Snow Business is a 1953 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.
Title[]
The cartoon's title is a pun on "show business."
Plot[]
A security guard refuses to let Granny drive her car back into the mountain cabin because the roads are blocked due to a bad snowstorm, but Granny pleads to be let through because her bird and cat would starve inside the cabin.
Meanwhile, friends Sylvester and Tweety are alone in Granny's mountain cabin. A radio report announces that due to heavy snow the roads will be blocked for six weeks. Panicked, Sylvester nervously checks the cabin for food but finds nothing but boxes and boxes of bird seed. He tries to talk Tweety into being cooked, first in a sailboat in a kettle on the stove, then ice skating in an oiled frying pan. Meanwhile, a hungry mouse keeps trying to eat Sylvester, and has better luck in eating Sylvester than Sylvester has in eating Tweety.
Granny finally arrives on snowshoes with a backpack full of food, but it's just more bird seed, much to Sylvester's disappointment. Sylvester munches the bird seed miserably, but the mouse has one last try at eating Sylvester. When Tweety asks Sylvester how he liked the bird seed, the mouse bites him on the tail, Sylvester yells and flies up in the air. Tweety says "Aw, come now, it can't be that bad."
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- When this short was shown on CBS, the part where the hunger-crazed mouse sticks Sylvester's tail in a toaster and Sylvester extinguishes the flames with an ashtray was cut.[2]
Notes[]
- This short provides an anomaly in the Sylvester & Tweety pairings: In this one, Tweety and Sylvester start off as friends. It is also also a rare short in these Tweety/Sylvester pairings where Sylvester is in the role of a victim instead of being the aggressor; in this case, Sylvester attempts to eat Tweety because he would starve, and is also the prey of a crazed mouse whom is desperate for food.
- The short was later remade as the Pink Panther short "Pinknic" in 1967.
- This is the first short where Tweety never uses his catchphrase "I tawt I taw a puddy tat!"
- Sylvester's frantic reactions to search for food around the kitchen upon finding out that he will starve due to the closure of the mountain roads is similar to that in "Canned Feud" (1951). Coincidentally, both cartoons depict Sylvester being heavily victimized by a mouse instead of the other way around.
- The original ending card was lost when many later prints replaced the end card with a 1959-60 MM end card. When this short was later digitally remastered and restored and released on the Japanese DVD I Love Tweety: Volume 2 and Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2, the original end card was plastered from another cartoon in the 1948-49 or 1952-53 seasons to look like the original end card. For unknown reasons, it is unknown why WB did not do this for "Kit for Cat" on Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1, as the original end card from this short could have been used for that short.
- The European version of the Looney Tunes Super Stars' Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy uses the unrestored VHS transfer, thus keeping the 1959-60 MM end card. However, the American version of the DVD set uses the Japanese DVD/Golden Collection DVD print.[3]
- Sylvester's scream of pain when the mouse bites his tail at the end of the cartoon would later be re-used as a stock sound effect in "Zipping Along" when Wile E. Coyote gets caught in mousetraps and in "A Street Cat Named Sylvester" when Hector bites Sylvester's tail. Coincidentally, all three cartoons using this exact same stock sound effect were released in 1953.
- This same stock sound effect is also later re-used in "Stupor Duck" (1956) when Daffy is launched to the moon by a rocket, "Mexican Cat Dance" (1963) when Sylvester gets pinned in the rear by Speedy Gonzales and "Chariots of Fur" (1994) when Wile E. Coyote accidentally wraps his arms around himself while wearing the cactus costume, as well as the Tom and Jerry Tales Nintendo DS video game which Warner Bros. would later produce in 2006. [4]
- The lobby card of the cartoon (pictured in the gallery below) depicts a scene reminiscent to that of "Putty Tat Trouble" (1951) where Sylvester attempts to catch and eat Tweety whom is cleaning out his nest off snow. This scene does not exist in the actual cartoon short itself, since in this cartoon Sylvester & Tweety both reside in Granny's log cabin instead of an outdoor nest.
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References[]
External Links[]
- "Snow Business" at SuperCartoons.net
- "Snow Business" at B98.TV
- "Snow Business" on the SFX Resource
← Tree for Two | Sylvester Cartoons | A Mouse Divided → |
← A Bird in a Guilty Cage | Tweety Cartoons | Fowl Weather → |
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 |