Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Birds at Large: Family Guy

I pulled these screen shots off an episode this season called "Call Girl."  Look, I'm not going to get in a huge debate over Family Guy.  When it first aired it was some pretty cutting edge stuff, frankly, but it's settled into a rut where it settles for nastiness instead of nasty wit.  Who cares.  I'll watch it on Hulu once in awhile. 

This episode had birds in it.  Real birds?  No. 

I wish these were real.  These birds are beautiful.  Some kind of Connecticut Warbler x Mountain Bluebird hybrid?  Artistically, they show a pretty good sense of ornithological construction, they just aren't a real species.  Alas.

The plot of the episode begins with Peter getting a falcon for some reason that I don't remember already.  Here it is, first eating those cool birds from a second ago, then squishing Stewie's soft spot:


It most resembles a Peregrine Falcon, or a Prairie, but unlike the blue birds before this bird is lazily constructed.  What's with those patches where the coverts should be?  Where's the tail in the bottom photograph?  Like the show, this falcon is crude, hastily-constructed and lazy...but screw it it's better than Honey Boo-Boo. 

2 comments:

  1. Maine used to be PART of Massachusetts, so we should get first dibs on the black-capped chickadee!

    (But, no hard feelings because I laughed out loud four times.)

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  2. Maine used to be PART of Massachusetts, so we should get first crack at the black-capped chickadee.

    (No hard feelings, though, because I laughed out loud four times.)

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