What's Buzzin' Buzzard? (1943)

Daws Butler: Jimmy Durante Buzzard, Rabbit

Quotes 

• Jimmy Durante Buzzard : What I wouldn't give to sink my teeth into a big, thick, juicy T-bone steak, with gravy oozing out of it.

  [picture of steak appears onscreen] 

  Title card : 3 minute intermission for drooling. The Management.

• Jimmy Durante Buzzard : I'm starving. No food in months. It's discouraging, that's what it is. Why, I ain't eaten in so long, even my stomach is talking back to me. Listen.

  Stomach : [echoing]  Send down one hamburger, everything on it!

  Jimmy Durante Buzzard : You see what I mean? Hey, Joe, when's the last time you ate?

  Joe Buzzard : Are you kidding?

  [opens mouth; it has cobwebs and a sign that reads, "Closed for the Duration"] 

• Jimmy Durante Buzzard : I'm so hungry, I could eat...

  [sees Joe as a roast chicken] 

  Jimmy Durante Buzzard : ...anything.

  Joe Buzzard : [sees other vulture as roast chicken also]  Yeah, me too.

• Jimmy Durante Buzzard : Hey, Joe. What are you trying to do, eat me?

  Joe Buzzard : Nah, pal. I was only kidding. I couldn't eat you even if I wanted to, on account of this bad tooth I got. Here, take a look at this cavity. right there, way in the back. See? Way in the back.

  Jimmy Durante Buzzard : [sticks head into Joe's mouth]  I don't see nothing, Joe.

  [Joe bites down; Jimmy looks as if he's headless, but head soon pops back out] 

  Jimmy Durante Buzzard : What a repulsive way to make a living.

• Jimmy Durante Buzzard : Hey, Joe. I can't do it. I'm all washed up. One of us has got to die, then it might as well be me.

  [gives Joe a cleaver and puts head in chopping block] 

  Jimmy Durante Buzzard : Okay, Joe. Go ahead. You can kill me.

  [Joe strikes with cleaver; Jimmy retracts head] 

  Jimmy Durante Buzzard : You know, Joe? I believe you would, too.

• Joe Buzzard : [sees Jimmy Buzzard acting like a rattlesnake]  A snake! *turns green and faints*

  Joe Buzzard : [to the audience]  Look at him! He's even a-scared of a snake! *laughs*

  Jimmy Durante Buzzard Scream : [sees a real rattlesnake]  *gasps!*

  Jimmy Durante Buzzard : [turns green and faints]  Am so am I. *resumes fainting*