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Tweety's S.O.S. is a 1951 Merrie Melodies short directed by I. Freleng.

Plot[]

Sylvester is rummaging through trash cans for food. When he doesn't find anything worth eating, he is very sad and goes to the dock. As he is sitting there, he sees a cruise boat and Tweety swinging in his cage. When Sylvester sees Tweety, he calls Tweety his breakfast and Tweety slams the port window on Sylvester's face, dropping him in the water.

Sylvester boards and goes into room 341 where Tweety is. Eventually, he gets Tweety in his hands and starts to go out, only to find Granny there at the door. She is very angry, and wanting to know what Sylvester is doing to her little bird. Sylvester chuckles nervously and gives Tweety back to Granny, with Tweety replying "Ooh, what a hypotwit." A chase ensues with Granny hitting Sylvester with her umbrella. During the chase, Granny loses her glasses and can't find them. Sylvester sees them and kicks them under the couch before Granny grabs them. Another chase starts with Sylvester chasing Tweety around the room. Soon, Tweety finds Granny's glasses under the couch and climbs on her, putting the glasses back on her. Then, Sylvester jumps into Granny and then she tries to hit Sylvester with her umbrella, but misses hitting him. Eventually, she chases him outside and throws her umbrella at Sylvester.

The cruise ship sails off with Granny and Tweety saying "Goodbye!" to everyone and Sylvester as a stowaway on a life boat with the number 13 on it.

Grannys glasses are off while both her and Tweety are resting. Sylvester finds this the perfect opportunity to try and eat Tweety, so he paints a picture of Tweety on Granny's glasses to trick her into thinking Tweety is in his cage. Sylvester opens Tweety's cage and then Tweety yells "Help!", causing Granny to be worried about Tweety. She puts her glasses on and thinks she sees Tweety, not knowing that Sylvester had painted a picture of him on her glasses. Sylvester chases Tweety onto a wire. Tweety goes across safely and Sylvester is having trouble coming across, since he is much heavier. Tweety springs the wire so that Sylvester is now with one paw hanging on the wire. With Sylvester sweating, Tweety starts doing an "Eenie, Meanie, Minie, Moe" and when he gets to Moe, Sylvester falls and splashes into the water and Tweety replys "Well, what do you know? No Moe."

Rough seas eventually make Sylvester seasick. When Tweety sees Sylvester with the face all green, he laughs and offers Sylvester something for his tummy, a nice piece of salt pork. When Sylvester sees this, he turns different colors and becomes even sicker, going to the medical room to get some seasick remedy. Cured, he chases Tweety all over the boat, eventually going into the furnace where Sylvester yells and falls into the water.

Back on the boat, Sylvester sees Tweety. To stop Sylvester from eating him, Tweety shows Sylvester a picture of a boat in the sea as he nauseatingly moves it back and forth, causing Sylvester to get seasick once again. Both Tweety and Sylvester run to the medical room. Tweety makes it there first, and fills the seasick remedy bottle with nitroglycerin. When Sylvester drinks this, he starts spitting up explosive sparks and another chase ensues with Sylvester spitting explosive sparks at Tweety. Eventually, Granny finds out that she has been tricked and stops Sylvester. She then hits Sylvester with her umbrella. Tweety tells Granny to stop, but a loud explosion occurs and blows up Sylvester and Granny both. Sylvester is launched like a firework up in the air and another flash blows him up in the open skies. While Sylvester is coming to fall down and about to crash, the captain says Tweety's catchphrase "I tawt I taw a puddy tat!", and then when Sylvester comes crashing down on the captain, Tweety and Granny reply, "You did, you did see a pussy cat." with Granny in a captain's suit and Tweety with a sailor's cap. Granny blows the steam whistle, ending off the cartoon.

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  • When this cartoon aired on CBS, the part where Sylvester is hanging from the wire above the ship and Tweety plucks his fingers off one by one was cut.[3]
  • The ABC version of this cartoon cut the part where Sylvester runs inside the ship's furnace during his chase with Tweety and jumps out the smokestack with his rear end on fire. Also cut was the part where Sylvester corners Tweety and Tweety waves a crudely drawn picture of an ocean in his face, triggering the cat's seasickness.[3]

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Tweety's S.O.S. on the SFX Resource

ā† Room and Bird Sylvester and Tweety Cartoons Tweet Tweet Tweety ā†’
Sylvester Cartoons
1945 Life with Feathers ā€¢ Peck Up Your Troubles
1946 Kitty Kornered
1947 Tweetie Pie ā€¢ Crowing Pains ā€¢ Doggone Cats ā€¢ Catch as Cats Can
1948 Back Alley Oproar ā€¢ I Taw a Putty Tat ā€¢ Hop, Look and Listen ā€¢ Kit for Cat ā€¢ Scaredy Cat
1949 Mouse Mazurka ā€¢ Bad Ol' Putty Tat ā€¢ Hippety Hopper
1950 Home, Tweet Home ā€¢ The Scarlet Pumpernickel ā€¢ All a Bir-r-r-d ā€¢ Canary Row ā€¢ Stooge for a Mouse ā€¢ Pop 'Im Pop!
1951 Canned Feud ā€¢ Putty Tat Trouble ā€¢ Room and Bird ā€¢ Tweety's S.O.S. ā€¢ Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952 Who's Kitten Who? ā€¢ Gift Wrapped ā€¢ Little Red Rodent Hood ā€¢ Ain't She Tweet ā€¢ Hoppy Go Lucky ā€¢ A Bird in a Guilty Cage ā€¢ Tree for Two
1953 Snow Business ā€¢ A Mouse Divided ā€¢ Fowl Weather ā€¢ Tom Tom Tomcat ā€¢ A Street Cat Named Sylvester ā€¢ Catty Cornered ā€¢ Cats A-weigh!
1954 Dog Pounded ā€¢ Bell Hoppy ā€¢ Dr. Jerkyl's Hide ā€¢ Claws for Alarm ā€¢ Muzzle Tough ā€¢ Satan's Waitin' ā€¢ By Word of Mouse
1955 Lighthouse Mouse ā€¢ Sandy Claws ā€¢ Tweety's Circus ā€¢ Jumpin' Jupiter ā€¢ A Kiddies Kitty ā€¢ Speedy Gonzales ā€¢ Red Riding Hoodwinked ā€¢ Heir-Conditioned ā€¢ Pappy's Puppy
1956 Too Hop to Handle ā€¢ Tweet and Sour ā€¢ Tree Cornered Tweety ā€¢ The Unexpected Pest ā€¢ Tugboat Granny ā€¢ The Slap-Hoppy Mouse ā€¢ Yankee Dood It
1957 Tweet Zoo ā€¢ Tweety and the Beanstalk ā€¢ Birds Anonymous ā€¢ Greedy for Tweety ā€¢ Mouse-Taken Identity ā€¢ Gonzales' Tamales
1958 A Pizza Tweety-Pie ā€¢ A Bird in a Bonnet
1959 Trick or Tweet ā€¢ Tweet and Lovely ā€¢ Cat's Paw ā€¢ Here Today, Gone Tamale ā€¢ Tweet Dreams
1960 West of the Pesos ā€¢ Goldimouse and the Three Cats ā€¢ Hyde and Go Tweet ā€¢ Mouse and Garden ā€¢ Trip for Tat
1961 Cannery Woe ā€¢ Hoppy Daze ā€¢ Birds of a Father ā€¢ D' Fightin' Ones ā€¢ The Rebel Without Claws ā€¢ The Pied Piper of Guadalupe ā€¢ The Last Hungry Cat
1962 Fish and Slips ā€¢ Mexican Boarders ā€¢ The Jet Cage
1963 Mexican Cat Dance ā€¢ Chili Weather ā€¢ Claws in the Lease
1964 A Message to Gracias ā€¢ Freudy Cat ā€¢ Nuts and Volts ā€¢ Hawaiian Aye Aye ā€¢ Road to Andalay
1965 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House ā€¢ Cats and Bruises ā€¢ The Wild Chase
1966 A Taste of Catnip
1980 The Yolks on You
1995 Carrotblanca
1997 Father of the Bird
2011 I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat


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 ā€¢ All a Bir-r-r-d ā€¢ Canary Row
1951 Putty Tat Trouble ā€¢ Room and Bird ā€¢ Tweety's S.O.S. ā€¢ Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952 Gift Wrapped ā€¢ Ain't She Tweet ā€¢ A Bird in a Guilty Cage
1953 Snow Business ā€¢ Fowl Weather ā€¢ Tom Tom Tomcat ā€¢ A Street Cat Named Sylvester ā€¢ Catty Cornered
1954 Dog Pounded ā€¢ Muzzle Tough ā€¢ Satan's Waitin'
1955 Sandy Claws ā€¢ Tweety's Circus ā€¢ Red Riding Hoodwinked ā€¢ Heir-Conditioned
1956 Tweet and Sour ā€¢ Tree Cornered Tweety ā€¢ Tugboat Granny
1957 Tweet Zoo ā€¢ Tweety and the Beanstalk ā€¢ Birds Anonymous ā€¢ Greedy for Tweety
1958 A Pizza Tweety-Pie ā€¢ A Bird in a Bonnet
1959 Trick or Tweet ā€¢ Tweet and Lovely ā€¢ Tweet Dreams
1960 Hyde and Go Tweet ā€¢ Trip for Tat
1961 The Rebel Without Claws ā€¢ The Last Hungry Cat
1962 The Jet Cage
1964 Hawaiian Aye Aye
2011 I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat
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