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''Peck Up Your Troubles'' is a 1945
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'' Merrie Melodies'' animated short directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on October 20, 1945, and stars Sylvester the Cat. The cartoon marked the first appearance of Sylvester's long-time foe
Hector the Bulldog Hector the Bulldog is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons. Hector is a muscle-bound bulldog with gray fur (except in ''A Street Cat Named Sylvester'' and '' Greedy for Twee ...
, who would later become a recurring character in
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and Sylvester cartoons. The woodpecker would later reappear in '' A Peck o' Trouble'', a Dodsworth Cat cartoon directed by Robert McKimson in 1953.


Plot

Sylvester is determined to get a male woodpecker that just moved in, high in a tree. He climbs, but the bird greases the tree, causing him to fall down; he starts to axe it down, but a mean dog (
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, in his first appearance) stops him from cutting it (this becomes a running gag). Several other attempts follow; at one point, he puts his paw into the bird's home, and the bird puts a tomato there. Sylvester squishes it, thinking he killed him and the bird dresses as an angel to torment him, but Sylvester sees through the disguise. Few more attempts passed and finally, Sylvester tries to blow up the tree; the dog again intervenes. Sylvester gets the dynamite off the tree and puts out the fuses, but the bird has lit them again. Sylvester dies and really becomes an angel.


See also

*
List of films about angels This is a list of films where angels appear. Angels * '' The Christmas Angel'' (1904) * ''The Passing of the Third Floor Back'' (1935) * ''The Green Pastures'' (1936) * ''Here Comes Mr. Jordan'' (1941) * ''I Married an Angel'' (1942) * ''A Guy Na ...


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