Melody (1953)

Bill Thompson: Professor Owl, Bernie Birdbrain, Man

Quotes 

• Professor Owl : Today's lesson will be about something we really can't do without.

  Bernie Birdbrain : About food?

  [giggles] 

  Professor Owl : No, uh... Ab-about something everybody loves. Uh, eh...

  Bernie Birdbrain : Uh, money?

  Professor Owl : Mmm. No.

  [stammering] 

  Professor Owl : The subject, uh...

  [sees a baby bird chirping in a nest outside the window] 

  Professor Owl : Ah, yes! The subject for today is melody!

  Bernie Birdbrain : A "malady"? Uh, like when you get sick?

  Professor Owl : No!

  Students : [singing]  M-E-L-O-D-Y, melody! The subject for today will be a melody!

• Male singer : Oh, we sing about the moon...

  Female singer : We sing about the rain...

  Male singer : We sing about steamboats...

  Male singer , Female singer : And we sing about planes.

  Bernie Birdbrain : We sing about beauty.

  Professor Owl : But the fact remains that we never...

  Penelope Pinfeather : No, we never, ever sing about brains!

• Professor Owl : Now let us fly to nature and lend an ear to the multitude of musical sounds we hear.

  Bernie Birdbrain : [his dunce cap is covering his whole body]  I don't hear nothin'.

  [the professor pops the dunce cap off Bernie's body and puts it back on his head] 

  Bernie Birdbrain : Gosh, heh heh, that's better.

• Professor Owl : Now, students, in conclusion, I wish to point out that beautiful symphonies are often created from simple melodies like "The Bird and the Cricket and the Willow Tree".

• [first lines] 

  Professor Owl : Is everybody here?

  Students : [singing]  Yes, teacher!

  Professor Owl : Suzy Sparrow?

  Suzy Sparrow : [singing]  Here, teacher.

  Professor Owl : Bernie Birdbrain?

  Bernie Birdbrain : Here, teacher.

  Professor Owl : The Canary Sisters?

  The Canary Sisters : [harmonizing]  Here... Here... Here... Here!

  Professor Owl : Penelope Pinfeather?

  Suzy Sparrow : [operatically]  He-e-e-e-e-e-ere...

  [Professor Owl closes her beak before she can continue showing off] 

  Students : [singing]  Here, here, here, here, here, here, here!

  Little Bird : [bass voice]  Here.

• Professor Owl : Now, of all the creatures on this Earth, only two species can sing. Us, heh heh heh, birds, and this animal called "homo sapien".

  Bernie Birdbrain : Homer sappens?

  Homo Sapien : [on the chart]  Man to you.

  Bernie Birdbrain : You see? Hee hee. He even makes music when he talks.