Looney Tunes is a Warner Brothers cartoon series that preceded the Merrie Melodies series, and is both WB’s first animated theatrical series and the second longest continuous animated series in any medium.

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Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies were two series of theatrical cartoon shorts running from 1930 to 1969. Initially produced by Leon Schlessinger for distribution by Warner Bros, in 1944 the studio took the unit over entirely.

Tweety (also known as Tweety Bird and Tweety Pie) is a fictional Yellow Canary in the Warner Bros. Tweety’s popularity, like that of The Tasmanian Devil, actually grew in the years following the dissolution of the Looney Tunes cartoons.

Like most Looney Tunes characters, the cat “Sylvester” suffers from a significant speech impediment, in this case, a slobbery “S” lisp and he seems strangely drawn to selecting speech he cannot correctly say.

After the original Looney Tunes shorts, Junior would show up sporadically in later years. In the 1990s animated series Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Sylvester has a flashback to his childhood in the episode “A Mynah Problem”; in the flashback sequence, as with Tweet Dreams, Sylvester resembled his son physically.

The cartoon short films are timeless, entertaining and have delighted generations of Americans and people around the world. Sylvester and Tweety Bird cartoons can still be seen on cable channels in the present day along with their fellow Looney Tunes characters.

In 1988, Nickelodeon aired all the unaired cartoons in a show called Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon until 1999, when it was removed off the network for Cartoon Network. To date, Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon is the longest airing animated series on the network that was not a Nicktoon.

Even though he was Sylvester in later cartoon shorts, he was named “Thomas” in his first appearence with Tweety Bird in “Tweety Pie”.

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