Holiday for Drumsticks

Holiday for Drumsticks is a 1949 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Arthur Davis.
==Summary==
A hillbilly brings home a turkey for the upcoming Thanksgiving feast. As a result of the family fattening up the turkey, Daffy is getting less food, so Daffy tries to convince the turkey to lose weight.
==Plot==
The patriarch of a family of farming hill billies is fattening a turkey to slaughter for Thanksgiving Day dinner, and he is fattening the fowl by providing him with a veritable feast of roast beef, ham, fruits, vegetables, cakes, and pies. A jealous Daffy Duck, one of the turkey's fellow farm animals, wants to have all the food for himself. So, Daffy pretends to care for the turkey's welfare and warns the turkey off the food, and he urges the turkey to lose weight so that the hill billies won't want to slaughter him. Daffy gorges himself on the food while acting as coach to the turkey, who is frantically and strenuously trying to reduce himself. When Thanksgiving comes, the turkey is toothpick-thin, and the hillbilly father turns his hungry sights on an overweight Daffy!
==Trivia==
In 1976 on the back lots of the WB studios, during the holidays, this short, among many others, was shown in the background while some studio employees gathered for a Thanksgiving dinner. -from the journal of Joseph Von Stroheim.
This is the last appearance of Tom Turk, who first appeared in Tom Turk and Daffy, as a third banana to Daffy and Porky. After this, Tom would only be seen in compilations and re-runs.
Category:Cartoons
Category:Merrie Melodies Cartoons
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Category:1949 cartoons
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Category:Cartoons directed by Arthur Davis
Category:Cartoons with voice characterizations by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons animated by Don Williams
Category:Cartoons animated by Bill Melendez
Category:Cartoons animated by Emery Hawkins
Category:Cartoons animated by Basil Davidovich
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Philip DeGuard
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Don Smith
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with camera by Ken Moore
Category:Cartoons with camera by John W. Burton