''A Pizza Tweety-Pie'' is a 1958

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'' animated cartoon directed by

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. The short was released on February 22, 1958, and stars

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, Sylvester and Granny.

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provides the voices of Sylvester (speaking in an Italian accent) and Tweety, and

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(uncredited) provides Granny's voice. It’s also the first Warner Brothers cartoon to have Tom O’Loughlin doing the background noises.

Plot

Tweety and Granny arrive at their hotel in

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on vacation. From his cage on the

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, Tweety looks down at the

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and thinks it is a flooded street and that there must be a lot of barber shops down there (because of the many red and white striped

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s). As Tweety is singing “ Santa Lucia” and strumming his

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in his cage, Sylvester spies him from his balcony across the canal. In haste, he runs out of the hotel with an open

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roll, and falls into the water. He climbs out and finds a

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and starts rowing, but forgets to loosen it from the

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. After he cuts the rope, he sinks with the canoe. Sylvester then starts rowing in a

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but Tweety takes a

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and punctures it. as the air leaks out The raft floats back to the dock with Sylvester in it and the raft gets stuck on him Sylvester removes the deflated raft from his hind quarters in disgust. Next, Sylvester tries to swing across the canal with a rope

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-style, but lands in the water and straight into the gaping mouth of a hungry

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who resembles Dopey Dick from

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. Sylvester wrestles his way out and swims hurriedly away. Then, using an

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and a balloon tied to his waist, Sylvester attempts to float his way across through the air, but he floats too high. Tweety, again using the slingshot, shoots Sylvester down from the sky. Sylvester dons a bathing cap as he is descending, but misses the water, landing on the

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, next to Tweety and Granny's hotel as it turns out. He runs into the hotel and takes the

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up to the floor of Granny and Tweety's room, but Granny and Tweety are leaving, so Sylvester goes back down the elevator, which takes him . . . into the water! As Tweety and Granny are taking a relaxing

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ride along the canal, Sylvester is awaiting them on a bridge with a fishing rod. Sylvester hooks a passing speedboat, forcibly yanking him into the water. After a close call with a striped pole, Sylvester gets slammed into a low bridge, where there is a warning sign that reads, “''Ducka You Head, Lowla Bridgeada''”. Finally, as Sylvester is dining on a plate of

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, he again hears Tweety singing “Santa Lucia” (he is out of his cage this time), and proceeds to hurl a strand of spaghetti like a

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to catch Tweety. Nearly strangled, Tweety screams to Granny for help. Granny clutches Sylvester's noose of pasta and substitutes a

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in Tweety's place. As Sylvester sucks the spaghetti into his mouth, he gets clobbered squarely in the head with the mallet, causing birds to appear uttering Tweety's trademark line: “I tawt I taw a puddytat!” (Ironically in this cartoon, Tweety never uses this line himself.)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pizza Tweety Pie, A 1958 short films 1958 animated films 1950s Warner Bros. animated short films Looney Tunes shorts Animated films about cats Animated films about birds Films set in Venice Short films directed by Friz Freleng Films scored by Milt Franklyn Tweety films Sylvester the Cat films Films produced by Edward Selzer 1950s English-language films American animated short films