Gift Wrapped

Gift Wrapped
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	February 16, 1952
Starring	Mel Blanc Bea Benaderet Daws Butler
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	Warren Foster
Animation	Arthur Davis Manuel Perez Ken Champin Virgil Ross
Director(s)	I. Freleng
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Gift Wrapped is the two hundred and ninety-sixth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on February 16, 1952. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.

T'was the night before Christmas, and throughout the house, what Sylvester got for Christmas... was a stupid toy mouse. But what he really wants is a present meant for Granny, which turns out to be none than a little yellow canary.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Tweety	Mel Blanc
Sylvester	Mel Blanc
Granny	Bea Benaderet
Hector	Mel Blanc
Narrator	Daws Butler

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
  • Granny's residence

Objects

• Toy rubber mouse
• Toy train set
• Christmas stamps

Music

The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: February 16, 1952

Behind the scenes

• The title is based on an option to have an item gift wrapped from a store.
• This short marks the first time that Daws Butler did his first voice acting work for the WB cartoon studio.
• This short is the first Friz Freleng cartoon to have Irv Wyner as a background artist.
• This short, along with the Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam cartoon Ballot Box Bunny and the Pepé Le Pew cartoon Little Beau Pepé, were submitted for an Academy Award in 1952, but were not nominated.
• This cartoon has several similarities to Tweetie Pie:
  • It is a Tweety/Sylvester short taking place in snowy weather.
  • The "kiss the wittle birdie" scenario of Sylvester asked to kiss Tweety, only to eat the bird and get forced to spit it out from the short is re-used here.
  • The gag of Sylvester getting hit by his owner is majorly occurs in the short. Also, in the sense where Sylvester is running while getting hit with the broom by Granny is actually reused from the previous short.
  • The same crash sound effect after Tweety cuts down one of the legs of the furniture which brings Sylvester down, is heard after Sylvester pulls the cord of his gun and shoots him sending back down again.
• This is the latest cartoon that was reissued twice in the Blue Ribbon program, and one of the only two that was reissued twice past the 1955–56 season; the other being Fast and Furry-ous. However, since the second reissue was done after the closure of the Termite Terrace building, the second reissue used the titles from the first reissue.

Legacy

• A clip from this cartoon would be used in the 1959 Looney Tunes cartoon, Tweet Dreams.
• Sylvester getting a rubber mouse for Christmas would later be referenced in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode "Feather Christmas."

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • November 2, 2004: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 on DVD.
  • November 30, 2010: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Super Stars' Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy on DVD.
  • October 16, 2012: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2 on Blu-ray.

• In Japan:
  • July 6, 2001: Warner Home Video releases I Love Tweety: Volume 1 on DVD.