Release Date:

March 16, 1957

Main Character(s):

Tweety and Sylvester

Summary:

Jack’s mother throws out the magic beans he traded their cow for, with said beans rolling under Sylvester’s bed in the yard. The beanstalk growing causes Sylvester to end up in the giant’s land in the sky where he attempts to catch the giant’s pet, a giant Tweety.

That’s Not All, Folks:

The production number is 1438 and was released as a Merrie Melodie.

Despite being released as a Merrie Melodie, the cartoon uses the 1955-1964 Looney Tunes opening and ending themes instead. It’s very likely that this was originally going to be a Looney Tune, but was changed at the very last minute and it was too late to switch to the correct theme music.

Even though Tweety’s name is in the title, it’s clearly Sylvester who’s in Jack’s role due to him being Jack’s pet.

In one scene, Sylvester encounters an actual giant mouse. Considering Freleng never worked on those cartoons, this is very likely not an intentional in-joke regarding Hippety.

The cartoon was used in the 1982 compilation movie “Bugs Bunny’s 3rd Movie 1001 Rabbit Tales”.

This is the only cartoon where Tweety’s owner is a male.

While never shown, Jack’s mother is the first character that June Foray uses her “nagging woman” voice for.

Favorite Scene:

Sylvester’s attempt at unscrewing the bottom of the cage with a screwdriver he ties to a long pole.

What Happens in This One:

From inside Jack’s house, his mother is heard scolding, “Jack! Are you crazy!? Trading our cow for those worthless beans! Give me those beans! There!”, before she tosses them outside. They roll under Sylvester’s bed, with Sylvester slightly opening his right eye while asleep. The beanstalk then grows out of the ground, carrying Sylvester and his bed with it (animated by Gerry Chiniquy).

Once the beanstalk has reached the giant’s land, Sylvester wakes up and walks out while yawning. Not realizing he’s no longer in his owners’ yard, he thinks everything has suddenly grown huge, “Say! Things certainly look different this morning!” A giant ladybug and her children- the sizes of an actual ladybug- then pass behind him, causing Sylvester to turn around in confusion upon hearing them. He continues on his way before letting out a “Yipe!” when he sees the giant’s castle in front of him. “Sufferin’ succotash! Look at the size of that house!” (animated by Chiniquy)

Inside is giant Tweety swinging in his equally giant cage on one of the castle’s windowsills. Sylvester, who has entered by climbing up to this windowsill, is delighted at seeing this, “Boy! Acres and acres of Tweety Bird! And it’s mine! All mine!” Tweety stops singing and realizes, “I tawt I taw a itty bitty putty tat!” Sylvester opens the cage, grabs Tweety, and begins making off with him, only to see the giant entering (with only his lower half shown), forcing Sylvester to run off, leave Tweety behind (animated by Virgil Ross) and hide behind to hide behind a wooden post. The giant is heard asking, “Well! What’re you doing out of your cage, Tweety? Back you go”. He then hangs the cage on a hook from one of the roof supports, “I’d better hang your cage up here while I’m gone”. Sylvester watches the giant pass by (with only the giant’s shadow being visible) and once he exits, Sylvester slides down the post (animated by Chiniquy).

Sylvester runs across the floor but skids to a stop in front of a sleeping giant bulldog, the other pet in the castle. Sylvester becomes frightened at this and hides against the wall before sneaking past the bulldog, tiptoeing all the way to where he finds himself under Tweety’s cage (animated by Chiniquy). He runs off and comes back with a fishing pole that he casts into the air with the reel going around the support and landing on the other side in front of Sylvester. Sylvester attaches the part of the reel near the hook around his tail and then reels himself upward to get to Tweety. The higher he goes, however, the reel around his tail comes undone and he soon finds himself in mid-air completely out of reel. He falls (animated by Arthur Davis) and lands with an offscreen crash, waking the bulldog up. Once Sylvester comes to, he runs away from the growling bulldog who begins chasing him. Sylvester runs into a mouse hole and turns around to find a giant mouse chewing on a piece of cheese. The mouse and Sylvester both make a frightened take and run off in opposite directions, with Sylvester running out from under the bulldog. The bulldog resumes chasing Sylvester into another room, only for Sylvester to go back into the room Tweety’s in and shut the large door behind him. Getting another idea, Sylvester gives an evil smile up in Tweety’s direction (animated by Ross).

Sneaking across with first a screwdriver and then a long pole, Sylvester ties the screwdriver to one end of the pole. Tweety looks down at this and observes, “Ooh, that itty bitty putty tat, he up to no good!” Sylvester lifts the pole up and turns it around several times in order to unscrew the bottom of the cage. Instead of Tweety falling into his arms, the entire cage bottom falls atop Sylvester. Tweety wonders, “Now where did that itty bitty putty tat go?” (animated by Davis)

Sylvester next uses a champagne bottle and sits on the cork to launch himself up to Tweety. After popping the cork, Sylvester flies up with it past Tweety and gets stuck in a hole in the ceiling. He jumps on it several times which works too well as he ends up turning upside down with the end of the cork he was on as he falls into the barrel of a large gun. Sylvester falls all the way down the barrel and lands near the trigger, causing the gun to fire him and the cork back into the ceiling hole. Getting some tools from offscreen, Sylvester saws out a hole in the cork and slides down a rope to get back down. The bulldog watches him and waits for Sylvester to get within reach so he can bash him with a pair of cymbals. After he does so, Sylvester descends the rope vibrating. Once he stops vibrating, he flees the bulldog again (animated by Chiniquy up to here), getting chased into the same other room and again shutting the door to that room on the bulldog (animated by Ross).

Walking on the table with an apple from the fruit bowl, Sylvester puts it on the end of a table and goes down to a makeshift teeter board out of a piece of wood and a spatula. Tweety observes, “Ooh, that putty tat up to tomething!” While he stands on the flipping end, Sylvester pulls on the tablecloth a few times to enable the apple to inch its way off the table and then fall off and land on the spatula’s handle, propelling Sylvester into the air and allowing him to grab Tweety. Upon coming back down, however, Sylvester unknowingly lands right back onto the flipping end, sending the apple flying across the room. Tweety begins yelling, “Help! Help! The putty tat got me!” The apple then lands on top of Sylvester, knocking Tweety out of his clutches and also rendering him stuck inside the apple, replacing the core (animated by Chiniquy).

The ground then shakes from large footsteps, as the giant, wearing a viking helmet and holding an ax, returns. He declares, “Fee fi fo fat! I tawt I taw a putty tat!” and attempts to chop at Sylvester, who makes a run for it, causing the giant to only slice the apple in two (animated by Chiniquy). Sylvester beats it out of the castle with the giant running after him. Sylvester then slides down the beanstalk back into his yard. The giant follows him by climbing down the beanstalk, but Sylvester grabs an ax and chops the beanstalk down like a tree, sending the giant plummeting. Sylvester realizes the giant is going to land on him and attempts to run out of the way, but to no avail, as the giant ends up falling right on top of him so hard, that it causes Sylvester to burrow into the ground and end up in China. From a nearby tree, a Chinese Tweety observes, “Oh, I tawt I taw dishonorable putty tat! (speaks in Chinese)” (animated by Davis)

Where Can I Watch It?

At toontales.net!

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