Editing TTFN (section)

==Other usage==
In the 1966 ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' television episode "Better Luck Next Time", [[Catwoman]] (played by the actress [[Julie Newmar]]) states "TTFN" in a microphone to Batman ([[Adam West]]) while he is high upon a wall while being stalked by her tiger, Tinkerbell, and then she has to further explain the meaning of the initialism to the puzzled Batman.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519460/quotes Memorable quotes for] ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'', "Better Luck Next Time" (1966) on [[Internet Movie Database]]</ref>

In ''[[Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day]]'', a 1968 Disney featurette, the voice of [[Tigger]] was performed by [[Paul Winchell]], whose wife Jean Freeman suggested that he [[ad-lib]] the line.<ref name="cryer" /><ref name="NY Times obit">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/27/movies/27winc.html |work=The New York Times | title=Paul Winchell, 82, TV Host and Film Voice of Pooh's Tigger, Dies |first=Julie |last=Salamon |date=2005-06-27 |accessdate=2010-05-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/26/AR2005062601247.html |title=TV Ventriloquist, Cartoon Voice And Inventor Paul Winchell Dies |newspaper=The Washington Post |last=Bernstein |first=Adam |date=27 June 2005 |access-date=23 October 2020}}</ref> It was further used by Tigger in ''[[The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]'' (1988–1991), often followed by a "hoo hoo hoo hoo!" as he bounces away on his tail. Tigger also uses variations of the word, in the episode ''Tigger is the Mother of Invention'' he says "TTFG. Ta-ta for good", and in [[The Tigger Movie]] "TTFE. Ta-ta For Ever". However, the phrase does not appear in the original books by [[A. A. Milne]].

It appears in the 1980 children's book 'Quest for the Gloop' by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski

[[Tim Horton]], the deceased professional hockey player and founder of the Tim Horton's Doughnut chain, has "TTFN" on his grave stone.<ref>[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=10450&PIpi=769366 Tim Horton on Find A Grave]</ref>

On the sitcom ''[[Bewitched]]'', the character Endora used the phrase TTFN before vanishing into thin air. 

"Ta ta for now" caught on with the British public so much that it was often uttered by dying people as their last words.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7676195.stm "How radio comedy changed a nation"] ''[[BBC News]] Magazine'', 17 October 2008</ref> It has been the catchphrase of radio personalities such as [[Jimmy Young (disc jockey)|Jimmy Young]], who modified it to BFN: "Bye for now".<ref>{{cite news|title=In Depth – Newsmakers – Jimmy Young: Too old? |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/1634802.stm |work=BBC News |date=2 November 2001 |accessdate=16 September 2012}}</ref>

In the 1990s, TTFN was still being used in online chat such as [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] and [[Multi-user dungeon|MUD]]s.<ref>[http://slang.uoregon.edu/pub_search.lasso?RecordIDNumber=11396&Process=detail01 "ttfn" in The Interactive Linguistics Databases Project for Lower-division Instruction and Student Research], University of Oregon</ref><ref>[http://www.catb.org/jargon/oldversions/jarg2911.txt talk mode] in the [[Jargon File]] v.2.9.11, 1 January 1993</ref>

The young adult novel ''[[ttfn (novel)|ttfn]]'' by [[Lauren Myracle]] was released in 2005. The frequently challenged novel is written entirely in the style of instant messaging.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Office for Intellectual Freedom |date=2013-03-26 |title=Top 10 Most Challenged Books Lists |url=http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10 |access-date=2021-03-06 |website=[[American Library Association]] |language=en}}</ref>