The Early Worm Gets the Bird (1940)
- Directed by
- Tex Avery
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 8 min
- Rating
- 5.2 of 10 from 14 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A worm tries to outwit a hungry bird that wants to eat him for breakfast. The cartoon follows their back-and-forth chase full of tricks and comic mishaps.
zanyfast-pacedplayfulcartoonishslapstickenergeticwhimsicalsilly
What happens
The Early Worm Gets the Bird is a 1940 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Tex Avery. The short was released on January 6, 1940. The name is a play on the adage "The early bird gets the worm." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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