Merrie Melodies - Tweety's S.O.S. (1951, animated short)

Tweety's S.O.S. is a 1951 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on September 22, 1951, and stars Tweety and Sylvester the Cat.

Notes:
The cartoon's entire boat sequence is later used as a basis for the economical cartoon "Trip for Tat".

Tweety's lines of dialogue "Atta girl Granny! Give him a hit in the head!" from this cartoon is later reused in the Road Runner CGI short "Flash in the Pain" in 2014.

Tweety does the same "This Wittow Piddy" sequence from "A Tale of Two Kitties" in this cartoon, only that this time Tweety's victim is Sylvester.

The original title to the cartoon was plastered over with a new title card when it was reissued in the 1959-64 season.

This cartoon, "Big Top Bunny", and "Tweet Tweet Tweety" were the only three cartoons in 1951 to get the blue Color Rings with red backgrounds.

Censorship:
When this cartoon aired on CBS, the part where Sylvester is hanging from the wire above the ship and Tweety plucks his fingers off one by one was cut.
The ABC version of this cartoon cut the part where Sylvester runs inside the ship's furnace during his chase with Tweety and jumps out the smokestack with his rear end on fire. Also cut was the part where Sylvester corners Tweety and Tweety waves a crudely drawn picture of an ocean in his face, triggering the cat's seasickness.