The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries is an American animated television
series produced by Warner Bros. Animation which aired from September 9, 1995 to February 5, 2000 on Kids' WB. The final episode, containing the segments "The Tail End?" and "This Is the End", was never shown on Kids' WB, not premiering until December 18, 2002, when the show aired in reruns on Cartoon Network. 52 episodes were produced. The show follows Looney Tunes characters Sylvester and Tweety, along with their owner Granny and bulldog Hector (Sylvester's foil in many 1950s era shorts, here given a redesign similar to Marc Antony), as they solved mysteries around the world. Sylvester, of course, is still trying to eat Tweety in the meantime, with Hector acting as the bird's bodyguard. The first season was dedicated to the memory of Friz Freleng, Warner Bros. animator and original creator of the Sylvester and Tweety shorts, who had died at age 88 shortly before the series premiered.
Plot[]
Granny, Tweety Bird, Hector, and Sylvester are on a ship to New Orleans. Tweety sings "Oh! Susanna" while Sylvester complains about not getting the "irritating songbird" as a snack. A man then comes up and compliments Tweety on his performance and tells Granny she should enter him in the Cajun Canary Crooning Competition. However, Granny says that they were LAST year's winner, but decides to enter anyway. The man then introduces himself as Louie Z. Anna, and as Granny and Louie continue to flirt with each other, the boys gag in disgust.
After this, Granny and the pets arrive at the hotel. Sylvester attempts to do away with Tweety before being beat up by Hector. After putting the bird back in his cage, Dora, Granny's maid, comes in and announces her dislike for animals and says that she refuses to clean up after Granny's pets.
Granny then gets a call from Louie, who asks her on a date. An elated Granny song her version of "Buffalo Gals" as she changes, and tells Sylvester to make sure Tweety continues practicing for the Cajun Canary Crooning Competition, and tells Hector to keep an eye on Sylvester... As soon as his owner leaves, Sylvester makes a dive for a certain bird, only to be eaten by a certain bulldog. Sylvester, fortunately, breaks out of Hector's mouth (literally) and, after changing his teeth, Hector gets Tweety prepped for practice, and places his cage right above his bed, so Putty Tat doesn't get any ideas...
As Tweety starts to sing, Sylvester gets another idea. He switches Tweety's song book from "Camptown Races" to "Brahms's Lullaby" witch lulls Hector to sleep.
After Tweety decides to switch to an upbeat number, two thugs, Rocky and Mugsy, come and canary-nap Tweety! An irate Sylvester declares "Nobody shteals my lunch and getsh away with it!" And goes to save the bird.
Meanwhile, at Louie and Granny's date, Granny wonders what she should get. Louie brings out his friend, the cook, and asks for some recommendations. The cook tells Granny some "good" dishes, with every one of them having the word "canary" in its name, which, understandably, makes Granny uncomfortable.
Back to Tweety and Sylvester. The thugs have taken Tweety to their hideout, where Rocky beats Mugsy for calling him "game", not realising that Mugsy was referring to their card game. Rocky then tells Mugsy to close the window, because birds could fly In and help Tweety escape. Mugsy does so, not realising that the window was where Sylvester was spying! After Tweety gives a warning to the audience "You Putty Tat wovers might want to cwose youw eyes!", Mugsy shuts Sylvester's fingers in the window. The cat manages to get his paws out of the window before realising he was still in mid- air, and continues to fall into some trash can. The cat then look at his now swollen fingers and says that he would never be able to play the base violin again...
Back at the hotel, Hector finally wakes up from his nap and realises that Tweety is gone! Knowing what Granny would do to him if she found out her beloved canary was missing, Hector begins a frantic search around the room, only to come up empty handed. Granny comes in, wearing a giant head, and greets her bulldog with some beads as Hector nervously shoves a paint bucket behind himself. Granny then sees Tweety and puts some beads over his cage, witch causes it to fall down, revealing Tweety and his cage are made out of cardboard. As Granny begins to scold Sylvester, he is also revealed to be made out of cardboard. Granny then glares at Hector, who also faints.
Back at the hideout, Tweety is singing "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" as the thugs try to watch TV. Someone then knocks, and turns out to be Sylvester, who is poorly disguised as a vacuum cleaner salesman, and uses his sample vacuum as a way to save Tweety. Then, as he makes his exit, the thugs' mistress catches Sylvester with the bird, beats the cat up, and Tweety back to the lair. Tweety notes that he finds the short trips refreshing.
At the hotel, a worried Granny tells Hector that they have to find Tweety and get the to the Cajun Canary Crooning Competition in time before Dora the not- so- good maid comes in, saying she forgot to put some cheap candies on Granny's pillow, and angrily states that she wasn't cleaning up "...All those feathers." As it turns out, Tweety left a trail of feathers for his owner to follow, witch she and Hector do.
Tweety is still at the pair when Sylvester, in a last ditch effort to save the bird, climbs up a ladder, but falls off when he tries to grab the former. Granny and Hector arrive in scene, and Granny notes to a dazed Sylvester that "...you look like something YOU dragged in!" The thugs then take Tweety and put him in their limo. Granny sees him and she, Sylvester, and Hector follow the limo containing their canary. It's revealed that the thugs took the bird to the Cajun Canary Crooning Contest, where their mistress holds Tweety and gives the boys a box, making the former get "...an uneasy feewing in my wittle gut!" Granny, Sylvester, and Hector go under the guise of members of the orchestra, and watch as a pathetically disguised Mugsy and Rocky perform as Tweety and Granny. (Rocky dresses up as Granny and Mugsy dresses up as Tweety while lip-syncing to a tape recorder of the bird singing.)
A disgusted Granny goes up and makes a citizens arrest "... for fraud, kidnapping, and wearing that dress with that hat!!" Mugsy tells Rocky that "Mr. Big" wasn't going to be happy with their failure. As Granny tries to remember who Mr. Big is, "Camptown Races" starts playing, preventing her from thinking. But when she asks to turn the tape recorder off, Mugsy says that it IS off, and the former realises it is actually her beloved canary! When she locates Tweety's voice behind the door of an actor's room, she finds that she can't get the door open, and tells Hector to find a way to get it open. The latter uses Sylvester as a battering ram to knock the door down ("It'sh times like theshe when I feel unconditionally ushed!"). Granny then finds her darling canary inside, who shows her a picture of them winning last year's contest, and the runner up was Louie Z. Anna... Mr. Big! Louie comes in, grabs Tweety, and tells Granny how he planned to kidnap Tweety so he could win this year's contest! But since his plan failed, however, he decides to simply take the bird and leave the country. As Louie makes his escape, Hector comes up in front of him with a pair of symbols, and crashes the former's head in them, allowing Tweety to escape.
Once again, Granny wins the Cajun Canary Crooning Contest for singing "Camptown Races," and as the villains get arrested. The cook from the restaurant sees Mugsy, who's still in his canary costume, and says that he was "...the biggest canary I have evah layed mah ahyes awn!" And begins to chase him all the way out the door.
Episodes[]
- 52
Theme Songs[]
- Opening
- The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
- Closing
- Merrily We Roll Along (Instrumental)
Voice Cast[]
- the late Joe Alaskey as Sylvester, Tweety, Daffy Duck, Beaky Buzzard, Charlie Dog, Mugsy, Cool Cat, Marvin the Martian, Michigan J. Frog
- the late June Foray as Granny & Witch Hazel
- Frank Welker as Tweety (chirping noises), Hector the Bulldog, Catstello
- Jim Cummings as Rocky, Tasmanian Devil, Yosemite Sam, Gossamer, Hubie, Nasty Canasta
- Stan Freberg as Pete Puma
- Jeff Bennett as Bertie, Detective Nohans
- Greg Burson as Elmer Fudd & Pepé Le Pew
- Tress MacNeille as Mama Buzzard, Gertrude
- Corey Burton as Babbit
Trivia[]
- After cancellation, the final "orphaned" episode, consisting of "The Tail End?" and "This Is the End", did not air on The WB, instead premiering two years later on Cartoon Network. The reason as to why this occurred remains unknown.
- The Looney Tunes character "Cool Cat" appears in some form in each half-hour show.
- all information on The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries came from https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sylvester_%26_Tweety_Mysteries