Granny

Granny
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Member of	Tune Squad
Affiliation	Tweety Bird Sylvester Hector Bugs Bunny Daffy Duck Lola Bunny Tasmanian Devil
Occupation	Pet owner Professor in Tiny Toon Adventures and Tiny Toons Looniversity Detective in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries Babysitter in Baby Looney Tunes
Goals	Taking care of Tweety
Other relative(s)	One nephew, Flyod Minton in Baby Looney Tunes
Marital status	Single
First appearance	MM: "Canary Row" (1950)
Played by	Bea Benaderet (1950-1955) June Foray (1955-2013) Ge Ge Pearson (1965) Joan Gerber (1965) Mel Blanc (1974) Tress MacNeille (1998) Stephanie Courtney (2011; young, The Looney Tunes Show) Candi Milo (since 2017) Eric Bauza (2018)

Emma Webster, better known as Granny, is a recurring character and one of the few major humans in the Looney Tunes animated franchise. Created by Friz Freleng, she is the owner of Tweety Bird, and more often than not, Sylvester and Hector. Her voice was originated by Bea Benaderet until 1955, and then by June Foray, who voiced the character for almost 60 years.

Character Description

Granny is normally depicted as a nice, good-natured widow through her many appearances. She is highly protective of beloved pet bird Tweety, which is especially evident when he is threatened (usually by Sylvester). Despite her appearance as a harmless, old woman at first, she is shown to be very clever and wise. She is proven to be much smarter and stronger than any character would assume, doing anything to prevent whatever stops in her way.

Granny is also presented as a person with old-fashioned tastes, which extend to the use of transportation (such as riding on vintage automobiles or horse buggies) and inability to relate to present day fads. This was prevalent in her appearances up until the mid-1950s; however, such characteristics were toned down significantly since, as she gained newer jobs apart from her typical role as Tweety's protecter.

She is usually seen wearing circular glasses, a grayish-white hair bun, an old-fashioned schoolmarm dress, and a necklace pendant. The appearance of her clothes varies depending on her appearances, usually ranging from a singular blue dress, to a white, long-sleeved shirt with a purple skirt.

Appearances

TV series

• The Bugs Bunny Show
• Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends
• Tiny Toon Adventures
• Animaniacs (1993)
• The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
• Duck Dodgers
• Baby Looney Tunes
• The Looney Tunes Show
• New Looney Tunes
• Looney Tunes Cartoons
• Tiny Toons Looniversity

Movies

• The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
• Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
• Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
• Space Jam
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action
• Bah Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
• Space Jam: A New Legacy

Shorts

• Looney Tunes
• Merrie Melodies
  • Canary Row
  • Tweety's S.O.S.
  • Gift Wrapped
  • Ain't She Tweet
  • Snow Business
  • Tom Tom Tomcat
  • A Street Cat Named Sylvester
  • Muzzle Tough
  • Sandy Claws
  • This is a Life?
  • Red Riding Hoodwinked
  • Tweet and Sour
  • Tugboat Granny
  • Greedy for Tweety
  • A Pizza Tweety-Pie
  • A Bird in a Bonnet
  • Tweet Dreams
  • Trip for Tat
  • The Last Hungry Cat
  • The Jet Cage
  • Hawaiian Aye Aye
  • It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House
  • Corn on the Cop
  • I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat

Theme parks

• Warner Bros. Movie World

Biography

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Gallery

Main article: Granny/Gallery

Behind the scenes

• While she is commonly known as just "Granny," she was referred to as "Emma" (and later "Emmy") by Yosemite Sam in the 1953 short Hare Trimmed. Later at the end of the 1965 short Corn on the Cop, Granny is called by a cop as "Ms. Webster."
  • In The Looney Tunes Show episode "Eligible Bachelors," the two aformentioned names are referenced when her full name is revealed to be Emma Webster.

In popular culture

• In the Archer episode "Liquid Lunch," Archer says that On the Town was Bea Benaderet's film debut, but when the others don't know who he's talking about, he tries to jog their memories by telling them she was Tweety's Granny.
• In the Velma episode "Private Velmjamin," Fred wants to return a nativity miniature model with the Looney Tunes to Father O'Rourke, after Fred briefly became Catholic. Elmer Fudd is baby Jesus, Sylvester is Joseph, Granny is Mary, and Daffy, Porky, and Bugs are the three wise men.

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