In the episode where Jerry is dating a Miss American contestant (Miss Rhode Island, they’re never in contention), Jerry and George are staying at the hotel where the contest is being held. Because some doves (belonging to Miss RI) were making noise outside, Jerry pours out a bucket of water on them to shut them up. The next morning, Miss RI finds them dead.
Now, doves are outside animals, they’re not like domesticated cats and dogs that may have trouble living in the wild. How does a bucket of water kill them? Wouldn’t they just dry themselves off? Its not like there was a blizzard outside and Jerry killed them by freezing them to death, they were sleeping with the door open and Miss RI kept them outside at night anyway. How could those doves have died?
That’s a good question. I just rooted around online a bit and can’t find either an answer, or any other speculation on why water would have been lethal to doves. (Where’s the human spirit of inquiry, I ask you?)
Now I’m wondering if that question arose at the table reading of that script. If so, was the answer ‘in this show, the inexplicable is expected’…?
The force of a bucket of water falling on a dove is like the force of a fire hose hitting a human. The water hit them with such force they were stunned and/or it was forced up their little beaks and they drowned.
Birds are quite fragile and do not handle even moderate impact well. Birds die all the time flying into windows at moderate speeds. Still I doubt a bucket of water would kill them.
He didn’t say anything, they just showed it. He took their ice bucket which had water, though I guess it could have had some ice in there, then said “This will scare them off”, dumped the bucket of water over the railing, and put the bucket down.
The next morning, Miss RI said that she found her doves dead in a pool of water
It’s been a while since I’ve seen the episode, but doesn’t Jerry shiver from cold when he gets out of bed? Perhaps the water combined with a cool NY evening did the trick.