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Jewel-encrusted Tweety Bling
by jerry
October 18, 2008 9:20 am


I saw this advertised in a Sunday newspaper magazine supplement last week. My nomination for Worst Commercial Tweety Bird Product - Ever!
From The Danbury Mint.

10/18/08  9:25am
Steve Gattuso says:

Sweet mother of Ghandi, that’s the ugliest thing I’ve seen in months. Tweety looks like s/he got rolled in rock salt. Not even pimps could wear that without getting laughed at.

10/18/08  10:04am
Paul N says:

I’ll second that nomination Jerry.

10/18/08  10:07am
Hannah says:

I love the caption… “Your favorite cartoon chick”?
…no.

10/18/08  10:18am
Mike Russo says:

“Who the hell is Tweety?” - average Joe reading the Sunday paper.

10/18/08  1:50pm
Pedro Nakama says:

Okay this is really bad but if you buy that for a woman there’s a good chance you may get some “Putty-Tat”. ; )

10/18/08  2:07pm
PCleland says:

It’s an interesting thing people really really identify with tweety bird for some reason, or at least they did 2 years ago when I saw the character on many t-shirts, baseball caps and keychains. When one of my coworkers found out I drew pictures on the side the first thing they asked was if I could draw “tweety bird”.

10/18/08  2:15pm
OM says:

…Gah. And I thought that $10,000 jewel-encrusted Astro Boy was gaudy! This one insults Tweety worse than actually letting Sylvester eat the little bastard :-P :-P

10/18/08  2:47pm
Dock Miles says:

I tot I taw a marketing abomination! I did! I did see a marketing abomination!

10/18/08  4:58pm

Perhaps I’m a stupid female. . . . . . but I actually like it. . . . .

Granted, it’s a bit gaudy and Tweety isn’t the best choice for a decorative and expensive piece of jewelry. . . . but I think we can hold back our cartoonist’s rage just this once because it’s only made for the general public. It is kind of cute. I wouldn’t ever buy it, but I can see why others would wanna purchase it.

The way I see it; it’s better than cartoon characters being plastered on boxes of mac and cheese, popsicles, waffles and assortments of other food products. Most of the time, those cartoons aren’t actually associated in any way with THAT product. The cartoons are just posted on the box to sell the unrelated product because kids will kick and scream for just about anything with cartoons on it.

And of course. . . I gotta agree with Hannah’s comment. “Cartoon chick?”
1. Since when did canary become chick? 2. well..nothing else needs to be said. The wording is just hysterically bad.

10/18/08  5:17pm
Charlie says:

Money can always buy classiness.

10/18/08  6:30pm

Now we know the masterplan to why Bob Clampett created Tweety 66 years ago–what foresight!!!

10/18/08  8:14pm
Brannigan's Law says:

Finally! Something for the vacuous and eccentric grandmother of beverly hills/female rapper in me. I was just wondering what to burn all my extra economy-crisis money on too. Think I’ll get two and then to celebrate go out and produce Chimps in Space II: European Vacation.

10/18/08  9:13pm
Gillian says:

Oh Swarovski. What the hell.

Are those women who have Tweety tattoos with “SEXY BIRD” or similar beneath the picture that large of a demographic?

Tinkerbell is the other animated character aimed at other women who aren’t normally interested in animation. This trinket might be a little less gaudy if it was her. (A little.)

Also, unlike Tinkerbell, Tweety’s not girl.

Come.

On.

10/19/08  1:05am
Emil says:

I like it! I think it’s luxurious and cute at the same time…..

Call me shallow, but this blink goes well with tweety

10/19/08  4:46am
fabio says:

i like it.Do you suppose i’m gay?

10/19/08  6:40am
Katella Gate says:

Ick. That’s all that needs to be said.

10/19/08  9:27am

That’s nothing. I saw June Foray wearing a big, crystal coated, bling-tastical Rocky the Flying Squirrel necklace at the Ollie Johnston Memorial. Granted, she can totally pull it off (for obvious reasons), but was I ever surprised. And delighted.

What else do the ladies of animation have to look forward too in our old age if we can’t wear wonderfully, awesomely tacky, cartoon costume jewelry?

10/19/08  10:34am

Not to mention, I’m pretty sure Leonard Maltin has an entire collection of rhinestone cartoon head brooches. He’s always wearing one when he does DVD extras.

It’s just a pendant of Tweety, it isn’t like he’s wearing some stupid out-of-character outfit on some tween-marketed sweatshirt or presented in that godawful Loonatics style.

The rest of the Danbury Mint doesn’t look too bad - the Peanuts figurines are damn cute, I don’t care what anyone says.
Go over to the Bradford Exchange if you want REALLY tacky cartoon ‘collectibles’.

10/19/08  3:25pm
Anna says:

thats like a box of wine classy!

10/19/08  5:56pm

Well, I would probably have gotten one for my mom, who loved Tweety, were she alive today.

10/20/08  9:17am

*Barf!*

10/20/08  12:25pm
Brannigan's Law says:

if they made the naked Tweety version from “Gruesome Twosome” and “A Tale of Two Kitties” with that smart ass face Clampett gives him… maybe

10/20/08  7:58pm
Cynthia says:

It looks like Tweety’s been sprayed with asbestos.

Well, at least he isn’t wearing the backwards baseball cap givin’ us ‘tude. But that might add the final touch.

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