| Peck Up Your Troubles | |
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| Directed by | I. Freleng |
| Story by | Michael Maltese[1] |
| Edited by | Treg Brown |
| Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Animation by | Virgil Ross Gerry Chiniquy Manuel Perez Ken Champin Jack Bradbury (uncredited) |
| Layouts by | Hawley Pratt |
| Backgrounds by | Paul Julian |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 7:11 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Peck Up Your Troubles is a 1945Warner Bros.Merrie Melodiesanimated short directed byFriz Freleng.[2] The short was released on October 20, 1945, and starsSylvester the Cat.[3]
The cartoon marked the first appearance of Sylvester's long-time foeHector the Bulldog, who would later become a recurring character inTweety and Sylvester cartoons. The woodpecker would later reappear inA Peck o' Trouble, a Dodsworth Cat cartoon directed byRobert McKimson in 1953.
Sylvester is determined to get a male woodpecker that just moved in, high in a tree. He climbs, but the bird greases the tree, causing him to fall down; he starts to chop it down, but a mean dog (Hector, in his first appearance, though identified here on the doghouse as "Rover") stops him from cutting it (this becomes a running gag). Several other attempts follow; at one point, he puts his paw into the bird's home, and the bird puts a tomato there.
Sylvester squishes it, thinking he killed him and the bird dresses as an angel to torment him, but Sylvester sees through the disguise. Few more attempts passed and finally, Sylvester tries to blow up the tree; the dog again intervenes. Sylvester gets the dynamite off the tree and puts out the fuses, but the bird has lit them again. Sylvester dies and really becomes an angel.
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