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Sylvester the Cat watches Tweety Bird in the window of a pet shop. Tweety gets sold and delivered to Granny. Granny has a pack of wildly excited dogs in her yard. It is a near impossible task especially with Tweety causing Sylvester problems.

This is a lovely short for Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny. The dogs are just a mass of bodies. This is fine for the most part. The pet store part isn't much and probably adds little to the short. Maybe this should be split into two shorts. Granny can own the pet shop in one while the other can set it all at Granny's home. In that way, the stories can be expanded especially at the pet shop.

This is one among several of Tweety and Sylvester (or Sylvester and Tweety) cartoons I remember watching and enjoying as a kid growing up in the '70s watching either on weekday afternoons after school or on Saturday mornings. In this one, the cat is pursuing the bird at first a pet shop, then in the house of Granny after she buys Tweety. But, first, Sylvester has to deal with a yard full of bulldogs! Director Friz Freleng fills the narrative with lots of sure-fire gags involving the cat's encounters with those bulldogs that just won't let him be! This is one of the funniest ones that I just rewatched on a Scandanavian Airlines flight recently. So, yes, that's a high recommendation of Ain't She Tweet.

Funny Sylvester and Tweety short, directed by Friz Freleng, that has Sylvester trying to get at Tweety in the pet store and later at Granny's house. It's fairly routine plotwise but the gags of Sylvester failing in multiple ways to reach his prey are pretty funny. Great voice work from Mel Blanc and Bea Benaderet. Carl Stalling's music is, as always, excellent. The animation is wonderful, with lovely colors and some well-done action sequences. A couple of the better gags are Sylvester using stilts to try and cross a yard full of bulldogs and Sylvester hiding in a package meant to be meat for the dogs. It's a fun cartoon that most fans of the series will love. I think it works well as a companion piece to 1954's Dog Pounded.

Tweety and a little mouse are in cages at a pet shop, right in the front window. Sylvester is just outside the window and is licking his chops. Obviously, he has to figure out how to get these "meals."

Right from the first gag, in which the cat throws a brick at the window, is spotted by a cop and races to stop the brick before it hits the glass, this has a lot of the usual hilarious scenes.

Tweety is "sold" and delivered to Granny's house where the real fun now occurs, as Sylvester follows the truck and is in for the shock of his life.

In this Tweety episode, instead of Granny owning one big bulldog, she has an entire backyard full of them! What a shock when Sylvester discovers this! There are some fantastic scenes involving Sylvester and all those dogs as he has to get by all of them to get to Tweety. The bit with Sylvester on stilts was extremely clever.

Sylvester never gets a break in this cartoon. The repeated attempts are so clever, and they should work if not for Tweety's quick thinking and unforgiving nature.

Another winner from Fritz Freleng.