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Fowl-Mouthed Parrot
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Parrots, mynahs, crows, and some other birds have a well-known ability to mimic many of the sounds they hear. Thus, it shouldn't be surprising that some of them learn to cuss like a sailor. This is primarily a comedy trope, used for a laugh as the parrot's embarrassed owner tries frantically to shut the bird up. It's also Truth in Television. Because parrots live for a very long time, most parrot owners are advised not to swear around them so that when the owner dies, the parrot doesn't have trouble finding a new home. For some reason, most prospective pet owners don't want their bird swearing at them. A common variation seen in works aimed at kids (or otherwise vulnerable to censorship) is for the parrot to learn non-profane words that are, nevertheless, still insults or otherwise not meant for polite conversation. This is a sister trope to Not in Front of the Parrot!, where the bird repeats something important it overheard such as the combination to a safe or a villain's Evil Plan. Do not confuse this trope with actual talking animals (including the parrot-specific subtrope Polly Wants a Microphone); this trope is about mimicry of profanity. Compare to Innocent Swearing, where the one doing the parroting is a sapient being (usually a kid) that doesn't understand that it shouldn't say such things. |
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Bertie Blunt (His Parrot's a Cunt) in Viz. | |
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In Tokyo Ghoul, Hinami adopts an injured Cockatiel prone to shouting insults at people. They end up naming it "Loser", after its favorite word. | |
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While marooned in the South China Sea in one of the Destroyermen books, Silva discovers a flying lizard that takes a liking to him, much to his chagrin. Being an enlisted man, Silva swears a lot, in particular calling the parrot equivalent a "stupid shit". You can probably see where this is going. | |
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Doctor in Clover has Tweetypie, who Sir Lancelot has placed in Virtue Ward to cheer up the patients, and calls Matron a "silly old buzzard". | |
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Adam-12: "Training Wheels" has Reed and Malloy stop a hippy microbus that ran a stop sign. In the conversation, a high-pitched "Down with the pigs!" can be heard. Eventually, the driver opens the back of the car to reveal the speaker: a mynah bird belonging to his cop-hating girlfriend. They let it pass and just give him a warning. | |
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Tony the Parrot from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. | |
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Slight variation in the talking (and featherless) parrot from Eric. He's both Talking Animal and this due to a tendency to use "wossname" a lot, usually in crude reference to some part or other of the male genital. | |
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One sketch on The Benny Hill Show features a woman pulling the cover off of a birdcage with a parrot inside. The parrot begins mildly cursing when the woman notices her priest coming over to her flat. She quickly pulls the cover back over the birdcage and invites the priest in... just in time for the parrot to exclaim, "Bloody hell! What a short day that was!" | |
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A G-rated version appears in the Fudge books. Fudge is very proud of his myna bird, Uncle Feather, who can speak French. Any time someone addresses the bird he responds by saying, "Bonjour, Stupid." | |
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On My Name Is Earl, Darnell revealed that back in the day before he got put into Witness Protection, he shared an apartment with a man who was a porn star. He is now married to the governor of whatever state Camden is located in, and she got him a job as the warden of the state prison. A porn movie was being filmed in the apartment just as Darnell returned. He was OK with that, but asked if he could put a cloth over Mr. Parrot's cage. | |
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The Army Game: In "Snudge's Budgie", the boys from Hut 29 have to acquire a budgie to replace Snudge's after Bootsie lets it escape. They invoke this trope by using ventriloquism to make a tea shop owner believe her budgie has suddenly acquired a very foul mouth and offering to dispose of it for her. At the end of the episode, Snudge's real budgie is returned to him by a sailor who captured it, and has been trying to teach it to speak, with the result that it now swears like, well, a sailor. | |
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Preacher Dudley's parrot in Deep Blue Sea, among its favorite phrases include "Eat me asshole!" and "Hey, hey you dickhead!". | |
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Black Lagoon: There's a parrot outside the Ripoff Church, which repeats Revy's insults as she hammers on the door. As a sign of the Wretched Hive Rock's found himself in, a mynah bird is shown squawking various death threats. |
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Carry On Behind has a mynah bird brought to Riverside Caravan Park as a pet; unfortunately Daphne Barnes refuses to believe her bird talks like this trope, leading to the usual comic misunderstandings. | |
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In the Spellsinger novel Time of the Transference, a couple of drug runners mistake the talking, intelligent Pirate Parrot Kamaulk (that is to say, he's a parrot who's a pirate) for this trope. They attempt to sell him to a Los Vegas casino but fail to realize that he's smart enough to open a car door, at which point he escapes. And is promptly eaten by some street bums who mistake him for an oddly green chicken. | |
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The Murdoch Mysteries episode "Convalesce", wherein Constable Crabtree takes over Murdoch's job as detective while he heals from injuries, involved a parrot being the only witness to a murder. Its master was a French Jerk chef, and repeated back lovely phrases such as, "You call this vomit quiche?!" "I spit at you!" and "Tu es un cochon!note You are a pig!". | |
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In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche tries to cheer up Stanley and Stella by telling them a story about "a parrot that cursed a blue streak and knew more vulgar expressions than Mr. Kowalski." They are not amused. | |
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1000 Ways to Die has a woman watching someone else's house while the owner was gone, and she has it to herself. But while kissing her boyfriend, the owner's cockatoo starts screeching, and she accidentally lets it outside. As she tries to get it back (and fails while dying), the bird while being grabbed squawks curses at her. | |
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The Kids from Room 402: Subverted. When Jesse and Vinny taught insults to a parrot, Jesse suggested teaching curse words but that was as close as the trope came to being played in the cartoon. | |
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In Shoresy (a spin off of Letterkenny) Shoresy's Alexandrine parakeet Big Sexy unsurprisingly picked up his chirping and endlessly repeats "titfucker." | |
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In Scary Movie 2, the parrot does this, except it turns out it can really talk and not just mimic. | |
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The opening scene of The Birds revolves around Melanie at the pet store ordering a mynah bird. Later in the film, she reveals she wanted the bird to play a prank on her uptight Aunt Tessa by teaching the bird some "semantics" she picked up in a college class at Berkley. | |
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The Pokémon Chatot has an exclusive move called Chatter, which can be used in conjunction with the microphone of the Nintendo DS and later models to have it say something that the player records. It then fell victim to Video Game Perversity Potential, and the voice-recording feature was removed in Pokémon X and Y. | |
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Tintin: A G-rated version happens in The Broken Ear. Tintin ends up with a parrot that spams his favorite insult "Great Greedy Guts!!!" In Red Rackham's Treasure, on the island near the Unicorn's shipwreck the heroes find the descendants of parrots who spent the last centuries transmitting to each other Sir Francis Haddock's vocabulary. Despite him leaving the island far long before the natives went extinct, and of course there was no copy degeneration over time. In The Castafiore Emerald, Captain Haddock receives a parrot as an unwanted gift from Castafiore. By the time she finally leaves, it has begin to imitate his unusual euphemisms, particularly "Blistering Barnacles!" |
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The Great Ace Detective has a parakeet that belonged to a recently deceased character screaming "I'll see you in hell" at the characters, to which they wonder why she wasn't taught better manners by her owner. It turns out it was her owner's last words she was repeating. | |
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In the Garrett, P.I. series, Garrett receives "the Goddamn Parrot" from his friend Morley. TGP's vocabulary primarily consists of appreciative but extremely vulgar descriptions of female anatomy, which he loves to indulge in whenever a woman comes to visit. Morley won't ever admit it, but it's an invoked example: he and his buddies must've spent weeks pre-loading the parrot with rude phrases before giving it to Garrett as a prank. In a grimmer example, Garrett's recollections about the time his Marine unit was stranded on a swampy tropical island include a mention of how the island's wild parrots would mimic the cries of wounded soldiers. Knowing soldiers' vocabulary in a crisis, this trope was probably involved. |
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Talk-O the parrot from Trailer Park Boys say nothing but vulgar insults. | |
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SuperMarioLogan: In "Bowser's Parrot!" the titular bird just won't stop repeating "Bowser's a retard!" thanks to Junior. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Mr. Harrison's parrot Ginger in Anne Of Avonlea. He got Ginger from his brother, a sailor who used a lot of coarse language. Mr. Harrison is used to Ginger's bad language, but it really embarrasses him when the parrot swears in front of company. | |
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In Moving Pictures, the movie pioneers attempt to add sound to their films by using parrots. The result tends to be along the lines of brief snatches of romantic dialogue interrupted by cries of "Warrrk! Showusyerknickers!" | |
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The ship's parrot in Nation, who spends most of the book shouting "Show us yer drawers!" at no-one in particular. The narrator notes that many of the things the parrot says are phrases Daphne knows she shouldn't recognize as a "proper" young lady, but she's more concerned about the phrases she doesn't understand. | |
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NYPD Blue had the Pointy-Haired Boss bring in an obnoxious parrot that repeated everybody. Sipowicz forces the boss to get rid of it by a simple trick: he plants a tape recording of somebody shouting "Douchebag! Douchebag!" in the parrot's room overnight. | |
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In one Pearls Before Swine comic, Rat decided to get a parrot from the pet store, but on his way back home, he got stuck in a three-hour traffic jam, so now the parrot just swears all the time. | |
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In The ABCs of Death, the N segment has a man buying his fiancee a parrot, which he had trained to give her a wedding ring to propose to her. But after the proposal was made...the bird starts repeating the words of the man and his mistress during sex. | |
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In one of Betty MacDonald's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle stories, little girls who sass their parents and teachers have to deal with a parrot who says all those rude, ugly things. Not quite swearing, but still unacceptable; the girls learn how nasty they sound. | |
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Ugly Americans: The manbirds are a race of half-bird/half-human hailing from an island in the South Pacific that were brought stateside by a taxi driver simply because he thought they were "hilarious as balls". They also picked up his cussing and eventually evolved their own language from it. The result is that "Manbirdese" is a language were the phrase "suck my balls" has more than 500 different meanings. It's also stated to be "the most difficult and least popular language in the world". | |
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One episode of Happy Endings has Alex buy a parrot that keeps making racist and homophobic remarks. | |
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The Fast Show: Unlucky Alf buys himself a parrot to keep him company. Except it remains silent, prompting Alf to utter a resigned "bugger". This opens the floodgates... | |
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One cutaway of Family Guy has Joe buy a talking parrot. Peter immediately teaches it the word "cripple", much to Joe's dismay. | |
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In HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami, Kiki the ara commonly insults his owner Pablito, including while they both are in the process of swindling some tourists of their money. ("Crook." "Imposter." "Mythomaniac.") | |
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The Thinking Machine: In "The Lost Million", a parrot holds a vital clue to the mystery. However, the parrot had belonged to a misanthrope and constantly swears and is insulting. After a few days with the bird, the normally even-tempered Van Dusen hands it back to its new owner with the warning that if he ever sees it again, he is going to kill it. | |
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