Pirate Parrot: Difference between revisions

* The ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' trilogy:

** A mute pirate named Cotton owns a parrot who does the talking for him. It mostly says "parrot" stuff like "Ready the sails!" -- "We figure that means 'yes'." The parrot's repetition leads to a hilarious scene in the second movie:

''(cue cannibals)'' }}

** Captain Barbossa himself has a pet monkey.

* In ''Revenge of [[The Pink Panther]]'', Inspector Clouseau appears disguised as a sailor, with an inflatable parrot on his shoulder.

* The following exchange occurs in ''[[Down Periscope]]'', during the "walk the plank" sequence, which has a large percentage of the Stingray's crew playing pirate:

'''Nitro Mike:''' [[Talk Like a Pirate|Arr.]] }}

* Captain Hook and his crew of pirates finally get one in the 2003 film ''[[Peter Pan (film)|Peter Pan]]''. (This trope had been averted in previous adaptations.)

* When [[John Cleese]] of [[Monty Python]] appeared on ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', he was on ''Pigs in Space'' as a space pirate and kept bickering with his parrot. He eventually threatened it with, "Quiet! Do you want to be [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|an ex-parrot]]?"

* ''[[Muppet Treasure Island]]'' spoofed this by having Long John Silver with a pet lobster (though he still went by "Polly" and asked for crackers). This is [[Lampshaded]].

'''Polly:''' What an imagination. First pirates, now talking parrots, what's next -- [[It Will Never Catch On|a singing, dancing mouse with his own amusement park?]] }}

** The game of the film features a parrot called Stevenson (as in Robert Louis) as the [[Exposition Fairy]].

* Parrots are seen throughout the ''[[Monkey Island (series)|Monkey Island]]'' series.

** ''Monkey Island'' mocks this one (then it again, it mocks every Pirate trope possible), in the first game: Meathook keeps a classic parrot locked up because it's "scary". In ''[[Escape from Monkey Island]]'', when asked what he wanted in a pirate Caricature, Guybrush can choose to say he wants a parrot when he adds the following:

** And then there is the half-magic parrot made of pyrite in ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]''. But what kind of idiot would actually carry that thing around?

* In ''[[Sly Cooper|Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves]]'', the major pirates are both parrots, in reference to this trope.

* ''[[Sid Meier's Pirates!]]'': If the barkeep doesn't have anything useful to say, he'll usually ask the main character "Where's your parrot?" This can get stupidly hilarious when you've actually modded parrots into the game.

== Web Comics ==

* [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1400/fc01345.htm Parodied] in ''[[Freefall]]''; after Sam suggests that he and his crew become space pirates, Helix adopts an emu and names it "Polly", suggesting that it would be more threatening than a parrot.

* In ''[[Nodwick]]'', a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|ninja-pirate captain]] has a [http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2004-08-04 ninja-parrot on his shoulder.]

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': The head pirate in "The Waterbending Scroll" has a pet "[[Mix-and-Match Critters|reptile-bird]]," which makes the [[Genre Savvy]] Sokka realize...

'''Pirate:''' We prefer to think of ourselves as "high-risk traders". }}

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''