Tugboat Granny

Tugboat Granny
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	June 23, 1956
Starring	Mel Blanc June Foray
Producer(s)	John W. Burton
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn
Story by	Warren Foster
Animation	Virgil Ross Arthur Davis Gerry Chiniquy
Director(s)	Friz Freleng
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Tugboat Granny is the four hundred and eleventh Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It is written by Warren Foster, produced by John W. Burton, and directed by Friz Freleng.

Granny and Tweety go out on a tugboat and while Sylvester tries looking for food to eat on the docks, he soon spots Tweety and plans to stowaway on board to get him.

Memorable quotes

Fish: (gargling) I tawt I taw a puddy tat!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Granny	June Foray
Tweety	Mel Blanc
Sylvester	Mel Blanc
Fish	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
  • City River

Objects

• Parachute
• Snorkel-like metal pipe

Vehicles

• Granny's tugboat
• Rowboat
• Motorboat
• Speedboat

Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.

Songs

• "A Tugboat Whistle"

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: June 23, 1956 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• Treg Brown receives his first onscreen credit in this short, since joining the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio in 1934.
• Even though her name appears in the title, Granny only appears in the opening scene of the cartoon.

Errors

• The 2020 restoration scraps the original end card and replaces it with the 1959-61 Merrie Melodies ending title card. This error is also present in the HBO Max restorations of Hare Brush and Tweety's Circus, and was not fixed in any future releases such as the Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3 print.

Everlasting Influence

• Some scenes from this short would later be recycled in The Pink Panther cartoon titled Reel Pink, due to the fact that some of the Warner Bros. animators would establish DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, as well as being hired by United Artists to create it and other cartoons years later.
• Sylvester's scream would later be reused in To Beep or Not to Beep, Tease for Two and Daffy Duck's Quackbusters.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3