Tweetie Pie is a 1947 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on May 3, 1947, and stars Tweety with Sylvester the Cat, who is called "Thomas" in this cartoon. Tweetie Pie marks the first pairing of the characters Sylvester and Tweety, and it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1947, breaking Tom and Jerrys streak of four consecutive wins in the category and winning Warner Bros. their first Academy Award. Plot Thomas the Cat (later renamed Sylvester) captures Tweety, whom he finds outside in the snow, getting warm by a smoldering cigar stub. Thomas' unseen owner, Emma, sees him and saves Tweety from being eaten by Thomas, whom she promptly reprimands when he tries to eat him again. Tweety is brought inside, and Emma warns Thomas not to bother Tweety. Ignoring this command, Thomas initiates a series of failed attempts to get Tweety from his cage, many of which end in a noisy crash that brings Emma of the house downstairs to whack Thomas with a broom while calling him names, and then finally, throw him out altogether. Undeterred, Thomas tries to get back into the house through the chimney. Tweety puts wood in the fireplace, pours gasoline on it and lights it. The phoom sends Thomas flying right back up the chimney and into a bucket of frozen water. However, Thomas gets back in the house via a window in the basement (or study) and creates a Rube Goldberg-esque trap (virtually identical to one in Charles M Jones' 1945 Porky Pig short Trap Happy Porky) to capture Tweety. Of course, the trap narrowly backfires and injures Thomas instead. Finally, Thomas tries to capture Tweety by running up to the attic and sawing a hole around Tweety's cage to remove it that way, but he instead ends up causing the entire inner ceiling to collapse (sans Tweety's cage, which is being held in place by a beam). The faux pas creates such a racket and mess that Thomas is sure that Emma will come downstairs to wallop him and possibly kick him out again, this time for good. In a desperate attempt to avoid this, he takes her broom, breaks it in half, and tosses the pieces into the lit fireplace. This proves to be meaningless, as he then immediately finds himself being walloped repeatedly with a shovel...by Tweety.