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| - The episode opens on Christmas Eve in the town of Bedspread Falls, where an elderly, absent-minded man named Willie Daily (an expy of Uncle Billy Bailey from It's a Wonderful Life) is frantically searching for an envelope containing $8,000 that he has lost, or else his family's savings and loan business will be ruined. His pet mice, Hubie and Bertie, observe his situation and decide they should help him. Looking at one of their owner's Christmas cards, they give Willie the idea that he should call his sister, Granny. Soon after, Granny arrives in Bedspread Falls, driving a car with giant robot legs, along with her pets, Tweety, Sylvester, and Hector. After Granny reunites with her brother, she introduces her pets to Willie and his mice. Sylvester naturally attempts to eat Hubie and Bertie, but Granny forces him to spit them out ("Been there, done that," quips Tweety). Willie then explains the situation to his sister; he was supposed to be making the family's weekly deposit at the bank, but when he arrived at the bank, he had lost the envelope containing the deposit. Granny asks him if he didn't make any unplanned stops on the way over, and upon noticing that Willie has quite a few strings tied around his fingers, she decides that they should retrace his steps. While they're talking, Hector becomes enticed by the appearance of a mynah bird that jumps out of one of Willie's filing cabinets, and Sylvester again tries to catch and eat the mice. In his attempt to do so, he ends up falling out the window and landing on the snow-covered street below, serendipitously finding Willie's footprints from his previous excursion. The group follows Willie's footprints through the town, and it becomes evident that Willie's memory is pretty bad, as his past footprints show that he actually made quite a few stops on the way to the bank. Granny investigates the first place her brother stopped off at, Bowers' Drugstore, where he'd come in to get a newspaper and also a sarsaparilla. Mr. Bowers mentions to Granny that Willie didn't bother reading the newspaper he bought and instead placed his envelope inside it. As they leave, Mr. Bowers also gives Willie his keys, which he had dropped the previous time he came there. After Willie remembers he had stopped off at the movie theater to see a Three Stooges film festival, he also remembers that, before he went to the bank, he stopped at a nearby mailbox to send his Christmas cards. They come to the mailbox just as the mailman is picking up the mail and look through the mail to see if Willie had accidentally dropped the money envelope in there, but they have no luck. Just then, a taxi driver drives up and reveals to Granny that he had taken Willie to Rossi's tavern to get some hot chocolate. The group piles into the taxi cab and the driver gives them a lift to Rossi's; when they arrive, the driver then tells Willie that he left his horse in the cab last time he took the cab, and Rossi himself informs them that Willie left a bathtub in his club. Finally, the group arrives at the last destination Willie had gone to - Totter Bank. Inside, Granny meets the bank's owner, Mr. Potter Freddy T. Totter, the self-proclaimed meanest man in town. Totter accuses Willie of trying to make a deposit with no money and demands the elderly siblings to leave his bank. Outside, Sylvester is trying to eat Tweety, Hubie, and Bertie, but he ends up breaking his teeth on ice sculptures of them. While the cat starts shivering, Tweety and the mice then look inside the window of Totter's office and notice a newspaper on Totter's desk. They then see Totter coming inside and opening the newspaper to reveal Willie's missing money envelope. Figuring out that Totter stole the deposit, the mice and Tweety hatch a plan. That night, Tweety, Hubie and Bertie send Sylvester and Hector, disguised as Santa Claus, down the chimney into Totter's office. As Sylvester keeps Totter distracted by presenting him Hector's dog collar, Hector manages to grab the newspaper, but not before stamping it with Totter's personal stamp. After Hector gives a signal, the mice pull Sylvester back up the chimney by dropping an anvil that he was tied to, accidentally leaving Hector behind. Before Totter can react, the bulldog takes his collar back and dashes out as quickly as he can. In the park, the pets bring the newspaper to Granny and Willie. Granny inspects the newspaper and finds all the clues - a sarsaparilla stain, a grease stain from the cab door, and a hot chocolate stain from Rossi's - that indicate that it is indeed the same newspaper in which Willie had been keeping the money envelope, but Willie then points out Totter's personal stamp on the front page. Granny, Willie, the pets, and a police officer confront Mr. Totter in his office, but he denies having possession of the missing envelope. Just then, the mynah bird that Hector's been noticing all day springs out of Mr. Totter's desk, bringing the envelope to Willie and thus exposing Mr. Totter's theft. The police officer takes him off to jail (all the while he crazily shouts out "Merry Christmas" to everything, similar to George Bailey at the end of It's a Wonderful Life), and Granny decides she'll hold on to the envelope so that Willie won't lose it again. As they leave to finally make the deposit (with Willie saying they can still make it to the Daily family dinner at his nephew's house), Sylvester chases Tweety out into the snow, but he is thwarted by Hubie and Bertie tossing a brick in his mouth, and the episode ends on Tweety and a dazed Sylvester quoting more lines from It's a Wonderful Life.
- Granny attempts to figure out who stole her brother's $8000 he made from his company.
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