Emma Webster, plus connue sous le nom de Mémé (Granny dans la version originale anglaise) est un personnage de dessins animés Warner Bros Looney Tunes et Merrie Melodies.

Il y a eu deux « Mémé » différentes. La première, créée par Tex Avery, représente une dame âgée bonne vivante et fort joyeuse. Une seconde version, créée par Friz Freleng, montre une dame âgée un peu plus forte, le visage rond, sachant rester calme, et tout aussi protectrice envers son canari Titi face aux convoitises de son chat Sylvestre dit « Grosminet ».

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Granny is generally good natured, practical old fashioned widowed woman who is extremely protective of her beloved canary, Tweety. Granny's overprotectiveness becomes apparent whenever Tweety is threatened (usually by Sylvester, a hungry pussycat who prefers eating birds over cat food). Although having the appearance as a kindly old woman, Granny has demonstrated her cleverness in many cartoons.

At least until the mid-1950s, Granny is depicted as an elderly spinster who wears spectacles, a gray bun and a late 19th-century-like schoolmarm dress; other old fashioned characteristics include her mode of transportation (usually, a Ford Model T or a horse and buggy) and her inability to relate to present fads (such as her telling Tweety she's about to try on a new "bikini bathing suit", which turns out to be a full one-piece outfit from the turn-of-the-20th century). After 1955 — in particular, the years after Foray began voicing the character — the character's wardrobe was updated and her old-fashioned tastes and ways of life were de-emphasized, and was sometimes given newer careers, such as a nurse or a bus driver.

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