Talk:Tweety Bird

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Contents 1 Tweety's gender 2 Signiture 3 Does anybody know when Tweety made his debut? 4 Tweety's speech impediment

[edit] Tweety's gender

Quick question: is Tweety Bird a female or male? I'm really not sure, and I'd like somebody to clarify this for me, and possibly make some kidn of disambiguation on the article page or do some research.

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To answer your question, Tweety is a male. If you want more confirmation, there are numerous references to his gender in "the Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries" as well as "Tweety's high flying adventure". This was Tweety's own movie which was released sometime in 2000. In the movie, there is a clear reference that he is male by the fact that he actually gets a Girlfriend named Aaooga, though I'm not sure of the spelling. She mentions at the end that he's a male, here's the quote said by Aaooga at the end of the movie...

"I also have an invaluable inner sense of time, but why spoil it for him?"

Hope that clears it up. I'll do some more on the movie when I have the time

I think the fact that one short is named "Ain't She Tweet?" may be the source of at least part of the confusion over Tweety's gender.

WAVY 10 17:25, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

• That's an old-old song, and the WB cartoonists were famous for turning old slogans and song titles into punny cartoon titles, whether they made any sense or not. Wahkeenah 19:05, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Signiture

I always thought the second line was: "I did, I did tee a puddy tat!". --Wack'd About Wiki 15:26, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

It's "I did, I did taw a puddy tat!" --FuriousFreddy 22:01, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Does anybody know when Tweety made his debut?

--Wack'd About Wiki 21:52, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I think Tweety's debut is pretty clear and upfront in the article: it's in the first paragraph of the "creation" section. Is there anything in particular about it that you find unclear?

[edit] Tweety's speech impediment

From the article:

Many of Mel Blanc's characters are notable for speech impediments. Tweety's comes from having a beak, with no lips or teeth. Thus he has trouble saying certain words, especially ones with "dental" sounds. The most noticeable is that "s" gets changed to "t" or "d"; for example, "pussy cat" comes out as "putty tat" or "puddy tat", and "sweetie pie" comes out as "tweetie pie", although it is doubtful he ever actually called himself by that name on-screen.

The article suggests Tweety can't pronounce S because it's dental, and so replaces it with T or D? That doesn't make sense. S is alveolar, not dental. And T's and D's have the same place of articulation as S. And if the beak is the problem, one would think he'd have more trouble with bilabials, including the P in puddy tat, with his clear lack of lips. I think the speculation on Tweety's bird anatomy being the origin of his speech problems is ill-founded, unless there's a source that it was at least intended as such. NickelShoe 17:27, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

I decided there was no reason for me not to just take that part out, since it makes no sense and has no source cited. I left in the part about his speech impediment, but took out the speculation on its origin. NickelShoe 19:46, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm just wondering why noone has mentioned that tweety was also in Space Jam