoo guide gives a tour to its customers various wild animals, including an African rhinoceros (who appears to have a bandaged horn), a Bengal tiger named Terry who reacts through poetry and motion, and a North American skunk (which involves both the zoo guide and the customers fleeing away very quickly when they encounter the skunk due to its bad odor). |
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| + | Then, the zoo guide points out their rare [[Tweety|Tweety Bird]] specimen, and once the rest of the tour heads over to the monkey cages, [[Sylvester]] stays behind at Tweety's cage, opens the cage and begins to chase him. Tweety flies into the bear pit. Ignoring the "DO NOT TEASE THE ANIMALS" warning sign placed nearby the bear pit, Sylvester tries to catch him with a net on a long pole, but accidentally annoys the bear with it. The angry bear grabs the pole, pulls Sylvester to him, and clobbers the cat, which Tweety mistakes it for teddy bear playing with the putty tat. |
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| − | * Tweety taking refuge in the bear cage. Sylvester uses a net to try to capture the bird, but as the shifty Tweety dodges the net, the cat hits a bear. The bear grabs the net, pulls Sylvester in and expresses his displeasure. |
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| − | * At feeding time, Sylvester hides in the zookeeper's meat cart. Hoping to get "fed" to Tweety, he instead is thrown to a pack of Bengal tigers. |
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| − | * Tweety hides in a hole inside the elephant's abode. Sylvester enters in search of his prey, but the elephant immediately covers the hole to protect the bird. Sylvester uses a wind-up mouse to frighten the pachyderm, but instead of simply moving away, the elephant inadvertently jumps and lands on the cat, flattening the puddy. |
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| − | * In a second attempt to navigate the alligator pond, Sylvester uses a rowboat ... unaware of his passenger, the lion (whom he had angered earlier). However, the boat sinks under the lion's weight, and the alligators snap at the lion. Once the lion regains his senses, he grabs Sylvester (who had gotten away) and, after letting the gators have another go at the cat, he kicks him into the bear's cage, where the bear mauls the puddy again. |
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| − | * Sylvester pole-vaulting across the alligator pond to grab Tweety, who is hiding in a tree. Instead, the jump is mistimed (Tweety dropped a banana peel) and the gators enjoy dinner. |
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| + | When Sylvester escapes, he paces by the fence until he hatches a new plan. He hides in the animals' feed cart and waits, but the feeder unknowingly tosses the cat to the Bengal tigers, along with the other steaks. And once the scene cuts over to the two Bengal tigers who were fed the steaks, it reveals that one of them has eaten Sylvester, but doesn't like the taste of it. Sylvester narrowly escapes the jaws of one of the Bengal tigers that ate him. |
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| − | In the end, a frustrated Sylvester leaves the zoo and strikes birds off his diet list ... just before a cluster of birds land on his shoulders and head as he is walking away. |
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| + | Meanwhile, Tweety feeds the elephant peanuts, but is sucked up inside the elephant's trunk and then blown back out. When Sylvester escapes the tigers, Tweety hides in a hole in the elephant pen and the elephant then steps on top of it. Sylvester fails to lift the foot off the hole, so he gets mad and kicks it, hurting himself of course. When he winds up a toy mouse to scare it, the elephant leaps in the air and lands on Sylvester. |
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| + | Tweety flies to the alligator pond. Sylvester paces and thinks near the lion cage. The lion roars and interrupts him so he grabs a nearby oar and beats the lion with it. Then he sees there was a boat next to the oar, so he drags it into the pond. As he rows toward Tweety, he realizes the lion is in the back of the boat with him so he skedaddles back to shore. The heavy lion upends the boat and has to fend off the alligators. When it gets back to shore, it finds Sylvester and dunks him in the alligator pond, then boots him back into the bear pit, where he gets attacked by the same bear again off-screen for the second time, but narrowly escapes. |
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| + | Sylvester tries to pole vault over the alligators, but Tweety tosses a banana peel right where the pole hits, and Sylvester slides right into the pond. He manages to escape by clubbing the gators with his broken pole. Frustrated, he leaves the zoo and crosses birds of his diet list, and immediately, other birds begin landing on him. As Sylvester leaves the zoo, he mumbles "Sufferin' succotash! What a fine time to pick to go on a diet!" |
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| + | == Availability == |
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| + | * (1996) VHS - ''[[Stars of Space Jam]]: Sylvester and Tweety'' |
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| + | * (2001) DVD - ''[[I Love Tweety (Japanese DVDs)|I Love Tweety: Volume 2]]'' (restored) |
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| + | * (2018) DVD - ''[[Stars of Space Jam]]: Sylvester and Tweety'' |
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| + | == Notes == |
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| + | * At the ending of this cartoon where [[Sylvester]] crosses off birds from his diet list, Sylvester's diet list consists of birds, fish, mice, milk and cream, with birds being on top of the list. |
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| + | * The animation of Sylvester's flattened toes reshaping back to their original shape after kicking the elephant was reused animation from "[[Kit for Cat]]". |
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| + | == Gallery == |
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| + | <gallery> |
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| + | Tweetzoo.jpeg|Title Card (Before Remastering) |
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| + | Tweetzoo.png|Title Card (I Love Tweety Japanese DVD remastered version) |
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| + | </gallery> |
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| − | ==Succession== |
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before= [[Tugboat Granny]] | |
before= [[Tugboat Granny]] | |
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+ | title= [[Tweety#Looney Tunes.2FMerrie Melodies filmography|Tweety and Sylvester cartoons]] | |
years= 1957 | |
years= 1957 | |
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after= [[Tweety and the Beanstalk]]|}} |
after= [[Tweety and the Beanstalk]]|}} |
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| − | ==References== |
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| − | * Friedwald, Will and Jerry Beck. "The Warner Brothers Cartoons." Scarecrow Press Inc., Metuchen, N.J., 1981. ISBN 0-8108-1396-3. |
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| − | ==External links== |
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| − | *{{imdb title|0051118}} |
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| + | [[Category:Cartoons written by Warren Foster]] |
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| + | [[Category:Cartoons with layouts by Hawley Pratt]] |
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| + | [[Category:Cartoons with music by Milt Franklyn]] |
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Tweet Zoo is a 1957 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.
Title
The title is a play on the 1928 song "Sweet Sue".
Plot
A zoo guide gives a tour to its customers various wild animals, including an African rhinoceros (who appears to have a bandaged horn), a Bengal tiger named Terry who reacts through poetry and motion, and a North American skunk (which involves both the zoo guide and the customers fleeing away very quickly when they encounter the skunk due to its bad odor).
Then, the zoo guide points out their rare Tweety Bird specimen, and once the rest of the tour heads over to the monkey cages, Sylvester stays behind at Tweety's cage, opens the cage and begins to chase him. Tweety flies into the bear pit. Ignoring the "DO NOT TEASE THE ANIMALS" warning sign placed nearby the bear pit, Sylvester tries to catch him with a net on a long pole, but accidentally annoys the bear with it. The angry bear grabs the pole, pulls Sylvester to him, and clobbers the cat, which Tweety mistakes it for teddy bear playing with the putty tat.
When Sylvester escapes, he paces by the fence until he hatches a new plan. He hides in the animals' feed cart and waits, but the feeder unknowingly tosses the cat to the Bengal tigers, along with the other steaks. And once the scene cuts over to the two Bengal tigers who were fed the steaks, it reveals that one of them has eaten Sylvester, but doesn't like the taste of it. Sylvester narrowly escapes the jaws of one of the Bengal tigers that ate him.
Meanwhile, Tweety feeds the elephant peanuts, but is sucked up inside the elephant's trunk and then blown back out. When Sylvester escapes the tigers, Tweety hides in a hole in the elephant pen and the elephant then steps on top of it. Sylvester fails to lift the foot off the hole, so he gets mad and kicks it, hurting himself of course. When he winds up a toy mouse to scare it, the elephant leaps in the air and lands on Sylvester.
Tweety flies to the alligator pond. Sylvester paces and thinks near the lion cage. The lion roars and interrupts him so he grabs a nearby oar and beats the lion with it. Then he sees there was a boat next to the oar, so he drags it into the pond. As he rows toward Tweety, he realizes the lion is in the back of the boat with him so he skedaddles back to shore. The heavy lion upends the boat and has to fend off the alligators. When it gets back to shore, it finds Sylvester and dunks him in the alligator pond, then boots him back into the bear pit, where he gets attacked by the same bear again off-screen for the second time, but narrowly escapes.
Sylvester tries to pole vault over the alligators, but Tweety tosses a banana peel right where the pole hits, and Sylvester slides right into the pond. He manages to escape by clubbing the gators with his broken pole. Frustrated, he leaves the zoo and crosses birds of his diet list, and immediately, other birds begin landing on him. As Sylvester leaves the zoo, he mumbles "Sufferin' succotash! What a fine time to pick to go on a diet!"
Availability
- (1996) VHS - Stars of Space Jam: Sylvester and Tweety
- (2001) DVD - I Love Tweety: Volume 2 (restored)
- (2018) DVD - Stars of Space Jam: Sylvester and Tweety
Notes
- At the ending of this cartoon where Sylvester crosses off birds from his diet list, Sylvester's diet list consists of birds, fish, mice, milk and cream, with birds being on top of the list.
- The animation of Sylvester's flattened toes reshaping back to their original shape after kicking the elephant was reused animation from "Kit for Cat".
Gallery
| Preceded by Tugboat Granny |
Tweety and Sylvester cartoons 1957 |
Succeeded by Tweety and the Beanstalk |