''Tweet and Sour'' is a 1956

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'' cartoon short directed by

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. The short was released on March 24, 1956, and stars

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, Sylvester, Granny, and Sam Cat. The voices are performed by

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and

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. The cartoon's title is a play on the phrase "

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Plot

Granny leaves the house for an afternoon outing, but as she drives by the house and waves goodbye to Tweety, she sees Sylvester has gotten into the house and is about to have Tweety for his supper. Granny furiously stops Sylvester in time and, fed up with his constant chasing after Tweety, gives him a harsh warning: "If there's so much as one little feather harmed on Tweety, it's off to the

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string factory!" (punctuating the warning by mimicking

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's " The Funeral March"). As Sylvester cowers in fear and sulks in the corner after Granny leaves, he tries to eat Tweety again, until he reminds him of Granny's threat (also imitating The Funeral March). Sylvester wisely decides to stop and goes back to sulking in the corner of the room. However, both Tweety and Sylvester are about to face a new threat — Sam Cat (first seen in ''

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'', but here seen wearing an eyepatch). Sam is after a meal of his own and is uncaring that Sylvester will be deemed responsible if Tweety is noticed missing. As such, the chase now casts Sylvester not as the predator but as the (not-so-altrustic) protagonist who plans to save Tweety from the predatory Sam before Granny returns — more so to save his own skin. After several exchanges across the yard, with both Sylvester and Sam clobbering each other, Sylvester and Tweety make it back home and lock Sam out of the house, but the feline is still determined to get Tweety. Sylvester finally gets rid of his rival by blowing him up in Granny's chimney (by way of a lighted TNT candle tied to a balloon). However, when Granny returns, Sylvester's efforts are in vain. As he is putting Tweety ''back'' in the cage, Granny enters and, assuming he was after Tweety, promises to make good on her earlier threat. Sylvester tries to explain what really happened before giving up and declaring: "Aw, what's the use! She'll never believe me!", then he plays Chopin on his violin and falls into the violin case as a coffin to his demise.

Voice cast

as Sylvester, Tweety *

as Granny (uncredited)

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* 1956 animated films 1956 short films Looney Tunes shorts Short films directed by Friz Freleng 1950s Warner Bros. animated short films 1956 films Animated films about cats Animated films about birds Films scored by Milt Franklyn Tweety films Sylvester the Cat films Films produced by Edward Selzer 1950s English-language films {{LooneyTunes-stub

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