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This successful pairing cemented Tweety and Sylvester as a popular duo, ensuring their continued partnership in subsequent appearances due to their substantial star power. However, Sylvester also featured in numerous shorts without Tweety, notably in the Hippety Hopper series alongside Sylvester Jr., directed by Robert McKimson .
Both Sylvester and Tweety appeared in other cartoons before being paired for "Tweetie Pie." Since this first pairing, Tweety has appeared almost exclusively with Sylvester. Other regular characters added spice to the Sylvester and Tweety cartoons, including Granny, Tweety's owner and protector, and a bulldog, who, in his general dislike for ...
Coincidentally, both "Tweetie Pie" and "The Cagey Canary" were written by Michael Maltese. Sylvester does not speak in this short; the other Tweety shorts where Sylvester is mute are "Bad Ol' Putty Tat", "Putty Tat Trouble", and "Tree Cornered Tweety".
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Even so, Sylvester appeared in many cartoons without Tweety, as Tweety appeared in only 42 cartoons between 1942-64 and Sylvester appeared in 103 from 1945-69, excluding his prototypes. Tweety did appear in cameos without Sylvester in the 1954 cartoon " No Barking ".
"Tweetie Pie" is a 1947 Looney Tunes cartoon, starring Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird. It was the first time that Sylvester and Tweety starred together, although each had appeared in previous Looney Tunes shorts. In this one, as usual, Sylvester—actually called "Thomas"—is trying to eat Tweety.
Allegedly, when Tweety's creator, director Bob Clampett, left the Warner Bros. studio in 1946, he was working on a fourth film starring Tweety, whom he would pair with Friz Freleng’s Sylvester, who previously appeared with Porky Pig in his (Clampett's) cartoon Kitty Kornered (released in 1946).
"Tweetie Pie" was the first cartoon to have its characters Sylvester and Tweety appear together (note: each of those characters had appeared in cartoons originally released before this one).
