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*Voices were provided by radio actors Harry Lang, who appeared on the [[Cisco Kid]], and Leone LeDoux,<ref>''The Animated Film Encyclopedia'', Graham Webb, McFarland Publishers, 2000.</ref> who specialised in baby cries.
 
*Voices were provided by radio actors Harry Lang, who appeared on the [[Cisco Kid]], and Leone LeDoux,<ref>''The Animated Film Encyclopedia'', Graham Webb, McFarland Publishers, 2000.</ref> who specialised in baby cries.
 
*Internet sources claiming [[Daws Butler]] provided a voice are incorrect, as he did not arrive in Hollywood until after World War II.<ref>''Daws Butler Characters Actor'', Joe Bevilacqua and Ben Ohmart, Bear Manor Media.</ref>
 
*Internet sources claiming [[Daws Butler]] provided a voice are incorrect, as he did not arrive in Hollywood until after World War II.<ref>''Daws Butler Characters Actor'', Joe Bevilacqua and Ben Ohmart, Bear Manor Media.</ref>
*This is one of four MGM cartoons in the public domain in the United States. The others are "[[The Discontented Canary]]" (1934), "[[To Spring]]" (1936) and "[[Doggone Tired]]" (1949).{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}
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*This is one of four MGM cartoons in the public domain in the United States. The others are "[[The Discontented Canary]]" (1934), "[[To Spring]]" (1936), "[[The Lonesome Mouse]]" (1943) and "[[Doggone Tired]]" (1949).{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}
   
 
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==References==

Revision as of 18:54, 13 January 2018

Jerky Turkey is a 1945 cartoon directed by Tex Avery.

Plot

In 1620 7/8, Pilgrims, riding a caricatured Mayflower with a number of World War II-era anachronisms (such as a navy gunnery deck, a Henry J. Kaiser nameplate and a fuel rationing card) land at Plymouth Rock and establish a colony, where they quickly separate into "Ye Democrats" and "Ye Republicans." The Pilgrims all stand in line for cigarettes (some are caricatures of Avery's animation crew), while the town crier bemoans that he has been made eligible for the draft {"1-A"}.

A pear-shaped Pilgrim, who speaks with the milquetoast mannerisms of Bill Thompson (who was unavailable and had to be impersonated because of his being inducted into war service), emerges from his dilapidated teardrop trailer home and goes hunting for a turkey for a Thanksgiving dinner. The turkey, seeing an easy mark and speaking in an impersonation of Jimmy Durante, offers himself to the pilgrim, only to use this as the start of a series of rapid-fire gags that stretch the limits of even cartoon physics, with the turkey consistently getting the best of his increasingly befuddled and frustrated opponent. Eventually the two make up and decide to "eat at Joe's," following the advice of a clapboard-wearing bear advertising his steakhouse that appears throughout the film. When they reach Joe's steakhouse, the door closes, loud thuds are heard, and the bear is seen grinning and picking his teeth, as the swallowed-whole turkey and pilgrim sulk in the bear's stomach. The pilgrim closes the cartoon holding up a sign of his own: "DON'T eat at Joe's."

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References

  1. The Animated Film Encyclopedia, Graham Webb, McFarland Publishers, 2000.
  2. Daws Butler Characters Actor, Joe Bevilacqua and Ben Ohmart, Bear Manor Media.