Along Came Daffy is a 1947 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.
Plot[]
Two starving men (one of which looks like Yosemite Sam; the other also looks like Yosemite Sam, but with black hair) in a snowbound cabin start to hallucinate and see each other as food items, and even fight with a similarly starving mouse over one measly pea from a can they could find in the cabin.
Door-to-door cookbook salesman Daffy Duck arrives but they slam the door in his face. Moments later their peanut-sized brains realize he is a duck and they just passed up a potential duck dinner, and so they invite him back in and chase him all over the cabin. Eventually, Daffy explains that he happens to have a complimentary turkey dinner in his sample case. He opens the case and out springs the meal. He makes a quick exit as the famished men sit down to eat.
Before they can take a bite, a horde of hungry mice dash from their hole and strip the turkey clean. The men hear another knock on the door. Daffy is there again, offering some after-dinner mints. The men grab him and pull him inside. Daffy sticks his head out the door for a moment and says, "Well, here we go again," before being yanked back inside.
Availability[]
(Associated Artists Productions print)
Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals: Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival Featuring "Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur"
Cartoon Moviestars: Just Plain Daffy
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes: Volume 3, Side 9, Porky and Daffy
Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 4 (restored)
Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volumes 1-4
Streaming[]
Censorship[]
- The WB removed the part where after all of the duck decoys are shot with Daffy remaining, one of the men shoots his gun at Daffy, blowing feathers from Daffy's carcass and leaving some of the feathers in the form of a bikini bathing suit once the smoke clears.[2]
Goofs[]
- Although the original 1946-1955 Looney Tunes ending music cue is preserved on the Blue Ribbon reissue, the Turner dubbed version (both US and EU) replaces the original ending music cue with the 1941-55 Merrie Melodies ending music cue.
- The 2020 restoration uses the USA Turner dubbed version as the source of its soundtrack and has this error as well.
Notes[]
- After one starving hermit puts the other in the oven, Daffy uses a variation of Bugs Bunny's catchphrase: "Ehh... (munching noises) what's cookin', doc?"
- According to a ToonHeads episode about Norman McCabe's work, this cartoon is a color remake of "Daffy's Southern Exposure" from a different point of view, while also incorporating plot elements from the short "Wackiki Wabbit" (1943). Both this cartoon and "Wackiki Wabbit" are written by Tedd Pierce, feature contributions from both Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce in one way or another, and have a similar concept of two starving men attempting to cook and eat the animal protagonist after hallucinating to eat each other out of starvation.
- The original titles had the song "I'd Be Lost Without You" playing over them.[3]
- The two men are similar to Yosemite Sam, both in appearance, voice and personality.
- There has been debate about whether one of the men, specifically the red-haired one, is an official depiction of Yosemite Sam. Some evidence suggests that he is a "clone" of Yosemite Sam, as he usually keeps his name or similar traits in different settings. The hillbilly in this cartoon lacks a black mask and bears a gray hat instead of Sam's usual yellow hat. Despite that, a few official Warner Bros. sources have identified one of the men as Yosemite Sam, such as the ToonHeads episode "Our Man Sam", one quiz from the MeTV Toons website, and the Toon In with Me episode "Forgotten Fads".[4]
- This debate is hinted when Cartoon Network USA's a.a.p. print labelling subtitle of this cartoon during the network's Checkerboard Era years from the early-to-mid-1990s mentions Daffy Duck as the star of the cartoon, but not Yosemite Sam.[5]
- This idea from this cartoon featuring the two Yosemite Sam clones would possibly serve as an inspiration for the creation of the official Yosemite Sam's identical twin brother Yosemite Jack in the New Looney Tunes episode "Brothers in Harms".
- There has been debate about whether one of the men, specifically the red-haired one, is an official depiction of Yosemite Sam. Some evidence suggests that he is a "clone" of Yosemite Sam, as he usually keeps his name or similar traits in different settings. The hillbilly in this cartoon lacks a black mask and bears a gray hat instead of Sam's usual yellow hat. Despite that, a few official Warner Bros. sources have identified one of the men as Yosemite Sam, such as the ToonHeads episode "Our Man Sam", one quiz from the MeTV Toons website, and the Toon In with Me episode "Forgotten Fads".[4]
- This cartoon was originally slated to be included on the Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl DVD, but was replaced early in development due to restoration issues.[6] The short would later be released restored on home media on Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 4.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/catalogofc19733271213libr/page/116/mode/1up?view=theater
- ↑ http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-a.aspx
- ↑ https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/more-lost-looney-tunes-title-cues/
- ↑ https://www.metvtoons.com/quiz/did-these-looney-tunes-antagonists-ever-go-after-anyone-other-than-their-usual-target
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-tRqBIN6mQ
- ↑ https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/whv-announcement-looney-tunes-super-stars.290816/#post-3537991