Snow Business

Snow Business is a 1953 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.
== Title ==
The cartoon's title is a pun on "show business."
== Plot ==
A security guard refuses to let Granny drive her car back into the mountain cabin because the roads are blocked due to a bad snowstorm, but Granny pleads to be let through because her bird and cat would starve inside the cabin.
Meanwhile, friends Sylvester and Tweety are alone in Granny's mountain cabin. A radio report announces that due to heavy snow the roads will be blocked for six weeks. Panicked, Sylvester nervously checks the cabin for food but finds nothing but boxes and boxes of bird seed. He tries to talk Tweety into being cooked, first in a sailboat in a kettle on the stove, then ice skating in an oiled frying pan. Meanwhile, a hungry mouse keeps trying to eat Sylvester, and has better luck in eating Sylvester than Sylvester has in eating Tweety.
Granny finally arrives on snowshoes with a backpack full of food, but it's just more bird seed, much to Sylvester's disappointment. Sylvester munches the bird seed miserably, but the mouse has one last try at eating Sylvester. When Tweety asks Sylvester how he liked the bird seed, the mouse bites him on the tail, Sylvester yells and flies up in the air. Tweety says "Aw, come now, it can't be that bad."
== Availability ==
lt clt 1992.jpg|(1992) VHS Christmas Looney Tunes (with the original ending)
StarsOfSpaceJam SylvesterAndTweety.jpg|(1996) VHS Stars of Space Jam: Sylvester and Tweety
Spacetweety.jpg|(1997) LaserDisc Japanese Looney Tunes LaserDiscs Sylvester and Tweety
Bumper05.jpg|(1997) VHS Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 5)
HomeTweetHomeVHS.jpg|(1998) VHS Looney Tunes Presents Tweety: Home Tweet Home
LTCE VOL 13 COMIC CAT-TASTROPHIES.jpg|(1999) VHS Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Volume 13: Comic Cat-Tastrophies (restored with ending card, with DVNR)
I Love Tweety - Volume 2.jpg|(2001) DVD I Love Tweety: Volume 2, (restored with ending card, with DVNR)
Christmas Collection Looney Tunes UK VHS.jpg|(2003) VHS Christmas Collection Looney Tunes
Golden Collection box 2.jpg|(2004) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2, Disc Three, (restored with ending card, with DVNR)
Large.jpg|(2004) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 2 Disc 1 (restored with ending card, with DVNR)
lt cbts1.jpg|(2005) DVD Looney Tunes Collection Best of Tweety and Sylvester Volume 1
SuperStars SylvesterAndTweety.jpg|(2010) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars' Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy (USA has Golden Collection print; European box has VHS/TV unrestored transfer)
lt bbot tp.jpg|(2011) DVD Tweety Pie
lt bbot s.jpg|(2011) DVD Sylvester
lt 3fcbo.jpg|(2012) DVD Looney Tunes 3 Feature Collection Best Of
lt spotlight df.jpg|(2014) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 2-3 Repack
lt ssfm2.jpg|(2017) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars Family Multi-Feature Vol. 2, Disc 2
lt sosj st dvd.jpg|(2018) DVD Stars of Space Jam: Sylvester and Tweety (restored with ending card, with DVNR)
lt spotlight v1-3.jpg|(2018) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 1-3 Repack
lt sosj cv1.jpg|(2019) DVD Stars of Space Jam Collection Volume 1 (restored with ending card, with DVNR)
=== Streaming ===
Lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2022) (restored with ending card, without DVNR)
Lt max.jpg|Max (2024 - ) (restored with ending card, without DVNR)
File:Lt itunes.jpg|iTunes (-) (restored with ending card, without DVNR)
== Censorship ==
* When this short was shown on CBS, the part where the hunger-crazed mouse sticks Sylvester's tail in a toaster and Sylvester extinguishes the flames with an ashtray was cut.http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-s.aspx
== Notes ==
* This short provides an anomaly in the Sylvester & Tweety pairings: In this one, Tweety and Sylvester start off as friends. It is also also a rare short in these Tweety/Sylvester pairings where Sylvester is in the role of a victim instead of being the aggressor; in this case, Sylvester attempts to eat Tweety because he would starve, and is also the prey of a crazed mouse whom is desperate for food.
* The short was later remade as the Pink Panther short "Pinknic" in 1967.
* This is the first short where Tweety never uses his catchphrase "I tawt I taw a puddy tat!"
* Sylvester's frantic reactions to search for food around the kitchen upon finding out that he will starve due to the closure of the mountain roads is similar to that in "Canned Feud" (1951). Coincidentally, both cartoons depict Sylvester being heavily victimized by a mouse instead of the other way around.
* The original ending card was lost when many later prints replaced the end card with a 1959-60 MM end card. When this short was later digitally remastered and restored and released on the Japanese DVD I Love Tweety: Volume 2 and Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2, the original end card was plastered from another cartoon in the 1948-49 or 1952–53 seasons to look like the original end card. For unknown reasons, it is unknown why WB did not do this for "Kit for Cat" on Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1, as the original end card from this short could have been used for that short.
* The European version of the Looney Tunes Super Stars' Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy uses the unrestored VHS transfer, thus keeping the 1959-60 MM end card. However, the American version of the DVD set uses the Japanese DVD/Golden Collection DVD print.https://vimeo.com/370476310
* Sylvester's scream of pain when the mouse bites his tail at the end of the cartoon would later be re-used as a stock sound effect in "Zipping Along" when Wile E. Coyote gets caught in mousetraps and in "A Street Cat Named Sylvester" when Hector bites Sylvester's tail. Coincidentally, all three cartoons using this exact same stock sound effect were released in 1953.
** This same stock sound effect is also later re-used in "Stupor Duck" (1956) when Daffy is launched to the moon by a rocket, "Mexican Cat Dance" (1963) when Sylvester gets pinned in the rear by Speedy Gonzales and "Chariots of Fur" (1994) when Wile E. Coyote accidentally wraps his arms around himself while wearing the cactus costume, as well as the Tom and Jerry Tales Nintendo DS video game which Warner Bros. would later produce in 2006.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkNbqoQUe5M&ab_channel=WorldofLongplays
* The lobby card of the cartoon (pictured in the gallery below) depicts a scene reminiscent to that of "Putty Tat Trouble" (1951) where Sylvester attempts to catch and eat Tweety whom is cleaning out his nest off snow. This scene does not exist in the actual cartoon short itself, since in this cartoon Sylvester & Tweety both reside in Granny's log cabin instead of an outdoor nest.
== Gallery ==
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LTMMLC4.jpg|Lobby card
==References==
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:1953
Category:Sylvester Cartoons
Category:Tweety Cartoons
Category:Granny Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Cartoons written by Warren Foster
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Hawley Pratt
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Carlos Manríquez
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Bea Benaderet
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:Re-released cartoons whose original titles are known to exist