Sandy Claws is a 1955 Looney Tunes short directed by I. Freleng.
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The cartoon's title is a play on the Christmas icon Santa Claus, whom is nicknamed as "Santy Claus", as in the Rudolf Ising-directed Merrie Melodies short "The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives" (1933).
Plot[]
Granny and Tweety go to the beach. While Granny decides to change into her new "bikini bathing suit," a one-piece Victorian-style bathing suit, nearby Sylvester is frustrated with his lack of hunting fish, sees Tweety, and decides to have him as his next meal.
After a high tide rolls in, Tweety's cage is stranded on a rock in the sea, and Sylvester's attempts to eat the bird are mistaken for "heroic" attempts to save Tweety by the bird himself and later Granny. Not knowing Sylvester's actual intentions, Granny helps Sylvester save Tweety with the aid of a diving suit and oxygen tank, which leads the cat to receive all the bad luck: suffocation, shark attack, overly inflating the diving suit, and later landing the cat in the dog pound. She joyously runs to reunite with her beloved canary, who has been rowing his cage ashore himself due to him being fed up with waiting to be rescued. Granny appreciates the cat's rescue efforts; she tells the bird, "He certainly deserves a just reward!"
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- The working title was "Sea Tweety".[1]
- This is the final cartoon in which Bea Benaderet voiced Granny; hereafter, Granny would be voiced by June Foray. In addition, after the release of this short, Granny would be overhauled. Her appearance and dress would be updated (starting with "Red Riding Hoodwinked"), and while her cheerful demeanor would be retained (with a few exceptions), her old-fashioned characteristics and mannerisms would be de-emphasized.
- It is evident in this cartoon that Granny is unable to relate to the present fads, such as her telling Tweety she is about to try on a new "bikini bathing suit", which turns out to be a one-piece late-19th century/early 20th century Victorian-style bathing suit.
- Granny's one-piece late-19th century/early 20th century Victorian-style bathing suit from this cartoon would resurface in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episodes "B2 or Not B2", "Catch as Catch Cannes", and "The Fountain of Funk".
- This is the only Tweety cartoon written by Arthur Davis.
- This cartoon was nominated for the 27th Academy Awards for "Best Short Subject (Cartoon)" but lost to the UPA Mr. Magoo cartoon "When Magoo Flew".[2]
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External Links[]
- "Sandy Claws" at the SFX Resource
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 |