Line #23 WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyGetsTheBoid


1	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/getstheboid_1505.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:200:"You naughty, naughty boy!"]]
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4	"Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1942]] [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]] cartoon, directed by Creator/BobClampett, and starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.
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6	The short begins in a faraway wasteland, with a Mother Buzzard sending off her quadruplets to get some food for them--save one, the dimwitted Killer (aka. Beaky Buzzard), voiced by Kent Rogers. After being booted away from the nest, he treks off to bring home a rabbit for his ma--and promptly discovers a rabbit hole, housing the ever so nomadic WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. Bugs promply matches wits with the buzzard, resulting in much [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity Ensuing.]]
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9	!!"Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" provides examples of:
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11	* ArtisticLicenseOrnithology: Vultures generally only scavenge for dead animal carcasses (hence the bald head), and unless the prey is wounded or sick, will rarely hunt for and resort to killing live animals. Of course, with Hays Code censorship, the story wouldn’t happen in any way like RealLife, but you really have to wonder what Mama Buzzard was thinking sending the obviously dopey Killer out to get food using a skill that vultures would not be the most adept at practicing.
12	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite Mama Buzzard's vented annoyance with Killer, [[MamaBear she instantly swoops in when Bugs has presumably reduced him to bones.]]
13	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Bugs thinks his body is reduced to a skeleton and breaks down hysterically sobbing-- but takes a moment to say to the audience "Gruesome, isn't it?" When his toes poke up from the sand and he realizes he's fine (changing to hysterical laughing for a moment), he then says to the audience [[ImplausibleDeniability "Eh, I knew it all the time!"]]
14	* DeathbringerTheAdorable: Killer the Buzzard.
15	* DefeatEqualsFriendship: Implied during the end.
16	* DesertSkull: Bugs falls into a hole next to some cow bones, and he briefly thinks the bones are his. Later, he tricks Killer into thinking the same.
17	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: After his brothers all make Mama proud by heading out, Killer refuses to leave by stammering and being quite meek.
18	* FriendlyEnemy: Given how meek an opposition Killer is, Bugs' disposal of him is far more playful than usual, even putting an end to his prank when he thinks he's risked traumatising him and Mama Buzzard.
19	* HarmlessVillain: Killer.
20	* IHaveManyNames: Beaky Buzzard is referred to solely as "Killer" by his mother throughout this short. Allegedly his name was undecided until later shorts, he was generally known as "the [[Creator/EdgarBergen Snerd]] Bird" to most of the creative team.
21	* IWantMyMommy: Thinking he's been reduced to a skeleton, Killer screams for his mother.
22	* LuminescentBlush: Killer after poking in on Bugs showering and being called a "naughty, naughty boy."
23	* MamaBear: "Hey, what did you do to my poor little kid?!"
24	* MommasBoy: Killer the Buzzard.
25	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Killer is based on ventriloquist Creator/EdgarBergen's character Mortimer Snerd.
26	* PostKissCatatonia: Bugs inherits Killer's stammering after a large peck on the lips by Mama Buzzard.
27	* TheRuntAtTheEnd: After Mama Buzzard tells them what to get for dinner, three of her sons all happily leave to go hunting. Killer, however, stays grounded and stammers that he doesn't want to leave. Mama Buzzard forces the issue, though.
28	* ShoutOut:
29	** Bugs [[MickeyMousing emerges from his hole]] with his radio and antenna to the tune of the Creator/{{NBC}} Chimes.
30	** Bugs thinking the desert skeleton is his own is a nod to the Creator/HaroldLloyd film ''Film/TheFreshman1925''. It parodies a similar scene where Lloyd confuses a dummy's leg with his own, thinking it's broken beyond repair.
31	* StockFootage: The opening of this cartoon was recycled for the opening of another Killer / Beaky the Buzzard short, "WesternAnimation/TheBashfulBuzzard."
32	* VileVulture: Subverted with Killer, but played straight with his brothers and mother.
33	* WholesomeCrossdresser: Bugs, as demonstrated on the page image.

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