–as opposed to all those normal, run-of-the-mill cartoons where pilgrims turn into turkeys, I guess… Any hoo. I have this vanishingly indistinct recollection of an animated color short in an indistinct 1940’s style, sort of a proto-Warner’s maybe, featuring an Ichabod Crane-looking pilgrim character who (naturally, like all pilgrims everywhere) has an insatiable craving for turkey. However, in Serlingesque fashion, this craving somehow results in him being transformed into a turkey himself, and thus in sudden peril of decapitation and gravy.
Sometimes these long-submerged bubbles of luminous marsh gas percolate up from the boggy depths of my mind, and I have no idea whether they are remnants of memory, hypnagogic hallucination, or what. I seem to recall that the pilgrim guy retained a sort of haystack-looking bowl haircut even as a turkey. My flailing attempts to track this cartoon down online, however, turned up only references to the Tex Avery-directed **Jerky Turkey ** (memorably comical, but not the one I’m thinking of), and also a number of sites quoting Homer Simpson’s wish for a turkey sandwich, but with the caveat that he not be turned into a turkey himself in consequence. So I’m thinking that maybe Homer saw this cartoon too. Anybody else have any recollection of it at all?