The Bashful Buzzard
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
Once again, Mother Buzzard sends Beaky and his brothers out to bring home dinner. Beaky's brothers bring back a whole array of giant animals, such as elephants, cows, and lovers, but all Beaky seems to get is a baby bumblebee... until he has a run-in with a giant lizard.
Characters
Beaky Buzzard, Mother Buzzard, Brother Buzzards
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Robert Clampett
Producing
- Producer
- Edward Selzer
Writing
- Writer
- Michael Sasanoff
Animation
- Animator
- Robert McKimson (as Bob McKimson)
- Animators, uncredited
- Manny Gould, J.C. (Bill) Melendez, Rod Scribner
Voices
- Voice
- Kent Rogers (Beaky Buzzard), Sara Berner (Mother Buzzard), Mel Blanc (Old Rooster, Farmer, Dog, Lover in Bugger, Dragon), Robert Clampett
Music
- Music
- Carl W. Stalling
Production notes
The first minute is identical to 1942's Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid.
Kent Rogers died in World War II (July 1944) before the voice work on this cartoon was finished, so Stan Freberg did the remaining voice tracks. Comedian Eddie Bartell is also said to have filled in for some of Beaky's dialogue (along with Freberg) when Kent Rogers was killed fighting in World War II. In addition, director Bob Clampett did a few new speaking lines himself.
The delay in this cartoon's release was due to the Technicolor plant's large backlog during the war.
This was Beaky Buzzard's first "starring" role, although he had appeared in other cartoons.
This is also the cartoon that has Beaky sing the "I'm Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee" song that many people associate with the character. The original title was "Arkansas Traveler" (Unknown-arr. Carl Stalling).
In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their Blue Ribbon program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
Kent Rogers died in World War II (July 1944) before the voice work on this cartoon was finished, so Stan Freberg did the remaining voice tracks. Comedian Eddie Bartell is also said to have filled in for some of Beaky's dialogue (along with Freberg) when Kent Rogers was killed fighting in World War II. In addition, director Bob Clampett did a few new speaking lines himself.
The delay in this cartoon's release was due to the Technicolor plant's large backlog during the war.
This was Beaky Buzzard's first "starring" role, although he had appeared in other cartoons.
This is also the cartoon that has Beaky sing the "I'm Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee" song that many people associate with the character. The original title was "Arkansas Traveler" (Unknown-arr. Carl Stalling).
In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their Blue Ribbon program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
Pictures
Reviews
The Bashful Buzzard, at last
At long last we've found it! My wife and I have talked about the song within this classic cartoon for years with great discussion of whether it was a Baby Huey cartoon or what character sang the song Baby Bumblebee. Stumbling on your website will be a hoot in some revisited memories of theater break cartoons and Saturday mornings around the TV.
Thanks for keeping and showing those memories!
Bashful Buzzards are spin-off of Bugs Bunny Cartoon...
While the cartoon is funny and has the Clampett touch, the whole story line is a copy of "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid", released in 1942 (also by Clampett)
The original cartoon has some timeless site gags and lines, and you have to give the ORIGINAL cartoon credit.
Just some of the scenes and lines:
- This is the cartoon where Killer sings, "My Momma done told me, to bring home sump'in for dinner..."
- Bugs Bunny and then killer think they are dead because of the skeleton bones surrounding them... ("Gruesome, isn't it?)
- Momma Buzzard: " HEY! What you do to my boy"
- And of course you have typical Bugs scenes where he cross dresses, etc.
Just a classic Bugs Bunny, and I give credit to "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid".
Yet we can enjoy the Bashful Buzzards - second or not, a funny cartoon.
The Bashful Buzzard
Robert Clampett is, as far as I am concerned, the king of sick WB humor. And this cartoon has as much sick stuff as any he ever directed. Check out the ancient rooster as he curses the buzzards flying overhead, as the buzzards decimate the barnyard. They carry off cows (with the farmer still milking them!!!), a horse and buggy (with an amorous suitor making a panting pass at a lass inside), a dog clinging to a fire hydrant, elephants (one has a sign, "I am NOT Dumbo!") and bring them back to mama (no it's not Kaye Ballard. I think it's June Foray). We see mama stuffing the elephant into a cauldron. What a riot!!!! And then, Beaky is smacking around what he thinks is a worm (it turns out to be the head of an enormous dragon) and calls it an "infinitesmial piece of shhhhhhhhhhhoeleather!! Only Bob Clampett! The best there ever was!!
The Bashful Buzzard
This is just funny...."Im bring-ing-home-a-bumble-bee....and I could be wrong, but isn't that Kaye Ballard as the mother buzzard?