Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
Tags: psychedelic

Plot synopsis:
The cartoon begins with a mother buzzard instructing her children to go out and catch something for dinner. They set off right away except one with his back turned. This is Beaky Buzzard (Killer) who is shy and a little on the slow side. Against his will, his mother kicks him out of the nest with instructions to at least 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.
After some heckling, 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 ("Gruesome, isn't it?", he briefly confides to the audience), but it turns out he knew he was okay the whole time (because his feet was sticking out of the ground). Beaky and Bugs jitterbug together. Bugs says, "Why don't we do this more often," to which Beaky replies, "Ya mean just what we're doing tonight?" This is a quote of the first line of the song "Why Don't We Do This More Often?" After the dance with Bugs, Beaky ends up underground with the skeleton above. He screams "Oh, MA!" and his mother shows up. At first the mother buzzard thinks Bugs did something to Beaky. Bugs pulls Beaky out of the ground. Noticing that Beaky is unharmed, the mother abandons her desire to eat Bugs and declares him her hero and kisses him. A blushing Bugs imitates Beaky.

Review: This was Clampett's third Bugs Bunny cartoon, but it marks the first time Bugs Bunny looks like the rabbit we all know.
Prior to this Bugs had a more oval head giving him a rat-like appearance.
It was as an animator in Clampett's unit that Robert Mckimson developed the model sheet of Bugs that all the other units eventually used.
In the cartoons of the other directors at this time Bugs looked pretty ugly while he kept getting better looking in the Clampett cartoons.
This is also the first appearence of Beaky Buzzard, a Mortimer Snerd caricature.
This cartoon is funnier than Clampett's first two Bugs films and the animation is pretty solid, especially Mckimson's.
However, Clampett would go far beyond this one with such cartoons as What's Cookin', Doc?, The Old Grey Hare, The Big Snooze, and Tortoise Wins By A Hare.
Overall, a good cartoon, though..
Clampett's Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid is very funny.
This is a Bob Clameptt Bugs Bunny cartoon that gives us the Bugs look as we now know him as done by animator Robert McKimson.
Anyway, a buzzard with a voice that sounds like Mortimer Snerd is trying to capture him for his mama.
As always, Bugs outsmarts him at every turn but there is one gag in which Bugs thinks he's dying (though even here he cracks, "Grusome, isn't it?").
There's also a wonderfully choreographed big-band dance that is one of the most entertaining animation I've ever seen in these Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons.
Plenty of hilarious Clampett touches abound like the trombone sound Bugs makes when he fingers the buzzard's Adam's apple or the "bee-op" sound you hear in many of these cartoons.
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid is highly recommended..
This cartoon may be slow moving and dull for some, but personally I found it very entertaining and is one of my new favourites.
This cartoon is one of the first with Bugs Bunny (this was made two years after his official debut) and the debut of a minor-ish Looney Tunes character named Beaky Buzzard.This cartoon was a good surprise for me for the following reasons: 1.
I was not expecting this to be nearly so old and I enjoyed the old-fashioned humour you have in a few WB cartoons, featured here.
I think that the plot along with "old" jokes would work better than the plot along with new jokes.2.
I was expecting this to be quite a fast paced, slapstick cartoon, instead I found that hardly any of the jokes featured slapstick (as a whole, all WB cartoons have some slapstick in them) and there were some good verbal jokes inserted in too.
The other good things about the cartoon were the ever familiar Bugs Bunny in his trick mode (escaping baddies using clever ways) and the introduction of Beaky Buzzard and this was also my first cartoon with him in as well.
The animation was pretty good and overall, I found it a great episode.
:-)The cartoon starts with a mother buzzard (vulture to my fellow British) instructing each of her offspring to go and bring some meat back to the nest.
However, one of her babies does not want to hunt at all (Beaky Buzzard), but he is pushed out of the nest anyway to go and find something.
He ends up finding Bugs Bunny, who he is ready to hunt...I recommend this cartoon to people who do not mind old, slightly slow-moving Looney Tunes.
Enjoy "Bugs Gets the Boid"!
Great Short.
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1942) **** (out of 4) A mama buzzard sends her four children out to get food but the dimwitted one, named Beaky Buzzard, is unlucky as he has to bring home a rabbit and he just happens to run into Bugs Bunny.
This here has always been one of my favorite animated shorts because Bugs and Beaky just make the ultimate duo because both are just so damn cute here.
The animation is perfectly done and the story contains enough great moments for two films.
The best sequence is when Bugs goes to "take a shower" before going with Beaky who finally starts to realize a joke is being played on him.
The final joke with Bugs also gets a big laugh just for the wonderful voice.
To me what works best is actually Beaky because he's just so adorable and stupid at the same time.
The voice work is downright brilliant and in itself brings a lot of laughs..
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid.
Looney Tunes were part of my childhood and still hold a special place in my heart.
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid may not be quite classic status but it is a truly great cartoon indeed.
The pacing is not as crisp and somewhat manic as it is in many other Looney Tunes cartoons, but again this is a matter of preference and there is so much to love about Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid anyway.
The animation is colourful and fluid, with both characters well-drawn, while the music- especially in the big-band dance sequence- is cleverly orchestrated and enhances the humour so well.
In terms of standout scenes, I did love the animal bone and "take a shower" gags but the highlight was definitely the big-band dance sequence, magnificently choreographed and perhaps among Bugs' best overall scenes out of all his cartoons.
Bugs is on fine form, doing what he does best, while Beaky Buzzard while stupid is cute and funny rather than overly-dumb and annoying.
All in all, a great cartoon but not quite a classic.
Classic Merrie Melodies short, directed by Bob Clampett, that introduced Beaky Buzzard to the world.
Beaky is a shy, somewhat slow-witted buzzard who is not very good at catching prey, unlike his brothers.
When his mother sends him out to catch a rabbit, Beaky meets Bugs.
Beaky is a wonderful character, one of the best Clampett created and certainly one of the more underrated.
It's a well-animated cartoon with rich colors and some great action.
Lots of funny gags and lines.
Solid voice work, sound effects, and music.
One of the earliest Bugs classics.
The "Gruesome, isn't it?" scene alone makes this a must-see for Bugs fans..
Perhaps Bugs Bunny's Best At That Point In Career.
Although the cartoon has been around and available on television for well over the half century point, it seemed to be new.THE SHORT BECAME familiar to us as one of those "Associated Artists Productions" TV releases.
In our case, we saw it (often) on the old BUGS BUNNY & FRIENDS local kids TV show on WGN TV, Channel 9, in Chicago.
He always sported a sort of "Lumberjack Wardrobe"; featuring dungarees and flannel shirts (always).THE SET WAS done up to look like a farm or woodland locale.
A puppet version of Bugs would interact with the host in comic sketches; between the screening of the 2 or 3 cartoons that were shown each evening, from 6:30 to 7:00 PM.
Mr. Coughlin provided the voices, although no ventriloquist himself.AT THE TIME of seeing BUGS BUNNY GETS THE BOID, we found it to be funny and would have rated it at or near to the top of the pack.
The gags were energetic and genuinely tickled the funny bone.
The animation was smooth and the short storyline had not a wasted frame of film.AS WITH ALL Warner Brothers Looney Tunes & Merry Melodies, a hallmark identifier is its music.
Although the sound era animated shorts are visual, with the advantage of having snappy dialog & comical voices as an adjunct, just try viewing & listening to the same cartoon; but without the music.ONE ASPECT OF the humor, that was not readily apparent to us as kids in the 1950's was that Warner's cartoons often time parodied some of the then popular entertainers or Radio characters.
In this case, the young vulture, "Killer" is a spoof of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's Mortimer Snerd.
The buzzard, his brothers and Italian accented mother would be reprised for other, recurring appearances.ON THE PARTICULAR DVD that we viewed, the cartoon must have been remastered.
The inept Beaky Buzzard in this was quite funny, and they brought him back on several different occasions.However, there's one scene that I do not get and I find disturbing, and that is the animal bone gag.
Just imagine if Beaky Buzzard had appeared in "The Birds"!.
"Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" may be partly famous for giving that wascawwy wabbit the form that we know and love today, but even if you don't know that, it's still great to watch.
Featuring loopy Beaky Buzzard trying to capture Bugs Bunny as food, they come up with everything here.
Probably the coolest part is when Beaky drops Bugs onto a skeleton and Bugs thinks that he personally has gone the way of the dodo!
Overall, it's a really neat cartoon.
A true classic.I just try to imagine if Beaky Buzzard had appeared in "The Birds".
Then again, that doofus didn't stand a chance at scaring the people in Bodega Bay. But he was good for getting knocked silly by Bugs Bunny..
This is surely the weakest Bugs Bunny cartoon I've ever seen.
Beaky Buzzard simply is not funny and has no appeal at all.
He's not a character I wish to see again in further Looney Tunes cartoons.This short has him preying after Bugs because Mama Buzzard wants him to go out and catch his first dinner.
Bugs obviously doesn't take so well to this and doesn't make it easy for the bird.
But where is the usual Bugs Bunny intelligence, outsmarting, battle of wits?
Not here I tell ya.Beaky Buzzard is not a formidable opponent for our fave rabbit and this cartoon is completely DOA.
A surprisingly dull and slow moving cartoon from Clampett.
Bob Clampett's 'Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid' is not an example of the director at his finest.
As a huge fan of Clampett's unrivaled wackiness, I was fully expecting to love this oft praised short but if truth be told I find it almost entirely tedious.
The main problem is the character of Beaky Buzzard, who makes his first appearance in this cartoon (although he's called Killer here).
Briefly touted as a new star in the making, Beaky proved far too annoying with his dopey voice (an imitation of Mortimer Snerd, the dummy of radio ventriloquist Edgar Bergen) and slow thought processes.
This dawdling character sits at odds with Clampett's frantically paced directional style and his presence slows the cartoon down to a crawl.
Far too much time is given over to Beaky's goofy reactions and a gruesome but overdone gag involving a pile of bones.
Clampett's more aggressive take on Bugs Bunny is usually a hoot but he's very off form here because he's given so little to work with.
The ending is also a little forced and results in the cartoon just petering out.
When a script is so weak that even Bob Clampett can't save it then you know you've got a turkey on your hands.
Or in this case a buzzard!.
Not his best but still reasonable.
A mother buzzard sends her children out to catch food, however the dopey one refuses to go.
She sends him off to catch her a rabbit nonetheless - just his bad luck that the first rabbit he comes upon is a slippery Bugs Bunny.Bugs Bunny is a strong enough character and has a strong enough basic repertoire to overcome a potentially weak cartoon.
Here this is a potentially weak cartoon.
The animation is not great and even Bugs himself looks like he was drawn in a bit of a rush, the bird character is not great either and doesn't look like he'll be a good partner for Bugs.However the bird is actually quite amusing although I don't totally get why he is played all dumb and `oh schucks' about everything.
Bugs still works well and the bird has his moments.
There are a handful of chuckles or amusing moments and the short keeps it moving along well enough.The ending ain't great and the whole product doesn't ever really get to a point where I could use any words other than passable or reasonable, but it still works OK thanks in main to another good bit of work from Bugs..
Kevin gets bored.
Shy Beaky Buzzard doesn't want to go hunting for food, but after a swift kick from mama, he attempts to bring a rabbit back for supper but not just any rabbit.
Bugs Bunny obviously fiols his plans and the mother ends up loving him for no reason.
Perhaps that's partly because I'm not quite endeared to Beaky.
Bugs bunny looks a lot more like the Bugs I know though.
This cartoon is on Disk 3 of the "Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1" It also has an optional commentaryMy Grade: C.
This is an especially memorable Bugs Bunny cartoon thanks to the introduction of the character "Beaky Buzzard"--an inept little vulture who is trying to catch and eat Bugs.
The story begins with Beaky's Italian-voiced mom sending her children out to bring back supper.
All seem to have left--except for Beaky who says he "ain't interested".
She tells him he doesn't have to get anything big--maybe just a nice little rabbit.This cartoon is high on my list because Beaky was a wonderful and cute character.
It's really impossible to describe him unless you see him yourself--his wonderful voice and mannerisms are just hilarious!
And, this is a rare case where you actually LIKE the guy trying to catch Bugs--he's that cool!
Give this cartoon a try and if you like it, there were a few followup toons featuring Beaky..
"Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" is a superb Bugs Bunny cartoon directed by the wild & unpredictable Bob Clampett.
This time around, Bugs is pitted against the dopiest of birds, a bashful buzzard who later became known as Beaky.
Under Mr. Clampett's direction, Bugs is ever the prankster!My absolute favorite scene in this picture is that of Bugs and Beaky physically struggling with each other and then suddenly going into a dance, in which composer Carl Stalling wrote a wonderfully swinging big band score.
I also like the jazzy walking bass line and muted brass as Beaky crawls on top of the clouds.
In addition, Bugs is funny with his feminine makeup and coy voice when Beaky catches him in the shower.I've enjoyed "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" ever since I had first seen it during my high school days (early 1990s), and I'm very glad to see this cartoon released on DVD (the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1 Disc 3)..
*SPOILERS* - just wanted people to know....
The inept Beaky Buzzard in this was quite funny, and they brought him back on several different occassions.However, there's one scene that I do not get and I find disturbing, and that is the animal bone gag.
We see Bugs Bunny falling over the remains of a buffalo and the remains are in front of him and there was a carrot in the rib cage, he feels the rib cage and the carrot inside.
We see Bugs Bunny falling over the remains of a buffalo and the remains are in front of him and there was a carrot in the rib cage, he feels the rib cage and the carrot inside.
Bugs then cries over it and goes "Gruesome, ins't it?" Did he think he was dead?
Bugs then cries over it and goes "Gruesome, ins't it?" Did he think he was dead?
I have no idea what it was supposed to be.I'd say if you are Bugs fans, stick with stuff like "Rabbit Fire," and the hunting trilogy as well as others..
I have no idea what it was supposed to be.I'd say if you are Bugs fans, stick with stuff like "Rabbit Fire," and the hunting trilogy as well as others..
"Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" is a 7-minute cartoon from 1942, so this one will have its 75th anniversary next year.
production and you will find many big names in the list of cast and credits such as Clampett, Foster, Blanc and Berner.
The story here is about a buzzard who is in charge of getting rabbit for his family's dinner.
But that rabbit (you know who) is not too willing to end up getting eaten by a bunch of birds.
I think it may be the likable buzzard that may be the reason why it's tough to cheer for Bugs here and consequently like this cartoon.
i must say though that I preferred the other buzzard cartoon from three years later when Beaky Buzzard is back, but Bugs is not.
Instead he goes chasing for other animals in there.
I did not find it as funny and I can see why the protagonist here only appears in one other cartoon.
Still, his Goofy-like appearance may have been the best aspect about this film.
So when Ma Vulture orders her four ablest offspring to come back to their nest with "a horse, a steer, a cow, and a moose," savvy American audiences of this time knew she was REALLY saying, "Bag a German tank, a Nazi locomotive, a Hitler half-track, and an Iron Cross-sporting Field Marshal." Since most American corporate types backed and abetted Hitler as long as they could get away with doing so in the run-up to Pearl Harbor (Henry Ford and Prescott Bush being just the two best known examples of many), they hired John Wayne to vilify America's Russian saviors even before Hitler shot himself.
But when Ma Russia--that is, Ma Vulture here--calls Bugs Bunny "My hero" toward the end of BUGS BUNNY GETS THE BOID, rest assured that the sentiment was mutual--and widespread.
And, if you had ancestors living in America 70 years ago, there's a 24% chance YOU would not be here today were it not for Mother Russia!