Another Helpful Sign By Tex Avery

There’s a snake gag in the middle of a bunch of war rationing gags in Tex Avery’s What’s Buzzin’ Buzzard (1943). The Leo Gorcey buzzard (or is it a vulture?) skids to a stop, turns green and faints when he sees a rattle snake. The snake is just the Jimmy Durante buzzard in a poor disguise.



“Lookit ‘im!” says the Durante buzzard to the camera (he gestures just like Durante). “He’s even a-scared of a snake!” He turns and then walks right toward a real snake, whom we are assured is a real snake thanks to one of Avery’s helpful signs.



Now the Durante buzzard turns green and faints. There’s a momentary pause, the buzzard lifts his head up and says in a normal voice “And so am I.”



Kent Rogers is the Gorcey buzzard. The Durante buzzard sounds to me like the Durante cat in The Cat That Hated People a few years later (listen to the way the two say “Ya see what I mean?”.