Tweety's S.O.S.

Sylvester is rummaging through trash cans for food. When he doesn't find anything worth eating, he is very sad and goes to the dock. As he is sitting there, he sees a cruise boat and Tweety swinging in his cage. When Sylvester sees Tweety, he calls Tweety his breakfast and Tweety slams the port window on Sylvester's face, dropping him in the water.

Sylvester boards and goes into room 341 where Tweety is. Eventually, he gets Tweety in his hands and starts to go out, only to find Granny there at the door. She is very angry, and wanting to know what Sylvester is doing to her little bird. Sylvester chuckles nervously and gives Tweety back to Granny, with Tweety replying "Ooh, what a hypotwit." A chase ensues with Granny hitting Sylvester with her umbrella. During the chase, Granny loses her glasses and can't find them. Sylvester sees them and kicks them under the couch before Granny grabs them. Another chase starts with Sylvester chasing Tweety around the room. Soon, Tweety finds Granny's glasses under the couch and climbs on her, putting the glasses back on her. Then, Sylvester jumps into Granny and then she tries to hit Sylvester with her umbrella, but misses hitting him. Eventually, she chases him outside and throws her umbrella at Sylvester.

The cruise ship sails off with Granny and Tweety saying "Goodbye!" to everyone and Sylvester as a stowaway on a life boat with the number 13 on it.

Grannys glasses are off while both her and Tweety are resting. Sylvester finds this the perfect opportunity to try and eat Tweety, so he paints a picture of Tweety on Granny's glasses to trick her into thinking Tweety is in his cage. Sylvester opens Tweety's cage and then Tweety yells "Help!", causing Granny to be worried about Tweety. She puts her glasses on and thinks she sees Tweety, not knowing that Sylvester had painted a picture of him on her glasses. Sylvester chases Tweety onto a wire. Tweety goes across safely and Sylvester is having trouble coming across, since he is much heavier. Tweety springs the wire so that Sylvester is now with one paw hanging on the wire. With Sylvester sweating, Tweety starts doing an "Eenie, Meanie, Minie, Moe" and when he gets to Moe, Sylvester falls and splashes into the water and Tweety replys "Well, what do you know? No Moe."

Rough seas eventually make Sylvester seasick. When Tweety sees Sylvester with the face all green, he laughs and offers Sylvester something for his tummy, a nice piece of salt pork. When Sylvester sees this, he turns different colors and becomes even sicker, going to the medical room to get some seasick remedy. Cured, he chases Tweety all over the boat, eventually going into the furnace where Sylvester yells and falls into the water.

Back on the boat, Sylvester sees Tweety. To stop Sylvester from eating him, Tweety shows Sylvester a picture of a boat in the sea as he nauseatingly moves it back and forth, causing Sylvester to get seasick once again. Both Tweety and Sylvester run to the medical room. Tweety makes it there first, and fills the seasick remedy bottle with nitroglycerin. When Sylvester drinks this, he starts spitting up explosive sparks and another chase ensues with Sylvester spitting explosive sparks at Tweety. Eventually, Granny finds out that she has been tricked and stops Sylvester. She then hits Sylvester with her umbrella. Tweety tells Granny to stop, but a loud explosion occurs and blows up Sylvester and Granny both. Sylvester is launched like a firework up in the air and another flash blows him up in the open skies. While Sylvester is coming to fall down and about to crash, the captain says Tweety's catchphrase "I tawt I taw a puddy tat!", and then when Sylvester comes crashing down on the captain, Tweety and Granny reply, "You did, you did see a pussy cat" with Granny in a captain's suit and Tweety with a sailor's cap.

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When this cartoon aired on CBS, the part where Sylvester is hanging from the wire above the ship and Tweety plucks his fingers off one by one was cut.^[2]
The ABC version of this cartoon cut the part where Sylvester runs inside the ship's furnace during his chase with Tweety and jumps out the smokestack with his rear end on fire. Also cut was the part where Sylvester corners Tweety and Tweety waves a crudely drawn picture of an ocean in his face, triggering the cat's seasickness.^[2]

Notes[]

The cartoon's entire boat sequence is later used as a basis for the economical cartoon "Trip for Tat".
Tweety's lines of dialogue "Atta girl Granny! Give him a hit in the head!" from this cartoon is later reused in the Road Runner CGI short "Flash in the Pain" in 2014.
Tweety reprises the "This Wittow Piddy" sequence from "A Tale of Two Kitties" in this cartoon; here, he does "Eenie, Meanie, Minie, Moe" to Sylvester.
The original title to the cartoon was plastered over with a new title card when it was reissued in the 1959–64 season.
The painful scream that came from Sylvester after getting blown out of the ship's funnel was previously heard from "Porky's Super Service".
This cartoon, "Big Top Bunny", and "Tweet Tweet Tweety" were the only three cartoons in 1951 to get the blue Color Rings with red backgrounds.^{[citation needed] (November 2020)}

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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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