Line #34 WesternAnimation/TheBashfulBuzzard


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3	"The Bashful Buzzard" is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1945]] ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' cartoon, directed by Creator/BobClampett and starring Killer (later coined Beaky Buzzard). Serving as a follow-up to the previous short ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyGetsTheBoid'', the cartoon follows the exact same premise, with the omission of WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, with Killer trying and failing to capture prey for his unimpressed mother.
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5	This was the final Warner Bros short with voice work provided by Kent Rogers, who died shortly after production.
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8	!!"The Bashful Buzzard" provides examples of:
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10	* AccidentalPervert: Killer at one point earns the ire of a female sheep when he tears off her wool, leaving her in a nightgown and inciting her to beat him over the head with a brush.
11	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite Mama Buzzard annoyance with Killer's incompetence, she is worried sick when he doesn't come home.
12	* BigLittleMan: "Shorty" at first seems to stand a little shorter than Killer, which is why he's so eager to engage with him in a fight. Unfortunately, the rocks he's peeking his head through hide the rest of his enormous body.
13	* BullyingADragon: Literally! The creature Killer calls Shorty initially seems small judging by the size of his head. An overconfident Killer hits Shorty in the head twice and challenges him to a fight. Then Killer attempts to abduct Shorty, only to find out that he is an enormous dragon. Shorty promptly attacks Killer, winds up winning the fight.
14	* DescriptionCut: After all the big prey his other sons bring home, Mama hopes that Killer brings something just as big. Cut to...
15	-->'''Killer:''' [singing] I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee...
16	* DogsLoveFireHydrants: One scene has a buzzard carry along a dog yelping while clinging to a fire hydrant.
17	* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When the Dragon roars at Killer, Killer tells him to be quiet and says he might scare "Shorty" (the lizard he was trying to pull out of the rock)--he mumbles and looks around for a moment, realizing the giant dragon in front of him ''is'' Shorty, just in time for the Dragon to roar again and attack him.
18	* FunnyAnimal: The curvaceous sheep lady that Killer unwittingly tears the wool off of.
19	* FurIsClothing: The aforementioned sheep has her wool become a coat when Killer removes it and its removal leaves her in a nightgown.
20	* GracefulLoser: The dragon, "Shorty", after Killer defeats and drags him home, can't resist getting in a quip after he hears his mother chiding him for coming up empty handed:
21	-->'''"Shorty":''' Well now, I wouldn't say that. ''chuckles''
22	* HammerSpace: Beaky's mom is effortlessly able to fit all of the ridiculously large things her kids bring back into her rather small cooking pot.
23	* LastSecondWordSwap: As Killer tries to catch "Shorty", he calls him an "infinitesimal piece of sh... shoe leather!"
24	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: As in his first appearance in ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyGetsTheBoid'', Killer/Beaky is based on Creator/EdgarBergen's dummy Mortimer Snerd.
25	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: PlayedForLaughs; despite his slow witted personality, Killer was somehow able to capture a bumblebee. And to say nothing of the fact that he somehow managed to defeat the dragon and haul it back to his nest.
26	* OhCrap: Among the things Killer's brothers drag back to the nest is a cow, with a farmer still milking it without realizing he's way up in the sky. The farmer slowly realizes his situation, just in time to freak out as gravity kicks in.
27	** Also: '''"SHORTY?!?!?"'''
28	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The dragon Killer encounters is huge and can fly, but it isn't of the fire breathing variety, and it has ridiculously tiny limbs and a head that barely looks dragon-like at all. It rather resembles a [[LivingDinosaurs brontosaurus]], in fact.
29	* ShoutOut:
30	** One of the elephants being carried back to the buzzard family's nest is trailing a sign that says "I am NOT WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}!"
31	** At the end, the dragon quips "Well now, I wouldn't say that!", a catchphrase said by Mr. Peavey from ''Radio/TheGreatGildersleeve''.
32	* ShutUpScaryThing: The dragon roars right in Killer's face, but Killer merely clamps its mouth shut and shushes him.
33	* StandardSnippet: Killer's bumblebee song is set to ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4inyD93KwQ Arkansas Traveler]]''
34	* StockFootage: The entire opening is reused from Clampett's previous short, ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyGetsTheBoid''.
35	* SuperStrength: Killer and his brothers are able to effortlessly lift things into the air far heavier than any bird of their size has any business carrying, including a parade of elephants! Killer himself is able to carry a truly massive dragon all the way back to his nest.
36	* TinyHeadedBehemoth: The dragon, which is why, after only seeing his head peeking through some rocks, Killer refers to him as "Shorty".
37	* VileVulture: Subverted with Killer, but played straight with his brothers and mother.

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