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Polly Wants a Microphone
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Possibly the most common type of Intellectual Animal is a talking bird, and you know you've seen it already. Parrots, ravens, mynah birds (Asian starlings, in a nutshell) and other birds capable of mimicking human speech are likely to be outright fully intelligent and articulate. Most common in settings where there is an element of the fantastic that can be used to Hand Wave the inaccuracy, but even fairly mundane, realistic stories sometimes do it. Someone who Speaks Fluent Animal is not needed here (but may show up nonetheless). Be careful if you're talking about something you want to keep a secret — Not in Front of the Parrot!! See also Idiot Crows. Not to be confused with the other definition of "mouthy", in that case see Mouthy Bird for birds with expressive mouths. |
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The Smurfs' villain witch Chlorydris has a talking toucan as sidekick. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has two myna birds, and, while they both talk, one of them is a bit of a subversion: she doesn't like talking to humans and will only interact with Wolf Link (who can understand all animals), offering a minigame. | |
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With The Casagrandes (alongside its parent franchise) being set in a regularly down-to-earth cartoon universe, talking animals simply don't exist here. However, due to parrots being able to mimic human speech in real life, Sergio gets a pass and the writers are allowed to exaggerate his "human" traits as much as they want, to the point where they've basically turned him into an equal among the humans in the world. | |
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In Condorito Matías the Parrot can talk. As the comic book is basically the re-telling of all kinds of traditional Latin American jokes, Matias appears mostly in parrot-related jokes. This is also a case of Furry Confusion as his owner Condorito is an anthropomorphic condor. | |
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Mac from The Real Macaw is a macaw capable of speech. | |
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In The Adventures of Superman episode "The Haunted Lighthouse", the mysterious "Help! I'm drowning!" calls come from a parrot. | |
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Beatrice the bluebird is a talking bird companion in Over the Garden Wall, of course this is because she was Once Human. | |
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Nancy Drew: Loulou and Coucou are both capable of giving you hints, and appeasing their wishes is required to progress in both games in which they appear. | |
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In the Samurai Jack episode "Jack and the Farting Dragon" (seriously), the secretive Scissorsmith's attempts to keep Jack from discovering the dragon's location (because he didn't want a customer to leave without buying anything) are foiled by his... wife, who was turned into a talking crow by a wizard the Scissorsmith had angered. | |
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LEGO Island has Mr. and Mrs. Pollywanna, a pair of talking parrots who also act as the Brickolinis' telephone. | |
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Mystery Case Files: 13th Skull has Mr. Crickets, Charlotte Landry's talking parrot. | |
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Digimon naturally has talking bird Mons; Piyomon, Hawkmon, and Falcomon have been used as partners. | |
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One of the members of Los Trotamúsicos is a rooster. | |
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In 70-Seas and Latchkey Kingdom "Babble finches" are used as translator macrobes trained to repeat their owner's words in a different language. They don't seem to be sapient, in spite of their usually accurate translations, with the exception of Lexi's "defective" finch. | |
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The Tom and Jerry movie Shiver Me Whiskers has two pirate captains each with a parrot that has to translate for them because both pirates are unintelligible. | |
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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty has a parakeet that may or may not be intelligent because it's possessed by the spirit of a genius hacker. Did we mention this is the point the game starts to get really weird? | |
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Laserbeak from Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a talking robot bird, though it's justified given that he's an extraterrestrial mechanical life form. | |
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Digit from Cyberchase, who happens to be voiced by Iago's voice actor. | |
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The Ultimate Haunted House: There is a talking parrot found in the menagerie, who gives hints to complete the game. It can be fed items in order to make him lay eggs, or attacked, tortured, or fried by electricity to create a "roast bird". | |
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero depicted Shipwreck's parrot, Polly as capable of speech. She was also frequently implied to be smarter than her owner. | |
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Inko-chan from Toradora!. Despite being utterly incapable of saying its own name, it seems to always be saying the right thing (or at least, things that are appropriate for the situation) at the right time. Even more pronounced in the novels, where it's even capable of breaking out in cold sweats in respond to a threat from Taiga. | |
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The crows Oboe and Ocarina, Hamel and Sizer's companions (respectively) in Violinist of Hameln. Justified in that they were originally winged humanoids cursed to turn into crows. | |
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Professor Pericles, one of the main villains of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. When he first appears (in which his first line is offscreen), Velma comments how parrots can mimic human speech, but the prison officer notes it's the first thing he's said in decades. He speaks normally (with a German accent) throughout the show. | |
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In Malcolm, the protagonist's cockatoo Arnold knows how to say "Thanks a lot!" | |
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Aversion: Princess Tutu's Ahiru/Duck is about the only sentient animal in the series that doesn't talk unless transformed into a human girl. | |
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Discworld has two: Quoth, the raven (har dee har har), and the parrot in Eric. Both have limited wossnames... vocabularies, especially the parrot. Which led to the splendid line (from the parrot) "Wossname wossname wossname wossname wossname!" | |
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Grandia II gives us Ryudo's pet falcon Skye (Skye would disagree). | |
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Tad, the Lost Explorer has a funny subversion. Belzoni, Sara's pet parrot, has human-level intelligence, is able to play poker, do mimic and communicate with signs... but he's mute. | |
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Blackwing, Vaarsuvius's raven familiar in The Order of the Stick. Not bothering to speak Common at first because of a strained relation with V, he proved since the start of the fifth book to be quite smart. However, he is a familiar, so he grows smarter as his master becomes more powerful. | |
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The second season of Yes! Pretty Cure 5 has Syrup, at least in mascot and "birdplane" form. | |
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On The Young Ones, a pirate is insulted by his own parrot. Subverted in that the pirate thinks the parrot is a dog (he keeps it on a leash) and assumes his boatswain is the one who insulted him, because dogs can't talk. | |
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Starship Titanic features a very screechy parrot voiced by former Python Terry Jones. Who loves eating chicken. The Kea is a type of parrot that would indeed enjoy eating chicken. | |
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Mutts: One Shelter Story◊ features a talking parrot named Romeo. He informs the reader that there are many talking birds looking for new homes, and encourages them to visit their local shelter and "I'll tell you all about it." | |
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Deep Blue Sea has Preacher's foul-mouthed parrot, who's later eaten by a shark. | |
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Flip from Pet Alien is an alien who resembles a parrot and can talk. However, it's difficult to decipher what he's saying; he frequently speaks in gibberish with only the last few words being anything coherent. | |
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One novel in Erle Stanley Gardner's lengthy Perry Mason series, The Case of the Perjured Parrot, turns on the eponymous parrot (it doesn't exactly testify, but it is observed that its claws are cut too short, which is a clue to the murderer). In the television adaptation, it was voiced by Mel Blanc. | |
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Inverted in Rio, where all the parrots are able to talk, but none of the humans can understand them. In fact, they can actually talk to other birds and animals, but they cannot talk to people. | |
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Island Saver: Kiwi the parrot offers advice and prompts to the player. He also serves as somewhat of a narrator. | |
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Doctor Dolittle's parrot, Polynesia, was the one that taught him to speak animal, noting in many adaptations that she is almost two centuries old and has learned several languages herself in that time. | |
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Raven Familiars in Dungeons & Dragons can speak. A Wizard Did It (or Sorcerer, or Adapt, or Hexblade, Dread Necromancer or arcane caster with the right feat) The "Stormwrack" source book officially introduced parrot familiars that are mechanically identical to ravens. Players probably took parrot familiars and used the statistics for ravens even earlier than that. |
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Arty the toucan in Adventures of the Gummi Bears also can talk in a world were all non-magical animals (you know, aside from the eponymous gummi bears) are normal and can't talk. | |
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The National Lampoon had a long-running comic strip "Chicken Gutz" by Randall Enos. The eponymous Butt-Monkey character had a bird perched on top of his hat, who provided constant snarky commentary on the proceedings. | |
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Up in Smoke: A talking mynah bird lives in Strawberry's house, and some jokes result as he starts answering the door ("Pedro's not here!"). The last joke comes when Strawberry (armed to the teeth) hears the bird parrot a drug raid that's already come and gone. The shell-shocked Strawberry (off-screen) silences the bird with a gunshot. | |
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By the time the Xandri Corelel series takes place, parrots have been selectively bred and genetically modified to be even smarter than they are now, so Xandri's parrots Marbles and Cake both have very impressive vocabularies. Marbles in particular is said to be intelligent even for his kind - he knows 1128 words, can utter relatively complicated sentenced like "Millet now for smart birdie", and can even participate in conversations to a limited extent. | |
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StarTropics: Peter the talking parrot. You have to bribe him with worms to get him to talk, and what he says is a clue to the puzzle in Captain Bell's tomb. He's also the great-grandson of the original Captain Bell's pet parrot. | |
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Gilligan's Island: In "Angel on the Island", a parrot imitates Gilligan while he and the Skipper are calling for Ginger. When the Skipper asks what Gilligan thought of his performance as Marc Antony, the parrot again repeats Gilligan's uncomplimentary words about the topic, as well as telling the Skipper who said them. | |
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Carry On Behind has a talking mynah bird, whose vocabulary is mostly innuendo and rude words: | |
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It eventually learned a phrase that the crew understood perfectly in Dead Man's Chest: "Don't Eat Me!" as the cannibals apprehended them. | |
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In the pilot of Something is Out There, Jack Breslin goes back to his apartment where he left Ta'Ra and finds the place ransacked by the Monster of the Week and Ta'Ra missing. After the requisite Cat Scare involving Jack's pet parrot, Jack says out loud, "Where the hell could she be?" The parrot obligingly informs him (out shopping). | |
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Peach (which is short for Machu Picchu, but the full name is rarely used) in the Young Wizards series, although this one may be justified by the fact that exposure to wizardry has said to have altered all of Tom and Carl's pets, not to mention that she's one of the Powers That Be in disguise. | |
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Needle from Conan the Adventurer. | |
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The Flintstones The Movie's dictabird. Also the original Flintstones series and its spinoffs would make use of various talking birds for some of its Stone Age devices (such as office intercoms). |
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Merlin's "highly educated", snide and sarcastic pet owl, Archimedes, in The Sword in the Stone, of course. | |
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The Sims 2: You can teach a parrot (Or a kestrel, because it's really just a palette swap.) to talk, and your sims can have full-on conversations with it once it learns. Of course, it, like your Sim, will still be Speaking Simlish. | |
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Streetpass Mii Plaza: In Mii Trek, your guide, Sir Henry Beaksley, is a talking toucan. | |
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The Granstream Saga has the talking parrot Korky. He claims he's a spirit beast, but none seems to believe him. | |
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102 Dalmatians has Waddlesworth, a green-winged macaw who thinks he's a dog (a Rottweiler, to be exact), and is voiced by Eric Idle. | |
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One of the early Animorphs books has the group morphing parrots to tell off a seedy restaurant that's mistreating the birds. They start yelling things at the potential customers that drive them away. | |
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The title character of Paulie is such a parrot; the catch is that every other parrot in the movie isn't, and most humans have difficulty believing that Paulie is. He also can't communicate with other birds. He almost became famous, but during the press-conference switched to "Polly want a cracker" type talk instead to spite the scientist who tricked him. |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: One case uses a talking parrot as a crucial witness to a case. Mildly subverted in that the parrot is never implied to be especially intelligent. Instead, the key lies in which specific words the parrot was trained to repeat. | |
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Jommeke: Jommeke's pet parrot Flip is able to communicate in articulate sentences and converses with everybody. All other parrots in this comic strip share the same gift. | |
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Kehaar from Watership Down, except that he's speaking animal language, not English. When first introduced, Kehaar speaks "hedge", the lingua franca of the world, but later learns Lapine, the native tongue of the rabbits. |
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When The Robbers Came To Cardamom Town features a talking and singing parrot as well as a talking and singing camel. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: In the backstory, there existed a race of Bird Men native to what would become the Imperial City Isle in central Cyrodiil. When first approached by Aldmeri explorers, the Bird Men spoke back in Aldmeris, surprising the Aldmer. However, they quickly realized that the Bird Men were only repeating their own words back to them. Despite this, the Aldmeri were able to teach them to actually speak their own words and to write, for which the Bird Men were grateful. They declared Topal, the leader of the Aldmeri explorers, to be their lord and offered him their islands. | |
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Jeor Mormont's white raven in A Song of Ice and Fire at first seems to only be unusual in that it's able to speak at all, only using this to ask for corn and repeat people's names and taught phrases. However, its tendency to say unusually apropos things has several characters suspicious that it's smarter than it looks. | |
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Knights in the Nightmare: Vienya's familiar Moja. Just how intelligent Moja is, we don't know — he does communicate telepathically with Vienya, though, and is capable of translating for her in only slightly clipped Japanese (complete with kanji). Justified because, well, he's her familiar, and that's what he's there for (she's a selective mute and can't/won't communicate in any other way). | |
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Mr. Eleven from Ghost Rider, a talking crow that leads people to make deals with the devil. | |
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Parodied in The Areas of My Expertise, where these attributes - and, indeed, the Shakespearean page quote - are modified so that they apply to lobsters. Lobsters are introduced to America because of the Shakespeare passage and there's a failed attempt at establishing them as popular pets, but then everyone realizes that they are ugly, violent little animals, so instead the lobsters just get eaten. | |
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In the Garrett, P.I. series, the Goddamn Parrot, aka "Mr. Big", is given to Garrett by a friend as a joke. Operating under its own power, it's incredibly foul-mouthed, and prone to saying things he fears will get him lynched ("Help! Rape! Please, mister, don't make me do that again!"). When operating under the psychic control of the Dead Man, it becomes a mouthpiece and perpetual nag for Garrett's partner. | |
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How to Hero claims that that parrots are infinitely smarter than most human children and would therefore make better sidekicks. | |
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Kokapetl the parrot from The Mysterious Cities of Gold. Though his habit of reminding Tao to remember his ancestors could be something he was taught, there is plenty of evidence that he actually understands what he is saying. For example, he will often call something to the attention of the human characters by telling them to "come and see" and provides early warning of danger on more than one occasion. | |
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Nero: Beo, Meneer Pheip's beo, is also able to talk with people, make speeches, and is cleverer than the average bird of his species. At one point he meets a female beo in the Indian jungle, who is just a normal bird who can only squawk. | |
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Next (2006), which features a genetically uplifted parrot. Unfortunately, he seems to be surrounded by humans too stupid to recognize how intelligent he is. | |
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Hippo in Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch is a talking penguin. Fuku-chan might also count, but he never speaks in bird form, so we don't know whether he can't or whether he's just shutting up while undercover. | |
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My Friend Is A Raven: The titular raven has conversations with Lutum. | |
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The Survivors begins with Robin Williams getting fired by his boss's parrot. No, really. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean has Cotton's parrot. It speaks for its owner, who had his tongue cut out. While it cannot speak fluently (it speaks in various short phrases, which the other pirates interpret), its phrase selection is a good deal larger than the standard. It eventually learned a phrase that the crew understood perfectly in Dead Man's Chest: "Don't Eat Me!" as the cannibals apprehended them. |
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In the Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa episode "Cow Pirates of Swampy Cove", Cowlorado Kid successfully interrogates Longhorn Silver's parrot about the whereabouts of Longhorn Silver and his crew. | |
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Castle, Forest, Island, Sea has three talking birds, a blackbird, robin and owl. And they're chatty. | |
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An episode of Jimmy Two-Shoes has a bird that supposedly only said "Grunk" and "Snark". When Jimmy finds out it can speak perfect English, he's surprised, to which Heloise asks "Where are you from?" | |
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The Dark Tower and A Song of Ice and Fire both have talking ravens. For the most part, they just seem to act like parrots, but it's implied they are capable of comprehending human speech. Jeor Mormont's white raven in A Song of Ice and Fire at first seems to only be unusual in that it's able to speak at all, only using this to ask for corn and repeat people's names and taught phrases. However, its tendency to say unusually apropos things has several characters suspicious that it's smarter than it looks. This universe also has people with the ability to move their consciousness into animals. So the most popular theory behind the inexplicably apropos sayings of Mormont's raven is that a particular person was speaking through him. |
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Pearls Before Swine: When Rat becomes a pet psychic and uses it to his advantage by straight-up lying to the pets' owners about what they're thinking for his own gain, a parrot named Pepe winds up exposing his being a fraud. | |
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Lewis from The Bird Feeder has tried on occasion to speak to humans. However, in #48, "Mimicry", he reveals that despite him merely asking politely for a bowl of food, the humans tend not to have very good reactions to him. | |
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Dera Mochimazzui in Tamako Market, who talks and and is sentient enough to know what he is talking about. He's on a mission to find a bride for the prince of an island nation, and the female protagonist made an Accidental Proposal with the bird. | |
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In The Hunger Games, talking birds are mentioned to have been used for espionage, but this stopped after the people being spied on caught on and started giving out false information to the birds. | |
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Maya & Miguel's pet parrot, Paco. | |
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Iago from Aladdin. A line in The Return of Jafar implies that Jafar taught him, possibly using magic. For most of the original movie, Iago pretends to be a regular parrot when in the presence of characters other than Jafar. He drops this after the protagonists turn on Jafar, though, and no one in-universe seems particularly surprised by his fluent speech. Word of God has stated that Iago gained the ability to speak as a result of Jafar transferring part of his personality into Iago in order to get rid of his unwanted personality traits. |
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Averted, oddly, in Pokémon: The Series, with the parrot Pokémon Chatot. It's known for repeating human speech, all Pokémon are supposedly sentient, with a large number (The humanoid and psychics in particular) appearing sapient, and a cat Pokemon learned human language and speaks it fluently. But every time a Chatot is featured it just mimics human words without understanding them like a real-life parrot. | |
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Matthew the talking raven and his predecessors in The Sandman (1989). | |
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In the Pound Puppies (2010) episode "Squawk", the Mayor's pet parrot turns out to be able to speak without copying what other people say at the end of the episode, stating that he plans to fly to Costa Rica and that he prefers being called Mr. Squawkers (the name Niblet gave him). | |
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An episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys had Hercules turned into a pig and eventually meet a parrot who he can speak with through Animal Talk (where it didn't have the stereotypical parrot voice), and which could speak to people through Polly Wants A Microphone (where it did), and could translate between the two. | |
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From the children's book series Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, the main character's parrot Penelope was originally depicted realistically, but in the last book of the series she was an Intellectual Animal. | |
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: The birds will exhibit this if you hide. But only one is a parrot (the rest are ravens), and if you're not hiding, it says the stock parrot phrases (and, for some reason, "Shine get!"). The parrot drops the act after the end of the chapter, though. | |
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The Munsters have a talking Crow voiced by Mel Blanc no less. | |
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Ravens in American Gods are fully articulate and intelligent, which is hardly surprising, them being Odin's companions and whatnot. Shadows asks one to quoth "Nevermore". The raven is not amused. | |
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Ultima VII: The Black Gate: Parrots have only a few lines of normal conversation (putting them on the same level as most town guards...) but if you threaten them with a gavel, they will tell the location of the hidden treasure in a bid to get you to spare them. Curiously, all parrots in the game know this secret, so perhaps they have a terrifying hive mind going. | |
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Home Alone 3 has that wise-cracking Amazon parrot kept by Alex's older brother, Stan. | |
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DSBT InsaniT: Perry the parrot. Snake even notes how fluently he can speak. | |
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Glass (2006) features such a parrot—as the protagonist. You're locked in a cage, but by saying the right words at the right time you can influence the train of thought of the people talking in the room, and make their conversation reach one of the different outcomes. | |
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Prehysteria features a miniature pterodactyl that can do this. | |
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Parodied in an episode of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, in which two parrots have a coherent conversation, but also have to keep stopping in order to mindlessly repeat the last thing the other one said. | |
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In All I Know About Animal Behavior, I Learned in Loehmann's Dressing Room, Erma Bombeck relates owning a bird named Barney who knew only two phrases: "Hello, Barney" and "Telephone!" She tried training him further with a tape, but quit and gave Barney to one of her kids after three weeks of said tape succeeded only in exasperating her and causing her husband to say one of the tape's phrases. | |
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