Trip for Tat

Trip for Tat
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	October 29, 1960
Starring	Mel Blanc June Foray
Producer(s)	David H. DePatie
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn
Story by	Michael Maltese
Animation	Gerry Chiniquy Virgil Ross Tom Ray
Director(s)	Friz Freleng
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Trip for Tat is the four hundred and sixty-third Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was published by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on October 29, 1960. It was written by Michael Maltese, produced by David H. DePatie, and directed by Friz Freleng.

Granny and Tweety take a trip across certain parts of the world such as Paris, the Swiss Alps, Japan and Italy. But Sylvester stealthily tags along with the duo in the hopes of catching Tweety.

Memorable Quotes

Fisherman: Oh, honorable fisherman imagine seeing most honorable pussycat.
(Sylvester crashes through boat, which starts to sink)
Fisherman: Not imagination... (gargles) Did see honorable pussycat...

Sylvester: Birdth are off my listht! Mamma-mia, pussycatsth-a should eat the spaghett-ah! It-a make you nice and-a fat!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Travel agent	June Foray
Granny	June Foray
Tweety Bird	Mel Blanc
Sylvester	Mel Blanc
French tattoo artist	Mel Blanc
Japanese fisherman	Mel Blanc

Organizations

• Acme

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Acme Tours Travel Agency
  • France
    • Paris
      • Tattoo studio
  • Switzerland
    • Swiss Alps
      • Skiing lodge
  • Japan
    • Bridge
  • Italy
    • Milan (mentioned)
    • Pisa
      • Leaning Tower of Pisa
      • Pasino Construction Compagnia
      • Caffe-Luigi resturaunt

Objects

• Pork chop
• Painting easels
• Knife
• Pencil with eraser
• Spoons
• Skis and poles
• Saw
• Swing
• Piledriver
• Spaghetti

Vehicles

• Cruise ship
• Fishing rowboat

Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: October 29, 1960 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun of the phrase, "tit for tat".
• The "birds are off the list" gag was reused again, first in A Bird in a Guilty Cage, and then in Tweet Zoo.
• This is the only cartoon in the Sylvester and Tweety shorts where both characters win in the end, even though Sylvester fails to catch Tweety.
• Japan is the only country in the short to not have a specific place depicted, instead being portrayed with a vaugely sterotypical locale.
• This short reuses animation from the following Tweety cartoons:
  • Tweety's S.O.S.
  • Tweet Tweet Tweety
  • Tree Cornered Tweety
  • A Pizza Tweety-Pie

Errors

• When Sylvester goes to throw up over the side of the ship, Tweety suddenly pops into frame. There may have been some missing animation frames.

Everlasting influence

• The ending of this cartoon was reused in the TV special Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet, but it was edited so that instead of taking birds off his list, Sylvester states that he'd take fish off his list.