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Mercie May 3 - 60s Cartoon
I know I've seen this cartoon before, but I can't find any videos or information about it anywhere. Stranger still, Dawson Friedrich studios doesn't seem to exist! If anyone remembers seeing this cartoon as a kid, or has ANY info on the studio, please send me a DM. I feel like I'm losing my mind here.
Category Artwork (Digital) / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 904px
File Size 387.4 kB
Listed in Folders
Hey, I remember that show, and thank god I actually taped the darn thing because if you recall, it only lasted like five episodes and never got distributed on VHS or DVD. I tried re-watching it, but now I can see why it was cancelled- it was a show of pure evil.
Every episode started with the titular sick parrot coming to Doctor Proctor for some kind of minor illness, like hiccups or a headache, and the Doctor would immediately deduce that it was some extremely serious-sounding but made-up ailment, like "Hornet Lungs" or "Snapping Lobe" (and there was this weird running "joke" that Nursey Mercie would say "Oh, doctor, are you sure it's not just a case of the Canterburys?" to which the doctor would flatly say "No", followed by a louder-than-necessary laugh track. Some historical/pop culture reference I don't get?). Once his "diagnosis" was made, Nursey Mercie would immediately grab the poor parrot roughly and strap him down to this huge metal table with big mechanical shackles. You could see the poor bird's eyes get all watery and fearful, but Mercie would immediately silence him, either by strapping his beak shut with medical tape or some kind of freaky metal headgear, or have it wrenched wide open with what looked like a tiny car jack. That's when the real horror show began.
It was always the same: Nursey Mercie would be standing over the strapped-down parrot, and Doctor Proctor would be in the background washing his hands. He told Mercie to "prep the patient for surgery" while he sterilized himself. Mercie would giggle and nod, and her eyes would immediately turn red as her arms, head, and torso split open and at least a dozen nasty-looking surgical tools- scalpels, bonesaws, drills- emerged from within her on otherwise cartoony-looking metal tentacles, and she'd immediately begin torturing the poor parrot. She would cut, stab, slice, and pull open various parts of his little body, super-hyper-realistic blood spraying everywhere as mega-hyper-realistic organs spilled from his little belly. Bones would be pulled out and put in backwards, eyes would be gouged, various fluids would be either removed or pumped in to the point of bursting. The worst one was when she actually cut open the parrot's head and yanked his ultra-hyper-realistic brain out, stabbing it with an electric prong and making the parrot squirm and twitch in pain. All the while, Doctor Proctor would be obliviously washing his hands for at least five minutes, loudly singing some song that was popular at the time (the only one I remember off-hand is "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby"). Between his singing, the buzzing of metal saws, and the various giga-hyper-realistic squishing sounds, you could barely make out the parrot's muffled screaming.
Once the surgical horrorshow was over, Mercie would revert back to her "normal" self, still drenched in blood, and say "the patient is ready, doctor!" Doctor Proctor's would approach the heavily mutilated parrot (who would only sometimes be dead despite everything), look him over, and immediately slap a band-aid on his beak and say "good as new".
"Oh Doctor, you've done it again!" Mercie would say with a swoon. Cue laugh-track and iris-in on what was left of the parrot, roll credits.
I was going to send you the VHS tapes but they ruined my VCR after causing a bunch of super-duper-hyper-realistic blood to spew out from the tape slot.
Every episode started with the titular sick parrot coming to Doctor Proctor for some kind of minor illness, like hiccups or a headache, and the Doctor would immediately deduce that it was some extremely serious-sounding but made-up ailment, like "Hornet Lungs" or "Snapping Lobe" (and there was this weird running "joke" that Nursey Mercie would say "Oh, doctor, are you sure it's not just a case of the Canterburys?" to which the doctor would flatly say "No", followed by a louder-than-necessary laugh track. Some historical/pop culture reference I don't get?). Once his "diagnosis" was made, Nursey Mercie would immediately grab the poor parrot roughly and strap him down to this huge metal table with big mechanical shackles. You could see the poor bird's eyes get all watery and fearful, but Mercie would immediately silence him, either by strapping his beak shut with medical tape or some kind of freaky metal headgear, or have it wrenched wide open with what looked like a tiny car jack. That's when the real horror show began.
It was always the same: Nursey Mercie would be standing over the strapped-down parrot, and Doctor Proctor would be in the background washing his hands. He told Mercie to "prep the patient for surgery" while he sterilized himself. Mercie would giggle and nod, and her eyes would immediately turn red as her arms, head, and torso split open and at least a dozen nasty-looking surgical tools- scalpels, bonesaws, drills- emerged from within her on otherwise cartoony-looking metal tentacles, and she'd immediately begin torturing the poor parrot. She would cut, stab, slice, and pull open various parts of his little body, super-hyper-realistic blood spraying everywhere as mega-hyper-realistic organs spilled from his little belly. Bones would be pulled out and put in backwards, eyes would be gouged, various fluids would be either removed or pumped in to the point of bursting. The worst one was when she actually cut open the parrot's head and yanked his ultra-hyper-realistic brain out, stabbing it with an electric prong and making the parrot squirm and twitch in pain. All the while, Doctor Proctor would be obliviously washing his hands for at least five minutes, loudly singing some song that was popular at the time (the only one I remember off-hand is "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby"). Between his singing, the buzzing of metal saws, and the various giga-hyper-realistic squishing sounds, you could barely make out the parrot's muffled screaming.
Once the surgical horrorshow was over, Mercie would revert back to her "normal" self, still drenched in blood, and say "the patient is ready, doctor!" Doctor Proctor's would approach the heavily mutilated parrot (who would only sometimes be dead despite everything), look him over, and immediately slap a band-aid on his beak and say "good as new".
"Oh Doctor, you've done it again!" Mercie would say with a swoon. Cue laugh-track and iris-in on what was left of the parrot, roll credits.
I was going to send you the VHS tapes but they ruined my VCR after causing a bunch of super-duper-hyper-realistic blood to spew out from the tape slot.
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