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== 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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Tweety is a Male character

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)

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Didn't they over a year ago change Tweety's gender?^[1] -W.A.C. (4/03/2007)

Contents 1 Signiture 2 Does anybody know when Tweety made his debut? 3 Tweety's speech impediment 4 Tweety image 5 References 6 Carrotblanca 7 Article title

[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

[edit] Tweety image

Why isn't any image of Tweety in the article. Should I look for one? Cosmin 19:01, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

The deletionists clobbered it. Good like finding one that they'll accept. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 18:21, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] References

[edit] Carrotblanca

• Could Tweety's role in that short also be considered a rare villanious part? WAVY 10 18:26, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article title

I believe the title of this article should be simply "Tweety." It is my impression (which could of course be wrong) that "Tweety Bird" is a sort of bastardization adopted by the public and did not officially originate from Warner. "Tweety Pie" is the title of a cartoon. Neither is the actual name of the character, I don't think, and in any case, everyone agrees on the "Tweety" part. Richard K. Carson (talk) 04:40, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

What does WB call this bird? Whatever they "officially" call him, that's what his name is, and hence that's what the article should be called. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 05:00, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

I take this [1] to be an official WB site. They call the duck "Daffy Duck", and they call the bunny "Bugs Bunny", but they only call our little yellow canary "Tweety", not "Tweety Bird". However, remember the Michael Jordan TV ad with Tweety, in which the bird was claiming to be related to Larry Bird because they had "the same last name"? It appears there is some ambiguity in the Tweety world. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 06:00, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

For clarity, I'm inclined to think that you're right, though not quite for the right reason, i.e. WB themselves have sometimes embraced "Tweety Bird". The simplest thing to do is to have "Tweety" be the main article, and to have "Tweety Bird" and "Tweety Pie" (which is where the name actually comes from) redirect to just plain "Tweety". Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 06:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm sure that in more recent years, younger employees of WB who grew up with the character have themselves called him "Tweety Bird." I question only whether anyone at WB called him that during the character's heyday when his originators were alive and active. Richard K. Carson (talk) 03:19, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

There might also have been a desire to attach last names to these characters, hence Sylvester J. Pussycat or whatever. In that sense, Tweety Bird is logical. However, it comes from Tweety Pie, i.e. "Sweetie Pie", so is that really a name, or is it more like a description? And why does he look like a baby bird? I know why, but let's not get into details. The point being, Tweety seems to have some inherent ambiguity. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 03:33, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm not in position to check at present, but one clue would be Bugs Bunny Superstar, which is on one of the DVD's, and Bob Clampett talks at some length about the bird. Certainly whatever he calls the bird would carry some weight. The other thing would be to check the credits on the Tweety cartoons and see what he's called (if anything) for each one. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 03:28, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Checking his filmography, it was initially "Tweetie Pie", as in "Sweetie Pie"; and the "Pie" part was still being invoked as late as 1958, although "Tweetie" became "Tweety" soon after the "Tweetie Pie" cartoon. However, in the titles at least, I'm not seeing "Tweety Bird" anywhere. I think just plain "Tweety" is the right name to call this article, and let the other variations redirect to it. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 03:37, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

But before taking action, please note that just plain Tweety was the previous name of the article and then it got switched. [2] So you might want to ask the user who switched it a nearly three years ago. He's still active. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 03:40, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

I have asked. However, on closer examination, it seems there were parallel articles, and the user simply merged the two, and probably chose Tweety Bird over Tweety on the grounds that he's better known as Tweety Bird (which is questionable). 03:57, 29 May 2008 (UTC)