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Director
  
Friz Freleng

Music director
  
Milt Franklyn

Duration
  

7.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Animation, Family, Short

Film series
  
Looney Tunes

Language
  
English

Cast
  
Mel Blanc, June Foray

Writer
  
Warren Foster (story)

Release date
  
March 24, 1956

Genres
  
Animation, Short Film, Family film

Similar movies
  
Looney Tunes movies, Related Friz Freleng movies

Tweet and Sour is a "Looney Tunes" cartoon animated short starring Tweety and Sylvester. Released March 24, 1956, the cartoon is directed by Friz Freleng. The voices are performed by Mel Blanc and June Foray.

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

Plot

Granny leaves the house for an 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 eat the bird. Granny stops the cat in time and, fed up with his constant chasing after Tweety, gives him a severe punishment: "If there's so much as one little feather harmed on Tweety, it's off to the violin string factory to kill you!" (punctuating the warning by mimicking Frédéric Chopin's "The Funeral March").

As Sylvester sulks in the corner, Tweety is about to face a new threat—a rough-looking orange cat wearing an eyepatch. The unnamed orange cat 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 a predatory cat before Granny returns—more to save his own skin. After several exchanges, with both Sylvester and the orange cat clobbering each other, Sylvester finally gets rid of the predatory cat by blowing him up in Granny's chimney (by way of a lighted TNT candle tied to a balloon).

However, 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 tried to explain what really happened before 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 punish himself. Could this be the end of our cat friend Sylvester?

References

Tweet and Sour Wikipedia
Tweet and Sour IMDb Tweet and Sour themoviedb.org