Tweet Zoo

Tweet Zoo
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.

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

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Sylvester	Mel Blanc
Tweety Bird	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • City park
      • Zoo

Objects

• Sylvester's diet list

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.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the Japan:
  • July 6, 2001: Warner Home Video releases I Love Tweety: Volume 2 on DVD.