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| “ | They're chickens, you dolt! Apart from you, they're the most stupid creatures on this planet. They don't plot, they don't scheme, and they are NOT ORGANIZED! | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy to her husband Mr. Tweedy as she refuses to believe that the chickens are organized. |
| “ | Mr. Tweedy: W-what's all this then? Mrs. Tweedy: This is our future, Mr. Tweedy. No more wasting time with petty egg collection and miniscule profits. Mr. Tweedy: No more eggs? But we've always been egg farmers, me father, and his father and all their fathers, they was always- Mrs. Tweedy: Poor! Worthless. Nothings. But all that's about to change. This will take Tweedy's farm out of the dark ages and into full-scale automated production. Melisha Tweedy will be poor no longer. |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy talking about the pie machine. |
| “ | Let's make some nuggets. | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy using the remote control to brainwash the chickens including Frizzle to enter the nugget machine. |
Melisha Tweedy is the main antagonist of Aardman’s Chicken Run film series.
She was once the abusive and sadistic ex-wife of Mr. Tweedy and the oppressive owner of a chicken farm in Northern England. Melisha desires to gain profit from her farm, but the egg yield is shown to be constantly shrinking, prompting her to instead use the chickens to make her own brand of pies.
After Ginger had defeated her and destroyed her farm, Tweedy, having learned that chickens have sapience, had then married a scientist, Dr. Fry, whom she worked with for twelve years using mind controlling devices in order to improve the quality of chicken meat, having learned that the quality of chicken meat improves when they are at ease and happy.
She was voiced by Miranda Richardson, who also played Mab in Merlin, the Queen of Hearts in the 1999 Alice in Wonderland TV film, Lady Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow, Rita Skeeter in the Harry Potter film series, Jude in The Crying Game, Emily Brent in the 2015 And Then There Were None miniseries and Queen Elizabeth I, Amy Hardwood, Nurse Mary and Queen Asphyxia XIX in the Blackadder franchise.
Quick Answers
What was Mrs. Tweedy's original business before she decided to make chicken pies in Chicken Run?
Who is the character that defeated Mrs. Tweedy in the Chicken Run film series?
What was the relationship between Mrs. Tweedy and Mr. Tweedy in the Chicken Run series?
How did Mrs. Tweedy's business change over the course of the Chicken Run film series?
What does Mrs. Tweedy learn about chickens in the Chicken Run series?
Appearance
Mrs. Tweedy is a tall and slender middle-aged woman with long, dark brunette hair pulled back into a tight bun at the top of her head, pale skin, and blue eyes. She's a lot taller than both her husbands.
In the film, she's seen in two outfits. In her typical daily outfit, she wears a burgundy houndstooth dress with an upright pale pink collar with matching cuffs, a black brooch at the throat, pale blue eyeshadow, black muck boots, red gloves that occasionally go up to her forearms and sleeves rolled up to her elbows. She also wears sheer pantyhose, because in this outfit she has the legs colored in a tan brown darker than her white skin. Her second outfit seen is her nighttime attire, pink slippers with yellow wool socks, a pink nightgown and a pink nightcap. In both outfits, she keeps her hair tied.
In the sequel, she now wears a plum purple long-sleeved dress with a swan-neck collar, short black gloves with small openings, black stockings, and form-fitting plum purple knee-length boots with small black heels and soles. She now has long teased hair styled into a high bun held by a purple hairband as well as bright sky blue eyeshadow and thicker eyelashes.
Personality
| “ | Mrs. Tweedy is a cold, humorless woman who longs to take this rinky-dink chicken farm out of the dark ages and into full-scale automated production. Mrs. Tweedy wants to compete with the big boys and make big money but ironically she hates everything about chickens. | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy's description in the Game Boy Color. |
Mrs. Tweedy is an extremely egotistical, greedy, sadistic, ruthless, manipulative, sociopathic, callous and hot-tempered woman who only uses the chickens to get money. She is always looking for a chance to abuse her husband and the chickens, and despite her temper, she's occasionally shown to be quite clever and intellectual - she's the one who comes up with the idea of buying a pie machine to use to make more profit from the chickens. She's specifically impatient and temperamental with her husband, shown when she's contemplating buying the Pie Machine, and when the Pie Machine is broken. It's also demonstrated that she and her husband have a quarrelsome disagreement on many things — when Mr. Tweedy is attacked by the chickens, he desperately calls to her "The chickens are revolting!", and she (writing on a clipboard at that time) says to herself "Finally something we agree on". However, she didn't know he didn't mean revolt in the context she was thinking of.
She is also very intelligent, cunning, creative and manipulative that she can creating any traps, inventions and deadly items so she can use them for her greed and ego.
She's also shown to be a very malignant woman who's happy with the idea of murdering the chickens, as she sadistically smiled at Edwina the hen right before selecting her for slaughter, and decided that she would kill them all once the pie machine was operational again. She's also very abusive, defamatory, argumentative and opprobrious towards the chickens and her husband; even her vicious dogs are shown to be afraid of her for the same reason. She's, however, capable of displaying some mild affection to her husband when she views things as going her way, as she flirtatiously pinched his butt while watching the chickens gouge themselves on the extra food meant to fatten them up.
Mrs. Tweedy rarely shows any emotion other than disgust or anger, displaying an array of narcissistic and antisocial behaviors. Despite her truly diabolical and sinister nature, Mrs. Tweedy was also very careful to craft her public image in a pleasing light, as shown by billboards advertising her pies, which portray her as a smiling and motherly woman, rather than the wrathful and uptight person she really is. She also acts polite in front of people who come by her house, like she did when the ringmaster arrived. She also never calls Mr. Tweedy by his first name, even though they share the same last name as they are married. Instead, she constantly calls him "Mr. Tweedy". This could imply that she sees her husband as an extension of her, rather than an equal partner.
During the event of Dawn of the Nugget, it is clearly shown that she has learned from her mistakes of underestimating the chickens, especially Ginger. As the result, she has become more cautious, charismatic and well-thought when dealing with the chickens, judging from extensive security in her nugget factory. She is also shown to treat her new husband Dr. Fry better than her old husband, mostly due to his competency and intelligence compared to Mr. Tweedy, but she still behaves overbearing and dominant as always in the relationship.
Biography
Chicken Run
In the United Kingdom in the 1950's, a hen named Ginger makes several unsuccessful attempts for her and her fellow chickens to escape from Mrs. Tweedy's farm in Yorkshire, England. As it turns out, Mrs. Tweedy runs the farm like a concentration camp, forcing the chickens to lay eggs to sell for profit and slaughtering those who fail to lay any eggs for a week. As the year goes by, Mrs. Tweedy notices that the eggs being laid are constantly going down, causing profits to shrink. Her husband Mr. Tweedy correctly suspects the chickens are planning something due to their attempts to escape, but Mrs. Tweedy brushes this off, believing that they (apart from Mr. Tweedy) are "the most stupid creatures on the planet". After seeing a magazine featuring an advertisement for a pie machine, Mrs. Tweedy decides to get it to turn all of her chickens into pies in a bid to increase her profits.
After ordering the machine, Mrs. Tweedy and her husband attempt to kill Ginger in their machine in order to test it, but are thwarted when a visiting American rooster named Rocky rescues her and clogs the gravy sprayer, sabotaging the machine. The chickens begin to prepare their ultimate escape plan, creating an airplane out of their coops to fly off the farm. In the meantime, Mrs. Tweedy forces Mr. Tweedy to fix the machine. After the repairs are done, Mrs. Tweedy orders Mr. Tweedy to fetch all of the chickens then turns the machine all the way up to maximum. However, Mr. Tweedy finds out that most of his tools were stolen by the chickens for their plan, realizing that he was right all along, but he ends up getting attacked by the chickens and tied up and pinned underneath one of the coops. He tries to warn Mrs. Tweedy about this, but she ignores him, remaining unaware of the circumstances.
Just as Ginger is about to set up the ramp to help the airplane fly off, Mrs. Tweedy tries to stop her with her axe, finally seeing what's really going on. Fortunately, Rocky (who left until he saw an advertisement for Mrs. Tweedy's Chicken Pies) returns and uses his trike to knock Mrs. Tweedy unconscious, accidentally throwing the axe in the air. Mrs. Tweedy came to and saw the axe land right next to her neck, making her pass out again due to the shock. With that in mind, Rocky and Ginger set the ramp before escaping with the other chickens in their plane.
However, Mrs. Tweedy wakes up and goes off in hot pursuit of the escaping chickens by grabbing onto the dragging rope. Now insanely mad, she climbs herself up to stop the plane, even if it means endangering her own life. Fortunately, Ginger tricks Mrs. Tweedy into cutting the Christmas lights with her axe, and she falls through the barn window and lands headfirst and trapped upside down inside the safety valve of the pie machine's pressure cooking gravy tank triggering all the alarms, as a result causing it to massively explode alongside the pie contraption due to the overwhelming gravy pressure now also trapped inside the gravy tank that Mrs. Tweedy was in, destroying much of the barn and coating her farm in gravy.
After the explosion, Mrs. Tweedy finds herself covered in gravy and still stuck in the safety valve, despite having survived the explosion that almost killed her. As the chickens have finally escaped from the farm, Mr. Tweedy (having untied himself and barely escaped by shielding himself from the explosion unscathed) berates his wife for not listening to him about the chickens being organized in the first place. This only enrages Mrs. Tweedy, but before she can lash out at her husband for his incompetence, Mr. Tweedy, who's totally fed up with her pushing him around, tips over the heavy barn door on her, finally getting back at her and releasing himself from her abuse.
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
After twelve years, Mrs. Tweedy continues her chicken farm business. She marries Dr. Fry and they create a profitable empire of producing chicken nuggets from chickens in a factory called Fun Land Farms. Having learned from her mistakes after her past encounter with Ginger, she creates her chicken farm with advanced technology such as electric fences, camera-driven shooting moles and laser-guided explosive ducks as well having security guards for patrols to make sure the chickens won't escape her grasp this time and treats them as dangerous as human beings. In order to make sure the chickens don't escape, she has Dr. Fry create mind-control collars on the chickens to brainwash them into being happy to be turned into nuggets, rendering them unaware of their circumstances.
After Molly and Frizzle are captured and taken to the Fun Land Farms factory, Ginger, Rocky and their friends break in to rescue her. Molly is able to break out and follow Dr. Fry and Reginald Smith to the main living room with Ginger following them as well. After Dr. Fry presents an advertisement of how Farm-Land Farms handles chickens much to Molly's shock, Reginald asks if they will be able to do it, to which Mrs. Tweedy appears and confirms it, much to Ginger's shock and horror. After being introduced to Reginald and she reveals that she wasn't attracted to Dr. Fry's wealth, but his intellect and academic career before they take Reginald for a demonstration. Ginger and Molly spy on them, where Dr. Fry reveals that he made three remote controls with Mrs. Tweedy accidentally pushing the button of the first one which shuts off the mind control collars of the chickens, but Dr. Fry quickly switches it back on and gets the second remote control that picks any chicken.
One chicken is chosen and walks into the nugget grinder, much to Ginger and Molly's horror. After Reginald is impressed, he decides to send a truck over to collect the chicken nuggets the next day and agrees to a partnership with Mrs. Tweedy. Mrs. Tweedy then comes across Ginger and captures her upon recognizing her and calls Dr. Fry to return. They chain Ginger down and place a collar on Ginger to brainwash her, but Ginger is able to resist the mind control, much to Mrs. Tweedy and Dr. Fry's shock. Mrs. Tweedy orders that the brainwashing be put to maximum, but Dr. Fry protests that it hasn't been tested until Mrs. Tweedy takes over the controls and puts the collar up to maximum power. Ginger continues to battle the brainwashing to Mrs. Tweedy's shock until Rocky bursts through the air vent and knocks everyone down, which shuts the brainwashing machine off and giving Molly the opportunity to free her mother. However, the collar's effects kick in and Ginger ends up brainwashed. In order to give Molly enough time to escape with Ginger, Rocky dances in front of the humans, while his wife and daughter escape through a hatch and Rocky escapes in the elevator, to which Mrs. Tweedy orders her guards to capture the chickens.
Reginald arrives with a truck to pick up the chicken nuggets and a guard reveals that the chickens are in a corn silo, to which Mrs. Tweedy sees this as a perfect opportunity to kill Ginger, Rocky, Molly and their friends by turning on the grinder, but the chickens are able to escape by turning the corn into popcorn to blast out of the silo. Mrs. Tweedy discovers their escape, but focuses on Reginald who introduces her to his restaurant's new sauce which she accepts. She then orders Dr. Fry to begin the process and he sets the remote that picks all the chickens including Frizzle to march into the nugget machine, but Ginger and Rocky prevent him. Mrs. Tweedy arrives shortly and manages to reach the brainwashing remote. Armed with an axe, Mrs. Tweedy chases and fights Ginger and Rocky over the collar remote, while Molly, Bunty, Babs, Mac, Nick and Fetcher and the now-freed Frizzle try to prevent the brainwashed chickens from entering the nugget machine's grinder, to no avail.
When Mrs. Tweedy has Ginger cornered, Molly heads off to retrieve the remote, but is caught by Mrs. Tweedy. She then realizes that Molly is Ginger's daughter and sadistically threatens Ginger to either not turn the collars off the chickens to save her daughter or to turn the collars off and have her daughter beheaded. However, Ginger turns it off and Rocky rams into Mrs. Tweedy, causing her to drop the axe. Molly bites one of Mrs. Tweedy's hands and she nearly drops Molly into the grinder, to which she is saved by her mother, while their friends lead the now freed chickens away, much to Mrs. Tweedy's anger. Mrs. Tweedy prepares to attack Ginger and Molly, but Rocky prevents her. Ginger slips off the rail, but Rocky grabs and holds them, but Mrs. Tweedy has them at their mercy and prepares to kick them into the grinder. However, Ginger distracts Mrs. Tweedy with the same words she used from their past encounter and the swinging axe's handle knocks Mrs. Tweedy into the grinder along with the axe, causing the machines in the factory to start overloading.
Just as Ginger, Rocky, Molly, their friends and the freed chickens escape into Reginald's pick up truck, Mrs. Tweedy emerges from the factory all covered with oil and crumbs and now going insanely mad once again. She jumps onto the truck and proceeds to cut at the top of the roof to kill the chickens and rats. The chickens and rats try to shake her off, but to no avail and she successfully opens the top and has them at their mercy until Fowler slides down a rope and kicks Mrs. Tweedy into the water, while the chickens successfully escape the factory. Dr. Fry warns her that the factory is overheating, but the robot ducks's lasers blast Mrs. Tweedy while the factory explodes from the over-heating. It is unknown if Mrs. Tweedy and her cohorts survived the factory's destruction or not.
Other Media
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Mrs. Tweedy as she appears in the PlayStation, Dreamcast and PC versions.
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Mrs. Tweedy as she appears in the Game Boy Color version.
Mrs. Tweedy appears in the PlayStation, Dreamcast, Game Boy Color and PC video game adaptations of the film. She appears as an enemy that must be avoided getting caught by at all costs, like Mr. Tweedy and their dogs.
In the PlayStation, Dreamcast and PC versions, she serves as a boss in the final level, where she tries to infiltrate the henhouse plane, whilst throwing axes in the process, forcing the plane piloted by Fowler to drag her into the scenery to prevent her from reaching the plane until they reach the farm.
In the Game Boy Color version, she serves as an obstacle who patrols the pie machine levels, where she relies on magic eyes and laser beams to detect either Ginger or her hens to capture them. Unlike the film and other game adaptations, she does not try to prevent the chickens from escaping.
Powers and Abilities
Despite being a farmer's wife with a keen business sense, Mrs. Tweedy carries a hatchet that she uses to decapitate chickens. She manages to wield it surprisingly well in battle. Additionally, she's a rather cunning and strong woman, being most of the brawn and brains involved at the farm. Mrs. Tweedy is also capable of chasing the chickens down to the point where she was precariously dangling by a thread high above the ground, carrying her axe in her teeth.
Quotes
Chicken Run
| “ | Mrs. Tweedy: Mr. Tweedy. What is that chicken doing outside the fence? Mr. Tweedy: Oh! I don't know, love. I-- Mrs. Tweedy: Just deal with it. NOW! |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy instructing Mr. Tweedy to deal with Ginger after catching her outside the gate, also her first lines. |
| “ | Twenty-two and nine, Fourteen shillings, and threepence, Seven and sixpence times three, Two and nine, fourpence halfpenny. | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy counting how much money she spend on. |
| “ | Doh! Stupid, worthless creatures! I'm sick and tired of making miniscule profits. | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy expressing her hatred for the chickens for the low profits that she is having. |
| “ | Mr. Tweedy: Oh, yes. Those chickens are up to something. Mrs. Tweedy: Quiet. I'm onto something. Mr. Tweedy: They're organized, I know it. Mrs. Tweedy: I said, quiet! Mr. Tweedy: That Ginger one, I reckon she's their leader. Mrs. Tweedy: Mr. Tweedy! I may finally have found a way to make some real money around here and what are you on about? Ridiculous notions of escaping chickens! Mr. Tweedy: But... but... Mrs. Tweedy: It's all in your head, Mr. Tweedy. Say it! Mr. Tweedy: It's all in me head, it's all in me head. Mrs. Tweedy: Now, you keep telling yourself that, because I don't want to hear another word about it. Is that clear? Mr. Tweedy: Yes, love. But you know that Ginger one-- Mrs. Tweedy: They're chickens, you dolt! Apart from you, they're the most stupid creatures on this planet! They don't plot, they don't scheme, and they are not organized! |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy scolds Mr. Tweedy, when he is suspicious about the chickens' escape plan. |
| “ | Mr. Tweedy! Where are you?! | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy yelling out of nowhere. |
| “ | Mrs. Tweedy: He's valuable, you say? Col. Daniel Spoon: Sure. Mrs. Tweedy: Get the torch. |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy as she's being visited by Col. Daniel Spoon, the Circus owner. |
| “ | Mr. Tweedy: Ooh! What... What... What's all this then? Mrs. Tweedy: This is our future, Mr. Tweedy. No more wasting time with petty egg collection and minuscule profits. Mr. Tweedy: No more eggs, but we've always been egg farmers. Me father and his father and their fathers. They are always.... Mrs. Tweedy: POOR! WORTHLESS! NOTHINGS! But that's all about to change. THIS will take Tweedy's Farm out of the dark ages and into full-scale automated production. Melisha Tweedy will be poor no longer. |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy revealing her plans. |
| “ | Double their food rations, Mr. Tweedy. I want them all fat as this one. | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy orders Mr. Tweedy to feed all the chicken up to glutton. |
| “ | Mr. Tweedy: Oh, that's champion, that is. What is it? Mrs. Tweedy: It's a pie machine, you idiot. Chicken goes in, pies comes out. Mr. Tweedy: Ooh. What kind of pies? Mrs. Tweedy: Apple. Mr. Tweedy: My favorite! Mrs. Tweedy: CHICKEN pies, you great lummox! Imagine it! In less than a fortnight, every grocer's in the county will be stocked with box upon box of Mrs. Tweedy's Homemade Chicken Pies. Mr. Tweedy: Just "Mrs."? Mrs. Tweedy: Woman's touch. Makes the public feel more comfortable. Mr. Tweedy: Oh, right. How does it work? [reaches to pull the lever, but Mrs. Tweedy slaps him on the hand] Mrs. Tweedy: Get me a chicken and I'll show you. Mr. Tweedy: I know just the one. [leaves] |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy revealing the pie machine to Mr. Tweedy. |
| “ | Mrs. Tweedy: What did ya do, ya great pudding?! Mr. Tweedy: But I didn't do 'owt! Mrs. Tweedy: Turn it off! Mr. Tweedy: It won't turn off! |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy realizing the pie machine is malfunctioning. |
| “ | Idiot! | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy angrily kicks Mr. Tweedy. |
| “ | Mrs. Tweedy: Get the chickens. Mr. Tweedy: Which ones? Mrs. Tweedy: (smiles wickedly) All of them! |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy ordering Mr. Tweedy to bring all the chickens and put them in the now-fixed pie machine to their demise. |
| “ | Finally, something we agree on. | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy misunderstanding Mr. Tweedy's call for help. |
| “ | Put the ramp, down! (pin Ginger down with her axe) You are going to be a PIE! | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy confronting Ginger. |
| “ | MR. TWEEDY! | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy's last line of the film, yelling out Mr. Tweedy's name and causing a massive gigantic gravy pressure explosion as well as triggering the safety valve by landing upside down head first inside the pie machine's pressure cooking gravy tank then the door falls on her. |
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
| “ | Your daughter is going to be delicious! | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy in Ginger's nightmare. |
| “ | Reginald Smith: That's a clever little cartoon, Dr. Fry. But will you be able to do it? Mrs. Tweedy: We already have. Ginger: (gasps.) That voice! Dr. Fry: Allow me to introduce my wife: Melisha Tweedy. Mrs. Tweedy: Welcome... to the future. Ginger: It's her! |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy announcing herself to Reginald Smith. |
| “ | Mrs. Tweedy: Hello, Reginald. I see you've met my current husband, Dr. Fry. Was I attracted to his large inheritance and vast acres of land? No, it was his mind. You probably can't tell by looking at him, but he's a genius. Dr. Fry: You flatter me, darling. Mrs. Tweedy: With degrees from Oxford and Cambridge in clinical neurology, behavioral psychology, genetic engineering... Dr. Fry: And drama! Mrs. Tweedy: Now you've had the appetizer, time for the main course. Come. |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy complimenting on Dr. Fry's academic career before introducing Reginald Smith to the brainwashing program. |
| “ | Come on!, Get on with it! | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy is getting very impatient with Dr. Fry for his three remote controls. |
| “ | Let's go with... that one. | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy choosing a chicken to go into the nugget grinder but accidentally presses the button of the first remote that shuts off the collars. |
| “ | Mrs. Tweedy: What's going on? Dr. Fry: No, no, no. Wrong one, my angel. That's the off button. (turns the collars back on and gets the second remote) Allow me. (chuckles) |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy before Dr. Fry corrects her on the second remote that picks chickens. |
| “ | Behold. The Dawn... of the Nugget! | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy announcing her chicken nugget production. |
| “ | Mrs. Tweedy: Picture it. On every street, in every town. People on the go. Modern people in a modern world. They want their food, and they want it fast. And we will give it to them by the bucketful. Reginald Smith: (eats another nugget and sighs) Fast food. I like it. This could be big. Mrs. Tweedy: No. It will be huge. And Melisha Tweedy will have her revenge. Reginald Smith: (eats another nugget) Revenge? Mrs. Tweedy: (composes herself) Revenue. That's what I meant. Reginald Smith: I'll send a truck to collect the first batch at dawn tomorrow. Mrs. Tweedy: With my nuggets and your chain of restaurants, this is going to be a beautiful partnership. |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy revealing her plans and agrees to a partnership with Reginald Smith. |
| “ | YOU! | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy upon recognizing Ginger after 12 years of the events from the first film. |
| “ | Come back here! | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy chasing Ginger. |
| “ | Well now, the little escape artist. You won't ruin this. Not again. (to an intercom) Come back immediately, doctor. (to Ginger) And bring a collar. We've an unexpected guest. | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy capturing Ginger. |
| “ | Here she is. The miserable, malcontented chicken that escaped Tweedy's Farm and ruined my life. | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy introducing Ginger to Dr. Fry as they prepare to brainwash Ginger. |
| “ | I gave you all a hen could want. A warm hut, all the feed you could eat. But you still weren’t happy. Well, I’m gonna make ya happy now. | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy placing a happy collar on Ginger |
| “ | Mrs. Tweedy: It's not working! Turn up the power! Dr. Fry: The equipment's in good order, my love. I've just never seen a chicken so strong-willed. Mrs. Tweedy: You don't know the half of it! Turn it up to full power! Dr. Fry: Full power? But we've never tested it at that. Mrs. Tweedy: (pushes Dr. Fry from the controls) Must I do everything myself!? Husbands and chickens, the bane of my life! |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy taking over the controls from Dr. Fry when Ginger proves to be too strong-willed. |
| “ | Get him! | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy ordering her guards to capture Rocky. |
| “ | Find those chickens! | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy ordering her guards to capture the chickens. |
| “ | Mrs. Tweedy: He's here. Are we ready to fry, Fry? Dr. Fry: Five minutes, pumpkin. (chuckles) Mrs. Tweedy: Make it four. Dr. Fry: Oh. Mrs. Tweedy: Where is she? |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy impatiently ordering Dr. Fry to prepare the nugget machine and wondering where Ginger is. |
| “ | Guard: Them runaway chickens, uh, have got themselves stuck in a corn silo. Mrs. Tweedy: In the silo, you say? Excellent. I'll go and greet our guest. Production starts in three minutes. Dr. Fry: Three? (yelps) Mrs. Tweedy: Looks like you've just run out of cluck, little chickens. |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy turning the corn grinder on to kill Ginger, Rocky, Molly and their friends. |
| “ | Mrs. Tweedy: Dr. Fry! What was that noise up on the roof?! Sounded like an explosion. Dr. Fry: (gasps and yelps) Looks like one of the silos has blown its top. Oh. Maybe you shouldn't have put those chickens through the grinder, my love. Mrs. Tweedy: Don't be ridiculous. Reginald Smith: Melisha, all ready for the big day? |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy being informed by Dr. Fry that the chickens have escaped the corn silo. |
| “ | Reginald Smith: Melisha, all ready for the big day? Mrs. Tweedy: Oh yes, Reginald. Everything is tickety-boo. Reginald Smith: Jolly good. My truck is ready to go. |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy meeting Reginald for the preparation of the nugget process. |
| “ | Reginald Smith: Actually, Melisha, I have a little something for our big day. Mrs. Tweedy: (sweetly) Why, Reginald, this is all very sudden (sees sauce instead of a ring) Uh... Ketchup? Reginald Smith: Oh. No, no. Something completely new. I call it "the dip". Mrs. Tweedy: (tastes the sauce) It's... sweet. Reginald Smith: And sour. Mrs. Tweedy: Aren't we all, Reginald? (to a walkie talkie) Dr. Fry? Dr. Fry: Yes, my beloved? Say those words I'm longing to hear. Mrs. Tweedy: Get on with it, you idiot! |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy being introduced to Reginald's new sauce before ordering Dr. Fry to begin the process. |
| “ | Mrs. Tweedy: Dr. Fry? What's going on up there? Ginger: Quick. Come on. (leaves with Rocky to get the first remote) Mrs. Tweedy: Dr. Fry! Dr. Fry! Dr. Fry: Hello? Mrs. Tweedy: Dr. Fry! Dr. Fry: Anybody there? Mrs. Tweedy: Dr. Fry! (arrives by elevator) Dr. Fry! Where are my nuggets!? Honestly, that man is about as much use as a headless... (notices a big egg on Dr. Fry's head before noticing Ginger and Rocky) CHICKEN! |
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| ~ Mrs. Tweedy arriving to see Ginger and Rocky trying to stop her plan. |
| “ | What have we here? A little you. | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy realizing that Molly is Ginger's daughter after seeing the resemblance. |
| “ | No, No, NO! | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy is angry with the chickens are free from her mind-controlling device and escaping from the nugget processor. |
| “ | Well, now. I suppose you three might make a bucketful. | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Tweedy's last line in the second film, as she is about to kick Rocky, Ginger and Molly into the nugget grinder before she is knocked by her own axe into the nugget grinder. |
Trivia
- Despite the fact that Mrs. Tweedy is very low on money in the first film, she was able to afford the pie machine. The most probable reason was the fact that the machine was specifically marketed towards chicken farmers suffering from low profits and therefore was likely sold at an affordable price to them or that it was a used machine (which was confirmed in a deleted scene where Ginger and Rocky come across a chicken's carcass while escaping from the pie machine).
- Her being much taller than average can be understood only comparing her with Mr. Tweedy and the circus chief, the only other humans seen in the entire film, which they are both shorter than Mrs. Tweedy and they are also men. In the sequel, she is also shown to be taller than Dr. Fry, Reginald Smith and her security guards.
- Both Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy's management on their chicken farm, as well as the farm itself, is somewhat equivalent with the typical prison (or rather super-maximum-security prison) for humans in real life than normal real-life chicken farms for the following reason: Fences around Tweedy's family are covered with barbed wire in similar manner with real life prisons. It's said that all chickens must lay eggs properly as well as to never did any attempt to escape or punished via either locked within coal bin or death penalty via butchering.
- This is somewhat similar with real-life prison where all inmates must obey the rules within the prison or receive severe punishment. Mr. Tweedy's job, along with his hounds in the movie, are also comparable with security guards in real-life prison, while Mrs. Tweedy herself on the other hand, is comparable with prison wardens.
- The gaunt, sharp angles of the farmhouse were meant to reflect the menace that Mrs. Tweedy imposes.
- It should be noted that even if Mrs. Tweedy managed to kill Ginger and get to the chickens and the rats, she would have crashed the plane and kill both her and the rest of the chickens from falling from great height. She was blinded by her own greed and rage to ever even realize her and the chickens' potential downfall. Along with her idea to turn the entire chicken farm into pies to make short term profits, this is further proven that really, she does not see the big picture.
- Her real given name "Melisha" is a play on the words "militia" and "malicious", two words associated with evil, also it is derived from the Greek word for "queen bee", for her dominant behavior towards to her first husband Mr. Tweedy, as well as her second husband Dr. Fry, and the combination of the three feminine names "Melissa", "Alicia" and "Felisha".
- Original storyboards depicted Mrs. Tweedy attempting to stop Ginger from lifting the plane's ramp by holding her hostage at the barrel of her shotgun until Rocky intervened and knocked her unconscious with his bike, causing Mrs. Tweedy's gun to discharge and knock the weather vane off her house. The reasons for the scene's change was likely due to it being considered too intense for younger audiences.
- When Mrs. Tweedy measures Babs for the pie machine, she was on elevated rigging, so she would appear to tower over the assembled chickens. She was given different walks to intimidate them.
- For a while, the filmmakers considered the idea of having Mrs. Tweedy be the one attacked and tied up by the chickens in the climax instead of Mr. Tweedy.
- There are several deleted scenes showcasing different versions of Mrs. Tweedy's defeat in the first film. One scene featured Ginger failing to cut the rope with a handsaw, but ultimately succeeding with scissors and the aftermath not showing Mrs. Tweedy lashing out at Mr. Tweedy. Another scene involved Mrs. Tweedy being defeated by having a boulder dropped onto her head instead of being crushed by a door.
- The rock can be very briefly seen falling for two frames before it cuts to the new shot of Mrs. Tweedy screaming right before Mr. Tweedy flattens her with the door.
- She's partially inspired by Nazi Germany dictator Adolf Hilter as well as the nazi prison wardens of World War II. This is evident in the movie as well, as the chicken farm is frequently portrayed as being a fascist prisoner of war concertation camp due to the fact that Chicken Run is confirmed to be a parody of The Great Escape.
- In contrast to this, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget had Mrs. Tweedy inspired by the 1960s film supervillains like those from the James Bond film series, as the sequel's tone took an inspiration from the spy genre.
- According to the tie-in book Cutting Loose: Behind the Fences at Tweedy's Farm, after the chickens escaped from the farm, Mrs. Tweedy, who did survive being crushed by her barn door, moved to Scotland along with her husband and started a seaweed farm.
- Since release of Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, however, this has been rendered non-canon, as the sequel instead shows Mrs. Tweedy having opened a nugget factory with Mr. Tweedy not around anymore. In-universe, though, it could be considered that the tie-in book's claims were a fake story given to the press to throw them off the trail of Mrs. Tweedy's newest venture.
- Although her fate is once again left ambiguous in the second film, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget director Sam Fell opines that Mrs. Tweedy likely survived the destruction and will definitely return in case they make a threequel.
- Like Cruella de Vil when facing the puppies in 102 Dalmatians, Mrs. Tweedy has learned to never underestimate and belittle the chickens' intelligence, especially not Ginger's.
External Links
- Mrs. Tweedy on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Mrs. Tweedy on the Chicken Run Wiki
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