Tugboat Granny

Tugboat Granny
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures; The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	June 23, 1956
Starring	Mel Blanc; June Foray
Producer(s)	John W. Burton
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn
Story by	Warren Foster
Animation	Virgil Ross; Arthur Davis; Gerry Chiniquy
Director(s)	Friz Freleng
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Tugboat Granny is the four hundred and eleventh Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It is written by Warren Foster, produced by John W. Burton, and directed by Friz Freleng.

While Sylvester tries looking for food to eat on the docks, he spots Tweety going out on a tugboat and plans to stowaway on board to get him.

Detailed summary

Memorable quotes

Fish: (gargling) I tawt I taw a puddy tat!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Granny	June Foray
Tweety	Mel Blanc
Sylvester	Mel Blanc
Fish	Mel Blanc

Locations

Earth
- United States
  - City river

Objects

Parachute
Snorkel-like metal pipe

Vehicles

Granny's tugboat
Rowboat
Motorboat
Speedboat

Production

Development

Filming

Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

United States: June 23, 1956 in theatres

Behind the scenes

Treg Brown receives his first onscreen credit in this short, since joining the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio in 1934.
Even though her name appears in the title, Granny only appears in the opening scene of the cartoon.

Errors

The 2020 restoration scraps the original end card and replaces it with the 1959-61 Merrie Melodies ending title card. This error is also present in the Max restorations of Hare Brush and Tweety's Circus, and was not fixed in any future releases such as the Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3 Blu-ray.

Legacy

Some scenes from this short would later be recycled in The Pink Panther cartoon titled Reel Pink, due to the fact that some of the Warner Bros. animators would establish DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, as well as being hired by United Artists to create it.
Sylvester's scream would later be reused in To Beep or Not to Beep, Tease for Two and Daffy Duck's Quackbusters.

Critical reception

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

In the United States:
- Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3

References