Snow Business
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | January 17, 1953 |
| Run time | 7:05 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Bea Benaderet |
| Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
| Music composed by | Carl Stalling |
| Story by | Warren Foster |
| Animation | Virgil Ross Arthur Davis Manuel Perez Ken Champin |
| Director(s) | I. Freleng |
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Snow Business is the three hundred and tenth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on January 17, 1953. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.
With Granny unable to make it back to her cabin in time to help bring food to her pets, Sylvester is forced to try and cook Tweety for his meal.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Radio announcer: The recent blizzard has snowbound the mountain areas. The State Highway Patrol reports that all roads may be closed for six weeks.
Sylvester: Six weekths?! I'LL STAAARVE!
Mouse: I'm starving! I gotta have food! But... I forgotten what food looks like... FOOD!
Characters
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Locations
- Earth
- United States
- Winter summit
- United States
Objects
- Bird seed
- Cooking pot
- Logs
- Match
- Salt shaker
- Swing string
- Shotgun
- Hammer and nails
- Wooden plank
- Mallet
- Frying pan
- Cooking oil canister
- Spatula
- Toaster
- Ashtray stand
- Bowling ball
- Rotisserie stand
- Canned hear
- Melted lemon and butter
- Axe
- Bowl
- Creamer cup
- Sugar shaker
Vehicles
- Paper boat
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: January 17, 1953 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The title is a pun on "show business".
- This is the first short where Tweety doesn't say his usual catchphrase, "I tawt I taw a puddy tat!"
- This short is an anomaly in the Sylvester & Tweety shorts, in that they start off as friends. It is also one of the rare shorts where Sylvester is in the role of a victim instead of being the aggressor.
- Sylvester's frantic search for food around the kitchen is similar to a scene in Canned Feud. Coincidentally, both cartoons depict Sylvester being heavily victimized by a mouse instead of the other way around.
Legacy
- Sylvester's yell when the mouse bites his tail would later be re-used as a stock sound effect in Zipping Along, when Wile E. gets caught in mousetraps, and in A Street Cat Named Sylvester when Hector bites Sylvester's tail.
- Coincidentally, all three cartoons using this exact same stock sound effect were released in 1953; The same sound is also re-used in Stupor Duck when Daffy is launched to the moon by a rocket; Mexican Cat Dance when Sylvester gets pinned in the rear by Speedy Gonzales; and Chariots of Fur when Wile E. accidentally wraps his arms around himself while wearing an cactus suit.
Home availability
- In the United States:
- November 26, 1996: Warner Home Video releases Stars of Space Jam: Sylvester and Tweety on VHS.
- November 2, 2004: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 on DVD.
- October 9, 2018: Warner Home Video releases Stars of Space Jam: Sylvester and Tweety on DVD.
- In Japan:
- April 6, 2001: Warner Home Video releases I Love Tweety: Volume 2 on DVD.
