1972 Sylvester & Tweety Bank
Vintage Sylvester and Tweety Bank available @ Time’s Tin Cup !
Sylvester James Pussycat, Sr. is a tuxedo cat from Looney Tunes cartoons. Sylvester was voiced by Mel Blanc. Blanc originally voiced the character of Sylvester on the Judy Canova Show prior to becoming a charater of Looney Tunes. Sylvester’s name is a pun on silvestris, the scientific name for the wild cat, the ancestor of domestic cats.
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Tweety Pie, originally named Orson, is a yellow canary that is often chased by Sylvester in Looney Tunes cartoons.
The character of Tweety Pie was inspired by Junior the Mean Widdle Kid, a character from the Red Skelton Radio Show.
Junior the Mean Widdle Kid was famous for saying, “If I dood it, I gets a whipping,..if I don’t dood it, I gets a whipping,….I dood it!
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