May 19, 2011

Animated Fowl and (or in) Trousers

“You’ll notice you never saw an animated duck wearing pants.”

Nope. Never. Same for animated parrots.

But take a look at the animated rooster, Panchito Pistoles, in this clip from Disney’s The Three Caballeros (1944).

“Get that cock into a pair of britches, fer crissake!”

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  1. Sheila Ryan on May 19th, 2011 at 11:35 am

    This morning the carpenter stopped by unannounced in order to finish up a small job he’d begun last week. He knocked, but he does have a key, so I had to scramble. I was Porky Piggin’ it.

  2. Joel Bernstein on May 19th, 2011 at 11:44 am

    1. Draw pants on Donald Duck
    2. Look at the pants
    3. Understand why they left the pants off

  3. Sheila Ryan on May 19th, 2011 at 11:47 am

    The same exercise works with Porky.

  4. Joel Bernstein on May 19th, 2011 at 11:49 am

    But Porky’s lower half is at least mostly human-shaped. You could put pants on him, and it wouldn’t look weird at all

  5. Deron Bauman on May 19th, 2011 at 1:13 pm

    Now we’re three gay caballeros.

  6. Joel Bernstein on May 19th, 2011 at 1:14 pm

    I guarantee there’s Three Caballeros Rule 34 out there somewhere.

  7. Deron Bauman on May 19th, 2011 at 1:16 pm

    Is the parrot not wearing pants? Wait, that’s confusing. The parrot is also wearing pants, isn’t he?

  8. Joel Bernstein on May 19th, 2011 at 1:17 pm

    He’s wearing pants covered in feathers.

  9. Sheila Ryan on May 19th, 2011 at 2:22 pm

    The parrot is confusing. At first I thought he might be wearing pants. Then I looked down to where the hem or cuffs of his pants would be, and that looked kind of feathery, so I decided, “No pants on the parrot.” But toward the end, there is a view of the parrot dancing, and it looks as though there is an opening for the plumes of his tail, which suggests pants.

    Feathered pants.

    I swear Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) sometimes wore feathered pants.

  10. Sheila Ryan on May 19th, 2011 at 2:32 pm

    I was thinking of feathery sleeves, I reckon. Not trousers. Actually, Desi’s sleeves kind of remind me of a piñata.

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