Room and Bird is a 1951 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.
Title[]
The title is a play on "room and board."
Plot[]
Two elderly ladies, one of which is Granny, the owners of Sylvester and Tweety, sneak their pets into the Spinsters Arms hotel where no pets are allowed. Sylvester, hearing Tweety's singing in the room next to his, writes a letter to the canary from his "Ardent Admirer". Tweety soon discovers who his "admirer" is, and a chase ensues, which is cut short by the security guard forcing Sylvester to disguise himself as a lady in bed screaming for help from the policemen, causing the security guard to flee. "I, uh, I'm sorry, ma'am. I beg your pardon."
Sylvester then sneaks into Tweety's room and tries to get him in his cage; this backfires and he is knocked out by the spring-loaded cage. Sylvester then phones Tweety that his owner has a surprise for him; Tweety goes downstairs to receive it, but instead goes down Sylvester's throat, returning with a mouse from the time of Thomas Jefferson, explaining he is dead. The chase then goes outside, and into the room of Hector. Sylvester doesn't realize until after he's captured Tweety again that the dog is there. Another chase ensues, involving dog, cat and bird, which is also cut short by the security guard, forcing the three to form a truce long enough to disguise themselves as an angry old lady with Tweety's head. "Sorry, ma'am, there's been a mistake." The chase resumes again, prompting the frustrated security guards to finally make an announcement evicting all pets. "Attention, everyone! Someone has pets in this house and I want them out of here immediately!" Unfortunately for him, to his horror a veritable zoo calls the hotel home, and comes stampeding over him.
Getting up, the security guard dizzily says Tweety's catch phrase, "I tawt I taw a putty tat!" Tweety, popping out of hiding, replies "You did! You did! You taw a putty tat, a moo-moo cow, a big gorilla, a giddy-up horsey, and a wittle monkey!"
Notes[]
- Unrestored film elements of this cartoon have the 1955-56 Merrie Melodies ending card. When restored for DVD, the Blue Ribbon ending card was restored to the cartoon because the original cards are lost.[2]
- The short's original title cards were orange Color Rings with black backgrounds.
- This short formerly played in PAL audio when shown on Cartoon Network and Boomerang, but Boomerang recently got access to DVD copies so now it is in NTSC.
- This short appeared in The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show.[3]
- This short reuses footage from "Putty Tat Trouble" and "Canary Row".
- This is the first of several shorts in late 1951 where Eugene Poddany fills in as musical director while Carl Stalling recovers from a brain injury.
- This cartoon was shown in theatres with Along the Great Divide during its original release.
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External Links[]
- Room and Bird on the SFX Resource
← Putty Tat Trouble | Sylvester and Tweety Cartoons | Tweety's S.O.S. → |
Tweety Cartoons | ||||
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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 |