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5 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
A First Of Sorts, 28 June 2001
8/10
Author: Markc65 from Burbank, CA

This was Clampett's third Bugs Bunny cartoon, but it marks the first time Bugs Bunny looks like the rabbit we all know. Prior to this Bugs had a more oval head giving him a rat-like appearance. It was as an animator in Clampett's unit that Robert Mckimson developed the model sheet of Bugs that all the other units eventually used. In the cartoons of the other directors at this time Bugs looked pretty ugly while he kept getting better looking in the Clampett cartoons. This is also the first appearence of Beaky Buzzard, a Mortimer Snerd caricature. This cartoon is funnier than Clampett's first two Bugs films and the animation is pretty solid, especially Mckimson's. However, Clampett would go far beyond this one with such cartoons as What's Cookin', Doc?, The Old Grey Hare, The Big Snooze, and Tortoise Wins By A Hare. Overall, a good cartoon, though.

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Clampett's Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid is very funny, 8 January 2008
9/10
Author: tavm from Baton Rouge, La.

This is a Bob Clameptt Bugs Bunny cartoon that gives us the Bugs look as we now know him as done by animator Robert McKimson. Pretty cute, huh? Anyway, a buzzard with a voice that sounds like Mortimer Snerd is trying to capture him for his mama. As always, Bugs outsmarts him at every turn but there is one gag in which Bugs thinks he's dying (though even here he cracks, "Grusome, isn't it?"). There's also a wonderfully choreographed big-band dance that is one of the most entertaining animation I've ever seen in these Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons. Plenty of hilarious Clampett touches abound like the trombone sound Bugs makes when he fingers the buzzard's Adam's apple or the "bee-op" sound you hear in many of these cartoons. That was made by Bob himself. Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid is highly recommended.

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3 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Marvelous!, 14 June 2006
9/10
Author: planktonrules from Bradenton, Florida

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This is an especially memorable Bugs Bunny cartoon thanks to the introduction of the character "Beaky Buzzard"--an inept little vulture who is trying to catch and eat Bugs. The story begins with Beaky's Italian-voiced mom sending her children out to bring back supper. All seem to have left--except for Beaky who says he "ain't interested". She tells him he doesn't have to get anything big--maybe just a nice little rabbit.

This cartoon is high on my list because Beaky was a wonderful and cute character. It's really impossible to describe him unless you see him yourself--his wonderful voice and mannerisms are just hilarious! And, this is a rare case where you actually LIKE the guy trying to catch Bugs--he's that cool! Give this cartoon a try and if you like it, there were a few followup toons featuring Beaky.

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4 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Great Short, 19 April 2009
Author: Michael_Elliott from Louisville, KY

Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1942)

**** (out of 4)

A mama buzzard sends her four children out to get food but the dimwitted one, named Beaky Buzzard, is unlucky as he has to bring home a rabbit and he just happens to run into Bugs Bunny. This here has always been one of my favorite animated shorts because Bugs and Beaky just make the ultimate duo because both are just so damn cute here. The animation is perfectly done and the story contains enough great moments for two films. The best sequence is when Bugs goes to "take a shower" before going with Beaky who finally starts to realize a joke is being played on him. What happens next is just priceless. The final joke with Bugs also gets a big laugh just for the wonderful voice. To me what works best is actually Beaky because he's just so adorable and stupid at the same time. The voice work is downright brilliant and in itself brings a lot of laughs.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
"My momma done told me, bring home something for dinner.", 20 May 2009
Author: slymusic from Tucson, AZ

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"Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" is a superb Bugs Bunny cartoon directed by the wild & unpredictable Bob Clampett. This time around, Bugs is pitted against the dopiest of birds, a bashful buzzard who later became known as Beaky. Under Mr. Clampett's direction, Bugs is ever the prankster!

My absolute favorite scene in this picture is that of Bugs and Beaky physically struggling with each other and then suddenly going into a dance, in which composer Carl Stalling wrote a wonderfully swinging big band score. I also like the jazzy walking bass line and muted brass as Beaky crawls on top of the clouds. In addition, Bugs is funny with his feminine makeup and coy voice when Beaky catches him in the shower.

I've enjoyed "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" ever since I had first seen it during my high school days (early 1990s), and I'm very glad to see this cartoon released on DVD (the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1 Disc 3).

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2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
A good surprise. :-), 16 March 2009
8/10
Author: Mightyzebra from Scotland

This cartoon may be slow moving and dull for some, but personally I found it very entertaining and is one of my new favourites. This cartoon is one of the first with Bugs Bunny (this was made two years after his official debut) and the debut of a minor-ish Looney Tunes character named Beaky Buzzard.

This cartoon was a good surprise for me for the following reasons: 1. I was not expecting this to be nearly so old and I enjoyed the old-fashioned humour you have in a few WB cartoons, featured here. I think that the plot along with "old" jokes would work better than the plot along with new jokes.

2. I was expecting this to be quite a fast paced, slapstick cartoon, instead I found that hardly any of the jokes featured slapstick (as a whole, all WB cartoons have some slapstick in them) and there were some good verbal jokes inserted in too. It certainly kept my interest going! The other good things about the cartoon were the ever familiar Bugs Bunny in his trick mode (escaping baddies using clever ways) and the introduction of Beaky Buzzard and this was also my first cartoon with him in as well. I will certainly look out for more with him in. The animation was pretty good and overall, I found it a great episode. :-)

The cartoon starts with a mother buzzard (vulture to my fellow British) instructing each of her offspring to go and bring some meat back to the nest. She gives her babies serious challenges, such as horse and deer. However, one of her babies does not want to hunt at all (Beaky Buzzard), but he is pushed out of the nest anyway to go and find something. He ends up finding Bugs Bunny, who he is ready to hunt...

I recommend this cartoon to people who do not mind old, slightly slow-moving Looney Tunes. Enjoy "Bugs Gets the Boid"! :-) 8 and a half out of ten.

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1 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
Just imagine if Beaky Buzzard had appeared in "The Birds"!, 31 May 2006
10/10
Author: Lee Eisenberg (eisenberg.lee@gmail.com) from Portland, Oregon, USA

"Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" may be partly famous for giving that wascawwy wabbit the form that we know and love today, but even if you don't know that, it's still great to watch. Featuring loopy Beaky Buzzard trying to capture Bugs Bunny as food, they come up with everything here. Probably the coolest part is when Beaky drops Bugs onto a skeleton and Bugs thinks that he personally has gone the way of the dodo! Overall, it's a really neat cartoon. A true classic.

I just try to imagine if Beaky Buzzard had appeared in "The Birds". Then again, that doofus didn't stand a chance at scaring the people in Bodega Bay. But he was good for getting knocked silly by Bugs Bunny.

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1 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
A surprisingly dull and slow moving cartoon from Clampett, 18 August 2008
3/10
Author: (andrew-goulding1@hotmail.co.uk) from Lincoln, England

Bob Clampett's 'Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid' is not an example of the director at his finest. As a huge fan of Clampett's unrivaled wackiness, I was fully expecting to love this oft praised short but if truth be told I find it almost entirely tedious. The main problem is the character of Beaky Buzzard, who makes his first appearance in this cartoon (although he's called Killer here). Briefly touted as a new star in the making, Beaky proved far too annoying with his dopey voice (an imitation of Mortimer Snerd, the dummy of radio ventriloquist Edgar Bergen) and slow thought processes. This dawdling character sits at odds with Clampett's frantically paced directional style and his presence slows the cartoon down to a crawl. Warren Foster's script is also a problem since so very little happens. Far too much time is given over to Beaky's goofy reactions and a gruesome but overdone gag involving a pile of bones. Clampett's more aggressive take on Bugs Bunny is usually a hoot but he's very off form here because he's given so little to work with. The ending is also a little forced and results in the cartoon just petering out. When a script is so weak that even Bob Clampett can't save it then you know you've got a turkey on your hands. Or in this case a buzzard!

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2 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Disturbing... *SPOILERS* - just wanted people to know..., 6 June 2001
5/10
Author: Russell Christiansen (rusty0918@home.com) from Warrenville, Illinois

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The inept Beaky Buzzard in this was quite funny, and they brought him back on several different occassions.

However, there's one scene that I do not get and I find disturbing, and that is the animal bone gag. What the heck was going on there? We see Bugs Bunny falling over the remains of a buffalo and the remains are in front of him and there was a carrot in the rib cage, he feels the rib cage and the carrot inside. Bugs then cries over it and goes "Gruesome, ins't it?" Did he think he was dead? I have no idea what it was supposed to be.

I'd say if you are Bugs fans, stick with stuff like "Rabbit Fire," and the hunting trilogy as well as others.

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1 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Not his best but still reasonable, 15 December 2003
Author: bob the moo from Birmingham, UK

A mother buzzard sends her children out to catch food, however the dopey one refuses to go. She sends him off to catch her a rabbit nonetheless - just his bad luck that the first rabbit he comes upon is a slippery Bugs Bunny.

Bugs Bunny is a strong enough character and has a strong enough basic repertoire to overcome a potentially weak cartoon. Here this is a potentially weak cartoon. The animation is not great and even Bugs himself looks like he was drawn in a bit of a rush, the bird character is not great either and doesn't look like he'll be a good partner for Bugs.

However the bird is actually quite amusing although I don't totally get why he is played all dumb and `oh schucks' about everything. Bugs still works well and the bird has his moments. There are a handful of chuckles or amusing moments and the short keeps it moving along well enough.

The ending ain't great and the whole product doesn't ever really get to a point where I could use any words other than passable or reasonable, but it still works OK thanks in main to another good bit of work from Bugs.

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