katnip also had his share of running battles with buzzy, a singing black crow in a flat straw hat, who spoke in stereotypical "black dialect" and per historian don markstein was "a take-off on the gravely voice of character actor eddie anderson, who played rochester on jack benny's show, with <nowiki>[sid]</nowiki> raymond (baby huey) as katnip, sounding like benny himself." katnip's battle with buzzy was usually based on katnip trying to kick an ailment. he would read a rhyming verse from a medical book that suggested crow meat as the sure cure. once confronted by katnip, however, buzzy would propose another solution in an attempt to save his own skin, to which the cat usually replied, "hmmmm, that sounds logical," but these solutions usually "failed" at the expense of katnip, who would finally lose his patience and say, "this time, i'm doing what the book says!" this would result in a chase between the two characters--with buzzy making occasional puns at katnip's expense along the way--and end with buzzy victorious and katnip nowhere near the road to recovery.