Thursday, October 11, 2012

Tweety and Sylvester

Tweety Pie is a fictional yellow Canary in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated cartoons.  The name "Tweety" is actually a play on words, originally meaning "sweetie" and to "tweet", the sound birds make.  He appeared in 49 cartoons in the Golden Age.  Tweety is a male despite the perceptions people may have of him, owing to the long eyelashes and high pitched voice.  His shape relates more closely to that of a baby bird which is because in his early appearances he was.  The yellow feathers were added lated but otherwise he retained his baby-bird shape.  In his early days he was directed as a very aggressive character which was later diluted to a more cutesy bird role.  He does, however, still occasionally expresses his malicious side

Sylvester is a fictional cat in the Looney Tunes cartoons.  He can be found entertaining himself by chasing Tweety Bird, Speedy Gonzales or Hippety Hopper.  The name "Sylvester" is actually derived from the scientific name for wild cat, Felis silvestris which is pretty humerous because he is actually a domestic cat (scientific name - Felis catus).  Sylvester and Tweety were first paired in a 1947 cartoon Tweetie Pie.  He appeared in 103 cartoons in the golden age.  His trademark is his sloppy lisp.

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