[Discuss] The Early Worm Gets the Bird (from the big bad Beowulf thread)

[R. Luoma]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 15:28:48 -0500
Shirley Márquez Dúlcey <mark at buttery.org> wrote:

> People say that the early bird catches the worm. But nobody ever talks
> about the fate of the early worm...

not quite true:

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Early_Worm_Gets_the_Bird

The Early Worm Gets the Bird is a 1940 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Tex Avery.[1] The short was released on January 13, 1940.