Birdz: Difference between revisions

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Subverted in "Life of Riley". The females in class love Riley's bad-bird nature {{spoiler|until they find out he dropped out of school}}.

* [[An Aesop]]: Pretty much every episode, but not as heavy-handedly as most.

* [[Brick Joke]]: Morty's big feet at the end of "Father and Son Camp Out".

* [[Character Development]]: Even in the course of 13 episodes, Mr. Nuthatch becomes less paranoid, and Sleepy does more than just sleep at the drop of a hat.

* [[Disguised in Drag]]: Sleepy, as part of a staged purse-snatching {{spoiler|done to try and summon Birdman}}.

* [[Drive-In Theater]]: "A Face in the Crowd" starts at a ''fly''-in theater.

* [[Feather Fingers]]: The entire cast has arm-like wings which are generally used as arms, although they are also capable of flight. However, in one episode, the characters use their feet to bowl.

* [[Flintstone Theming]]: Lots of things get avian names. In particular, "anybird" for "anyone" starts showing up in later episodes.

* [[I Was Quite a Fashion Victim]]: In "Dollars and Sense", Steffy laughs at a picture of Betty from the 70s.

* [[Imagine the Audience Naked|Imagine the Audience Without Feathers]]: Eddie's advice to Gregory in "Gulls and Dolls".

* [[Left the Background Music On]]: In the resolution of the second episode, dramatic violins play over Eddie's apology to his classmates until Olivia says, "stop the violins."

* [[Malicious Slander]]: One episode revolves around Eddie spreading false rumors about a creepy old man, some of which he has conflated from a book his father is reading. At the end, the creepy old man gives Eddie [[An Aesop]] about how "you can't un-ring a bell".

* [[Shockingly Expensive Bill]]: In the second episode, Eddie runs up a [[Eleventy-Zillion|nine gazillion dollar]] charge on his father's credit card buying gifts for his friends.

** In "To Beak or Not to Beak", the bill for {{spoiler|Eddie's beak surgery}} is "$$$ A LOT".

** In the second episode, Eddie has a dream involving giant bugs which seems rather similar to ''[[Starship Troopers (Film)|Starship Troopers]]''.

** Thinking that he has a lead on a {{spoiler|serial killer}}, Eddie says that he's going to "sell the story to [[CBS]]."

* [[Species Surname]]: Played straight with everyone.

* [[Spit Take]]: Morty and Betty's reaction to {{spoiler|the beak-shrinking machine Eddie is wearing}} in "Big Beak or Not Big Beak".

* [[Stealth Pun]]: In one episode, Morty said that he hated a peacock he went to school with, then adds that said peacock "[[NBC|went into television]]".

** The plastic surgeon in "Big Beak or Not Big Beak" is a duck. In other words, {{spoiler|he's a quack}}.