Ain't She Tweet

Ain't She Tweet
Ain't She Tweet
Directed by	I. Freleng
Story by	Warren Foster
Produced by	Eddie Selzer
Starring	Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Ken Champin; Manuel Perez; Arthur Davis; Virgil Ross
Layouts by	Hawley Pratt
Backgrounds by	Irv Wyner
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	June 21, 1952;
Running time	7:09
Language	English

Ain't She Tweet is a 1952 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.^[2] The short was released on June 21, 1952, and stars Tweety and Sylvester.^[3]

The title is a play on the song "Ain't She Sweet."

Plot

Sylvester stands outside a pet store window, watching Tweety singing "Fiddle-De-Di" in the display area. Upon seeing the cat, the bird goes over to a mouse and they laugh at Sylvester, who then throws a brick at the window in response. However, upon seeing a cop walk up behind him, the would-be feline vandal runs in front of the brick and absorbs the blow.

As Sylvester is planning to cut through the window with a glass cutter, a deliveryman takes Tweety away to be delivered to Granny's house. The cat follows the deliveryman and rushes into the yard, only to stumble upon a whole army of bulldogs.

The rest of the cartoon contains Sylvester's attempts (all unsuccessful) to get at Tweety:

Sylvester uses a stick with an imitation cat on it, but the bulldogs clobber it. Then he paces to think up another plan.
After which he walks across a tree branch that extends from the outside to the house, but Tweety saws the branch off. After unsuccessfully begging Tweety to stop, Sylvester frightfully waves goodbye to the audience and falls from the tree, straight into the dogs. Tweety starts laughing ("That puddy tat's got a pink skin under his fur coat!"), whereas Sylvester closes the gate, bruised, battered and having lost most of his fur from the attack.
Sylvester uses stilts to walk harmlessly above the dogs, but Tweety gives the canines some tools to cut the stilts down to size. And soon Sylvester tries a hasty retreat but ends up just short of the gate.
Sylvester then builds a rocket, which simply sets his fur on fire upon launch.
After that, the cat rides a bucket attached to a wire that he connected from a telephone pole to the edge of Granny's house. Unfortunately, his weight is too heavy for the bucket's support, and the added weight lowers it down to the horde of dogs, where they quickly beat Sylvester up.
Sylvester waits until the yard is empty, and then walks unannounced to the house. But the dogs are already waiting inside, so they run and tackle the cat. This time, Sylvester gets away; but before he can catch his breath, a kindly old man – thinking the "poor pussycat" has simply wandered outside his home – throws him back into the yard (seemingly oblivious to the "Beware of Dogs" sign), where the dogs beat Sylvester up some more.
In another attempt, Sylvester hides in a package with dog food intended for Granny. Granny comes outside to take the package, but she doesn't manage to unwrap it – just as Sylvester has expected – due to the dogs constantly jumping and barking excitedly, so she throws it to them. As she watches them tear open the package to get at their "food", Granny comments on how so hungry they were.

Finally, Sylvester decides to wait until the early morning to tip-toe silently through the yard. But the alarm clock goes off at 4 a.m., awakening the dogs who assault the cat one last time, while Tweety watches with delight.

References

^ Beck, Jerry (1991). I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety. New York: Henry Holt and Co. p. 110. ISBN 0-8050-1644-9.
^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 237. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 151–152. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.