Room and Bird

This cartoon has Sylvester Cat, Tweety Bird, and a bulldog all snuck in a deluxe apartment building where no pets are aloud. They have to avoid the manager while chasing each other around. I'm not the biggest Tweety bird fan, I thought at one point he may have been tolerable, but I got over that fast. I'm sorry, I did give him so many chances to change my mind, but Nada. The biggest laughs come from Sylvester and the bulldog (ok and Tweety in ONE instance when they dress up like one old woman) This animated short can be seen on Disc 3 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2.

My Grade: C+

Friz Freleng's 'Room and Bird' is one of the better cartoons in the largely dull Sylvester and Tweety series. One of the crucial elements that elevates most of the better Sylvester and Tweety cartoons is the addition of more characters to be involved in the chase. 'Room and Bird' features the standard Bulldog but more crucially it features a hotel manager who is determined to keep his establishment free of pets. This extra angle means that the characters have to occasionally break from the chase and sometime set their differences aside in order to evade detection. Also working in 'Room and Bird's' favour is Tweety's less irritating that usual performance. Freleng's Tweety has a tendency to be overtly cute and slow cartoons down with eyelash fluttering poppet-isms. In 'Room and Bird' there simply isn't time for this sort of filler material and Tweety actually gets to deliver quite an amusing punch line to the whole she-bang.

Hey! - What do you know? It looks like sweet, little Tweety has got himself an ardent admirer.... Ahhh!... Now, isn't that nice!?

Well - That's not exactly as nice as it sounds since the "admiring one" is, in reality, Sylvester, the cat, who, of course, wants to make a nice, tasty snack out of our darling, little Tweety.

Anyway - Welcome to the Spinster Arms Hotel where nice, little old ladies regularly smuggle their pets into the building right under the nose of the stern, rule-abiding house detective (who soon finds out that he's being played for a total dupe).... Indeed!

What's most funny about "Room and Bird" is the fact that Sylvester and Tweety are in neighboring rooms in a hotel where no pets are allowed, and the manager keeps suspecting that something's up...all leading up to what happens at the end! Truth be told, the hotel manager reminded me just a little bit of Mr. Hand in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", how he suspected everyone of breaking the rules. But that's just me. All in all, it's not a great cartoon by any stretch, but I just like the sight of seemingly lowly characters rattling authority figures (think "Animal House", and not just because of the animals here).

All in all, an OK cartoon. Worth seeing.

The Spinsters Arms is an apartment building which doesn't allow pets. One old lady smuggles Tweety Bird into the building past its manager. Another old lady smuggles Sylvester the Cat into the same building. The pets get left alone in adjacent apartments. Sylvester hears Tweety's singing and tries to get a snack. There is also a dog in another room.

This is a solid Tweety and Sylvester cartoon. It is a good premise. It is a lot of the standard Tweety, Sylvester, dog interactions. I even like the building man. More than anything, I like the ending. In fact, I would like more of you-know-whats.