Tree Cornered Tweety

Fun Sylvester and Tweety short directed by Friz Freleng and done in the style of Dragnet with Tweety narrating the action. Tweety as Jack Webb -- you gotta admit that's pretty adorable. Every line from Tweety in this is gold. The plot's as basic as they come with Sylvester once again trying to capture Tweety. More often than not in these shorts, I find myself rooting for Sylvester because he provides most of the laughs. But this time I'm on Team Tweety. Great voice work from Mel Blanc. Lively music from Milt Franklyn. Beautiful animation with rich, vivid colors. It's a funny and clever cartoon with ample doses of cute. Not for all tastes but I like it.

Once again, Sylvester is after Tweety, failing every time. "Tree Cornered Tweety" takes a slightly different approach, with Tweety narrating "Dragnet"-style. As can be expected, Tweety does have a nasty trick in store for Sylvester in one scene (in this case a mine field). Probably the best scene is at the end when Sylvester thinks that he's finally gotten Tweety...but didn't realize where he was sawing!

Oh, and what I mean by the possibility of this cartoon scaring me is because I saw "Ghostbusters" when I was seven, and the combination of the lion statue and the evil spirit scaring the woman in the basement at the beginning caused me to think that it was a horror movie (I mean in the vein of "The Exorcist" or "The Shining"; fortunately I watched it a few years later and realized that it's a comedy). Therefore, the scene where Tweety is outside the public library and there's a lion statue might have confused me. Sometimes it's best to watch these cartoons as an adult.

Anyway, pretty funny.

I think next to "Hyde and Go Tweet" this is about my favorite Sylvester and Tweety cartoon. I've never seen "Dragnet," but I really liked the concept with Tweety doing a Joe Friday-like narration. I especially like the scene where Sylvester tries to release Tweety from the machine, but instead gets hit with a pie. This one was really great.