Hawaiian Aye Aye is a 1964 Merrie Melodies short directed by Gerry Chiniquy.
Title[]
The short's title is based on the late 1950s TV show "Hawaiian Eye".
Plot[]
On the island of Hawaii, Granny is off to join a luau celebration, leaving Tweety to look after himself. A peckish Sylvester, who is on a different island, spots Tweety and tries to nab him, but only one thing stands between Sylvester and his prey: Granny's pet Sharkey.
Sylvester's first attempts with an inflatable raft. Tweety immediately calls in Sharkey, completely puncturing Sylvester's raft and sending him back to a palm tree on his island. Sylvester tries a zip line, however slowly descends into the water and is chased by Sharkey. Next, Sylvester wears an air pumping diving suit and tries to bypass Sharkey, who appears sleeping. However, Sharkey awakes shortly after Sylvester pets him and cuts the cord to Sylvester's air supply. Sylvester runs back to find that Sharkey is also inside the diving suit that is now filled with water. Sylvester uses a pair of stilts to bypass Sharkey, but instead of Sharkey attacking Sylvester, a bunch of sawfish saw the stilts to nothingness.
Granny and Tweety leave as they are finished from their vacation. Determined not to lose Tweety, Sylvester rows in a canoe after the cruiser. However, Sharkey appears behind Sylvester, saying "I don't give up easy either" while Sylvester looks back in shock.
Availability[]
Looney Tunes Presents Tweety: Tweet and Lovely
I Love Tweety: Volume 3 (restored with DVNR)
Streaming[]
Notes[]
- Hawaiian Aye Aye marks several milestones in the golden age Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series:
- It was the last one reel, non-Bugs Bunny cartoon in production order by the original Warner Bros. studio before it closed down in 1963.
- It marks the final appearance of Tweety in a theatrical cartoon for over 30 years; he would not appear in another theatrical cartoon until 1995's Carrotblanca.
- Not counting the TV series The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, it also marked the last cartoon to pair him with Sylvester for nearly 40 years. The duo wouldn't star in another cartoon again by themselves until Museum Scream.
- It is the only Tweety cartoon to be directed by Gerry Chiniquy, a longtime animator of Friz Freleng's unit. Freleng had left the studio in 1962 for Hanna-Barbera.
- It was the final short to be written by longtime storyman Tedd Pierce, who collaborated with Bill Danch on this cartoon.
- It was the final short ever played on any incarnation of The Bugs Bunny Show prior to its end in 2000.[2]
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References[]
| Tweety Cartoons | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | A Tale of Two Kitties | |||
| 1944 | Birdy and the Beast | |||
| 1945 | A Gruesome Twosome | |||
| 1947 | Tweetie Pie | |||
| 1948 | I Taw a Putty Tat | |||
| 1949 | Bad Ol' Putty Tat | |||
| 1950 | Home, Tweet Home • All a Bir-r-r-d • Canary Row | |||
| 1951 | Putty Tat Trouble • Room and Bird • Tweety's S.O.S. • Tweet Tweet Tweety | |||
| 1952 | Gift Wrapped • Ain't She Tweet • A Bird in a Guilty Cage | |||
| 1953 | Snow Business • Fowl Weather • Tom Tom Tomcat • A Street Cat Named Sylvester • Catty Cornered | |||
| 1954 | Dog Pounded • Muzzle Tough • Satan's Waitin' | |||
| 1955 | Sandy Claws • Tweety's Circus • Red Riding Hoodwinked • Heir-Conditioned | |||
| 1956 | Tweet and Sour • Tree Cornered Tweety • Tugboat Granny | |||
| 1957 | Tweet Zoo • Tweety and the Beanstalk • Birds Anonymous • Greedy for Tweety | |||
| 1958 | A Pizza Tweety-Pie • A Bird in a Bonnet | |||
| 1959 | Trick or Tweet • Tweet and Lovely • Tweet Dreams | |||
| 1960 | Hyde and Go Tweet • Trip for Tat | |||
| 1961 | The Rebel Without Claws • The Last Hungry Cat | |||
| 1962 | The Jet Cage | |||
| 1964 | Hawaiian Aye Aye | |||
| 2011 | I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat | |||