Behind the Tunes: Putty Problems and Canary Rows (2003 Video) User Reviews

Interesting Info On Tweety & Sylvester

[ccthemovieman-1 · 7/10 · 3 March 2007]

Tweety, the bird, and Sylvester, the cat "were a perfect team," according to Jerry Beck, cartoon historian.

"They both had strong personalities and both had been pretty well-developed (artically-speaking) by the time they hit the cartoons together which is why I think they were a dynamic duo right off the bat."

We see Tweety's first film and we also learn that Sylvester's first bird foe was a woodpecker, not Tweety.

In all, a nice little feature that is part of the Looney Tunes Golden collection Volume One.

good old putty tat

[lee_eisenberg · 6/10 · 20 January 2008]

One of the mini-documentaries created for the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1, "Behind the Tunes: Putty Problems and Canary Rows" doles out lots of basic info about Sylvester and Tweety. It pretty much assumes that the viewer knows little to nothing about the characters. Of course, it is always pretty interesting to learn about the characters' origins and how they evolved. The truth is, Tweety wasn't really the "cute" bird that people assume: when he started out, he was a real sadist. And you always gotta pity Sylvester for what Tweety does to him (kind of like how we're supposed to pity Wile E. Coyote for what befalls him).

Anyway, an OK look at the characters, but the mini-documentaries on the volumes since this one are better.

Cat and bird 101

[movieman_kev · 5/10 · 2 November 2005]

This short five and a half minute featurette, which can be found as an extra on Disc 4 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1. It's nothing more than a basic primer about the Tweety Birg & Sylvester Cat pairings, I'm thinking, with an eye geared for newbies to the classical Looney Tunes. It details the various standout cartoons they teamed-up in and tells how both of them came to be. This is really REALLY basic stuff (the same can be said for pretty much all the other Behind the Toons feauterettes that are on Volume 1, fortunately the Behind the Tune features would get so much better starting with the ones found on volume 2).

My Grade: C+