Muzzle Tough is a
Warner Brothers "
Merrie Melodies" animated cartoon featuring
Tweety,
Sylvester the Cat,
Granny and
Hector the Bulldog. First shown in 1954, it was written by
Warren Foster and directed by
Isadore “Friz” Freleng, with voice characterizations by
Mel Blanc.
The story begins with Granny and two moving men in their truck (which reads “Checker Movers, It’s Your Move”) searching for her new house, which they soon find. The movers walk Granny’s things past Sylvester as he is napping on top of the wall surrounding the house. Sylvester suddenly wakes up when the movers parade Tweety in his cage past him, and Tweety says, “I tawt I taw a puddytat!” Immediately, Sylvester starts to pursue Tweety atop the wall, but then crashes into a lamp post and falls off the wall. Sylvester climbs back up as Tweety is carried into the house, while another mover sets Hector’s doghouse down on the ground. Sylvester steps down upon the roof of the doghouse as he comes down from the wall, and when Hector sees him, he likewise says, “I tawt I taw a puddytat!” Hector then bites Sylvester’s tail and chases him back out to the street.
Plotting to get past Hector and finagle his way into the house, Sylvester disguises himself as a lamp, putting a shade on his head. After a mover carries him in and sets him on the table next to Tweety’s cage, Tweety plugs Sylvester’s tail into the outlet, giving Sylvester a massive electric jolt. Hector bites Sylvester and also gets zapped, then chases him out of the house and back to the street again.
Sylvester then tries posing as one of the movers...and gets Granny’s piano loaded into his arms! Tweety guides Sylvester all the way up the stairs to the top floor and through a doorway, which sends Sylvester plummeting with the piano to the street below, prompting Tweety to remark, “Ooooh, dat wast step was a wuwu!”