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I Taw a Putty Tat (1948)
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So the dog's name is Hector..., 8 September 2006
Author: Lee Eisenberg (eisenberg.lee@gmail.com) from Portland, Oregon, USA
There have been many cartoons in which Sylvester unsuccessfully tries to eat Tweety, but "I Taw a Putty Tat" is significant in that it's the first appearance of Hector the Dog. Personally, I can't figure out why the woman never realized that Sylvester was eating her canaries; my family has owned many cats over the years, but we've never owned birds, lest the cats eat them like Sylvester always tries to do. Anyway, a great cartoon, with Mel Blanc and Bea Benaderet doing neat voices.
Hector. The Trojan prince who fought in the Trojan War. When Homer came up with that name for The Iliad (in Greek, it means "holding fast"), he probably never imagined that it would one day get applied to a bulldog in a cartoon.
Enjoyable early outing for Tweety, 7 December 2003
Author: bob the moo from Birmingham, UK
When yet another bird goes missing, Sylvester's owner assumes it escaped again (like the others) and orders another one from the pet store. Sylvester prepares for another ready meal, but the new bird is a little more elusive that the others.
I'm not a big fan of Tweety Pie cartoons and my heart always sinks just a little bit when I see one come on. However the animation of Tweety here shows that this must be quite an early cartoon from them and sees Tweety doing his usual stuff – almost innocently outwitting the ever hungry Sylvester the cat. The action is pretty funny and it has good energy, which makes it all quite amusing.
Sylvester is as good as he is but it is Tweety who is actually the strongest character. I usually find him annoying but didn't here, instead he was funny and witty with a little touch of the Bugs about him in the way he plays around with Sylvester.
Overall, I don't usually get much from Tweety Pie cartoons, so the fact that I found this one to be enjoyable and pretty amusing must be a good sign. Watch this before the bird started to just get irritating.
Classic line... I forgot my widdle hat., 26 November 2001
Author: kenny_c_hueholt
I have this cartoon on video and it's definitely one of my favorites. It's hilarious each time Tweety comes out of Sylvester's mouth and then comes back in just to get his hat. I also liked Sylvester in the maid's outfit.
Insthpirathional (spoiler in last paragraph), 18 July 2000
Author: leopold bloom (hitch1899_@hotmail.com) from dublin, ireland
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
It would not be wrong to suggest that the Sylvester/Tweetie series is just another variation on the gleefully vicious Tom and Jerry model, in which a seemingly insignificant creature constantly outwits and eludes his prodigious feline foe. In 1940s Hollywood, however, unlike today, formula was not necessarily a synonym creative laziness, and these short six minutes are packed with hilarity, invention and hilariously inventive violence.
The chief pleasures are Mel Blanc's gloriously funny, iconic, voice-doubling (he does both Thylvesther and 'I tawt I taw' Tweety); the transformation of the seemingly restricted domestic milieu (with its representative prisons, the cage and catbasket) as a space for anarchy and freedom, with Sylvester the cat-rebel constantly undermining the mistress (the only human we see - husband at work? War victim?), by eating her canaries; the beautiful, cool secondary candy colours and strong outlines, reminiscent of THE PINK PANTHER (cartoon) and EUROTRASH; a compositional style that is almost surreal in its well-chosen placing of resonant signifiers in an otherwise minimalist environment; and the exquisite action which is not too far from Itchy and Scratchy in its choreographed sadism.
The film's movement is almost theoremetical (sic?), as Sylvester the budgie murderer becomes the budgie murdered, while Tweetie takes over his power and his murderous characteristics (marked in the shifts from catbasket to cage and vice versa). Sylvester's death is a bit of a shock here, considering the longevity of the series - this must have been intended as a one-off; the final division of spoils tells you a lot about the filmmakers' intentions.
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