List of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episodes

This is a list of episodes of the animated television series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. The list is in production order, which is the order Adult Swim shows the repeats, and the order they appear on the DVD. Each episode is approximately 11½ minutes long.

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law | Volume 1

These episodes appear on the Volume 1 DVDs.

Bannon Custody Battle

Template:Birdman Civil Case Race Bannon confronts Dr. Benton Quest that he is like a father to the children and wants to have them as his own. Harvey has to prove Benton Quest is the better father – a difficult task as Benton can't even remember his sons' names.

At court, Vulturo represents Race. He claims that genetics shouldn't determine fatherhood, although his speech impediment confuses the jury. He calls a parade of witnesses – villains from the original Jonny Quest series – all of whom say Bannon is the better father. The group gathers at Harvey's hangout, a bar called the Birdcage, that night, and Dr. Quest further reveals his cluelessness by saying that the day went well.

The next day, Harvey questions Dr. Quest about the boys. Instead he goes on about his experiments. Vulturo asks what he does in this spare time with the boys. Dr. Quest doesn't even know if they play baseball. It was actually Race who taught them how to play. Mr. Bannon is on the stand and he says he has known the kids for four years. Dr. Quest tells Birdman that Race seems different somehow. Harvey sees a strange wire and follows it around the courtroom while Race makes his statements. Harvey pulls the plug from the wall and it turns out Race was replaced with a robot Bannon by Dr. Zin.

Race has actually been on vacation all this time. Dr. Quest is curious how Dr. Zin managed to make such a good body duplicate and you also see Race playing beach volleyball with a few men in the background.

Political issue: Custodial rights of homosexual couples

Very Personal Injury

Template:Birdman Civil Case Apache Chief, the Native American former Superfriend who has the power to grow to large sizes, saves the city from a large meteor. Afterwards, he heads into Javalux for a cup of coffee. As he searches for some cash, he accidentally spills the hot coffee on his lap.

He goes to see Harvey, shrinking in fear when Harvey offers him a hot drink. Apache Chief explains to Harvey what happened, and how he has now lost his ability to enlarge. They go to court to sue the Javalux company, the other attorney being the paranoid Reducto.

Harvey brings to the witness stand some more obscure super heroes. First he speaks with Black Vulcan, whose power is pure electricity... in his pants, and talks to him about how devastating a lack of powers can be. Harvey continues with Zan, the Wonder Twin, who explains why other heroes couldn't come to the aid of the city. Finally, he calls Apache Chief, and shows slides of the once proud chief's powers.

At the Birdcage, Reducto suggest settling, but Birdman says it's not about the money, and how Apache Chief just wants to be recognized. He says if Apache Chief felt appreciated, it would likely all go away. This causes Reducto to adopt his 'scheming face' and begin scheming.

They go back to court, and Reducto calls the manager of the Javalux shop, a young attractive brunette. He asks her about the safety of their products, and she claims they're very hot, and that what has happened to Apache Chief is wrong. She speaks about how much Apache Chief benefits society, while becoming increasingly Indian looking in dress every time the camera comes back to her. Suddenly, Apache Chief grows to fill the courtroom.

In the end, Apache Chief and a group of other minor heroes (as well as Jesse Jackson) have decided to form the "Multi-Culture Pals". Apache Chief has also gained the love of the Javalux manager, who kisses him, causing him to grow a foot, blushing. Everyone laughs.

Political issue: Product liability lawsuits (Liebeck v. McDonald's Corp.), Racism, and Affirmative action. Also, the entire issue around Apache Chief's "enlarging ability" is an obvious reference to the male erection.

Shaggy Busted

Template:Birdman Criminal Case The Mystery Machine, playing music reminiscent of the early Doobie Brothers, is pulled over for erratic driving. The driver, Shaggy Rogers, claims he was going to the abandoned cotton mill to meet the rest of the gang. The officer thinks it quite obvious he and Scooby are under the influence, but when he asks them to step out, they speed off.

Back at Sebben & Sebben, Harvey is having trouble keeping track of his files, and starts interviewing for a clerk. He is impressed by a young man named Peanut who dresses much like himself. He thinks Peanut's story about leaving the previous job after a supervisor is killed is just a joke, and decides to hire him.

Fred Jones comes in to hire Harvey, who mistakes him for a gang member, his ascot being his colors. Fred brings Harvey to the jail to see Scooby and Shaggy, but they still act as though they're high. The rest of the gang tries to assure him that they're not high, just stupid.

The case goes to court, and Spyro acts out the traffic stop theater style as Peanut hits on Daphne. The arresting officer claims to have found drug paraphernalia, but Harvey manages to show this as circumstantial. Velma goes on the stand, and tells Harvey that they're just always hungry and they laugh when nervous. Spyro shows clips to make the gang looks high — scenes from the original show taken out of context.

On the second day of the trial, Fred and Velma burst into the court with the monster in custody. They unmask him to be Old Man Bakov, and he tells of his nefarious plans. The farm was going under, so he had to change crops... to soy beans.

Political issue: Drug possession and Profiling

Death By Chocolate

Template:Birdman Criminal Case It's morning in Jellystone Park, a serene example of nature in all its splendor. In the woods, three federal agents, one with a canister of nerve gas, demand that Yogi Bear and Boo Boo surrender within 10 seconds. After only two seconds, the nerve gas is accidentaly fired into the cave. Inside, Yogi sees the canister and picks it up, just as it explodes in his and his friend Boo Boo's faces.

At the office, Harvey's reading through a book while Peanut has one of his conversations that no one seems to understand. His boss gets on the intercom, calling him into his office, and Harvey rushes off. Harvey's boss, Phil Ken Sebben, a blonde man with a moustache and eyepatch, welcomes Harvey to sit down, although his vision problems causes him to point about six feet to the left of the chair. Finally, everything gets squared away, and Phil gives Harvey the case, the biggest in Sebben & Sebben history: The Unabooboo. The heads of corporate America have been receiving boobytrapped gift baskets and cookie bouquets, and Boo Boo has been accused of doing it. Harvey's job is to defend him. Harvey runs back to the office, and begins operations, giving everyone a job... but they all just stare at him blankly. He quickly turns and begins hyperventilating.

Some research finally is done (and some dancing as well), and the case begins, Reducto prosecuting for the government. After opening statements, Reducto submits Boo Boo's confession, but Harvey shows a video of Boo Boo getting beat until he signed it. Reducto then gives his expert witness a copy of the Cookie Bouqueter's Manifesto, and the witness tells everyone that it was typed on an electric typewriter with a misaligned "t". Harvey cross-examines, and explains that a typewriter, along with other electric devices, was not found in Boo Boo's cave, because there is no electricity. After this, Harvey calls Yogi to the stand, who, after mentioning that Boo Boo was an average little bear until Snuckers Jam bought Jellystone Park, reveals that neither he nor Boo Boo can read.

At the bar, Reducto and Harvey talk, and Reducto tells Harvey how there's no government, just a group of corporations that rule everything, and that Boo Boo is threatening the new order. Harvey dismisses his claim with a laugh, and continues to sip his drink he bought from the Birdcage, an AOL/Time Warner Company. Back in court, Boo Boo is put on the stand, and says he's not a revolutionary, although corporations are destroying the world, and must be torn down. Despite this, Harvey's points earlier in the case win it for Boo Boo, and as the verdict is read, he and Harvey share a tender moment.

Sometime later, Harvey is living with Boo Boo is his cave. All is idyllic until Harvey spies an electric generator with a typewriter plugged in. He types something in, and the "t" is... normal. However, after a little tampering, the "t" becomes misaligned, and Harvey fearfully runs off to his own apartment. Boo Boo breaks in, offering him a cookie bouquet, but Harvey kills him with his sun-ray. Phil runs in, comforting him. Yogi also runs in, mourning the loss of Boo Boo, then everyone, including the thought-to-be-deceased Boo Boo, share a laugh.

The scenes with Harvey and Boo-Boo living together are a reference to the film version of Deathtrap.

Political issue: The Unabomber, Neo-luddism, and Globalization. Also, the cave-siege is a reference to the Waco Siege.

Shoyu Weenie

Template:Birdman Civil Case Shoyu Weenie, a Japanese pop band, finally reaches the top of the Japanese charts with their song "Mochi Mochi". They're tired, and want to rest, but their manager will not rest until they're number one in America. Just then, the current number one song in America plays on the TV: "Lovey Lovey" by the Neptunes, an exact duplicate of their song (reminiscent of the "He's So Fine"/"My Sweet Lord" controversy involving George Harrison).

After Phil attempts a trust fall unsuccessfuly, Shoyu Weenie comes into Harvey's office. Unfortunately, Harvey can't understand the language, but Peanut comes along to translate. After managing to get a date with the attractive female member if they win, Peanut tells Harvey to take the case, which he does, having no idea what just happened. Meanwhile, Reducto, who's the opposing attorney, meets with Gale Melody, a famed Musicologist, and falls in love with her, specifically her small feet.

The case begins, and the bailiff introduces the judge, Mentok the Mindtaker, who appears dramatically in a puff of purple smoke. He has Reducto call his first witness, who is the attractive female member of Shoyu Weenie. Her soft Japanese testimony completely captivates every male in attendance, although most can't understand a word of it. Harvey, in turn, calls the Neptunes, and they admit that they don't know where their songs come from.

At the Birdcage, Reducto is sprucing up for a meeting with Gale. Birdman teases him, which causes a small battle. The next day, everyone is ready to start again, although Reducto is a bit incensed since he ended up being stood up. Mentok returns to his seat after explaining Mind Taking to the bailiff, then demonstrates by revealing that Gale, Reducto's next witness, has the middle name "Ann". He then asks her out, but Reducto and Harvey both object, and she gets on with explaining that the songs are very different when broken down. Harvey cross-examines her, but after she applies some lipstick seductively, Harvey is in no condition to stand up in front of a group of people.

Peanut makes a request, and shows the opening to the videos of both songs, and Mentok declares that it's the same song. The gang all gets together back at Harvey's office to celebrate, when, on the TV, the number one song in Germany is played, a song named "Tschus Tschus", with the same melody as "Mochi Mochi".

Political issue: Copyright infringement, Japanese misuse of English in things like band names.

The Dabba Don

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In an episode chock-full of Mafia movie references, Fred Flintstone is a Mafia Don, and the clueless Harvey defends him. Judge Mightor, formerly on the Mafia payroll, suffers two attempts on his life and disappears. Judge Mentok finishes the case. This episode is loosely a spoof of The Sopranos.

Harvey, using clips from the original Flintstones show, successfully argues that Fred is delusional, having been hit on the head with a bowling ball so many times that he frequently adopts other personas. It turns out that he is right, as Barney Rubble is the real mob boss.

The episode name is a joke on Fred's famous catchphrase "Yabba Dabba Doo" and the nickname of mob boss John Gotti, the "Dapper Don".

Political issues: Organized crime, Wire-tapping, and Dissociative identity disorder

Deadomutt Part 1

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Crushing Harvey's hopes for promotion, Phil Ken Sebben hires outside attorney Azul Falcone (see Blue Falcon) as the firm's new partner. Azul, along with his assistant Dynomutt, proves very popular at the firm, and Harvey's prestige correspondingly plummets. His office is converted to a stable and he has to move to the men's room.

He learns that Azul is an incompetent lawyer, and that Dynomutt does all his work. No one listens to him, however. Disgusted, he gets his resume and heads to the office copier, intending to work at a new firm. Phil looks for Harvey, only to find him covered in ink and crying beside the opened copy machine, Dynomutt's remains strewn about its inner workings. He is taken into custody.

Deadomutt Part 2

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Harvey is on trial for murdering Azul Falcone's assistant, Dynomutt. Despite the obvious conflict of interest, Falcone represents him, because no one else will take the case. He only calls one witness – The Pope – who screams that whoever killed Dynomutt "SHOULD PAY DEARLY FOR HIS CRIMES PAY PAY!!! HE MUST PAY!!!!!"

Despite Falcone's bad representation, the jury finds Birdman innocent. Mentok overrides the jury and convicts Birdman, sentencing him to death.

Harvey is in jail for three and a half years, forgetting he can fly, forgetting and re-learning how to read, keeping a pet moth, and marrying Magilla Gorilla. At the end of that time, just before his execution, the gang surprises him with a birthday party. Dynomutt is still alive; the whole thing was a practical joke dreamed up by Falcone, and the only lasting consequence is that Harvey's still married to Magilla.

Political issue: Capital punishment

X, the Exterminator

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As a young man, X (nicknamed the Eliminator) was commissioned by the evil organization F.E.A.R. to obtain the Crest on Birdman's helmet. After 26 years, he's acquired a paunch and an obsession for Birdman, but no Crest. A commercial featuring Harvey inspires him to renew his quest.

Meanwhile, Harvey is defending Phil who's hit someone on his way to work "every day this week". He's distracted by X's attacks and the fact that every time he tries to go to the bathroom something happens to prevent him from finishing.

In the end, with Avenger's help, Harvey defeats X, wins his case, and finishes his business in the bathroom.

The title of the episode refers to a scene where X is mistaken for pest control.

Also, at 10 minutes and 45 seconds into the episode a man resembling Dr. Doom appears in the background.

Political issue: Stalking

SPF

Template:Birdman Civil Case A mole is found on Harvey's lip, and Peanut suggests he has it looked at. He goes to a doctor, who suggests he wear sunblock and keep in the shade. This is a problem since Harvey gets his power from the sun. He manages to get by without the sun by using "Tanning Crème" (a foreign branding joke) he gets from Peanut. Harvey quickly becomes addicted to the stuff.

Harvey goes to trial, representing Ding-a-ling, Hokey Wolf's lupine sidekick. Ding-a-ling wanted to make a web site for all his fans, but Harry Twiddles had already set up a porn site at the URL www.dingaling.biz. Harvey brings before the court a number of others whose names had been hijacked for porn sites, including: Hi-riser, Big Duke & Bigger Duke, Schnooker, Quickie, Fluid Man, Dirty Dog, Mother Load, and Galtar... and his Golden Lance

An intervention is staged for him by all the others. Harvey goes into counseling, and is soon back to normal. Afterwards, the mole is found by Peanut to just be gravy. The show ends with a PSA by the cast of the show on skin cancer and coconuts stuck in hippo mouths.

Trivia: This was the first episode animated using Macromedia Flash.

Political issue: Skin cancer, Cybersquatting, and Addiction

The Devlin Made Me Do It

Template:Birdman Civil Case A kid tries to imitate Ernie Devlin's deep ravine jump, and seriously injures himself. The family sues Devlin, and Harvey is called to defend him. Things don't look good after Birdman almost kills the kid trying to prove he can move. Freezoid's case doesn't help much either.

After a discussion with Devlin, Harvey reveals that Devlin has pumped himself so full of pain killers from all his injuries that he had little to no common sense. He gives a plea of insanity, but Der Spuzmacher, a Tapir assassin that Devlin warned about earlier and Harvey disregarded as insane rambling, comes in and reveals that insanity pleas can only be used in a criminal case. Birdman loses, but Devlin and Bobby come to an agreement. Bobby can ride Devlin's bike whenever he wants... and his woman.

The title of the episode is a reference to Flip Wilson's catch phrase "The Devil made me do it!"

Political issue: Liability

Trio's Company

Template:Birdman Civil Case Inch High P.I. is fired because all of his photos are poor quality due to their perspective being from an inch off the ground. He goes to Harvey for representation, but something's come up, and he's ignored for much of the episode.

Harvey has joined a new spa, and a voluptuous red-head named Gigi works there, making out with every other guy in the place. He asks her out, and she suddenly moves into his apartment, along with her friends Vince and Terry. Harvey's relationship with Gigi continues, but they never as much as kiss, while she's found in compromising positions with every other male in the office.

Inch High's case finally makes it to court. There, Mentok uses Reducto's shrink-ray to bring Inch High up to normal height. After having a carnie tell him (several times) that he's tall enough for a ride, Inch High proceeds to show a tape of Gigi writing in her diary that she loves Harvey. The two embrace, and Mentok declares that he has no idea what just happens, and randomly gives the verdict of not guilty. The episode ends with a wedding between Gigi, Harvey, Phil, Vince, Terry, Peanut, and the Bear.

Political issue: Wrongful termination, Height discrimination, and Polygamy

High Speed Buggy Chase

Template:Birdman Criminal Case A television changes from one channel to another, all of them showing a breaking news story. It's a high speed chase, involving Speed Buggy, a living car. The chase ends as Speed Buggy attempts to climb the median "on foot."

Back at the office, Avenger resigns. He goes off to find another job and joins up with Vulturo, whose avian colleague was recently stuffed. Meanwhile, Harvey goes through a series of assistants, including a European goldfinch, an emperor penguin and an emu. Finally, he settles on a parrot.

The Speed Buggy case comes up, and it's Birdman vs. Vulturo. The parrot, however, ends up working for Vulturo. Avenger returns to Birdman's side, opening a door and revealing that Mark and Debbie, Speed Buggy's friends who have been making out through most of the episode, have been sitting on Speed Buggy's remote control. Debbie's automotive double entendres have been causing Speed Buggy's erratic behavior. He is found not guilty.

Political issue: Mens Rea

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law | Volume 2

These episodes appear on the Volume 2 DVDs.

Back to the Present

Template:Birdman Civil Case In the far off year of 2002, the Jetsons live in their luxurious, futuristic house high above the Earth's surface. Their lives are suddenly turned upside down when the water level begins rising at an alarming rate. Global warming caused the ice caps to melt, and the Earth to become nothing but water. Suddenly, mutants begin breaking into the house, which is unable to get high enough to be out of the water's reach.

Fortunately, they manage to make it to the distant past (2004), specifically to Harvey's office. Much to their dismay, they realize they have to walk to Harvey's desk from the entrance as there are no moving conveyer belts on the floor. The long journey takes them all night and they lose Astro to exhaustion and Judy to a pack of dogs.

They tell Harvey that they want to sue everyone for screwing up the earth for them. The case goes to court, but George has a problem with the jury. X sets up the Jury Vac, a robotic jury that has the Apple startup sound when plugged in, and the trial is underway. Mentok clashes with boy genius Elroy, who has a device from the future that tells him past events before Mentok does them. Freezoid uses his powers of cold on the warm August day to show how global warming is preposterous. In the end, Jury Vac gives the verdict... on the O.J. Simpson trial.

Somehow, the Jetsons lose the case, and return to their own time using the Delorean from the Back to the Future movies, as rising water levels surround Harvey and the gang. Everyone has a hearty laugh.

Political issue: Human-attributed Global Warming

Blackwatch Plaid

Template:Birdman Criminal Case Secret Squirrel is on the job, and needs to get a special spy gadget out. He keeps it where he keeps everything he needs, inside his trenchcoat. As he whips the coat open, the woman he was trying to help screams and collapses. Secret looks at her oddly, saying "Wait, I didn't even pull it out yet!"

Back at the office, Phil enters his office to find it has been burgled, plundered, and purloined – "Ha-ha... loins." He's missing a number of things only he can see, such as a baby grand piano and a fourteen foot golden Buddha. When they are not returned even after he covers his eyepatch, he sets up a color coded threat system and installs security cameras.

Birdman tries to talk to the paranoid Phil, but he accuses him of supporting the thief, and of not working hard. He tells Harvey he must get a big case by the end of the day, and Harvey tries, with limited success. Phil calls everyone in and bumps up the terror level to... BLACKWATCH PLAID!!!

Harvey speaks with Secret, who explains his case to him. Phil finds a video of Bear moving about at high speeds and calls everyone in, believing he knows who the culprit is, and shows everyone a sketch of Bear crossed with Osama bin Laden. He raises the threat level to the maximum: the cover of Rush's album Moving Pictures.

In court, Harvey explains to everyone how Secret hides his spy equipment in his trenchcoat, although he has to endure Mentok saying "I'll say" to anything that could be considered a double entendre. Phil, however, has surveillance video that proves Secret actually was flashing the woman, and is guilty.

At the end, the gang tries to figure out how to get their privacy back. Peanut's video of Phil playing Little Bo Peep with a woman apparently fixes things.

The episode title is a reference to the tartan of the Black Watch regiment.

Political issues: Indecent exposure, Surveillance, Homeland Security, and its Terror Alert System

Grape Juiced

Template:Birdman Criminal Case Grape Ape comes out to compete in the Laff-a-Lympics. He goes through his ribbon dancing routine flawlessly, but when he takes a bow, all manner of pills, including steroids, fall from his uniform.

Harvey walks into his office to find a giant urine sample waiting for him. Phil comes in with the Laff-a-Lympics committee, who begin to steal things from Harvey's office, something they continue to do through the whole episode. Phil hopes to get the Laff-a-Lympics to come to their city. He has a big night planned with all of them and Gigi, his (and Harvey's... and everyone else's) shared wife. Gigi comes in, and she's pregnant. She claims Harvey is the father, though he doesn't recall their ever engaging in sexual congress and they've only recently met.

Harvey and Reducto have a nice chat about the whole situation, as well as the Grape Ape case that they're both working on. Reducto sees the giant primate, and shrinks him down to fun-size. Grape Ape then grabs a weight and pumps it until he grows back to his normal size, which sends Reducto off screaming about how he's met the unshrinkable.

The courtroom has been splattered with ads. Gigi interrupts the case to leech off Harvey, but upon his return he speaks with a few unnaturally muscular witnesses who all claim Grape Ape had nothing to do with steroids. Reducto's witness describes the side-effects of steroids use, including withered testicles, which Reducto seizes upon since Grape Ape should show reproductive organs the size of a nearby vendor's pushcart. An expert is about to reveal the test results when he is hit by a dart in the neck by Harvey's new paralegal, son of a shaman/member of the Laff-a-Lympics committee.

Eleven of the jury members vote "guilty", but the French member votes "not guilty". Mentok disregards this and convicts Grape Ape anyway. The doctor wakes up from the dart, and reveals that Grape Ape is the father of Gigi's baby. Also, the Laff-a-Lympics go to Dallas. Grape Ape and the others have to perform a court-ordered song about drugs as a sentence.

Political issues: Steroid abuse, War on Drugs, Paternity, Commercialization of sports, and Nationalism and sports

Peanut Puberty

Template:Birdman Criminal Case During a board meeting of Sebben & Sebben, Peanut's light shield starts growing uncontrollably, much to his embarrassment. He is going through "superty", the period in which a young superhero acquires his superpowers, and resents Harvey's efforts to help him.

Meanwhile, Auggie Doggie comes to Harvey for help. They've put his father in a cage, claiming he bit someone. The case goes to trial, and Mentok claims Doggie Daddy is baring his teeth, and sentences him to undergo aggressiveness training. Phil trains him, treating him like a normal dog and completely humiliating and torturing him.

Harvey seeks advice from Apache Chief, Batman, and Reducto, but they don't help much. What finally does the trick is Peanut's conversation with Black Vulcan about his first time (fighting a villain).In the background you can see Race Bannon and Dr Quest playing baseball and football. Meanwhile, Harvey is speaking with villains about helping Peanut with his first time, and finally gets one to comply: X. In return all he wants is the Crest on Birdman's helmet. Birdman agrees to the deal to help Peanut.

Phil brings Doggie Daddy into the office, having completely broken him. Now, he is nothing but a mindless dog. X comes to collect the Crest, and just as Harvey is about to give it to him, Peanut comes in with Metallo, his new villain friend. X asks if he can still have the Crest... and Harvey proceeds to blast the bejeezus out of him. Everyone has a hearty laugh.

Political issues: Sex education, and Neutering of animals

Gone Efficien...t

Template:Birdman Civil Case To generate more money Phil hires an efficiency expert named Dvd (fomerly David; he took out the vowels to save time, which Phil regards as brllnt). A new regime of efficiency is sweeping Sebben & Sebben, and one of its major parts is to keep only the top three earners. Harvey has to keep up with the new policy to keep his job, and watches as Phil dismantles his office.

Dvd fires Harvey's secretary Debbie, replacing her with a PDA. Harvey can't figure it out, but X, who's waiting outside to kill him, manages to work it fine. He's sent off to search for Yakky Doodle. Meanwhile, the efficiency changes are getting worse. Visitors to the men's room can only use one sheet of toilet paper, and Harvey's office has been sublet to a Greek restaurant, which Harvey must work at along with his legal duties.

X finally finds Yakky, who wants to change both his names. Reducto opposes the idea, though not even he knows why. The case goes to court, and the guy before Harvey takes an unbelievably long time. He has to wait to the next day to start the case. Peanut tells Harvey he needs to work at the restaurant, and that he should have plenty of time while he copies the form he forgot to bring with him.

At the restaurant, Harvey "accidentally" gives Dvd Ouzo instead of water, and Dvd gets completely bombed, shouting amongst a crowd of people "Who's got efficient nipples?!" In the meantime, and for no apparent reason, the court orders Yakky to undergo chemical castration, which he takes as his new name.

Political issues: Employment issues similar to WorkChoices in Australia

Droopy Botox

Template:Birdman Civil Case Droopy Dog is suing his plastic surgeon for malpractice after he received an overdose of botox that has left his face essentially frozen. Though the case seems open and shut, Harvey produces an indemnity waiver signed by Droopy and wins the case. The surgeon is overjoyed and gives Harvey a surgery coupon catalogue. Phil and everyone else around the office give Harvey their highest praises but the gratitude is lost on him and he still feels guilty at Droopy's unfair loss and remaining predicament, especially after he sees the dog crying and the image sticks with him.

Harvey is promoted to vice president of Sebben & Sebben and is given numerous executive privileges; his coupons are doled out by Phil, who's recent LASIK has left him with a second eyepatch, blinding him. X is mistaken for the interior decorator Phil hired to spruce up Harvey's office and redoes it as a huge deathtrap. Harvey tries to solve his guilt by sending Droopy a fruit basket, which he cannot eat as his jaw is frozen. X breaks into Harvey's apartment and created another danger area. Harvey receives his huge pay and sends it to Droopy, who can actually use it this time.

X sends Harvey an invoice for all his redecoration, demanding either one million dollars or his crest. He tries to pay with his new raise but then he remembers he's sent it all to Droopy. He decides against his crest and sends X the remaining coupons, which he takes as a message that Harvey thinks he's ugly. Desperate for approval, he sets out to use the coupons. The surgeon has another malpractice case for Harvey, but Harvey strongly declines him and decides to resign to keep his self-respect. Harvey heads to Phil's office to announce his decision and finds a huge surprise party Phil has thrown to celebrate all of their operations. X runs in seeking Harvey's opinion on his new surgery, which X doesn't know hasn't changed his face at all. Even Droopy is happy now that he has so much money. Harvey is repulsed by his co-workers' ideals of false beauty but no one cares.

Political issue: Cosmetic surgery, indemnity

Guitar Control

Template:Birdman Criminal Case The episode begins with Quick Draw McGraw attepting to bring in the Dalton Gang (who were want for card cheating, cattle rustling, and running a crystal meth lab). After a short shoot out, Quick Draw pulls out his trade mark guitar, only to be arrested for carrying a consealed weapon. Mean while, Phil Ken Sebben announces that he is running for president and shows Harvey a check signed for $12,000,000,000 (signed by Yngwie Malmsteen) and The Guitar Lobby's support. Harvey is requested by Baba Looey to defend Quick Draw, which he accepts. In the middle of the first session of the trial, Mentok the Mindtaker remembers that he is to attend his nephew's birthday party and takes Harvey and Quick Draw with him. Afterwards, the trial proceeds with Hiram Mightor as judge (whom Myron Reducto suggest is being bribed by The Guitar Lobby). After a trial filled with the general topics involved with weapon rights, Hiram Mightor spits out a miniature version of Yngwie Malmsteen (who is seen later sitting with The Guitar Lobby). Mean while, Peanut and Baba Looey are seen browsing through Quick Draw's guitar collection and Peanut hits and kills Baba Looey with one. At the end Quick Draw is announced not guily, Their is a celebration for Harvey winning the case and Phil losing the election, at which peanut fires off Quick Draw's pistol at random and watches as it ricochets around the office.

Political issues: Lobbying and Gun politics, particularly with regard to Concealed carry

Booty Noir

Template:Birdman Criminal Case In a satire of erotic anthologies like Red Shoe Diaries, Phil reads a letter from Reducto detailing his affair with Norlissa, the curvaceous ex-girlfriend of Black Vulcan. She is possessed of enormous buttocks, and when Reducto finds himself unable to shrink it, he falls into a state of existential angst. Meanwhile, Birdman is made a bounty hunter so he can apprehend and represent Wally Gator, a volatile redneck.

Reducto progressively enlarges Norlissa's butt as they draw closer together. It is revealed that Reducto is a virgin, though he is broken of it by Norlissa during an awkward love scene. They are eventually confronted by Black Vulcan the morning after and engage in a threesome relationship. The Wally Gator case draws to a close with Wally being found guilty of poaching manatees, and he is sentenced to mud-wrestle Harvey, an Abraham Lincoln impersonator and two bikini models.

Political issue: Poaching and Miscegenation, more commonly known as interracial relations, threesomes

Harvey's Civvy

In the opening, Murro the Maurader is fighting Birdman and Avenger. They defeat him, and fly away, not realizing that he has been paralyzed from the waist down.

Decades later, Murro sues Birdman. Birdman needs a good lawyer, but somehow ends up with Potamus, who is more interested in making out with the female staff than working on Birdman's case.

In court, Murro's lawyer Shado uses his "brain-thievery" to influence the jury. His villainous witnesses testify that Birdman had no reason to attack them; Shado also uses his brain-thievery to prevent Potamus from cross-examining them.

Shado contends that his brain-thievery is fundamentally different from Mentok's "mind-taking", however the two get into frequent one-up-manship contests over their skills. Finally Mentok, tiring of the upstart Shado, delves into his mind and takes away an important fact: Shado failed to respond to a discovery motion filed by Potamus.

Mentok hypnotises Potamus to ask Shado "did you get that thing I sent you?". When Shado answers that he did, and failed to respond, Mentok declares a mistrial.

Political issue: Ineffective assistance of counsel

X Gets the Crest

Template:Birdman Civil Case TO BE DONE.

X wins Birdman's Crest in a game of what appears to be poker, although Peanut claims it's gin rummy. He cannot collect his million dollar commission, however, as F.E.A.R. moved its headquarters and left no forwarding address.

Meanwhile, Birdman falls deeper and deeper into defeatism. He takes on Ricochet Rabbit's case against the town of Hoop'n'Holler after Ricochet destroyed half the town on one of his hyperactive outbursts. The town wants Ricochet's badge and Harvey agrees to help. The case goes badly, with Harvey's self-esteem at a low ebb and Ricochet Rabbit destroying half the courtroom, with Reducto accounting for most of the other half trying to shrink him. Mentok rules that Ricochet Rabbit has ADD, ADHD and OPP (which stands for "Other People's Problems", and is not a disease), and court-orders Ricochet to be medicated with rabbit Ritalin.

The Crest takes over X's mind, causing him to become a hero. In the end, Harvey tricks X into returning his Crest by trading him a shinier (but useless) one.

Birdgirl of Guantanamole

Template:Birdman Criminal Case TO BE DONE.

The episode title is a reference to the Birdman of Alcatraz and the detention of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.

Political issue: Camp Delta

Beyond the Valley of the Dinosaurs

TO BE DONE.

Harvey is invited by Potamus to relax in his new hot tub. Harvey enters the tub wearing the pink shower terry that Potamus has told him to wear. Potamus instructs Harvey to "hit the jets" on the tub. When Harvey does so he is enveloped in a blue light and sucked into the swirling waters of the tub. Potamus follows Harvey, trying to retrieve his hoagie.

Harvey rematerialises in a muddy pond in what appears to be the Stone Age. The first primitive he attempts to contact is immediately eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Harvey attempts to call Peanut but is unable to get a clear enough signal on his mobile phone. He is then captured by a group of primitives and taken back to their cave.

After Harvey is taken away, Potamus also materialises in the pond and grabs his sandwich.

Political Issue: Divorce and Women's Rights.

Evolutionary War

TO BE DONE.

The episode title is a play on "Evolution" and the "Revolutionary War".

Political issue: Creation-evolution controversy

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law | Volume 3

These episodes will be released on the Volume 3 boxset which will come out mid-late 2007.

Turner Classic Birdman

Template:Birdman No Case A frame episode for the short "Busy Day for Birdman". Although made in 2005, the short purports to be from 1967, and features many of the modern show's characters in their original incarnations, albeit with modern ironic overtones. Under orders from Falcon Seven, Birdman spends the day foiling the plots of numerous supervillains, including Reducto, Vulturo, Mentok, and X the Eliminator. At the end of the day, exhausted, Birdman resolves to quit being a superhero and take up a normal job (which involves Phil Ken Sebben constantly ordering him around).

The short was introduced by Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, who was obviously in on the joke.

Free Magilla

Magilla Gorilla gets freed from Mr. Peebles' pet shop by the People's Animals Freedom Front. Mr. Peebles comes to Harvey Birdman to get Magilla back. Also, Phil Ken Sebben takes Peter Potamus (and his three nephews Stuey, Fuey and Spuey; see Huey, Dewey and Louie) along for an employee -retreat, where Peter Potamus spends most of his time choking on a plastic beercan-holder and Phil Ken randomly blows stuff up and doesn't pay attention to Peter Potamus at all. Eventually the People's Animals Freedom Front get sick of Magilla Gorilla's very cheap punchlines and get rid of him.

Political issues: PETA and Animal rights

Return of Birdgirl

TO BE DONE.

Mentok informs Birdman and Reducto that he doesn't have the authority to try the case; they must argue it before the Justices League – a group of seven black-robed super-judges, a humorous reference to both the Supreme Court of the United States and the Justice League.

Political issues: Sexual harassment and Same-sex marriage

Mindless

Template:Birdman Criminal Case Peanut spots an abrasion on Harvey's neck from a cat scratch from Benny who enters and reports Top Cat's arrest for being a Cat. Harvey gets Top Cat released but he is soon back in jail for illegal gambling in Harvey's house which Harvey is implicated in. Meanwhile Mentok has a personal crisis in court and swaps a dogs mind for Spyro's; he loses track of Spyro's mind and is forced to look after Spyro until he finds his mind. Mentok rules that Harvey and the cats should serve time in remand but is forced to rule on the case when he needs Harvey to baby sit Spyro. Mentok rules that Harvey and the cats have served their time in jail, but that they should be put on probation.

Political issue: Complicity and Status crimes

Identity Theft

Template:Birdman Criminal Case Chemical Castration (see Yakky Doodle; see Gone Efficien...t above) wants his old name back, which requires photocopying paper work. So Harvey Birdman goes to Duplication Services but he unwittingly insults the employee by getting his name wrong (mispronouncing "Elliott" as "Eliot"). Despite the fact the name was spelled wrongly on his name tag, Elliott swears revenge and starts creating "copies" of Harvey. These copies are not photocopies but rather whole humans, apparently clones, that share Harvey's personality and knowledge. Unfortunately they get along, so he starts copying Phil Ken Sebben, who starts hunting Birdmans to thin the herds. Elliott then loses all control and make copies of everyone. Elliott only stops when he runs out of toner; the copies are subsequently shredded.

The whole episode itself is a satire of how many classic Hanna-Barbara cartoons are rip-offs of one another (ex. Scooby-Doo, Jabber Jaw, and Speed Buggy are all mystery-solving cartoons involving objects/animals as focal characters who can talk) and how animation styles done by different people looked very different (ex. different looking Ranger Smiths on Yogi Bear).

Political issue: Plagiarism and Copyright infringement of Intellectual property

Sebben and Sebben Employee Orientation

Template:Birdman No Case The episode is presented as an orientation film for new Sebben & Sebben employees.

Much of the time is spent on Phil's youth, where he is pictured as constantly engaging in activities hazardous to his left eye (though he doesn't actually lose it until he becomes an office worker).

Various characters in the series perform their typical activities: Peter Potamus demonstrates the firm's incredibly complicated system for "sending things"; Peanut demonstrates unethical behavior; Elliott the Deadly Duplicator provides employees with two of everything, except for staplers (an oversight).

Birdman himself appears only as a supporting player in a few scenes.

The episode seems to be a spoof of the Orientation given to new employees of Ted Turner, as suggested in the voice commentary for Blackwatch Plaid.

Mufti Trouble

Avenger inexplicably starts talking. Peanut discovers a vase that, when rubbed, releases Shazzan, now in servitude to Peanut. Shazzan accuses Mentok of having imprisoned him in the vase centuries ago for gazing on the king's intended. Mentok was a genie called Mufti the Mizwa of Muzzy Tah in those days, one of several identities he has had over the years. Shazzan insists on Peanut representing him, and Mentok, after he is captured, manipulates Harvey into representing him. Mentok insists that Shazzan is attempting to frame him, and escapes from court to retrieve the halves of a magic disk that, when put back together and the magic word thus revealed is spoken, imprisons Shazzan in the vase again.

Political issue: Due process of law