Fowl Weather

Fowl Weather is a 1953 Happy Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng

Plot

Mammy Two Shoes leaves Butch The Bulldog in charge of looking after Olga The Owl while she's away, otherwise she will shoot Butch. Tom Cat tries to eat Olga first by disguising himself as a scarecrow then Butch starts barking and Tom hits him with his wooden leg and yells Aaaaah, Shaddap! Butch gets back up and bites the wooden leg and chases Tom away. now out of his cage, Olga decides to look around. He decides to greet the farm animals. Hello Moo-Moo Cow even tries insulting the pig with Hi Dirty Piggy After detecting a Sheep to really be Tom in a rubber mask (Hello Puddy Cat) Olga takes cover in a Chicken Coop.

Tom tries several times to get into the coop using a toy soldier, dressing himself as a hen only to be stopped by The Rooster who beats him soundly. While mimicking one of The Baby Chicks, Olga came across a worm and tells the piece of spaghetti with eyes to hide from the other chickens. A last attempt involves Tom still in hen costume and the rooster waiting while Tom lays eggs, The Rooster uses a grenade to make him hatch one. At this point Butch realizes Olga's absence and demands to know his whereabouts. Short on time, and fearing Mammy Two Shoes will kill him he paints Tom purple stuffs the cat in Olga's Owl cage and has him act like Olga

Mammy Two Shoes returns and the ruse works. Meanwhile Olga also returns and notices the change of circumstances. If he's a bird then dat makes me a puddy cat! Olga claims and starts acting like a cat, much to Butch's shock

Censorship

On ABC the part where the rooster orders Tom to "hatch" a grenade was edited to remove the scene of the rooster getting the grenade putting it under Tom and the grenade exploding

The CBS version cuts the same scene as ABC

The UK Boomerang version keeps the grenade scene but cuts a violent scene of Butch The Bulldog imagining himself being shot to death by Mammy Two Shoes as punishment for not safeguarding Olga As of 2013, the short has been shown uncut on Boomerang