Birdnapped

Birdnapped
Premiere date	October 22, 2006
Writer(s)	Michael Ouweleen and Erik Richter
Director(s)	Richard Ferguson-Hull
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"Birdnapped" is the fourth episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law season four, and the thirty-sixth overall. It aired on October 22, 2006 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block. It was written by Michael Ouweleen and Erik Richter, and directed by Richard Ferguson-Hull.

Harvey is left in charge of Sebben & Sebben following Phil's wishes, although he left Harvey with no easy tasks, and doesn't even have time to make it to X's dinner, so X's kidnaps Birdgirl in retaliation.

Characters

In order of appearance:

Mentioned and non-speaking characters are in italics

• Harvey Birdman (Gary Cole)
• Phil Ken Sebben
• Peter Potamus (Chris Edgerly)
• Birdgirl (Paget Brewster)
• Peanut (Thomas Allen)
• Avenger
• The Bear
• Debbie (Grey DeLisle)
• Blue Falcone (Maurice LaMarche)
• O.J. Simpson
• President George W. Bush
• Mary (Grey DeLisle)
• Mary's mother
• X, the Eliminator (Peter MacNicol)
• Zardo (John Michael Higgins)
• Bill Sebben (Keith Ferguson)
• Stephen Colbert
• Cafeteria lady
• Gigi
• Janitor
• Scrappy-Doo
• Inch High (Maurice LaMarche)

Organizations

• Sebben & Sebben
• AOL-Time Warner

Locations

• United States
  • Washington, D.C.
    • Sebben & Sebben offices
  • X's residence
  • Deadly Duplicator's residence
• France
  • Paris
    • Eiffel Tower

Objects

• The City Times
• Jurf
• Easy-Flake
• The Heavy Metal Shopper
• Reader's Digest
• Superhero Sidekick Handbook
• Birdgirl Mem-Erase

Vehicles

• Bus
• Harvey's car

Music

The music is composed by Michael Kohler.

Behind the scenes

• The episode begins with a recap of the previous, "Babysitter".
• This is the fourth episode to get an episode title card.
• In the flashback of the bus that killed Phil, it advertises The Colbert Report.
• In one of the blackmailing photos of Phil, he is dressed as Yogi.
• The shadow of Falcone when the thunder strikes, is in the shape of Dynomutt.
• A plane advertises the brief corporate merger between AOL and Time Warner, which had already ended before this episode was made.
• MacNicol is demoted to guest star.

Home availability

• This is free to watch on the US geo-restricted Adult Swim website.