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Problems

Please keep in mind when going over this that The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican is infamous for its apparently improvised voiceovers, among other issues. See its Wikipedia article for more info. So there may have legitimately been voicing mistakes made in these parts of the video.

"Suit" vs. "save"

Caw, at the rate I'm savin' money, I'll save enough to buy a corn field, Paddy. Yes, I will!

Save makes the most sense for that line. But I'm not hearing that when I listen to the video. Instead I hear something like this:

Caw, at the rate I'm savin' money, I'll suit enough to buy a corn field, Paddy. Yes, I will!

The above guess could make sense, maybe, according to some of Wiktionary's definitions of suit (but I've never heard suit being used in that context).

But then again it could have also been a voicing mistake, where Singer meant to say something like "I'll save soon enough to buy a corn field". So the word could've been soon with a careless omission of a previous word. It's hard for me to guess.

Holy what?!

As for the second one, the exclamation that Paddy uses at the start of this sentence is completely unintelligible to me. The sounds made out sound to me like:

"A(l?)ee duhdle, Kenny. It isn't safe here."

Since this was made in 1950, and was released in Chicago, this could've been some obscure slang term used at the time in that area.

This show actually gained more interest today because of the YouTube reviewer TheMysteriousMrEnter. This transcription on MrEnter's video reviewing the cartoon includes clips used in the actual episode of Paddy the Pelican. The quote we're trying to decipher here appeared in their transcription as "Holy scuttle, Kenny.", but who knows how reliable that is. Not seeing any other uses of that holy scuttle idiom on the Internet, and it has no Wiktionary entry.

Some of my guesses have been "holy diddle", "holy doodle", and "holy Toledo". PseudoSkull (talk) 16:34, 17 April 2020 (UTC)