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Jerky Turkey is a 1945 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) cartoon directed by Tex Avery. (1999). 9780816038312, Checkmark Books. ISBN 9780816038312 Jerky Turkey is one of three MGM cartoons in the public domain in the United States as its copyright was not renewed.
A pear-shaped Pilgrim, who speaks with the mannerisms of Bill Thompson (here impersonated because he had been drafted and was unavailable), emerges from his dilapidated teardrop trailer home and goes hunting for a turkey for a Thanksgiving dinner. The turkey emerges from the "House of Seven Gobbles" (a literal black market in disguise) and, seeing an easy mark and speaking in an impersonation of Jimmy Durante, offers himself to the pilgrim, only to use this as the start of a series of rapid-fire gags that stretch the limits of even cartoon physics, with the turkey consistently getting the best of his increasingly befuddled and frustrated opponent.
Eventually the two make up and decide to "eat at Joe's," following the advice of a clapboard-wearing bear advertising his steakhouse that appears throughout the short. When they reach Joe's steakhouse, the door closes, loud crashes and thuds are heard, and the bear is seen coming out of the restaurant without his sandwich board; on his back is a tattoo which reads "I'm Joe". Joe the bear is grinning and picking his teeth, as the swallowed-whole turkey and pilgrim sulk in Joe's stomach. The pilgrim closes the cartoon by holding up a sign of his own: "DON'T eat at Joe's."
While it's not known if he would have had a cameo, The Turkey from the short can be seen in a storyboard of a deleted scene from Who Framed Roger Rabbit entitled "Acme's Funeral".
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