Bad Ol' Putty Tat

Bad Ol' Putty Tat is a 1948 animated cartoon released by Warner Bros. starring Tweety Bird and directed by Friz Freleng. Tweety must evade the titular "puddy tat," Sylvester the Cat, who is once again in hot pursuit of Tweety, just so that he can eat him for his own personal snack. It provides an anomaly in the Sylvester & Tweety pairings: In this one, Tweety provides almost all the dialogue, and then mainly to the audience. Tweety's voice is performed by Mel Blanc, who also screams out Sylvester's pain in mid-film. The story was written by Tedd Pierce, who also was assumed to have appeared (albeit in caricature from an earlier Warners cartoon) here. The film begins with a shot of Tweety's house, at the top of a tall wooden pole, with a...