A Pizza Tweety-Pie

A Pizza Tweety-Pie is a 1958 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.
== Plot ==
Tweety and Granny arrive at their hotel in Venice, Italy. From his cage on the balcony, Tweety looks down at the canal and thinks it is a flooded street and that there must be a lot of barber shops down there because of the many red and white-striped poles.
As Tweety is singing "Santa Lucia" and strumming his mandolin in his cage, Sylvester spies him from his balcony across the canal. In haste, he runs out of the hotel with an open sandwich roll, and he falls into the water. He climbs out and finds a canoe and starts rowing, but forgets to loose it from the rope. After he cuts the rope, he sinks with the canoe.
Sylvester then starts paddling in a rubber raft, but Tweety takes a slingshot and punctures it. The raft floats back to the dock with Sylvester as the air leaks out, and Sylvester removes the deflated raft from his hind quarters in disgust.
Next, Sylvester tries to swing across the canal with a rope Tarzan-style, but lands in the water into the gaping mouth of a hungry shark. Sylvester wrestles his way out and swims hurriedly away.
Then, using an electric fan and a balloon tied to his waist, Sylvester attempts to float his way across through the air, but he floats too high. Tweety, again using the slingshot, shoots Sylvester down from the sky. Sylvester dons a bathing cap as he is descending, but misses the water, landing on the sidewalk, next to Tweety and Granny's hotel as it turns out. He runs into the hotel and takes the elevator up to the floor of Granny and Tweety's room, but Granny and Tweety are leaving, so Sylvester goes back down the elevator, which takes him...into the water!
As Tweety and Granny are taking a relaxing gondola ride along the canal, Sylvester is awaiting them on a bridge with a fishing rod. Sylvester hooks a passing speedboat, forcibly yanking him into the water. After a close call with a striped pole, Sylvester gets slammed into a low bridge, where there is a warning sign that reads, "Ducka you head, lowla bridgeada"!
Finally, as Sylvester is dining on a plate of spaghetti, he again hears Tweety singing "Santa Lucia", out of his cage this time, and proceeds to hurl a strand of spaghetti like a lasso to catch Tweety. Nearly strangled, Tweety screams to Granny for help. Granny clutches Sylvester's noose of pasta and substitutes a mallet in Tweety's place. As Sylvester sucks the spaghetti into his mouth, he gets clobbered squarely in the head with the mallet, causing birds to appear uttering Tweety's trademark line: "I tawt I taw a puddytat!"
== Availability ==
Lt longitude.jpg|(1994) LaserDisc Longitude and Looneytude
TweetAndLovelyVHS.jpg|(1998) VHS Looney Tunes Presents Tweety: Tweet and Lovely
I Love Tweety - Volume 3.jpg|(2001) DVD I Love Tweety: Volume 3 (restored with DVNR)
 
=== Streaming ===
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2022) (restored without DVNR)
== Notes ==
* The term "lowla bridgeada" is a pun on actress name Gina Lollobrigida.
* Portions of this picture were reused two years later in the 1960 "cheater" short, "Trip for Tat".
* The scene when Sylvester tries but fails to swing across the canal is reused in the introduction of Friz Freleng's Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie.
* When the short airs on Boomerang, the Warner Bros Family Entertainment opening sequence with Bugs Bunny and the Merrie Melodies fanfare used for movies (instead of the usual Animaniacs fanfare used for TV) is shown.
== Gallery ==
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APizzaTweetyPieRestored.jpeg|Cropped screenshot of 2020 restoration
APizzaTweetyPieLobbyCard.jpg|Lobby card
Pizzatweetiepielobby.jpg|Lobby card
H19807-L141567815.jpg|Production background
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=== TV Title Cards ===
lt a pizza snt.jpg|Sylvester and Tweety
Screenshot_20190903-072323.jpg|The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show (Final Season)
== External links ==
* "A Pizza Tweety-Pie" at the SFX Resource
Category:1958
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:Tweety Cartoons
Category:Sylvester Cartoons
Category:Granny Cartoons
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Daws Butler
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by June Foray
Category:Cartoons written by Warren Foster
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer
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