Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for April 26, 2014
Transcript:
it was a different time....a different place... verne: We can't judge them by today's standards. rj: They didn't know any better. hammy: Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie?? rj: I'm sure they were free range blackbirds that died of natural causes... verne: In their sleep...surrounded by loved ones... hammy: A pie??!!
Look at “pie bird” in Wikipedia. The pie in the poem was so big it needed 24 birds to support the crust.