I Taw a Putty Tat

I Taw a Putty Tat is a short Merrie Melodies animated cartoon released on April 2, 1948, and directed by Friz Freleng. It stars Tweety and Sylvester, both voiced by Mel Blanc. The uncredited voice of the lady of the house (seen only from the neck down, as she talks on the phone) was Bea Benaderet. The bird's inability to enunciate certain letters, possibly due to having a beak instead of lips or, more likely, because it is always depicted as a baby bird in order to explain why it never flies away from danger (so it speaks in baby-talk) is the reason for the pronunciation of his famous catch-phrase that forms part of this cartoon's title (as in "I Thought I Saw a Pussy Cat"). This is the first film whose title included Tweety's speech-impaired term for a cat. The "standard" spelling was eventually changed from "putty tat" to "puddy tat" as that is the way many small children say it.