All a Bir-r-r-d

All a Bir-r-r-d
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	June 24, 1950
Starring	Mel Blanc Bea Benaderet
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Animation	Ken Champin Virgil Ross Arthur Davis Emery Hawkins Gerry Chiniquy
Director(s)	I. Freleng
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All a Bir-r-r-d is the two hundred and seventy-second Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on June 24, 1950. It was written by Tedd Pierce, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.

While Tweety is riding on a train, Sylvester, is warned by the conductor to behave himself and not eat the bird.

Memorable quotes

Tweety: It's donna be awfwy wonesome fwom here to Pattadena.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Tweety	Mel Blanc
Train conductor	Mel Blanc
Tweety's owner	Bea Benaderet
Sylvester	Mel Blanc
Hector	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Gower Gulch Train Station
    • California (indirectly mentioned)
      • Passadena (mentioned)

Objects

• Tweety's cage
• Suitcases
• Mile marker

Music

The music was done by Carl Stalling.

The music used for the title theme is "On the 5:15".

This is the first cartoon where Tweety sings his signature song, which would appear again in Room and Bird, as well as the opening credits of Canary Row and Putty Tat Trouble. Tweety would sing this song with different lyrics in Tweet Tweet Tweety.

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun of the familiar train conductor's call, 'All A-Boar-r-r-d!'
• This cartoon marks Tweety's first appearance in the Looney Tunes series, after eight years of being exclusive to the Merrie Melodies series.
• As is the case with most cartoons featuring backgrounds by Paul Julian, several in-jokes can be seen throughout this cartoon:
  • Box cars with the names of Friz Freleng's crew appear, such as "Champin" (Ken Champin), Ross (Virgil Ross), "Frizby" (Friz himself), and "Pratt" (Hawley Pratt).
  • A package with Mel Blanc's name on it is in the baggage car. It is addressed to "Fred Fraling", presumably a spoonerism of Friz Freleng.
  • Another package is addressed to "C. Martin Jones", a reference to Chuck Jones.
  • Freleng's name appears again on a trunk that is on its way to "Pratt Falls, WI."
  • A label on a green case reads "Tedd Pierce", who wrote this short.

Errors

• The baggage car in which Sylvester and Tweety are riding changes positions during the journey. In closeups, it will be either third, fourth, or fifth behind the engine. In long shots, it is completely absent. Only coach cars appear.
• In closeups, the train's engine carries the No. 651 in some shots and No. 814 in others. In some long shots, it has no number.
• The coal tender has at times the No. 99 on it, or no number at all. Other times it has the letters "S.P. & Q.R."
• In long shots, the coach cars sometimes appear with the letters "S.P.Q.R." on them. In closeups, this changes to "Southeast & Western."

Legacy

• The scene where Sylvester tries hitting Hector with a club, only to crash into a tunnel, was reused in the 1956 Merrie Melodies cartoon, Half-Fare Hare, with Bugs Bunny, Ralph and Ed.
• This cartoon was used in the TV Special, The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special, running along with the plot of Bugs trying to escape Detective Elmer Fudd.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2
  • Looney Tunes Super Stars' Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy