The Crunch Bird
- Studio
- Maxwell-Petok-Petrovich Productions, Regency Films
Synopsis
A wife buys her husband Murray a pet bird as a birthday gift and takes it home. But Murray can't leave his business problems back at the office. When her husband asks her about it, he unleashes what has now become a classic response from our fine feathered friend: "....Crunch Bird my ASS!!" The Crunch Bird does as he is commanded and gives hubby something to remember.
Characters
Crunch Bird, Wife, Murray
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Ted Petok Theodore M. Petok
Producing
- Producer
- Ted Petok Theodore M. Petok
Voices
- Voice
- Len Maxwell
Animation
- Animator
- Joe Petrovich
Art Department
- Backgrounds
- Frank Wolcansek
- Design
- Karl Fischer
- Ink and Paint
- Doris Petrovich
Camera
- Camera
- Frank Simon
Editing
- Editor
- Helen Carey
Production notes
Also shown as part of Hanna-Barbera's anthology series "Jokebook."
Awards
Academy Award, Best Short Subject (Animated Film), 1972
Reviews
"The Crunch Bird"
I'm a 67-year-old woman who saw this while visiting Dallas back in 1972 and never forgot it. The ending totally caught me by surprise because it was so unexpected -- and because back in those days words like "ass" were not standard fare in cartoons. I even told people about it in the following years because I thought it was so funny.
Today I decided to google the title and was thrilled to be able to see this again.
(And I do miss cartoons before main features!)