The Bashful Buzzard

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The Bashful Buzzard Looney Tunes series
"Blue Ribbon" reissue title card for The Bashful Buzzard
Directed by	Robert Clampett
Produced by	Edward Selzer
Story by	Michael Sasanoff
Voices by	Mel Blanc Kent Rogers
Music by	Carl W. Stalling
Animation by	Bob McKimson Rod Scribner Manny Gould J.C.Melendez
Studio	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	September 15, 1945
Color process	Technicolor
IMDb profile

The Bashful Buzzard is a 1945 7-minute animated cartoon directed by Robert Clampett. Beaky Buzzard is featured in this cartoon. The original titles to this cartoon are believed to be lost; however there are recreated titles with the original opening music cue as a bonus feature on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5. Also, someone has noted that the recreated titles do not look like the originals, as the originals had the credits superimposed over the first shot of the buzzards, and after a few seconds, the camera would zoom in on the buzzards like the "Blue Ribbon" cartoon.

[edit] Plot Summary

Beaky Buzzard is sent to bring home something to eat. While his brothers fetch a milk cow (with farmer attached), a string of circus elephants (including a baby one brandishing a banner reading "I am NOT Dumbo", a reference to the Disney film of the same name) and a dog attached to a fire hydrant, Beaky manages to capture a baby bumble bee. The bee's mother then comes and stings Beaky, who falls down near a lake. There he sees the small head of what turns out to be a large dinosaur. Beaky starts running from the dinosaur, and the scene changes to the mother buzzard worrying about her son not returning home until late at night. When he comes, she is both glad that he came and angry that he brought nothing for dinner. However, when the camera moves down, it is revealed that he has eventually caught the dinosaur.

[edit] A notable bit of implied vulgarity

Before realizing how big the dinosaur really is (having only seen its little head), Beaky begins slapping it around and challenging it to a fight, saying, "Why, you little shriveled up, infintesimal piece of shhh... OEleather!"