Sweetie Bird

Sweetie Bird is a cartoon character from the Warner Bros. animated television seriesTiny Toon Adventures. She is one of the supporting characters on the show. Sweetie is voiced byCandi Milo. Sweetie is a young, pink female canary with a blue bowed ribbon in her hair. She attendsACME Looniversity and lives inACME Acres. Her mentor and favorite teacher isTweety.

Sweetie's pink coloring, devious grin, and somewhat mean-spirited personality seem to be a throwback to Tweety's early appearances from theBob Clampett cartoons. Sweetie's personality tended toward behaving in an amiable manner, but was prone to a mischievous streak when dealing with her main enemy and longtime pursuer,Furrball the cat. Sweetie is voiced similarly to the late comedian Judy Tenuta: speaking in a liquid trill followed by a throaty screech (when excited).

In one short, Sweetie is seen to be owned byElmyra Duff, who also owns Furrball, setting up the familiar scenario seen in earlierSylvester and Tweety cartoons. Sweetie constantly outsmarts the predatory Furrball by making him look bad in front of his usually sweet-tempered owner, to the point of his eviction from the apartment. In the episodeGo Sweetie Hyde, she accidentally transforms into a giant, grotesque bird-like monster and wants to chase and eat Furrball (a nod to the cartoonHyde and Go Tweet). In her monster form, she is voiced byRob Paulsen and has a British accent. In the episode segment fromNew Class Day, titledThe Just-Us League Of Supertoons, Sweetie was a member of the mighty superhero team, The Just-Us League of Supertoon, where she was Pink Canary, a parody of Black Canary. Occasionally, Sweetie is shown to be running after Bookworm, in which case she is constantly outsmarted, or simply has bad luck.

She reappears inTiny Toons Looniversity and is voiced by YouTuberTessa Netting.^[1] Sweetie is more of a main character in this series. She is less devious and has a punk look and personality. She is colorblind, likes having her side of the dorm room be messy, becomes Babs’ best friend, and is the daughter of a female same-sex couple Suzie and Sabita, as well as being an only child. She is also a feminist and has purple feathers rather than pink feathers. The baby version of the character in "Things That Go Tweet in the Woods" is a reference to her original design.

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Sweetie presenting her contract, as seen inHow Sweetie It Is

Sweetie as a "Cupid"

Sweetie inHow I Spent My Vacation

Sweetie in the opening ofTiny Toons Looniversity.

Sweetie inTiny Toons Looniversity.

Sweetie with Babs and Porky inTiny Toons Looniversity.

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