''Peck Up Your Troubles'' is a 1945
Warner Bros.
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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
Tweety
Tweety is a yellow canary in the Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of animated cartoons. The name "Tweety" is a play on words, as it originally meant "sweetie", along with "tweet" being an English onomatopoeia for t ...
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 (
Hector
In Greek mythology, Hector (; grc, Ἕκτωρ, Hektōr, label=none, ) is a character in Homer's Iliad. He was a Trojan prince and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. Hector led the Trojans and their allies in the defense o ...
, 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 ...
References
External links
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1945 films
1945 short films
1945 animated films
1940s Warner Bros. animated short films
American animated short films
Merrie Melodies short films
Sylvester the Cat films
Woodpeckers
Animated films about birds
Animated films about dogs
Animated films set in the United States
Films set in 1945
Animated films without speech
Short films directed by Friz Freleng
Films with screenplays by Michael Maltese
Films scored by Carl Stalling
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Animated films about cats
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