The Tasmanian Devil, known as 'Taz', is one of the most popular Looney Tunes characters. He has a ravenous appetite and eats anything and everything, including inanimate objects and possibly human flesh.
He has horn-shaped fur on his head and is completely crazy, whirling around like a tornado on speed on a regular basis. He rarely speaks, preferring to communicate through growls, speeches and blowing raspberries, although he is quite intelligent and can read and write.
Taz first appeared in five Warner Bros shorts before animation closed down in 1964 and became popular through marketing and television appearances in the late 1980s.In 1991 he got his own show, Taz-mania, where he was re-cast as a dim-witted teenager. In the show he appeared to be a stoner and lived with his strange family in a 1950s-style sitcom house. He also appeared in the 1996 film Space Jam and had a cameo in The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries.
Taz appeared in a KFC advert in 1994 and he had his own chocolate bar, known as the Taz Bar, in the UK. His miniature understudy, Dizzy Devil, who is clearly an alcoholic judging by his behaviour, regularly appears on the Fox TV series Tiny Toon Adventures.
