Approved | 8min | Family, Animation, Short | 13 January 1940 (USA)
Mammy blackbird puts her three little ones to bed, but one of them stays up reading "The Early Bird Catches the Worm." Mammy throws the book out the window and warns the little ones about the fox, which will surely get them if they try to be an early bird. The reader pays no heed, and gets up at 5 AM. Alas, the worm has seen the book, so is alerted and evades the bird. And sure enough, before long, the fox shows up and soon has the bird in his grasp. The worm takes pity, though, and lures a bee into stinging the fox so he'll release the bird. The bird heads home to safety, but unlike his brothers, he's not interested when mammy asks if he wants worms for breakfast (and the worm pops up to say, "neither does I, mammy.")
Director: Tex Avery
Writer: Jack Miller
Stars: Margaret Hill-Talbot, Mel Blanc, Bernice Hansen
Mammy blackbird puts her three little ones to bed, but one of them stays up reading "The Early Bird Catches the Worm." Mammy throws the book out the window and warns the little ones about the fox, which will surely get them if they try to be an early bird. The reader pays no heed, and gets up at 5 AM. Alas, the worm has seen the book, so is alerted and evades the bird. And sure enough, before long, the fox shows up and soon has the bird in his grasp. The worm takes pity, though, and lures a bee into stinging the fox so he'll release the bird. The bird heads home to safety, but unlike his brothers, he's not interested when mammy asks if he wants worms for breakfast (and the worm pops up to say, "neither does I, mammy.")
Director: Tex Avery
Writer: Jack Miller
Stars: Margaret Hill-Talbot, Mel Blanc, Bernice Hansen
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Short filmTranscript
00:30And bless Mary, and bless Pappy, and make me a good little bird.
00:57Amen.
01:00That's mighty sweet, children. Good night.
01:04Good night, Mammy.
01:08You see here...
01:22I say, you see here, the early bird gets the worm.
01:28Oh, who cares about that?
01:36Damn precious little honey lions.
01:45Willie, you all hand over that book.
01:48Ah, clear to goodness.
01:50You is too young to be reading that trash.
01:53And silence.
01:54If you all try to catch that worm, the old fox will catch you.
02:00The fox?
02:02What's that, Mammy?
02:04Oh, he's this tall.
02:07With big brown green eyes.
02:11And a long pointed nose.
02:14And long sharp teeth.
02:17And he just loves to eat little birds.
02:20Just like you.
02:23Now you all shut them big brown eyes and get to sleep.
02:28Oh, I ain't afraid of no old fox.
02:31I'm gonna get myself up early and get me that worm for breakfast.
02:36Yeah, and the fox will get you.
02:39Oh, who's a scared?
03:02Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
03:10Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.
03:40I'm gonna see for myself what that early bird look like.
04:10You won't come out of there and fight like a worm.
04:24I dare you to come out.
04:25Come on and double dance, you little squib of rats.
04:27Come on out and fight.
04:28Come on.
04:29I dare you to come out.
04:30Come on.
04:31Come on out there.
04:32I'll get you, you worm.
04:35I'll get you.
04:36Where is you?
04:37Where is he?
04:38Where is he?
04:39Come on.
04:40There he goes.
04:41There.
04:42Go get him.
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