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tweet. Tweety Bird (also known as Tweety Pie or simply Tweety) is an
Academy Award-winning
fictional character in the
Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and
Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons. Tweety's popularity, like that of
The Tasmanian Devil, actually grew in the years following the dissolution of the Looney Tunes cartoons. Today Tweety is considered, along with
Taz and
Bugs Bunny, among the most popular of the Looney Tunes characters, especially (because of his "cute" appearance and personality) among girls and young women. Despite widespread speculation that he was
female, Tweety is and has always been a
male character, something that he often has confirmed in
The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries. On the other hand, his species is ambiguous; although originally and often portrayed as a young
canary, he is also frequently called a rare and valuable "Tweetybird" as a plot device, and once called 'The only living specimen'.
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