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Emma Webster, better known as Granny, is a recurring character and one of the few major characters who are human in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. In almost all her appearances, she is the owner of Tweety, Sylvester, or Hector the Bulldog.

About Granny[]

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Proto-Granny in her first appearance, "Little Red Walking Hood" in 1937

Granny is generally good-natured and is extremely protective of her beloved canary Tweety. Her over-protectiveness becomes apparent whenever Tweety is threatened (usually by Sylvester, a hungry "puddytat" who prefers eating birds over cat food). Although having the appearance of a kindly old woman, she has demonstrated her cleverness.

Granny has gone through several design changes. The earliest version of her appears in the 1937 cartoon "Little Red Walking Hood". Another version with black hair appeared in 1941's "The Cagey Canary" and another changed design is seen in 1943's "Hiss and Make Up". She received several other makeovers from 1940 to 1960, such as in "Canary Row" (1950) and "A Pizza Tweety-Pie" (1958). She is usually the owner of Tweety and also serves as his protector. Sylvester often finds a way to break into her house for the sole purpose of finding a meal. In later cartoons, she appears to be the owner of both Tweety and Sylvester. Granny appears to be unmarried, or possibly a widow, since she lives by herself.

Appearances[]

In 1995, she starred in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries series as a detective who investigates mysteries with Tweety, Sylvester and Hector the Bulldog. She always carries a magnifying glass around her neck for research. Later, she made appearances in Space Jam, Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (where she was once again the caretaker of the yellow canary), and Looney Tunes Back in Action.

She appeared in Webtoons, where she starred in a series of three shorts, Judge Granny. These shorts show another version of her as a Judge resolving cases of some Looney Tunes major characters.

She takes care of the Baby Looney Tunes, where she has a nephew named Floyd Minton, who started to make appearances later in the series to take the babies on trips. She also has a sister called Auntie.

She appears in Looney Tunes Back in Action as the neighbor of the hero, DJ Drake. Later, Mr. Chairman disguises himself as her.

An episode of Loonatics Unleashed contains a cameo of Granny herself, apparently still alive in the year 2772. Later, the show featured characters named Queen Grannicus (a possible descendant of Granny), the Royal Tweetums and Sylth Vester.

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Emma fighting against Colonel Frankenheimer in World War II

She also appeared in the 1993 Sega Genesis video game Sylvester and Tweety in Cagey Capers in the first, second, third, and eighth levels as an enemy, and in the 2000 Game Boy Color video game Looney Tunes: Marvin Strikes Back!

She also appeared as a recurring character in The Looney Tunes Show as one of Bugs and Daffy's neighbors, voiced by June Foray. In "Eligible Bachelors", it is revealed that during World War II, Granny was a WAC spy and along with Tweety, "a carrier pigeon", she stopped Nazi Colonel Frankenheimer from stealing the Eiffel Tower and various paintings from the Louvre. During the flashback, she appears as an attractive red-headed young woman in WAC uniform. In "The Grand Old Duck of York", Granny teaches piano lessons too. Her students were Daffy and Winnie Yang.

She makes a few appearances in New Looney Tunes in her mid-1950s design.

Her design in Looney Tunes Cartoons is a fusion of her early-1950s design and mid-1950s design.

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She appeared in Space Jam A New Legacy as a member of the Tune Squad.

She appeared in King Tweety in her early-1950s design.

Granny has a cameo appearance in the Bugs Bunny Builders episode "Cousin Billy".

Granny is a dean in Tiny Toons Looniversity. This version of the character has five fingers rather than four fingers.

Voice Actresses[]

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Granny was voiced by the late June Foray, the same person who voiced her in the original shorts from the 1950s to the 1960s. This makes her the only character to have the same voice actor for the original shorts and The Looney Tunes Show, as June Foray and Stan Freberg were the only two original voice-actors still alive at the time of production.

Notes[]

  • In "Hare Trimmed", Granny is called "Emmy" by Yosemite Sam.
  • Granny's voice has notably changed over the years. In the classic cartoons of the 1950s and 1960s, despite her age, she originally had a youthful high-pitched voice, which was provided by Bea Benaderet and later June Foray, GeGe Pearson, and Joan Gerber. After the classic shorts, June Foray's voice became noticeably deeper, sounding more like a realistic elderly woman. After June Foray's death in 2017, Candi Milo, who previously voiced her descendant Queen Grannicus from Loonatics Unleashed, took over as the voice of the character beginning with New Looney Tunes, using her high-pitched voice from the classic cartoons again.

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Barnyard DawgBeaky BuzzardBoskoBugs BunnyCecil TurtleCharlie DogClaude CatDaffy DuckElmer FuddFoghorn LeghornGossamerGrannyHector the BulldogHenery HawkHippety HopperHubie and BertieLola BunnyGoofy GophersMarc Anthony and PussyfootMarvin the MartianMichigan J. FrogMiss PrissyPenelope PussycatPepé Le PewPete PumaPorky PigRalph WolfRoad RunnerSam Sheepdog •. SnifflesSpeedy GonzalesSylvesterSylvester Jr.TazTweetyWile E. CoyoteWitch HazelYosemite Sam
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