Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid

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Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid
Merrie Melodies/Bugs Bunny series
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Directed by	Bob Clampett
Animation by	Rod Scribner Robert McKimson
Voices by	Mel Blanc Kent Rogers Sara Berner
Music by	Carl Stalling
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	July 11, 1942
Format	Technicolor, 7 mins
Language	English

Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid is a 1942 Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Bob Clampett, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, and released to theatres by Warner Bros. Pictures. It marks the first appearance of Beaky Buzzard in a Warner Bros. short.

1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Plot

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The cartoon begins with a mother buzzard instructing her children to go out and catch something for dinner. Three out of four agree and take off right away. Then Mother notices one of her kids remaining with his back turned. This is where we meet Beaky (called "Killer" in this short), painfully shy and a little on the slow side. Against his will, his mother kicks him out of the nest with instructions to catch a rabbit. Beaky spots Bugs Bunny and soars down to catch him. Bugs makes like an air-traffic controller and "guides" Beaky to the ground with a crash. Upon getting up, he is greeted with the familiar "Eh, what's up Doc?" A chase ensues ending with Bugs crashing into the ground underneath the skeleton of a dead animal. He cries because he thinks he's dead, then laughs it off when he realizes otherwise. Beaky ends up the same way, and just as he begins to call for his mother in panic, she shows up. At first the mother buzzard thinks Bugs did something to her son. Bugs pulls Beaky out of the ground; at which time the mother buzzard kisses Bugs, causing him to blush and say "nope, nope, nope" just like Beaky.