# Tweety Bird : Boy or Girl? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 19, 2000, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613 "2000-02-19T04:31:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bsb176](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@bsb176](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bsb176)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613/1 "2000-02-19T04:31:00Z")
A friend once asked me this question pertaining to the sex of Tweety Bird. Many of the people I’ve asked have claimed to have seen a female love interests for Tweety but I’m still not fully convinced either way. Can anyone please tell me the Official word from Warner Brothers? * * * BaL ---
**Author:** ![jaydabee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@jaydabee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaydabee)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613/2 "2000-02-19T04:48:00Z")
Well, his voice sounds like a man , but with feminie tendicies. Since tweety dosen’t wear cloths and dosen’t get out to the mall … well ---
**Author:** ![beefymeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@beefymeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beefymeg)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613/3 "2000-02-19T05:19:00Z")
Tweety’s a boy. Although I don’t remember why I’m so sure. I think it has something to do with his wearing a sailor hat and having such a wonderful friendship with Sylvester. Who is a boy. And everybody knows that a guy and a girl can’t be just friends. Tweety has beautiful eyelashes, too… and guys always get the best eyelashes. 🙂 * * * Sucks to your assmar. ---
**Author:** ![jaydabee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@jaydabee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaydabee)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613/4 "2000-02-19T05:29:00Z")
Sylvestor and Tweety friends? I always thought that Sylvestor wanted to eat Tweety. That would mean, well … * * * watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical, a liberal,fanatical a criminal… ---
**Author:** ![beefymeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@beefymeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beefymeg)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613/5 "2000-02-19T05:37:00Z")
Yeah, but for as much as they fought, deep down there was an _understanding_ that they’d _be there_ for each other, when the going got rough. Feel free to ignore everything I’ve said, but please count my vote for Tweety being male. * * * Sucks to your assmar. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613/6 "2000-02-19T05:45:00Z")
Sure, Tweety was a boy. He went gaga over a girl bird at least once. In a boy kind of way. Not to say he couldn’t have been a lesbian girl bird. Peace, mangeorge * * * I only know two things; I know what I need to know And I know what I want to know Mangeorge, 2000 ---
**Author:** ![jaydabee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@jaydabee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaydabee)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613/7 "2000-02-19T05:50:00Z")
heh heh heh , I’m going to bed on that one mangeorge. thanks ---
**Author:** ![TheUnforgiven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TheUnforgiven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheUnforgiven)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613/8 "2000-02-19T06:46:00Z")
Tweety = male species. Evidence: Sylvester once tempts Tweety by painting a finger on his paw to look like a female bird, complete with bonnet. Sylvester sticks finger in nest; illusion complete. Of course the plan fails, as usual, but you already knew that, right? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613/9 "2000-02-19T06:52:00Z")
From the [WARNER BROTHERS CARTOON COMPANION](http://www.kartoon.net/collection/wbros/eowbcc-t.html): > [@](#): > > In **his** debut in A Tale of Two Kitties (Clampett, 1942) and in **his** followups Birdy and the Beast (1944) and A Gruesome Twosome (1945), Tweety shows that **he** is no helpless little orphan, using gasoline, hand grenades, dynamite and clubs to protect **himself**. Boldface is mine. * * * TT “Believe those who seek the truth. Doubt those who find it.” --Andre Gide ---
**Author:** ![jaydabee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@jaydabee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaydabee)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613/10 "2000-02-19T12:39:00Z")
Come to think of it sylvestor did speak with a lisp, does that mean that that they were … well, I digress … ---
**Author:** ![tbea925](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@tbea925](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tbea925)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613/11 "2000-02-19T15:19:00Z")
Tweety would be a male based on his bright coloration. However, I have myself seen Tweety, Sylvester, and Yosemete Sam out on the town with Tinky-Winky Teletubbie. * * * This sig not Y2K compliant. Happy 1900. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613/12 "2000-02-20T04:04:00Z")
His name is Tweety Pie. His **breed** is Tweety Bird. * * * **-PIGEONMAN-** [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - **Shadow of the Pigeon** - Weirdo of the Night ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613/13 "2000-02-20T04:14:00Z")
…and am I the only one who always wanted Sylvester to catch him? ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613/14 "2000-02-20T04:31:00Z")
Don’t know about Tweety, but the Roadrunner was a guy. Wile E. Coyote built a female roadrunner decoy in order to target the (I forget) Acme Brand Cannon/Slingshot/Catapult/Rocket Bomb/Electromagnet on the hopefully distracted Roadrunner. * * * _…send lawyers, guns, and money…_ ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2000, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613/15 "2000-02-21T06:49:00Z")
Yes, I used to wish that just once, Sylvester would catch Tweety, that Wile E. Coyote would catch the Road Runner, and that Tom would catch Jerry. Is that wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweety-bird-boy-or-girl/7613/16 "2000-02-20T20:07:00Z")
Jeannie, if I’m correct (and I’m sure that if I’m not the resident cartoon mavens will correct me), Wile E. **did** once catch the Road Runner, who pulled (out of nowhere, as always) a sign that said, effectively, “Now that you’ve caught me, now what?” I don’t recall the next few events (I suspect mercifully) but at the end of the cartoon they were back to chasing/being chased again.