“What did they call the canary that flew into the pastry dish?”/“Tweetie Pie.”

Tweety (or “Tweety Pie”) is an animated fictional yellow canary and not an actual pie, but there is a riddle:
   
Q. What did they call the canary that flew into the pastry dish?
A. Tweetie Pie.
 
The joke has been cited in print since at least 1990.
 
   
Wikipedia: Tweety
Tweety (short for Tweety Pie) is an animated fictional yellow canary in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons. The name “Tweety” is a play on words, as it originally meant “sweetie”, along with “tweet” being a typical English onomatopoeia for the sounds of birds. His characteristics are based on Red Skelton’s famous “Mean Widdle Kid.” Tweety appeared in 47 cartoons during the golden age.
 
Wikipedia: Tweetie Pie
Tweetie Pie is a 1947 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, depicting the first pairing of Tweety and Sylvester. Tweetie Pie won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, breaking Tom and Jerry’s streak of four consecutive wins on the category.
       
Google Books
The All-New Clean Joke Book
By Bob Phillips
Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers
1990
Pg. 131:
Q. What did they call the canary that flew into the pastry dish?
A. Tweetie Pie.
     
Google Groups: alt.humor.puns
Kids Puns of the Weak 10-05-04
Stan Kegel
10/5/04
(...)
What did they call the canary that flew into the pastry dish?
Tweetie Pie! (Joanna)
 
Google Books
ROFL: Rolling On the Floor Laughing Joke Book
New York, NY: Tangerine Press
2005  
Pg. 377:
What did they call the canary that flew into the pastry dish?
Tweetie Pie.
     
Twitter   
LaurenElizabeth‏
@lauren1194
Replying to @itsDannyJones
@Dannymcfly What did they call the canary that flew into the pastry dish ?
Tweetie Pie !
1:32 PM - 5 May 2009
 
1 January 2012, The Sunday Mail (Adelaide, Australia), “Chill Corner—Giggles,” pg. 10:
Q: What did they call the canary that flew into the pastry dish?
A: Tweetie Pie!
 
Google Books
Sensible Nonsense.. Frank’s Comic Pack:
Humour Pack Series
By Frank Paul
BookBaby
2014
Pg. ?:
What did they call the canary that flew into the pastry dish ? Tweetie Pie !
 
Twitter
Lucky Score‏
@LuckyScoreNet
What did they call the canary that flew into the
pastry dish ?
Tweetie Pie !
#Joke from #BirdJokes in #Jokes, #Humor and #Satire
11:46 PM - 12 Jan 2018