Cordon Bleugh!

"Cordon Bleugh!"
Information
Episode No.	7
Air date	April 28, 2013 (Toons.TV) May 16, 2017 (YouTube)
Directed by	Chris Sadler Kim Helminen
Written by	Niklas Lindgren Ian Carney
Character appearances
Birds
Pigs
Episode order
Previous episode	Pig Talent
Next episode	True Blue?

Cordon Bleugh! is the seventh episode of Angry Birds Toons.

This episode was aired on April 28, 2013.

Title Etymology

This episode is a pun on a food, "Cordon Bleu" that is nothing related to Matilda's soup. 

Cordon Bleu is also the name for a species of blue bird, which the Red Cheeked Cordon Bleu extremely similar in appearance to The Blues.

Chicken is also a common ingredient in Cordon Bleu, referring to Matilda, who is a chicken.

Toons.TV Description

Will any of the birds pluck up the courage to tell Matilda what they really think of her culinary skills?

Characters

• Matilda
• Red
• Chuck
• Jay, Jake, and Jim
• The Eggs
• Corporal Pig
• Minion Pigs
• Fly

Plot

The episode begins with Matilda stirring her disgusting meal and getting it ready to be served. Near the eggs, two Minion Pigs and Corporal Pig are climbing up the cliff to steal them. Meanwhile, Red, Chuck, Jay, Jake, and Jim are ready to eat their meal. First, Matilda serves Red the stew, who is enthusiastic about his meal and proceeds to have a few mouthfuls of it. He was briefly satisfied but then with a disgusted look, burped out a toxic gas, literally killing an unfortunate fly.

The other birds, shocked by what they saw, become incredibly tense while waiting for their meal. Chuck is served next, and he panics when Matilda pours the stew into his bowl. He smells it and gives a begging look at Matilda. However, she did not understand what Chuck meant, simply smiled and headed back to the cauldron. Chuck swiftly rushed out of the table with the bowl and poured the stew into a nearby tree. This caused the tree to immediately die and turn grey. A Minion Pig manages to come up to the edge and is about to steal the eggs, but the dead tree falls on him and knocks him down the cliff.

Finally, Jay, Jake, and Jim had the bowl of stew for all of them as Matilda poured it in. They all looked disgusted and with each of them passing the bowl to each other in desperation it ended back with Jay. He gets annoyed before coming up with a plan; sling-shotting the bowl away from the area with the slingshot. The bowl hits a pile of rocks, causing a chain reaction before launching a rock off a see-see-saw-looking formation. The rock ends up smashing the next minion pig who managed to get near the eggs before rolling down the cliff with him pancake’d to it. Corporal Pig hurriedly goes up the cliff edge himself.

When Matilda realizes that the Blues had no bowl, she briefly looks suspicious before passing another one over to them. When Matilda notices that none of the birds want her distasting delicacy, it causes her to become extremely upset, as her beak twitched, causing her to get very ferocious, which was only made worse with the sudden storm clouds. She glares at the birds for not wanting to eat what she served. This made the rest of all the birds get so frightened, that they end up running away from the area.

However, she suddenly became sorrowful that no one wanted to eat what she served, and pushes the rest of her stew down the cliff weeping. At this point, Corporal Pig has reached the eggs, but quickly backs away as he saw the cauldron and then hid on the edge hanging onto his plunger. Matilda pours the stew down onto him, causing him to slip, and fall to the bottom, causing his helmet to become black from the stew, When she saw what happened, she was briefly enraged to see the pigs trying to steal the eggs. However, she was soon pleased with the pigs for happily eating her stew, since she knew that there was someone who did like what she made. She proceeded to go back to the birds and push the cauldron off the cliff. They briefly stopped when they became trapped in the cauldron, but continued eating.

In the credits, the pigs could still be heard merrily eating the stew and burping.

Cast

• Heljä Heikkinen and Lynne Guaglione as Jay, Jake, and Jim
• Antti Pääkkönen as Red/Minion Pigs
• Antti LJ Pääkkönen as Chuck/Matilda/Corporal Pig

Gallery

She calls everyone over

The Eggs

*slurp*

He thinks he likes it.

But then…

BUUUUURRRRRPPPPP!!!!!!

A fly gets annihilated by the burp

Red is disgusted

*sniff*

One of her crests is missing in this shot

He feeds it to the tree

The tree dies from the soup

Interesting fact: The Meet The Flock trailer dubbed this shot with a scream from Ross from Bad Piggies

What a small slingshot…

The rocks come falling down like dominoes.

He rolls back down the cliff

Down he goes

They think she is going to be furious

They start to skedaddle

She starts crying

He loves it!!

Trivia

• The ingredients seen popping out of Matilda's soup were ladybugs, an eaten apple, fish bones, a snail, caterpillars, and old bits of cheese.
• This is the first episode to show the birds and pigs together, although Egg Sounds shows an imaginary pig.
• King Pig seems to be eating the same type of stew that Matilda made in Where's My Crown?.
• This episode was co-directed by Chris Sadler making him the first crew member to direct an episode other than Kim Helminen, which also makes it the first episode with two directors.
• It seems like Corporal Pig was waiting for the other pigs to climb the cliff because when the pigs fell he was seen in the same position as before.
• The character design started to change from this episode. At some points in the episode, the characters have more cartoonish looks, but not as much of a drastic change as Dopeys on a Rope and Gardening with Terence.
• At the end of the episode, Corporal Pig's helmet changes color from white to black, mostly due to the food that was poured on him. This color change remains permanent, as seen in Thunder Chuck.
• Many of Matilda's voice clips in this episode were reused for Angry Birds 2, as follows:
  • The satisfied noise she makes when she's finished her stew.
  • When she calls the birds over to have it.
  • The livid growling she makes when no one wants her stew.
  • One of the sobs is she prepares to push the stew to the edge of the cliff.
  • The chuckling when she realizes the pigs love her cooking.
• If one listens closely when Matilda is about to give The Blues another serving of stew, you can make 2 words out of the gibberish: "Want some?".
• The two Minion Pigs fall down the cliff just like how Wile E. Coyote would complete with a similar bird's-eye view and puff of dust when they land.
• When Corporal Pig jumps down toward the plunger, his helmet briefly falls off. Thus revealing him as a standard Minion Pig, only with a helmet on; he has an alternate design that covers his eyes as well, which would be seen later in the series.

Errors

• At 0:51, when Chuck runs away to the tree, Matilda is missing one of her head feathers.
• In the credits, Corporal Pig isn't listed in, but although he was in the episode.
• In the YouTube release of the episode, the title says Gordon Bleugh! when it's Cordon Bleugh!.
• The dead fly is not there when the camera shows Red his thoughts on the soup. It may have just been blown away.

Video

Angry Birds Toons - Cordon Bleugh! - S1 Ep7

Um.... Maybe this isn't dinner for all of us.