Tweet Dreams

Tweet Dreams is a 1959 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.
== Title ==
The title of the short is a pun on the term "sweet dreams".
== Plot ==
At the Dog and Cat Clinic, psychiatrist Dr. Milt Towne sees Sylvester, who is having a nervous breakdown. He recounts a short scene from his kittenhood where his father wouldn't teach him how to catch mice. Then he tells of his troubles trying to fish and first meeting Tweety (in flashbacks from "Sandy Claws").
Sylvester then tells the doctor about trying to catch Tweety at the circus (from "Tweety's Circus"). Then about his embarrassment when he hid in Granny's knitting basket and his fur was knitted into a sweater (from "A Street Cat Named Sylvester"). Finally, he relates the tale of Tweety shooting him in the face with a gun and Granny shooting him in the face with a plunger (scenes from "Gift Wrapped").
Sylvester notices that the doctor is snoring. When he wakes up, the doctor makes an excuse about having to fly to Detroit for an appointment that afternoon, and he jumps out the window and literally flies away. Sylvester flies out the window after him.
== Availability ==
=== Streaming ===
lt boomerang.jpg|Boomerang App (2018 - )
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2022) (restored)
== Censorship ==
* ABC's The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show cut the scene from "Tweety's Circus" where the elephant hits Sylvester with his trunk, as well as the Hopalong Cassidy/Indian sequence from "Gift Wrapped" as it is when said short aired on the show.https://web.archive.org/web/20240224055627/https://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-t.aspx
== Notes ==
* The scene of Sylvester as a child is actually a scene of Sylvester Junior from "Too Hop to Handle", though using the establishing shot from the opening of "Cheese It, the Cat!".
* The short lacks a visible MPAA number on the credits card.
* It is the only appearance of Sylvester Junior and Tweety in the same cartoon, though the two never interact since they only appear in flashbacks, and the footage of Junior is said to be a flashback of a young Sylvester.
**Sylvester Junior's brief cameo in this cartoon as a flashback of a young Sylvester would later be referenced in the The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode "A Mynah Problem" where in that episode Sylvester has a flashback to his childhood; in the flashback sequence, as with this cartoon, Sylvester resembles his son physically.
*The Apartment Building used in the first flashback was borrowed from "Cheese It, the Cat!"
* Most of this cartoon was used in the Thanksgiving special Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet.
* The doctor, "Milt Towne", is possibly a reference to musician Milt Franklyn.
* Granny and Tweety's respective screen times in this cartoon are limited to flashbacks (in the form of archive footage).
*Although all the other Cartoon Network and Boomerang stations (including the USA) air horribly faded copies of the cartoon, a remastered (but unrestored) copy of the cartoon has been released on the Italian VHS release Silvestro e Gonzales: Matti e mattatori (as pictured in the second video in the infobox), but hasn't been released on DVD yet. Eventually, this short was restored for the HBO Max streaming service in 2020. The restored version is also used when the cartoon is shown on MeTV.
== Gallery ==
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TweetDreamsRestored.jpeg|Cropped screenshot of 2020 restoration
Tweet Dreams Lobby Card.png|Lobby card
===TV Title Cards===
lt tbbats tweet dreams.jpg|The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
==References==
Category:1959
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:Sylvester Cartoons
Category:Tweety Cartoons
Category:Sylvester Junior Cartoons
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Bea Benaderet
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by June Foray
Category:Cartoons produced by John W. Burton
Category:Cartoons written by Friz Freleng
Category:Cartoons written by Warren Foster
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Hawley Pratt
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Tom O'Loughlin
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with music by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons that reuse footage from earlier cartoons