Tweety Bird
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Tweety Bird | |
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![]() I tawt I taw a puddy tat! | |
Species | Yellow canary |
Gender | Male |
Member of | Tune Squad Looney Builders |
Affiliation | Granny Sylvester Sweetie Bird Hector |
Other relative(s) | One descendant, Royal Tweetums, in Loonatics Unleashed |
Marital status | Single |
First appearance | MM: "A Tale of Two Kitties" (1942) |
Played by | Mel Blanc (1942–1989) Jeff Bergman (1990–2018) Bob Bergen (since 1990) Greg Burson (1994–1998) Joe Alaskey (1995–2011) Eric Goldberg (1996-2003) Sam Vincent (2001–2006) Billy West (2003) Eric Bauza (since 2018) |
File:Early Tweety.png Bob Clampett's Tweety | |
File:S&TM Tweety.png The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries | |
![]() Space Jam | |
![]() Baby Looney Tunes | |
File:BIA Tweety.png Looney Tunes: Back in Action | |
File:TLTS Tweety.png The Looney Tunes Show | |
File:NLT Tweety.png New Looney Tunes | |
File:ANL Tweety.png Space Jam: A New Legacy | |
File:CGI Tweety.png CGI Tweety in Space Jam: A New Legacy | |
File:LTC Tweety.png Looney Tunes Cartoons | |
![]() Bugs Bunny Builders | |
File:TTL Tweety.png Tiny Toons Looniversity |
Tweety Bird, also known as Tweety Pie or simply known as Tweety for short, is a yellow canary bird and a major character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical shorts. The character was introduced in the 1942 short A Tale of Two Kitties, directed by Bob Clampett. He was first paired with Sylvester in 1947 for the short Tweetie Pie, which won Warner Bros. Cartoons its first Academy Award. Tweety subsequently appeared in 46 cartoons during the Golden Age, made between 1942 and 1964. His voice was originated by Mel Blanc.
Tweety's protégé in Tiny Toon Adventures is Sweetie Bird.
Character description
Appearances
TV series
Movies
Shorts
Directed by Bob Clampett (1942-1945)
Directed by Friz Freleng and Gerry Chiniquy
- Tweetie Pie
- I Taw a Putty Tat
- Bad Ol' Putty Tat
- Home, Tweet Home
- All A Bir-r-r-d
- Canary Row
- Putty Tat Trouble
- Room and Bird
- Tweety's S.O.S.
- Tweet Tweet Tweety
- Gift Wrapped
- A Bird in A Guilty Cage
- Snow Business
- Fowl Weather
- Tom Tom Tomcat
- A Street Cat Named Sylvester
- Catty Cornered
- Dog Pounded
- Muzzle Tough
- Satan's Waitin'
- No Barking (cameo)
- Sandy Claws
- Tweety's Circus
- Red Riding Hoodwinked
- Heir-Conditioned (cameo)
- Tweet and Sour
- Tree Cornered Tweety
- Tugboat Granny
- Tweet Zoo
- Tweety and the Beanstalk
- Birds Anonymous
- Greedy for Tweety
- A Pizza Tweety-Pie
- A Bird in a Bonnet
- Trick or Tweet
- Tweet and Lovely
- Tweet Dreams
- Hyde and Go Tweet
- Trip for Tat
- The Rebel Without Claws
- The Last Hungry Cat
- The Jet Cage
- Hawaiian Aye Aye
Later appearences
Comics
Video games
- Sylvester and Tweety in Cagey Capers
- Looney Tunes Collector
- Taz: Wanted
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action
- Looney Tunes Dash!
- Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem
Theme parks
Biography
Debut Series
We're All a Little Looney
The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
Come On and Slam! and Welcome to the Jam!
Tweety Gets Modern
Going Down the Rabbit Hole
It's Hard Hat Time
Tweety Sells Out
Development
Gallery
- Main article: Tweety Bird/Gallery
Toys and merchandise
Partnerships
- On November 15, 2001, Warner Bros. and Sanrio launched the Tweety & Kitty collaboration (Looney Tunes x Sanrio) where Hello Kitty appears with Tweety Bird. The first merchandise in Japan featuring Hello Kitty and Tweety Bird was launched in March 2002, with later releases to other parts of Asia (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore). In a press comment, Kunihiko Tsuji said Sanrio was proud of the collaboration; and saw it as a step for global cooperation similar to Hello Kitty's philosophy that "you can never have too many friends".[1]
Behind the scenes
- Tweety's name is a play on words, as it originally meant "sweetie", along with "tweet" being an English onomatopoeia for the sounds of birds.
- Despite the perception people have regarding Tweety's gender, due in part to the long eyelashes and a high-pitched voice, he is male.[2][3]
In popular culture
- In the 1984 film Gremlins, there is a doll of Tweety in the department store.
- In the Full House episode "Our Very First Night," when Joey sees that his nieces are awake past their bedtime, he rhetorically asks them about if they should be sleeping about Tweety Bird, Big Bird, and Larry Bird.
- In the 1989 film Heathers, Heather McNamara tries to act anonymously on the phone to the radio station by calling herself Tweety after looking at her pet bird, even though she had already accidentally revealed herself.
- In the 1990 film Mermaids, a kid dresses up as Tweety for Halloween.
- In the 1993 film Wayne's World 2, when Kim seduces Garth by kissing his hand, he starts sputtering random lines from fictional characters, such as Tweety's "I thought I saw I puddy cat."
- In the sitcom Moesha, Uncle Bernie affectionately called Andell Tweety.
- In the My Parents Are Aliens episode "The Naked Truth," the recently deceased school budgie was called Tweety.
- In the 2003 film Rugrats Go Wild, Spike (who can be heard through Eliza's gift) makes fun of Siri the clouded leopard by calling her a pussy cat, and then mocks her even more by saying, "You're a very scary putty tat" in the same manner as Tweety would say to Sylvester.
- In the Arrested Development episode "Switch Hitter," George Sr. mocked Gob's dance by comparing it to that of Tweety.
- In the Doctor Who episode "Fear Her," a shirt featuring Tweety appears in Chloe's wardrobe as Rose rummages through to investigate the noise she heard.
- In the pilot of 30 Rock, a poster for The Girl Show has Jenna wearing overalls featuring Tweety.
- In the Big Bang Theory episode "The Bat Jar Conjecture," Penny tests Leonard and Sheldon's knowledge of pop culture, with one question being "Tweety tawt he taw a what?" Sheldon responds with Romulan, one of the alien adversaries in the Star Trek sci-fi TV and film franchise. They act proud believing they answered correctly.
- In the 2023 film The Flash, the alternate 2013 version of Barry Allen has a Looney Tunes background screen on his computer, which includes Tweety, Sylvester, Bugs, Daffy, Road Runner, and Wile E.
References
- ↑ Raving Toy Maniac - "Hello Kitty teams up with Tweety"
- ↑ Beck, Jerry (May 27, 2005). "Tweety – Male or Female?". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on December 23, 2012.
- ↑ "Looney Tunes - Stars of the Show - Tweety". Warner Bros. Archived from the original on October 1, 2002.
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