The Crunch Bird (1971)

Directed by

Ted Petok

Genre

comedy, animation

Country

United States

Runtime

3 min

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married couple owns a bird that can eat anything. The husband accidentally tells the bird to eat his own backside.

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What happens

The Crunch Bird (El pájaro crujiente) is an animated short by Joe Petrovich, Len Maxwell, and Ted Petok. It won the 1971 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The short revolves around a bird that has the ability to devour anything, and which acts on orders from its masters. Its new master accidentally instructs the bird to devour his own buttocks. Joe Petrovich animated the cartoon. Len Maxwell provided the voices for the husband, wife, and pet shop owner. It was followed by the sequel Crunch Bird II in 1975. It is based on an old joke called "crunchy bird" which concludes in a similar way. The film softened the victim's fate by changing "crunchy bird, my eye" to "crunch bird, my ass", despite the language itself being coarser. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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