Tweet Zoo
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Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
Release date | January 12, 1957 |
Starring | Mel Blanc |
Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
Music composed by | Milt Franklyn |
Story by | Warren Foster |
Animation | Gerry Chiniquy Art Davis Virgil Ross |
Director(s) | Friz Freleng |
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Tweet Zoo is the four hundred and twentieth short of the Merrie Melodies theatrical series. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on January 12, 1957. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.
During a zoo tour, Sylvester comes across a rare Tweety exhibit, thus starting a chase across the other animal exhibits.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Sylvester: For now on, birds are off my list! Thufferin' thuccotash... What a fine time I picked to go on a diet.
Characters
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Locations
- Earth
- United States
- City park
- Zoo
- City park
- United States
Objects
- Sylvester's diet list
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The score was composed by Milt Franklyn. The main title and closing themes are a rendition of "Merrily We Roll Along," which were arranged by Franklyn.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: January 12, 1957
Behind the scenes
- The title is a play on the 1928 song "Sweet Sue."
Connections
- The gag where Sylvester crosses birds off his list was reused from A Bird in a Guilty Cage. It would also be reused once more in the 1960 short Trip for Tat.
- The animation of Sylvester's flattened toes reshaping back to their original shape, after kicking the elephant, was reused from the 1948 Looney Tunes short Kit for Cat.
Critical reception
In other languages
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Home availability
- In the Japan:
- July 6, 2001: Warner Home Video releases I Love Tweety: Volume 2 on DVD.