Remembered your password? Back to login. Already have an account? Login here. We all — at least for the most part — have a formidable memory of cartoons from our days of youth. During those auspicious school day mornings, we would sneak an episode in before we had to catch the bus to school.
On weekends, we lived for them and the nearly six hours of cartoon greatness that was imbued to us on Saturdays. Simply put: cartoons have been a mainstay for Americans since the s, which is about the time that Looney Tunes created the now famous Tweety Bird character.
Tweety was voiced by the legendary Mel Blanc for almost years. He did the characters voice for the cartoon on Canary Row with Looney Tunes until Join us for an interesting dish today as we deliver 21 factoids that you never knew about Tweety. The two cats were called Babbit and Catstello; they were based upon famous comedians of the day, Abbott and Costello. The improved Tweety from on was a mild tempered and calm in demeanor, yellow canary. Tweety bird is one of many Looney Tunes characters with a noticeable speech impediment.
His arch nemesis, Sylvester the cat, also has a speech impediment. In , Clampett decided to create the feline counterpart for Tweety, which would ultimately become Sylvester. After , Sylvester was in every episode that included Tweety Bird. The comic sold well until it was discontinued in , more than 30 years later.
Many of Mel Blanc 's characters are known for speech impediments. In Putty Tat Trouble , he begins the cartoon singing a song about himself, "I'm a tweet wittow biwd in a diwded cage; Tweety'th my name but I don't know my age. I don't have to wuwy and dat is dat; I'm tafe in hewe fwom dat ol' putty tat. Another noticeable thing about Tweety is his occasional and rare habit of transforming into a giant Hyde version of himself, by accidentally consuming Hyde Formula.
Since then, this habit was also used in certain idents of the UK Boomerang channel. Clampett began work on a short that would pit Tweety against a then-unnamed, lisping black and white cat created by Friz Freleng in However, Clampett left the studio before going into full production on the short, and Freleng took on the project.
Freleng toned Tweety down and gave him a cuter appearance, including large blue eyes and yellow feathers. Clampett mentions in Bugs Bunny Superstar that the feathers were added to satisfy censors who objected to the naked bird. Sylvester and Tweety proved to be one of the most notable pairings in animation history. Most of their cartoons followed a standard formula:. In the lyrics Sylvester sings "I'd like to get that Sweetie Pie when he leaves his cage", implying that Tweety's name is actually Sweetie Pie, altered in its pronunciation by Tweetie's lisp.
Sylvester, who has his own speech issues involving the letters S and P, slobbers the "S" in "Sweetie Pie", just as he would the "S" sounds in his own name. From until the original Warner Bros. Tweety has the starring role and carries the story in the direct-to-video feature length animated film " Tweety's High-Flying Adventure "he has a girlfriend called aooga, he is not married,and doesn't have any children.
In , a younger version of him premiered on Baby Looney Tunes , thus coming full circle from his earliest appearances. Tweety appeared in an early s public service announcement , warning parents of the dangers of scalding-temperature bath water. Tweety appeared in several television specials and feature-film compilations , along with Sylvester , in the s and s. In several sequences, Tweety was speaking and laughing in character like Peter Lorre.
This is also notable for being a rare instance where Tweety is playing a villain character. He's also in many Six Flags theme parks. In the episode " Eligible Bachelors ", Sylvester asks about the canary's gender, the answer to which Tweety whispers into Sylvester's ear, leaving the feline surprised. Tweety appeared in New Looney Tunes.
Tweety recently appeared as a recurring character in Looney Tunes Cartoons , where he is voiced by Eric Bauza and has been reverted to the more violent and aggressive personality that Bob Clampett originally gave him. However, like his earlier appearances, his violent nature is often toned down.
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