Jerky Turkey

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Slapstick Adventure Animation Comedy Family Short

A Pilgrim ventures out to procure a turkey for the first Thanksgiving.A Pilgrim ventures out to procure a turkey for the first Thanksgiving.A Pilgrim ventures out to procure a turkey for the first Thanksgiving.

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6.8/10

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Tex Avery

Hunting Pilgrim
(uncredited)
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Frank Graham

Junior Pilgrim
(uncredited)

Leone Le Doux

Crying Pilgrim
(uncredited)

Wally Maher

Turkey
(voice)
(uncredited)

Pat McGeehan

Indian Chief
(uncredited)

Bill Thompson

Hunting Pilgrim
(voice)
(uncredited)

Director
- Tex Avery
Writer
- Heck Allen
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Trivia
On the ship "Ye Mayflower", are a couple of items WWII audiences would recognize. First is a plate saying "Henrye J. Kiser Construction Co." This is a reference to Henry J. Kaiser and his Kaiser Shipbuilding Co. which was a major builder of transport ships during the war. Second is the red "C" gas rationing sticker, which allotted more gasoline than "A" and "B" stickers and was issued to professionals, clergy, and war-essential workers. The cartoon also shows wartime tobacco rationing, someone receiving his draft classification of "1-A" (fit for service), and "4-F" (not qualified for service), but working at a Lockheed aircraft plant and living in a trailer due to housing shortages.

Quotes
Hunting Pilgrim: I'm going to shoot ye turkey, for ye Thanksgiving.

Connections
Edited into Naqoyqatsi (2002)

Soundtracks
Anchors Aweigh
(uncredited)
Music by Charles A. Zimmerman

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7/10

Plymouth Rock Would Land On Them

It's the first Thanksgiving, as imagined by Tex Average and his screenwriter Heck Allen, as Bill Thompson voices a Puritan who hunts a Jimmy Durante-voiced bird for the feast.

I enjoy this as much as I do every Avery cartoon I see, but I wonder if it's aged out of consideration for younger people. Not only is memory of Durante fading even among older people, but there are a lot of jokes that reference World War II minutiae; Henry Kaiser's shipyards, gas-rationing stickers, and so forth.

Still, Avery fills this with his usual assortment of gags, big and little, old and new (at the time this came out; almost eighty years later, they're all old), and if one joke doesn't connect, they next thirty-five in the following minute likely will.