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 Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass adaptation for the Royal Shakespeare Company adapted through the Looking-Glass in act 2. The 1985 two-part TV musical "Alice in Wonderland", produced by Irwin Allen, covers both books; Alice was played by Natalie Gregory. In this adaptation, the Jabberwock materialises into reality after Alice reads "Jabberwocky", and pursues her through the second half of the musical. The 1999 made-for-TV Hallmark/NBC film "Alice in Wonderland", with Tina Majorino as Alice, merges elements from "Through the Looking Glass" including the talking flowers, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and the chess theme including