| Tweety Bird | |
|---|---|
[[File: |250px]] Tweety | |
| Species | Yellow Canary |
| Gender | Male |
| Aliases | Tweety |
| Confidants | Granny, Hector, Tasmanian Devil, Aooga, Sweetie Pie |
| Rivals | Sylvester, Marvin the Martian |
| Signature | I thought I saw a putty tat! I did! I did t saw a putty tat! Bad ol' putty Tat |
| First appearance | A Tale of Two Kitties (1942) |
| Voiced by | Mel Blanc (1942–1989) Jeff Bergman (1990–1993, 2011–2014) Bob Bergen (1990–present) Greg Burson (1994) Joe Alaskey (1995–2003, 2011) Eric Goldberg (1996–2003) Samuel Vincent (2002–2005) Billy West (2003) Eric Bauza (2019–brief) |
Tweety (also known as Tweety Bird and Tweety Pie) is a fictional Yellow Canary in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons. Tweety's popularity, like that of The Tasmanian Devil, actually grew in the years following the dissolution of the Looney Tunes cartoons. The name "Tweety" is a play on words, as it originally meant "sweetie", along with "tweet" being a typical English onomatopoeia for the sounds of birds. Tweety appeared in 48 cartoons in the Golden Age.
Despite the perceptions that people may hold, owing to the long lashes and high pitched voice of Tweety, Tweety is male. This was established several times in the series "Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries". On the other hand, his species is ambiguous; although originally and often portrayed as a young canary, he is also frequently called a rare and valuable "tweety bird" as a plot device, and once called "the only living specimen". Nevertheless, the title song directly states that the bird is a canary. His shape more closely suggests that of a baby bird, which in fact is what he was during his early appearances. The yellow feathers were added but otherwise he retained the baby-bird shape.
Tweety is, for the most part, a good-natured character happily spending life in his cage or a nest. However, when a cat or other adversary threatens him, he can become downright malicious and devious, even kicking his enemy when he's down. In many of Tweety's appearances the bird is shown accompanying his owner, Granny.