Riffers: Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett
One Turkey, Two Turkey is a five-and-a-half minute short designed to teach children how to count to ten using a fun barnyard setting. We watch a flock of turkeys gobbling and running around while a gentle folk singer relays simple and safe lyrics, every once in a while counting up to ten turkeys forwards and backwards.
There isn't a lot of meat on the bones of this short, which is either something played in kindergarten classrooms or perhaps maybe on shows like Sesame Street. I can't say I enjoyed it, but the repetitive song will undoubtedly have implanted the simple counting technique into children's heads.
Mike, Kevin, and Bill look at this film like a successor to The Chicken of Tomorrow, and pretty much riff it exactly the same way. They like to give the turkeys voices and mock the narrating song, but for the most part they just try to give humorous context to all of these disjointed images of turkeys, such as a giant flock suddenly running away from the camera causing Bill to quip "KEVIN SMITH JUST PUT IN HIS HOLIDAY ORDER!"
At the same time, this feels like a mild missed opportunity. A lot of the riffs feels the same and the short doesn't really give them enough time or material to change anything up. There are a few openings that aren't taken advantage of, such as turkey's vanishing while counting backwards would have made a great set-up for a quip about ten turkey dinners that were just set up, but they let it pass by with mostly silence. And the brief short doesn't always feel like it's worth the full dollar you pay for it.
I have to balance the good and the bad with this one, and I find out they mostly come up even. It's an enjoyable short for the most part, but there are better shorts to watch first.
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