Muzzle Tough
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | June 26, 1954 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Bea Benaderet |
| Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
| Music composed by | Carl Stalling |
| Story by | Warren Foster |
| Animation | Ken Champin Virgil Ross Arthur Davis Manuel Perez |
| Director(s) | I. Freleng |
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Muzzle Tough is the three hundred and eightieth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on June 26, 1954. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.
While Granny and Tweety move to a new home at the city, Sylvester spies on Tweety and unsuccessfully goes through several attempts to get him. Meanwhile, Granny's pet bulldog, Hector, keeps a watchful eye and foils Sylvester in nearly every attempt.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Hector: I tawt I taw a puddy tat.
Tweety: Ooooh, that wast step was a wuwu!
Granny: Darn ol' bear! Playing possum for twenty years...
Sylvester: Thufferin' thuccotash! Let me out, let me outta here! I said let me outta here! I'm not a dog! I'm a cat! K-A-T...!
Tweety: There won't be no mo' puddy tats awound to chase me now. (Suddenly notices some of the lamps are puddy tats in disguise) Of tourse, I tould be wrong.
Characters
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Organizations
Locations
- Earth
- United States
- Granny's residence
- Costume Shop
- United States
Objects
- Tweety's Bird Cage Stand
- Tweety's Bird Cage
- Hector's Dog House
- Lampshade
- Grand piano
- Polar Bearskin rug
- Female dog costume
- Mallet
- Dog Catcher's net
Vehicles
- Checker Movers truck
- Dog Pound truck
Production
Development
Filming
It was copyrighted in 1953 (MCMLIII).
Music
The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: June 26, 1954
Behind the scenes
- The title is a play on "mazel tov," a Yiddish expression that roughly translates to "good luck".
- The MPAA certificate number is 16132.
- Hector's only line in the cartoon, "I tawt I taw a putty tat", is a repeat of Tweety's catchphrase.
- This is the only cartoon where both Sylvester and Tweety lose in the end. A similar cartoon where the two both win in the end would also be made in the 1960 Merrie Melodies cartoon, Trip for Tat.
- It is also the only cartoon where Tweety loses in the end.
- When Granny's piano crashes, it makes the same pressing all keys at once sound from Canned Feud, just like in that short, Sylvester gets piano key teeth even though the dangling key plays the D note instead of E.
- A scene of Tweety swinging inside of his birdcage is recycled from several cartoons, beginning with All A Bir-r-r-d in 1950. In this instance, Tweety does not sing his signature song.
- The scene of Granny shooting a pistol at Sylvester inside of a bear rug and saying, "Playing possum for twenty years!", is taken from a similar gag in The Fair Haired Hare, in which Yosemite Sam does the same thing.
Legacy
- Several clips of this short appear in an early scene of Space Jam where Mr. Swackhammer learns about the Looney Tunes from the Nerdlucks; including one where Sylvester first notices Tweety at the front entrance, and another where the former gets electrocuted by a wall socket.
- Sylvester would once again disguise as a female dog in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode Yelp, though the female dog disguise in that episode is colored pink instead of yellow. In addition, Sylvester's reaction after unmasking and seeing the real dogs glaring at him is also the same in both: turning white and melting into a puddle.
- The music that plays when the movers are bringing everything into the house is played again in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters when the IRS comes to confiscate Daffy's belongings and evict him from the building.
Home availability
- In the United States:
- 1993: Warner Home Video releases Sylvester & Tweety's Tale Feathers on VHS.
- In Japan:
- April 6, 2001: Warner Home Video releases I Love Tweety: Volume 1 on DVD.
