Bad Ol' Putty Tat is a 1948 animated cartoon

Animated cartoon

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 released by Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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 starring Tweety Bird and directed by Friz Freleng

Friz Freleng

Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....

. Tweety must evade the titular "puddy tat," Sylvester the Cat

Sylvester (Looney Tunes)

Sylvester J. Pussycat, Sr., Sylvester the Cat or simply Sylvester, is a fictional character, a three-time Academy Award-winning anthropomorphic Tuxedo cat in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies repertory, often chasing Tweety Bird, Speedy Gonzales, or Hippety Hopper...

, who is once again in hot pursuit of Tweety, just so that he can eat him for his own personal snack. It provides an anomaly in the Sylvester & Tweety pairings: In this one, Tweety provides almost all the dialogue, and then mainly to the audience

Fourth wall

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. Tweety's voice is performed by Mel Blanc

Mel Blanc

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, who also screams out Sylvester's pain in mid-film. The story was written by Tedd Pierce

Tedd Pierce

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, who also was assumed to have appeared (albeit in caricature from an earlier Warners cartoon) here.

Plot

The film begins with a shot of Tweety's house, at the top of a tall wooden pole, with a sign reading "DO NOT DISTURB." There is barbed wire on the pole and a damaged Sylvester.

Sylvester uses a trampoline to try and get to Tweety's birdhouse; Tweety fights back with knocks to the head and a dynamite stick. Sylvester tries to get Tweety to slide down a clothespin and into his mouth; he almost gets a rocket ride for his trouble.

Tweety accidentally becomes the badminton birdy in a makeshift game. Again, Sylvester springs and gets another stick of dynamite. The cat then builds an entirely new birdhouse, fooling Tweety into walking right in. Instead of being digested, Tweety takes manual control of Sylvester, steering him into a final painful trap.

Appearances in Other Media

In the HBO film You Don't Know Jack

You Don't Know Jack (film)

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, Dr. Jack Kevorkian is seen watching this cartoon. However, he erroneously states that Sylvester chases a frog

Frog

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.

Availability

Bad Ol' Putty Tat is available on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection

Looney Tunes Golden Collection

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Volume Two.