Tweet and Lovely

Tweet and Lovely
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	July 18, 1959
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	John W. Burton
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 and Lovely is the four hundred and fiftieth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on July 18, 1959. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by John W. Burton, and directed by Friz Freleng.

When Sylvester spies on Tweety from within an inventions building, he must come up with many tactics to only catch Tweety but to also avoid the bulldog Spike.

Memorable quotes

Tweety: Ooooooh, I tawt I taw a peepin' tom tat!

Sylvester: Huh. It'sth a good thing pussthycatsth have got nine liveth!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Tweety	Mel Blanc
Sylvester	Mel Blanc
Spike	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
  • City
    • Granny's residence
      • Tweety's birdhouse
      • Spike's doghouse
    • Inventions Patents Inc. (Building 65)

Objects

• Binoculars
• Reach extender
• Robot dog (Project 7693-A)
• Club
• Smoke bomb grenade (Project 7691-C)
• Pogo stick
• Artificial storm cloud (Forumula K-9)
• Vanishing cream
• Green spray paint
• Mechanical explosive device

Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: July 18, 1959 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is pun of the 1931 song "Sweet and Lovely".
• Although Hector was already given his name in Fowl Weather, he is referred to as "Spike" in this cartoon.
• Although he doesn't technically say his catchphrase, Tweety instead says, "I tawt I taw a peepin' tom tat," due to his play on the term "peeping tom".

Everlasting Influence

• Tweety's line of dialogues "Give 'em a hit in the head!", as well as "And another!", are later reused in Flash in the Pain.

Home Availability

• In Japan:
  • I Love Tweety: Volume 2