Tweety aka Tweety Pie or Tweety Bird is a fictional character
in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
series of animated cartoons. Bob Clampett created the
character that would become Tweety in 1942's "A Tale
of Two Kitties", pitting him against two hungry cats
named Babbott and Catstello (based on the famous radio
and comedians Abbott and Costello). Tweety was originally
naked (pink), jowly, and far more aggressive and saucy,
as opposed to the later, more well-known version of him
as a less hot-tempered (but still somewhat ornery) yellow
canary. In the movie Bugs Bunny, Superstar, animator Clampett
stated, in a sotto voce "aside" to the audience,
that Tweety had been based "on my own naked baby
picture". Clampett did three more shorts with the
"naked genius", as a Jimmy Durante-ish cat once
called him in "Gruesome Twosome".
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