Monty Python
Was surprised no one else had mentioned this!
26 minutes in when the lady brings her non-singing canary back to the pet shop, it seems to me to be the basis for the dead parrot routine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218
I immediatly thought of Monty Python when watching that scene with the woman trying to return the bird. :)
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