Tweety Bird

Tweety Bird
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)
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
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.

Appearances

TV series

• The Bugs Bunny Show
• Tiny Toon Adventures
• The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
• Baby Looney Tunes
• The Looney Tunes Show
• New Looney Tunes
• Looney Tunes Cartoons
• Bugs Bunny Builders
• Tiny Toons Looniversity

Movies

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

Shorts

• Looney Tunes
• Merrie Melodies

Directed by Bob Clampett (1942-1945)

• A Tale of Two Kitties
• Birdy and the Beast
• A Gruesome Twosome

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

• Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol
• Carrotblanca
• Superior Duck (cameo)
• Museum Scream
• I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat

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

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".

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  Official logo of the Tweety & Kitty merchandise line.

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.

In popular culture

• In the 1984 film Gremlins, there is a doll of Tweety in the department store.
• 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 The Big Bang Theory episode "The Desperation Emanation," Looney Tunes #189 (featuring Sylvester and Tweety on the cover) is behind Stuart when he talks to the gang.
• In the Parks and Recreation episode "Bowling for Votes," Ron accidentally lightly gets Tom's finger caught between two bowling bowls. Tom whines so badly that Ann asks if he's a female bird then calls him Tweety Bird.
• 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 Fresh Off the Boat episode "Workin' the 'Ween," Louis dresses himself and Maria as Sylvester and Tweety, respectively, hoping to distract her enough that she doesn't remember she wants her pacifier. He says to her, "I tawt I saw a puddy tat."
• 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.
• In the Teen Titans Go! episode "The Great Azarathian Bake-Off," when Mar watches a dog chase Cat, she comments, "I thought I saw I puddy cat," with her Grr responding, "You did. You did see a puddy cat."

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The Big Bang Theory

• "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.
• "The Wheaton Recurrence:" Sheldon advises Will Wheaton not to jump on Twitter about his common spare, before getting a strike himself, and then tells Wheaton to "Tweet that, Tweety Bird!"

Full House

• "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.
• "Middle Age Crazy," "Fogged In," "Working Mothers, "Pal Joey," "El Problema Grande de D.J.," "Blast from the Past," "Nerd for a Day," "Joey & Stacy and... Oh, Yeah, Jesse," "Those Better Not Be the Days," "The I.Q. Man," "Terror in Tanner Town," "Happy New Year:" A 1986 Looney Tunes poster was added to Joey's bedroom in the second season onwards, featuring Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Sylvester, Road Runner, and Tweety.

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