Tom Tom Tomcat

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Tom Tom Tomcat
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	June 27, 1953
Run time	6:29
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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Tom Tom Tomcat is the three hundred and sixty-seventh Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was published by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on June 27, 1953. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.

During their travel at the prairie, Granny and Tweety are chased by a tribe of Native American cats and are forced to defend themselves in a fortress.

Memorable quotes

Tweety: I tawt I taw puddy tats! I did, I did! I did taw a wot of puddy tats!

Sylvester: Ya got any more bright ideasth?

Tweety: Oh my, it's wainin' puddy tats!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Granny	Bea Benaderet
Tweety Bird	Mel Blanc
Sylvester	Mel Blanc
Cat chief	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Fortress

Vehicles

• Horse wagon

Music

The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

Granny and Tweety sing "Oh! Susanna", by Stephen Foster, at the start of the short.

Crew credits

• Layouts: Hawley Pratt
• Backgrounds: Irv Wyner

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: July 20, 1953 in theatres; January 27, 1962 (Blue Ribbon reissue)

Behind the scenes

• The MPAA certificate number is 15466.
• The "Ten Little Indians" gag is repurposed from a similar scene in Slightly Daffy. It would be used once more in the 1960 Looney Tunes short Horse Hare.
• The short does not air in United States television since the 1990s, due to its extensive use of Native American stereotypes.
• All of the Native American cats in this cartoon are mostly lookalikes of Sylvester, save for a few horses that are portrayed as different colored cats.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In Portugal
  • Unknown year (presumably 2000): Warner Home Video releases Espectáculo Sylvester & Tweety on DVD
  • 2006: Warner Home Video releases Espectáculo Sylvester & Tweety: Volume 12 on DVD