Withheld in Cecil’s archive, are the answers to many mysteries of the animation world, such as: “What was Barney Rubble’s job?” and so on. However, one of the q&a has seemed to allegedly vanished. I vividly recall having once read the topic, “Is Tweety Bird of Looney Tunes male or female?” I have not been able to find this q&a recently. I have searched every mailbag, recent columns, and classic sections. If I remember correctly, the “official” answer was that Tweety was gender-free, aka neuter. Does anyone remember a column on this subject and where it may be located? I was debating this topic with a friend recently and wanted to show them the article, but it was nowhere to be found. Teeming Millions, please help!
I can’t find a straight dope article on-line, but Ken Hoffman from the Houston Chronicle says Tweety is a male, with, however, no evidence to back up his assertion.
Sweetly singing in the trees, is Tweety a her, or is he a he?
Well, Tweety is either a hetero male or a lesbian. The reason I claim this is that it was hotly debated amongst my brothers and I until we saw a cartoon where Sylvester climbed up a pole to Tweety’s nest, dressed his index finger up in a miniscule dress, bonnet, and make up, and poked it up to the edge of the nest in an effort to temp Tweety away from safety.
I go by sound, myself. Tweety has a distinctly male tenor voice, so I always assumed “male”. Mel Blanc? Or am I in the wrong cartoon?
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen
to phouka. I remember that episode, and i’m on your side. Along with that, and that his voice is strongly male, i belive tweety too be male, myself.
Tweety was straight and male. Admittedly not overly masculine but a male.
Barney Rubble’s hopperoo was sexually ambiguous (Sp?). It was referred to both she and he. (it must have been a she as it has a pouch)
Now I’m wondering about all of those cartoon kangaroos that are male, but have pouches. Must be hermaphrodites ;).
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