"Gift Wrapped" is a Looney Tunes cartoon short featuring Sylvester, Tweety, Hector and Granny. The short was released on February 16, 1952.
It’s Christmas morning, and Sylvester is excited to get a gift from Santa, but is disappointed to get only a rubber mouse. Hoping for something more edible, he sees Granny’s gift — a Tweety bird — and decides to switch the labels. Granny finds out just in time to stop Sylvester from eating poor Tweety, but the cat won’t give up so easily, and neither will another gift for Granny against the cat: Hector the bulldog.
"Gift Wrapped" provides examples of:
- Bowdlerization: Many TV airings, such as on ABC, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and the now-defunct WB network have censored, either entirely or partially, the Hopalong Cassidy scene. Whereas ABC only censored Sylvester getting shot by Tweety's toy gun and subsequently falling down the Christmas tree, Cartoon Network, Boomerang and The WB! censored the Hopalong Cassidy scene entirely, due to both the Indian stereotyping note and gunfire from the toy gun. Oddly enough, the later Clip Show cartoon Tweet Dreams showed the offending scene intact. Since 2003, however, Cartoon Network and Boomerang (and now MeTV) have shown the cartoon intact.
- ABC also shortened Granny bashing Sylvester with her broom and cut the shot of Sylvester staggering down the stairs after getting blown up by the dynamite stick that Tweety substituted for himself in the cage.
- Christmas Episode
- Little Useless Gun: Tweety threatens Sylvester with a tiny pop gun. A bemused Sylvester pulls on its cork… and gets blasted in the face.
- Packed Hero: When Sylvester calls Tweety his Christmas present, Tweety points to a big present instead. Sylvester opens it, and out pops Hector the bulldog, who instantly swallows him in one bite.
- Shout-Out:
- The cartoon opens with a narrator reciting the opening lines of A Visit From St Nicholas.
Narrator: ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Sylvester: [waiting by a mouse hole] You’re just not whistling Dixie, brother!- Tweety dresses as cowboy star Hopalong Cassidy.
