Polly Wants a Doctor

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A parrot, sick of eating crackers, receives a luncheon invitation from a goat. Nuts, bolts, springs, door hinges and other inedible edibles are on the menu.A parrot, sick of eating crackers, receives a luncheon invitation from a goat. Nuts, bolts, springs, door hinges and other inedible edibles are on the menu.A parrot, sick of eating crackers, receives a luncheon invitation from a goat. Nuts, bolts, springs, door hinges and other inedible edibles are on the menu.

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6.1/10

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Sara Berner

Polly's Owner
(uncredited)
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Frank Graham

Radio Airport Announcer
(uncredited)

Byron Kane

Joe the Goat
(uncredited)

Jerry Mann

Polly
(uncredited)

Director
- Howard Swift
Writer
- Dun Roman
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The pages of a calendar change before the goat has the chance to tear them off. Worse, the numbers are not in sequence. The first time we see the calendar, the page on top says June 1. Two shots later, the top page says June 3. As he tears them off, we see: June 4, June 5 (which briefly changes to June 6), June 6 (which briefly changes to June 7), June 7 (which twice switches to June 5), back to June 4 and finally back to June 5.

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My Dinner with Polly

Long before Louis Malle got the idea of building a film around two cordial figures having dinner, the Columbia cartoon studio came up with this little culinary gem.

Columbia cartoons of the forties were known for experimenting with bizarre ideas, and this story centers on a parrot protagonist (named Polly, but male - why ask questions) who is sick - I mean SICK of crackers. He is invited to dinner by an erudite goat with the most discriminating taste in backyard garbage. Polly soon finds himself eating everything from nuts and bolts to an entire combination radio and phonograph - and loving it! Did it all digest well? I'm thinking our parrot hero probably experienced less intestinal discomfort than the hero of "Supersize me".

Screen Gems cartoons are hard to come by, but they occasionally pop up on youtube. If you ever run across it, check it out.