Bad Ol' Putty Tat

Bad Ol' Putty Tat
Merrie Melodies (Tweety) series
I tawt i taw a putty tat!I did!I did taw a putty tat!
Directed by	I. Freleng
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Voices by	Mel Blanc
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Virgil Ross Ken Champin Gerry Chiniquy
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	July 23, 1949
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 minutes 2 seconds
Language	English

Bad Ol' Putty Tat is a 1948 Merrie Melodies (Blue Ribbon reissued) animated cartoon released by Warner Bros. starring Tweety Bird and directed by Friz Freleng. Tweety must evade the titular "puddy tat," Sylvester the Cat, who is once again in hot pursuit of Tweety, just so that he can eat him for his own personal snack. It provides an anomaly in the Sylvester & Tweety pairings: In this one, Tweety provides almost all the dialogue, and then mainly to the audience. Tweety's voice is performed by Mel Blanc, who also screams out Sylvester's pain in mid-film. The story was written by Tedd Pierce, who also was assumed to have appeared (albeit in caricature from an earlier Warners cartoon) here.

Plot

The film begins with a shot of Tweety's house, at the top of a tall wooden pole, with a sign reading "DO NOT DISTURB." There is barbed wire on the pole and a damaged Sylvester.

Sylvester uses a trampoline to try to get to Tweety's birdhouse; Tweety fights back with knocks to the head and a dynamite stick. Sylvester tries to get Tweety to slide down a clothespin and into his mouth; he almost gets a rocket ride for his trouble.

Tweety accidentally becomes the badminton birdy in a makeshift game. Again, Sylvester springs and gets another stick of dynamite. The cat then builds an entirely new birdhouse, fooling Tweety into walking right in. Instead of being digested, Tweety takes manual control of Sylvester, steering him into a final painful trap.

Appearances in Other Media

In the HBO film You Don't Know Jack, Dr. Jack Kevorkian is seen watching this cartoon. However, he erroneously states that Sylvester chases a frog.

Availability

Bad Ol' Putty Tat is available on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Two.

External links

• Bad Ol' Putty Tat at the Internet Movie Database