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Tweety
Tweety (Tweety Bird, Tweety Pie) is Warner Bros.' yellow canary from Looney Tunes, created by Bob Clampett, debuting in A Tale of Two Kitties (1942) as pink bird Orson, redesigned by Friz Freleng, paired with Sylvester in Oscar-winning Tweetie Pie (1947), voiced by Mel Blanc.
Twelfth Doctor
The Twelfth Doctor is Peter Capaldi's incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who (2013-2017), following Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor. Three series under Steven Moffat, companions Clara, River Song, Nardole, and Bill Potts, ending in Twice Upon a Time.
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night, or What You Will is Shakespeare's comedy of shipwrecked twins, disguise, and mistaken identity in Illyria, likely written 1601, first performed 2 February 1602 at Middle Temple, and first printed in the 1623 First Folio.
Twelfth Night (1996 film)
Twelfth Night (1996) is Trevor Nunn's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, set in the 19th century, starring Imogen Stubbs, Helena Bonham Carter, Nigel Hawthorne, Ben Kingsley, and Toby Stephens; released 25 October 1996 by Fine Line Features.
Twelfth Night (holiday)
Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany on January 5 or 6, ends the Twelve Days of Christmas. Customs include wassailing orchards, the bean-finding Twelfth Night cake, the Lord of Misrule, and Shakespeare's play named for it.
Twelve (2010 film)
Twelve (2010) is a Joel Schumacher drama adapted by Jordan Melamed from Nick McDonell's novel, starring Chace Crawford as drug dealer White Mike, with 50 Cent and narrator Kiefer Sutherland; it premiered at Sundance 2010 and earned a Metascore of 22.
Twelve (트웰브) (TV series)
Twelve (트웰브) is an 8-episode 2025 South Korean fantasy action series on KBS2 and Disney+, based on the twelve zodiac angels led by Ma Dong-seok's Tae-san; it opened at 8.1% Nielsen ratings, fell to 2.4%, and was voted worst K-drama of 2025.
Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men (12 Angry Men) is a 1957 Sidney Lumet courtroom drama adapted by Reginald Rose from his 1954 CBS Studio One teleplay, in which Henry Fonda's lone holdout juror sways eleven others toward acquittal; Oscar-nominated, Berlin first prize, National Film Registry 2007.
Twelve basic principles of animation
Developed by Disney artists in the 1930s and 1940s, the twelve basic principles of animation are guidelines for believable movement. They are now used in 3D computer animation and video games.
Twelve Forever
Twelve Forever, Netflix animated series (2019) created by Julia Vickerman, based on her 2015 Cartoon Network pilot; 12-year-old Reggie Abbott (Kelsy Abbott) and friends Todd and Esther reach Endless Island, opposed by the Butt Witch (Matt Berry); canceled after one 25-episode season.
Twelve Legends (十二谭)
Twelve Legends (十二谭) is a 2021 Youku and Tangren Media Republican-era fantasy web drama adapted from Ni Luo's novel, starring Gulnazar and Jasper Liu in a 32-episode unit-drama about demons, criticized for cheap effects and weak plotting.
Twelve Months (novel)
Twelve Months is Jim Butcher's 2026 novel, book 18 of the Dresden Files, set in the year after Battle Ground as Harry Dresden mourns Karrin Murphy while ghouls, Thomas's death sentences, and Lara Raith's betrothal loom. Distinct from Steven Manchester's 2012 novel of the same title.
Twelve-bar blues
Twelve-bar blues: the standard blues chord form of twelve 4/4 measures in three four-bar phrases over I7, IV7, and V7, with AAB lyrics and a turnaround; basis of much blues, jazz, and rock and roll.
Twelve-string guitar
A twelve-string guitar is an acoustic or electric guitar with twelve strings in six courses, fretted as single notes, producing a loud, shimmering, chorus-like sound.
Twelve-tone technique
Twelve-tone technique (dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism): a composition method devised by Arnold Schoenberg in 1921–1923, drawing all material from a fixed ordering of the twelve chromatic pitch classes, transformed by four row forms into forty-eight variants.
Twentieth-century theatre
Twentieth-century theatre: the 1900–2000 theatrical culture of Europe and North America, also called modern theatre, marked by realism's mainstream dominance, the avant-garde retheatricalization of roughly 1900–1930, political and workers' theatre, stage censorship until 1968 in Britain, and electric-light scenography.
Twenty (스물) (film)
Twenty (스물, Seumool) is a 2015 South Korean coming-of-age comedy-drama by Lee Byeong-heon starring Kim Woo-bin, Lee Jun-ho, and Kang Ha-neul as three 20-year-old friends; it opened No. 1 in Korea with over 3 million admissions.
Twenty Bucks
Twenty Bucks is a 1993 American comedy-drama directed by Keva Rosenfeld, following a $20 bill through Minneapolis; written by Endre and Leslie Bohem from a 1935 script, starring Linda Hunt, Brendan Fraser, and Elisabeth Shue.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) is a 1924 poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
Twenty One Pilots
Twenty One Pilots (TØP): American duo of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun from Columbus, Ohio, formed 2009; genre-blending rock with the Dema concept saga across Blurryface (2015) to Breach (2025); Grammy for "Stressed Out".
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is Jules Verne's 1869–1870 adventure and science fiction novel about Captain Nemo, the submarine Nautilus, and the prisoners Professor Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land.
Twenty Twenty Six
Twenty Twenty Six is a 2026 BBC Two six-part mockumentary by John Morton, the third Ian Fletcher series after Twenty Twelve and W1A, set at a bleeped-name FIFA-style World Cup organizing body in Miami.
Twenty Years After
Twenty Years After (Vingt ans après, 1845) is Dumas and Maquet's sequel to The Three Musketeers, set in 1648 during the Fronde, splitting the four friends across opposing sides and ending with Charles I's execution.
Twenty Years at Hull-House
Twenty Years at Hull-House is a 1910 autobiography by social reformer Jane Addams, recounting her childhood and the first two decades of Hull-House, the Chicago settlement house she co-founded in 1889.
Twenty-Eight Famous Murders with Verse (英名二十八衆句)
Eimei nijūhasshūku (英名二十八衆句), Twenty-Eight Famous Murders with Verse, an 1866–1867 series of 28 ōban muzan-e woodblock prints, 14 each by Yoshitoshi and Yoshiiku, published by Sanoya Tomigoro, depicting murders from kabuki and history.
Twenty-Five Twenty-One (스물다섯 스물하나)
Twenty-Five Twenty-One (스물다섯 스물하나) is a 2022 tvN 16-episode Korean drama by Kwon Do-eun and Jung Ji-hyun, starring Kim Tae-ri and Nam Joo-hyuk as fencer Na Hee-do and Baek Yi-jin during the 1998 IMF crisis, known for its polarizing breakup ending and 11.5% finale rating.
Twenty-Four Eyes (二十四の瞳)
Twenty-Four Eyes (Nijushi no hitomi, 二十四の瞳) is Keisuke Kinoshita's 1954 Shochiku drama adapted from Sakae Tsuboi's novel, starring Hideko Takamine as a Shodoshima teacher and her twelve pupils from 1928 through World War II; Kinema Junpo first place and Golden Globe winner.
Twenty-Four Poetic Qualities
Twenty-Four Poetic Qualities (Ershisi Shipin, 二十四詩品) is a Chinese work of poetic criticism of twenty-four poems, each describing a poetic style, traditionally attributed to Sikong Tu.
Twenty-One (game show)
Twenty-One was an NBC quiz show based on blackjack, aired 1956-1958 and hosted by Jack Barry, in which contestants in isolation booths raced to 21 points. Its rigged Van Doren-Stempel matches triggered the 1950s quiz show scandals and 1960 federal anti-rigging legislation.
Twenty:20 (film)
Twenty:20 (ട്വന്റി : 20), 2008 Malayalam action thriller directed by Joshiy, produced by Dileep for AMMA with an unpaid all-star cast; highest-grossing Malayalam film until Drishyam (2014).