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Tweety

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For other meanings of words and phrases starting with "tweet", see Tweet.

This article is about the Warner Bros. cartoon character. For other uses, see Tweety (disambiguation).

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Tweety Bird
Tweety in the Friz Freleng design. This is also his current appearance.
First appearance	A Tale of Two Kitties (November 21, 1942)
Created by	Robert Clampett (original) Friz Freleng (final redesign)
Voiced by	Mel Blanc (1942-1989, 2011) Jeff Bergman (1990-1993, 2011-current) Bob Bergen (1994-present) Joe Alaskey (The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries) (1995-present) Eric Goldberg (Looney Tunes: Back in Action) Billy West (Museum Scream) Samuel Vincent (Baby Looney Tunes) Greg Burson (Animaniacs)
Information
Aliases	Tweety Bird Tweety Tweety Pie
Species	Tweety Bird (fictional) Yellow Canary (actual)
Gender	Male
Nationality	American

Tweety Bird (also known as Tweety Pie or simply Tweety) is a fictional Yellow Canary in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated 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. His characteristics are based on Red Skelton's famous "Mean Widdle Kid." Tweety appeared in 49 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 is established several times in the animated series The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, and in the film-short Bad Ol' Putty Tat when Sylvester tries to trick Tweety using a fake female bird. On the other hand, a 1951 cartoon was entitled "Ain't She Tweet." Also, 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 (although the "baby bird" aspect has been used in a few later cartoons as a plot device). The yellow feathers were added but otherwise he retained the baby-bird shape.
In his early appearances in Bob Clampett cartoons, Tweety is a very aggressive character who tries anything to foil his foe, even kicking his enemy when he is down. Tweety was toned down when Friz Freleng started directin