Looney's Lesser Known: Beaky Buzzard Traditional Cache
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Looney's Lesser Known: Beaky Buzzard
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A series of caches dedicated to the lesser known Looney
Tunes characters.
Most of us grew up watching Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird and
the rest of the characters on Saturday mornings, but how many of us
can still remember the rest of the crew. The ones that got some on
camera exposure, but were never the stars of the show.
I can remember most of them, How will you do?
All caches in the series are a combination of small, micros
or nano containers placed to be winter friendly. The series is
meant to be fun for the young and/or young at heart.
Beaky Buzzard is a buzzard (although he more closely resembles a
vulture or condor) with black body feathers and a white tuft around
his throat. His neck is long and thin, bending 90 degrees at an
enormous adam's apple. His neck and head are featherless, and his
beak is large and yellow or orange, depending on the cartoon. Beaky
bears a perpetual goofy grin, and his eyes look eternally
half-asleep. The character first appeared in the 1942 cartoon Bugs
Bunny Gets the Boid, directed by Bob Clampett. The cartoon's plot
revolves around the hopeless attempts of the brainless buzzard,
here called Killer, to catch Bugs Bunny for his domineering Greek
mother back at the nest. Beaky's voice was modeled after
ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's character Mortimer Snerd, earning
Beaky the nickname "Snerd Bird." The voice itself was provided by
voice actor Kent Rogers. Clampett brought the character back in the
1945 film The Bashful Buzzard, a cartoon that closely mirrors its
predecessor, only this time featuring Beaky's hapless hunting
without scenes of him chasing Bugs for food. Rogers reprised his
role as the character's voice for the film, but he died in a Naval
aviation training accident at Pensacola, Florida before finishing
all his dialogue, so Stan Freberg was brought in to finish the work
(as was Eddie Bartell, according to some sources). Warner Brothers
apparently thought they had something in the character, and Beaky
was featured in much of the Looney Tunes merchandising of the time.
He also appeared in several issues of Dell Comics' Looney Tunes
series of comic books, usually paired with another minor player,
Henery Hawk. Clampett left the studio in 1946, ending Beaky's
career for a time. The character was eventually brought back in the
1950 Friz Freleng film The Lions Busy, now voiced by the versatile
Mel Blanc. Freleng made the buzzard smarter, pitting him against a
dim-witted lion named Leo. Bob McKimson also featured the character
in a film that year, Strife with Father. McKimson's Beaky is again
back to his idiotic self, this time under the tutelage of his
adoptive father, a sparrow who is trying to teach Beaky how to
survive in the wild. Most recently Beaky Buzzard has had minor
roles in various Warner Brothers projects, such as Tiny Toon
Adventures, where he plays the mentor of the character; Concord
Condor, and the films Space Jam (1996, as a team player) and 2003's
Looney Tunes: Back in Action as an Acme pilot, and is voiced by Joe
Alaskey in both films. Beaky Buzzard appeared in the video game
Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time and was used as an enemy in Bugs Bunny
Crazy Castle 4. He also appeared in the Sylvester and Tweety
Mysteries in the episode "3 Days & 2 Nights of the Condor",
where he was again voiced by Alaskey. Beaky's mother, who appeared
in many of his original shorts, also appeared in an episode of the
show (voiced by June Foray). Beaky was put in one episode of Duck
Dodgers.
All caches are hidden on a service road that parallels
highway 11. Do not attempt these caches from the highway. Safety
First.
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