Tweet Zoo

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Tweet Zoo
series = Merrie Melodies
director = Friz Freleng| animator = Gerry Chiniquy
Virgil Ross
Arthur Davis
| voice_actor = Mel Blanc
| musician = Milt Franklyn
producer = David H. DePatie
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
release_date = January 12, 1957
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 7 mins
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0051118

Tweet Zoo is a "Merrie Melodies" cartoon animated short starring Tweety and Sylvester. Released January 12, 1957, the cartoon is directed by Friz Freleng. The voices were performed by Mel Blanc.

Plot

The cartoon, set in a city zoo, begins with a tour guide showing various animal exhibits to visitors. The final stop (at least as far as viewers can see) is the exhibit featuring the "one and only example" of the Tweety Bird species. This draws tag-along tourist Sylvester's interest. After the requisite "I tawt I taw a puddy tat" lines, Sylvester begins his latest pursuit.

The attempts, all unsuccessful, are as follows:

* Tweety taking refuge in the bear cage. Sylvester uses a net to try to capture the bird, but as the shifty Tweety dodges the net, the cat hits a bear. The bear grabs the net, pulls Sylvester in and expresses his displeasure.
* At feeding time, Sylvester hides in the zookeeper's meat cart. Hoping to get "fed" to Tweety, he instead is thrown to a pack of Bengal tigers.
* Tweety hides in a hole inside the elephant's abode. Sylvester enters in search of his prey, but the elephant immediately covers the hole to protect the bird. Sylvester uses a wind-up mouse to frighten the pachyderm, but instead of simply moving away, the elephant inadvertently jumps and lands on the cat, flattening the puddy.
* Sylvester pole-vaulting across the crocodile pond to grab Tweety, who is hiding in a tree. Instead, the jump is mistimed and the crocs enjoy dinner.
* In a second attempt to navigate the crocodile pond, Sylvester uses a rowboat ... unaware of his passenger, the lion (whom he had angered earlier). However, the boat sinks under the lion's weight, and the crocodiles snap at the lion. Once the lion regains his senses, he grabs Sylvester (who had gotten away) and, after letting the crocs have another go at the cat, he kicks him into the bear's cage, where the bear mauls the puddy again.

In the end, a frustrated Sylvester leaves the zoo and strikes birds off his diet list ... just before a cluster of birds land on his shoulders and head.

Trivia

*This is one of the S&T cartoons to have Sylvester strike birds of his diet list. Another cartoon is A Bird in a Guilty Cage.

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References

* Friedwald, Will and Jerry Beck. "The Warner Brothers Cartoons." Scarecrow Press Inc., Metuchen, N.J., 1981. ISBN 0-8108-1396-3.

External links

*imdb title|0051118
* [http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/articles/tasarticle2.html Nuance and Suggestion in the Tweety and Sylvester Series] - Written by Kevin McCorry