filburt's pet myna bird only appeared in bye, bye birdie. while filburt is away in hospital recovering from a bout of hypochondriasis, turdy is left in the care of rocko and heffer. throughout the day, turdy causes a series of problems for his caretakers, including beating up spunky, demolishing the top floor of rocko's house, and repeatedly flying off to cause trouble for a neighbor with a pet monkey. rocko eventually tires of this and handcuffs turdy to his nose, as he sits on the couch to relax. however, the oblivious heffer leaps onto the couch, accidentally landing on top of turdy and crushing him to death. when filburt returns, he accepts the news very well, saying that turdy's particular species only has a three-week life span (only for heffer to blurt out "did you tell him i sat on him?"). after an impromptu funeral for turdy, the annoyed neighbor arrives and gives them a box saying that he "ain't dealing with this anymore". filburt is overjoyed to find that the box contains baby myna bird/monkey hybrids, and he adopts them as new pets. his squawks were provided by carlos alazraqui. the name "turdy" works on two levels – it is both a play on turd (which is a slang term for feces) and a play on "turdus", which is the genus of birds that robins belong to.