Tweedledum and Tweedledee enantiomorphs — three-dimensional mirror images. Evidence for these assumptions cannot be found in any of Lewis Carroll's writings. Tweedledum and Tweedledee Tweedledum and Tweedledee are fictional characters in an English nursery rhyme and in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There". Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom. The nursery rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19800. The names have since become synonymous in western popular culture slang for any two people who look and act in identical ways, generally in a derogatory context. Common versions of
Through the Looking-Glass version of "The Walrus and the Carpenter". The 1951 animated Disney movie "Alice in Wonderland" also features several elements from "Through the Looking-Glass", including the talking flowers, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and "The Walrus and the Carpenter". Another adaptation, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", produced by "Joseph Shaftel Productions" in 1972 with Fiona Fullerton as Alice, included the twins Fred and Frank Cox as Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The 2010 film "Alice in Wonderland" by Tim Burton contains elements of both "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass". The 1974 Italian TV series Nel Mondo Di Alice (In the World of Alice)