Tweety Pie

Tweety Pie is my favourite Looney Tunes character. He is a cute yellow bird who is always being stalked by Sylvester, a cat who is desperate to eat him.

Tweety and Sylvester were first paired up in 1947, and the first short with both of them in it won Warner Bros its first Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).

Tweety is a good-natured and happy little bird, until he is faced with danger, and then he can become downright nasty! He can't speak properly due to having no lips and teeth, and his catchphrase is 'I tot I taw a puddy tat. I did, I did tee a puddy tat!'

Tweety is often accompanied by Granny and her bulldog Hector, who protect him from Sylvester and other adversaries.

During the 1990s Tweety starred in the Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, where Granny ran a detective agency with the help of Tweety, Sylvester and Hector. He was in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and in 2003 a younger version of him appeared in Baby Looney Tunes. He was also in Tiny Toon Adventures as a mentor to the character Sweetie Pie.

Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is arguably one of the most popular cartoon characters around. He first appeared on TV in 1940 alongside Elmer Fudd, and is infamous for his catchphrase "Eh...what's up doc?" which he usually says while chewing happily away on a carrot.

Bugs is a smarty pants and highly self-confident. He wins every battle he fights no matter who it is with or what the situation is due to his quick wit and and brash resourcefulness.

Bugs' biggest rival was Elmer Fudd, a pigeon-brained hunter who seemed to be a bit gay. Elmer never managed to outwit Bugs due to his lack of common sense and constantly managed to injure himself and antagonise other characters who cropped up in the show.

Bugs made guest appearances in the 1990s TV show Tiny Toon Adventures, where he was the principal of Acme Looniversity, and he had cameos in Tazmania, Animaniacs and Historia. He also appeared in the films Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Space Jam and the 2003 film Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

In 2002, Bugs was named as the greatest cartoon character of all time in TV Guide magazine and he has become the current official mascot for Six Flags theme parks. Go Bugs!

Wile E. Coyote

Wile E. Coyote is best known for appearing in the Road Runner cartoons, in which he chases but never manages to catch the Road Runner, a flightless, gormless looking bird. The cartoons were first shown in the 1940s, and in his attempts to catch and kill the Road Runner, Wile E. regularly injures himself in rather violent ways, which is highly amusing.

He is always hungry and desperate to catch the Road Runner, which leads to sympathy for his character when he is constantly unsuccessful in his attempts and is forever destined to fail.

Wile E. never speaks but communicates in the cartoons by sticking out his tongue or through writing signs. He also acquires numerous weird and wonderful devices from the fictional Acme Corporation to help him in his pursuits. The devices usually backfire on him, and he often ends up burnt to a crisp or squashed flat as a pancake at the bottom of a cliff.

Wile E. was in the Looney Tunes comic books, where he was renamed Kelsey Coyote. He later appeared in some Bugs Bunny shorts in the 1960s, where he talks. He has also appeared in the Little Beeper cartoons which featured on Tiny Toon Adventures, and he starred in the film Looney Tunes: Back in Action in 2003.

The Road Runner cartoons were reshown in the 1990s and early 2000s on Cartoon Network and Boomerang before being released on DVD. Wile E. has also been in several adverts, including one for Honey Nut Cheerios in the 1980s where he was saved from falling off a cliff by the Honey Nut Cheerios bee, and one for Pepsi in 1996 where he appeared alongside footballer Deion Sanders.