Line #18 WesternAnimation/APizzaTweetyPie


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a_pizza_tweety_pie_413789l.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:"Santa Lucia" in Italian.]]
3	Venice, anyone?
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5	'''A Pizza Tweety Pie''' is a 1958 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon with WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird. It was directed by Creator/FrizFreleng.
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7	Granny and Tweety have just set up at their hotel Venice, Italy -- where the canary is spooked at the sight of all the poles around the canal, thinking that there's so many barber shops in the area undone by a broken dam.
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9	Settling in quickly, Tweety is just blissfully singing away when Sylvester, from a balcony in an opposite building, notices him and decides that Tweety would be a perfect ''sand-a-wich-a.''
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11	So, clearly without watching where he’s going, Sylvester takes both halves of a submarine roll and goes dashing toward his prey. Thereafter, things go as well as they usually do for the puddy tat. Among a canoe that needed to be unanchored, an elevator ride, an inflatable raft, a balloon powered by a table fan, and a [[RodAndReelRepurposed fishing rod]] which ends up snaring a speedboat instead, the ending is usually (but not always) a wet one.
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15	!!DUCKA YOU HEAD, LOWLA TROPEADA:
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17	* BrickJoke: Before Sylvester appears in this short, Tweety sings "Santa Lucia". He sings it again near the end while the cat is eating spaghetti.
18	* CirclingBirdies: In the absolute last scene of the cartoon, Sylvester sees white outlines of them. Interestingly, they are the ones who deliver the only instance of Tweety’s catch phrase, “I tawt I taw a puddy tat!”
19	* FailedASpotCheck: The sign that hangs over the tunnel under which the speedboat passes and Sylvester fails to notice (because he was distracted by how he overcame a gondola pole in his path).
20	-->DUCKA YOU HEAD / [[Creator/GinaLollobrigida LOWLA BRIDGEADA]]
21	* GlobalIgnorance: Tweety looks out the window at the Venetian canals and thinks the entire city is flooded. He also feels sorry for all those barbershops underwater, mistaking the gondola poles for barber poles. In fairness to Tweety, however, he is a little bird.
22	* GratuitousItalian: While in a gondola, Granny says, "This is so cacciatore." Which is utter nonsense, as ''cacciatore'' is Italian for hunter, and refers to the dish chicken cacciatore (in other words, prepared hunter style).
23	* ImprovisedWeapon: When he hears Tweety singing again, Sylvester uses a long strand of spaghetti as a lasso. It reaches its target. (So does the mallet that gets tied to it.)
24	* ShoutOut: The "Lowla Bridgeada" sign is a pun on famous Italian actress Creator/GinaLollobrigida.
25	* ThreateningShark: Very much downplayed. As he tries swinging over to the opposite balcony to catch Tweety, Sylvester winds up going straight into the drink — and into the awaiting jaws of a shark. He’s out of there in less than three seconds!
26	* WhatADrag: While Granny takes Tweety on a gondola ride, Sylvester tries to catch the cage with a fishing rod. The hook gets caught on the speedboat instead, dragging the poor cat across the canal, in the path of a striped pole (which he lifts his tail up to allow to go between his legs), and into a bridge.

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