It used to just be O’Barley in the field, but it attracted more crows than she could shoo, so the farmer added O’Hay. They immediately make a good team. Soon, they also discovered they make a good couple. Despite his shyness, O’Hay proposes and she accepts. Of course, even in a field, a wedding requires a lot of preparation, but unfortunately, O’Hay mistakenly accepts help from some of the lowest animals in the local ecosystem.
His long absence starts to alarm O’Barley, especially when the farmer replaces him with Reginald Rake, a smarmy ladies’ man scarecrow. O’Barley can tell he is bad news, but he keeps hitting on her, in less and less charming ways.
Rob Brydon has been a mainstay of the Magic Light Pictures Donaldson adaptations. In this case, he sounds hilariously sleazy as Rake. He gives this short film the infusion of personality its lead voices, the blandly vanilla Jessie Buckley and Domhnall Gleason can’t supply.
