Jerky Turkey

Jerky Turkey is a 1945 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon directed by Tex Avery.[1]

Jerky Turkey
Directed byTex Avery
Produced byFred Quimby
Story byHeck Allen
StarringTex Avery
Leone LeDoux
Wally Maher
Patrick McGeehan
(all uncredited)
Music byScott Bradley
Animation byPreston Blair
Ed Love
Ray Abrams
Irvin Spence (uncredited)
Layouts byClaude Smith (uncredited)
Backgrounds byJohn Didrik Johnsen (uncredited)
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • April 7, 1945 (1945-04-07)
Running time
7 minutes
LanguageEnglish

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"} with a card bearing it while holding it in his hand.

A pear-shaped Pilgrim, who speaks with the milquetoast mannerisms of Bill Thompson (here impersonated because he had been drafted and was unavailable), emerges from his dilapidated teardrop trailer home and goes hunting for a turkey for a Thanksgiving dinner. The turkey emerges from the "House of Seven Gobbles" (a literal black market in disguise) and, 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 short. When they reach Joe's steakhouse, the door closes, loud crashes and thuds are heard, and Joe the bear is seen coming out of the restaurant without his sandwich board; on his back is a tattoo which reads "I'm Joe". The bear is grinning and picking his teeth, as the swallowed-whole turkey and pilgrim sulk in the bear's stomach. The pilgrim closes the cartoon by holding up a sign of his own: "DON'T eat at Joe's."

Voice cast
  • Tex Avery as Junior the Hunting Pilgrim, Turkey Call
  • Leone LeDoux as Crying Pilgrim
  • Wally Maher as the Turkey[2][3]
  • Patrick McGeehan as Indians

Notes
gollark: On what?
gollark: Oh, that code seems kind of "FLF"y.
gollark: I could try and go catch a fell, but they'll grow up before it would cooldown.
gollark: They probably will.
gollark: Zyus are kind of rareishes.

References
  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 146–147. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  2. https://tralfaz.blogspot.com/2017/11/not-quite-turkey-trot.html
  3. https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/radio-round-up-authentic-radio-voices-in-cartoons/
  4. Daws Butler Characters Actor, Joe Bevilacqua and Ben Ohmart, Bear Manor Media.
  6. The Animated Film Encyclopedia, Graham Webb, McFarland Publishers, 2000.


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