Release Date:

June 21, 1952

Main Character(s):

Tweety and Sylvester, Granny

Summary:

Sylvester spots Tweety in the pet store window, only for Tweety to be purchased by Granny shortly. It turns out that Granny’s yard is full of frisky bulldogs, so Sylvester makes several schemes to get past them to get to Tweety.

That’s Not All, Folks:

The production number is 1211 and was released as a Looney Tune.

The cartoon was given a Blue Ribbon reissue.

The cartoon’s plot would be reused for 1954’s “Dog Pounded”, albeit taking place in a dog pound instead.

Oddly, a mouse is shown to be one of the pets in the store, which is strange, considering mice are pests to a lot of people.

The title is a pun for “Ain’t She Sweet”. Appropriately, this song also plays under the opening credits.

The mailman is a caricature of Virgil Ross.

At one point, a building labeled “I. Wyner Co.” is seen. This is a reference to Irv Wyner.

This is the first cartoon where Granny is unaware of Sylvester’s presence. This would also happen in “Fowl Weather” (1953; although she believes he’s Tweety at the end when he is painted yellow to look like him), “Muzzle Tough” (1954), “Tugboat Granny” (1956), “A Pizza Tweety Pie” (1958; although she foils his final scheme), “Trip for Tat” (1960), and “Hawaiian Aye Aye” (1964).

Favorite Scene:

Sylvester seemingly finds the yard empty, and runs into the house, only to find that all of the bulldogs were waiting for him inside the house as they chase him out. Sylvester manages to make it back out unharmed while panting heavily. A kindly, but clueless, old man misinterprets Sylvester having been locked out of his yard and puts him back, where the bulldogs attack him offscreen.

What Happens in This One:

Sylvester is watching Tweety from outside the pet store window as Tweety is singing “Fiddle Dee Di”. After realizing, “I tawt I taw a putty tat!”, Tweety calls another pet from the store, a white mouse, to presumably gossip about Sylvester. Tweety whispers something to the mouse that causes him to laugh. The mouse then whispers something to Tweety, to which they both laugh about. Angered at being made fun of, Sylvester comes back with a brick. “Okay, smarties! Laugh THIS off!”, and throws it at the window. He then notices that a cop has stopped behind him and has witnessed this, so Sylvester runs in front of the brick for it to hit him in the face, to prevent it from shattering the window. The brick crumbles upon impact of hitting Sylvester, and leaves him dazed (animated by Virgil Ross).

Before Sylvester can use an ACME Glass Cutter on the window, a “Sold” tag appears on Tweety’s cage as it is taken from the pet store and put into a delivery truck. Sylvester follows it all the way (animated by Manuel Perez) to Granny’s yard, which is marked with a sign, “Beware of Dogs”. Granny has to tell her bulldogs, “Quiet, boys! Quiet!” when walking past them as they bark excitedly at her. She opens the gate to tell the delivery man, “Just a minute” before quickly rushing out and shutting the gate, so none of the bulldogs go out of the yard. She chuckles, “They’re so cute and active”. Upon looking at Tweety from lifting up the cover on his cage, Granny is delighted, “(chuckles) Oh my! (chuckles) Isn’t he a darling little Tweety bird? You know, I’m just wild about pets!” (animated by Ross)

The delivery truck then leaves as Sylvester, who fails to notice the “Beware of Dogs” sign, enters the yard, only to immediately run out in fear completely white and with one of the bulldogs’ teeth on his tail after they all snarl at him. Sylvester looks over the fence to see them all angrily glaring at him, so he gets down and soon returns with a stick with a fake cat head on it. He sticks it through a knothole in the fence and lets out a meow, only for it to be immediately destroyed by the bulldogs (animated by Ken Champin).

Sylvester walks across the branches of two adjacent trees to get to the window where Tweety’s cage is. Tweety confides, “That putty tat sure is going to a wot of twouble to get into twouble!” After Sylvester silently taunts the bulldogs for failing to reach him, he sees Tweety sawing the tree’s branch. Sylvester silently pleads for him not to, and gives a meek “bye bye” before the branch gives way and he falls. As the bulldogs maul Sylvester, Tweety laughs, “That putty tat’s got a pink skin under his fur coat!” Sylvester runs out panting with most of his fur missing (animated by Perez).

Sylvester next builds some stilts (“Ooh! That putty tat sure got wong wegs!”) to walk across the yard and once he gets to the window, he snarls, “Ah, shut up!” at the bulldogs and drops a potted flower on them. Tweety comes out with a box of saws and axes, pouring them out towards the bulldogs, “Here, putty dogs. Could you use these” The bulldogs immediately start cutting down Sylvester’s stilts which collapse to the ground before he can make it back out (animated by Champin).

In a nearby shed, Sylvester constructs a metal rocket to permit him to blast his way to the house. Instead, the rocket launches off without him and leaves Sylvester on fire, as he frantically flaps around trying to put them out (animated by Arthur Davis).

Climbing up a telephone pole with a bucket, Sylvester places it on the wire so he can ride it as a sky ride towards Tweety. Due to his weight in the bucket, however, it causes the wire to sag all the way to the ground as his lip-synced “Yipe!” syncs to a violin-like noise sounding like that. The bulldogs again maul him (animated by Perez).

After pacing back and forth (animated by Champin), Sylvester opens the gate to find the yard completely empty. He tiptoes across cautiously but upon seeing no one around, runs into the house, only to find all of the bulldogs waiting for him in there as they chase him out of the house. He makes it back out of the yard, panting heavily. An old man passes by and misinterprets the situation, “Well! The poor pussycat! Locked out of his yard! Here, I’ll put ya back, pussycat!” as he puts Sylvester back on the other side of the fence and he continues on his way as the bulldogs attack Sylvester (animated by Davis).

Later, a mailman sticks a package into Granny’s mailbox and blows the whistle to signify it’s arrived. Thinking it’s intended for Granny, Sylvester throws out the wrapped item inside and goes into the box himself, also moving his tail inside, due to it sticking out after it’s shut. It appears to be something Granny has anticipated as she sees the package, “Well, it’s about time. I thought it would never get here” and she holds it high over her head as she tells the bulldogs, “Down, boys! Take it easy! Down! You’ll get it!” At this moment, she turns a certain angle with the package’s label revealed as “Dog Food”! She tosses it away for them to go fetch, “Oh, here!” to which they all excitedly run towards it. Granny heads back inside as she says to herself, “My my! They sure must be hungry! Wouldn’t even wait for me to unwrap it!” The noises offscreen indicate that the bulldogs are beating up Sylvester again (animated by Perez).

That night, Sylvester attempts to tiptoe cautiously around the sleeping bulldogs to get to Tweety. Suddenly, Tweety’s alarm clock goes off at 4:03 AM, waking all of the bulldogs up and upon seeing Sylvester, they beat him up once more. Tweety lifts the cover off of his cage to ask, “Now who do you suppose would want to disturb those doggies so earwy in the morning?” and flutters his right eyebrow slyly (animated by Champin).

Where Can I Watch It?

At archive.org!

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