Tweetie Pie

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Tweetie Pie is a 1947 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, depicting the first pairing of Tweety and Sylvester.

When Tweety's creator, director Bob Clampett left the Warner Bros. studio in 1945, he was working on a fourth film starring Tweety, whom he was pairing with the Friz Freleng-created Sylvester, whom he had paired with Porky Pig in his cartoon Kitty Kornered (released in 1946). Freleng picked up the Tweety project, and basically merged it with a project he was working on: a follow-up to his second Sylvester cartoon Peck Up Your Troubles, featuring Sylvester in pursuit of a little woodpecker. When Freleng decided to replace the woodpecker with Tweety, producer Eddie Selzer objected, and Freleng threatened to quit. Selzer allowed Tweety to be used, and the resulting film went on to win Warner Brothers' first Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).

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As the cartoon begins, Thomas (as Sylvester is called in this film) captures Tweety, whom he finds cold outside in the snow. The cat's mistress- unseen owner like Tom's unseen Mammy Two-Shoes owner from Tom & Jerry- saves the bird from being eaten by the cat, whom she promptly reprimands. Tweety is brought inside, and the mistress warns him not to bother the bird. Ignoring this command, Thomas initiates a series of failed attempts to get Tweety from his cage, each ending in a noisy crash bringing the lady of the house to hit Thomas with a broom, and then finally, throwing him out.

The cat tries to get back into the house through the chimney. Tweety puts wood in the fireplace, pours gasoline on it and lights it. The phoom sends Thomas flying right back up the chimney and into a bucket of frozen water.

However, Thomas gets back in the house via a window in the basement (or study) and creates a trap to capture Tweety, which of course, backfires.

Finally, Thomas tries to capture Tweety by running up to the attic and sawing a hole around Tweety's cage, but he ends up causing the entire inner ceiling to collapse (sans Tweety's cage, which is being held in place by a beam). The faux pas creates such a racket that Thomas is sure the mistress will come downstairs and wallop him, and so, he takes her broom, breaks it in half, and tosses the pieces into the fire. This proves to be a bad move, as he finds himself being walloped on the head repeatedly with a shovel....by Tweety. Opening music to Tweetie Pie