The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Spotlight Cartoon Archive

(1948, Merrie Melodies)

Directed by Isadore ("Friz") Freleng

This is one of the all-time Warner classics. A semi-remake of Frank Tashlin's 1943 one-shot black and white Looney Tune "Puss and Booty", it is the second pairing of Sylvester and Tweety. A distraught housewife orders a new canary from the pet shop (Sylvester ate the first one, and hiccups yellow feathers to prove it.) When it arrives at 1605 Maple Drive, Sylvester naturally goes to check it out, only to find that this canary, Tweety, is a little bit craftier than the rest. Sylvester puts Tweety in his mouth, but Tweety plays punching-bag with his throat and lights a match inside, causing the cat to spit him out. Tweety quickly darts back in and out ("forgot my little hat!). The two play a looney game of "tag", that results in Sylvester getting blown up, knocked unconscious, beaten up, and ultimately mauled and chased away by a bulldog. The cartoon ends just as it began, only this time with Tweety sitting in Sylvester's bed and the mistress ordering a new cat!